Substance Use During Pregnancy.

Pregnancy is a period of transition with physical changes in the maternal body but also mental and psychological ones. This phase may be accompanied by symptoms of anxiety, depression or irritability, which are part of non-pathological adaptation mechanisms. These symptoms can, however, be intense and constitute real psychiatric syndromes, particularly when the woman presents vulnerability factors.

Awake Bruxism Treated with Pregabaline in a Patient with Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

Background: Bruxism is excessive teeth grinding or jaw clenching. Several symptoms are commonly associated with bruxism, including hypersensitive teeth, aching jaw muscles, headaches, tooth wear, and damage to dental restorations. There are two types of bruxism, awake bruxism and sleep bruxism.

A transient personality disorder induced by football matches.

Background: Personality disorders are a class of mental diseases characterized by inflexible and maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience, involving several areas of functioning, such as affectivity, impulse control, ways of perceiving and thinking and reaction to stress factors. In the literature, personality disorders have always been described as stable patterns of long duration, and their onset can be found during adolescence or early adulthood. These patterns are associated with significant distress or impairment in a patient's life in which a main element affects every aspect of living, and in which no biological or other pathologies exist to assist in its identification.

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome in a patient treated with clotiapine.

Background: Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS), which is linked to the use of antipsychotic medication, is a potentially lethal neurological emergency. The interest of our study is that NMS induced by the use of clotiapine has never previously been described.

Subjects And Methods: We present the case of a 61-year old man whose sleep disorders were treated with clotiapine 40 mg/day.

Incidence and prevention of deep vein thrombosis in restrained psychiatric patients.

Background: Although physical restraint is still used in psychiatric inpatient settings, it sometimes causes serious side effects, including deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and resulting pulmonary embolism. The aim of this study was to review the literature investigating the incidence of the DVT in restrained psychiatric patients, to identify the risk factors of this condition and the effectiveness of routine prophylaxis.

Subjects And Methods: Studies investigating associations between deep vein thrombosis and restrained psychiatric patients were searched in the Pubmed database.

Admitting or Discharging Patients with Opiate or Alcohol Related Problems? Psychiatrist Uncertainty and Welfare Losses.

Background: Much attention has focused on variations in therapeutic strategies across catchment areas and the related question of whether the differences in attitudes are due to socio-economic variables in the studied population or to physician uncertainty about making a specific therapeutic recommendation.

Subjects And Method: We monitored the emergency admission rate for patients with alcohol or opiate related problems of 9 resident psychiatrists for a year. To rule out differences in population characteristics, the study took place in only one hospital: Brugmann University Hospital, whose catchment area is the north of Brussels.

Megadose bromazepam dependence.

Background: Benzodiazepines (BZDs) are among the most widely prescribed drugs in developed countries. Since BZDs can produce tolerance and dependence even in a short time, their use is recommended for a very limited time. However, these recommendations have been largely disregarded.

Bipolar Disorder and Early Affective Trauma.

Background: Bipolar disorder is a chronic psychiatric disease with a high prevalence and is a major psychosocial and medical burden. The exact etiological pathways of bipolar disorder are not fully understood. Genetic factors are known to play an important role in the etiology of bipolar disorder.

Management of Demented Patients with Urinary Incontinence: A Case Study.

Objective: To assess whether a demented patient with urinary incontinence (UI) could learn to use an adapted version of timed voiding (i.e., instead of being led by a caregiver, the patient learns to perform timed voiding by herself).

Theory of mind difficulties in patients with alcohol dependence: beyond the prefrontal cortex dysfunction hypothesis.

Background: Previous studies have shown that alcohol-dependent (AD) individuals have difficulties inferring other people's emotion, understanding humor, and detecting a faux pas. This study aimed at further understanding the nature of such "Theory of Mind" (ToM) difficulties.

Methods: A total of 34 recently detoxified AD and 34 paired controls were compared based on 2 nonverbal and video-based false belief tasks.