Assessment of Affective temperaments in a Tunisian non-clinical population.

Background: Temperament Evaluation of Memphis, Pisa, Paris and San Diego-Auto-questionnaire (TEMPS-A) is frequently used to assess affective temperaments in clinical and non clinical populations.

Aims: To assess the psychometric properties of the Tunisian TEMPS-A in a non-clinical population and to explore the gender and age effects on affective temperaments.

Methods: TEMPS-A is a self-administered questionnaire evaluating hyperthymic, depressive, cyclothymic, irritable and anxious temperaments.

Lipid profile in schizophrenia: case control study.

Introduction: Cardiovascular diseases are common co morbidities of schizophrenia and constitute the main factors of high mortality in this pathology. Cardiovascular damages are favored by some risk factors, of which one of the most important is dyslipidemia. In this context, a study of lipid profile in schizophrenia is interesting.

Persistent auditory hallucinations in out-patients with schizophrenia.

Objectives to estimate the prevalence of persistent auditory hallucinations (AHs) in a group of schizophrenic patients, to evaluate their dimensions and to identify their clinical associated factors. Method This was a cross-sectional study carried-on 144 out-patients followed for schizophrenia, according DSM-IV-TR criteria. The assessment was consisted by the collect of epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic data and the use of the Hoffman's auditory hallucinations rating scale (AHRS), and the positive and negative symptoms scale (PANSS).

Prevalence and score of minor physical anomalies in patients with schizophrenia and their first degree relatives: a Tunisian study.

Unlabelled: Minor physical anomalies (MPAs) have been consistently reported to be more frequent in schizophrenia subjects. Limited research has been conducted on these anomalies among biological relatives of patients with schizophrenia. The aims of this study were to investigate the MPAs in a Tunisian population: subjects with schizophrenia, their healthy siblings and control subjects.

[Minor neurological and physical anomalies in patients with first-episode psychosis].

Introduction: Over the last several decades, there has been an increasing number of neuroanatomical, neuroimaging, neurophysiological, and neuropsychological studies in search of structural, functional, and cognitive correlates of brain insult(s) that could ultimately lead to unravelling the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. A direct, easily administered, and inexpensive way of investigating brain dysfunction in schizophrenia is the study of neurological soft signs and minor physical anomalies, two putative indices of developmental abnormality. The study of these neurodevelopmental markers in the first-episode psychosis allows the detection of the neurodevelopmental abnormalities at the onset of psychosis.