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Objectives: Our aims were to assess cognitive impairment in bipolar patients in remission compared with healthy controls, and to study its connection to clinical and therapeutic factors.

Methodology: This was a case-control study of patients with bipolar disorder (BD) in remission and matched healthy controls. It was carried out at the Hédi Chaker University Hospital in Sfax, Tunisia.

[Prevalence and predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder in road traffic accidents].

Introduction: trauma-related disorders following a road accident have both a health and an economic impact.

Methods: we conducted a prospective study to determine the prevalence of these disorders, and to identify risk factors in subjects victims of road accidents and hospitalized in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology of the University Hospital Center of Sfax-Tunisia.

Results: a total of sixty-ten subjects were included in this study.

Prevalence and factors for anxiety and depression among secondary school teachers from Sfax city of Tunisia in times of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: a cross-sectional study.

Introduction: teachers have to adapt during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic to many changes that could potentially make them more vulnerable to psychological distress. We aimed to assess anxiety and depression in Tunisian secondary school teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic and to explore their associated factors.

Methods: we conducted a cross-sectional survey concerning Tunisian secondary school teachers between May 1, 2021, and June 30, 2021, using an online survey platform via Google Forms.

A survey to explore the psychological and professional impact of change imposed by COVID-19.

Aim: Staff of a department underwent a change following the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective of this study was to assess the psychological and professional impact of this change.

Materials & methods: This is cross-sectional study, including all department staff conducted from 15 July 2021 to 15 August 2021.

Criminal liability and epilepsy: a case report of a postictal attempted homicide from Tunisia.

Objective: Patients with epilepsy who have been charged with a serious offense may be referred by the courts for forensic psychiatric examination. A detailed psychiatric and neurological examination is often necessary to assist the courts in making the right decision, as exemplified in the current case presentation.

Method: The forensic case of a 30-year-old Tunisian male with temporal epilepsy who exhibited an inadequate response to the treatment is presented here.

Methyl jasmonate induces oxidative/nitrosative stress and the accumulation of antioxidant metabolites in Phoenix dactylifera L.

Objectives: The present study aimed to explore the eliciting effects of increasing concentrations (50, 100, and 200 µM) of methyl jasmonate (MeJA). We cultivated actively proliferating buds of Phoenix dactylifera L. cv.

Plasma oxysterols in drug-free patients with schizophrenia.

Evidence from clinical, genetic, and medical studies has shown the neuronal developmental disorder aspect of schizophrenia (SZ). Whereas oxysterols are vital factors in neurodevelopment, it is still unknown whether they are involved in the pathophysiology of SZ. The current study aims to explore the profile of oxysterols in plasma, ratio to total cholesterol (Tchol) and the association with clinical factors in patients with SZ.

Predictive value of oxidative stress biomarkers in drug-free patients with bipolar disorder.

Objective: Oxidative stress is one of the primary etiological mechanisms of bipolar disorder (BD).

Methods: The present study was conducted over a period of 24 months on Tunisian on 34 drug‑free male patients with BD (mean age: 34.5 years) and 101 age and gender matched controls (mean age: 34.

[Assessment of psycho-trauma caused by the aggressions committed by patients with psychosis against their family caregivers: across-sectional survey].

Introduction: the management of patients with psychosis is associated with a risk of exposure to violence which can affect all the stakeholders, in particular the family entourage. Caregiving role generates violence and this can have a psychological impact on the caregivers. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of aggressions perpetrated by patients with psychosis on their family caregivers as well as to assess the psychological and traumatic impact on family caregivers and to identify factors associated with it.

Plasma oxysterols: Altered level of plasma 24-hydroxycholesterol in patients with bipolar disorder.

Cholesterol and its oxygenated metabolites, including oxysterols, are intensively investigated as potential players in the pathophysiology of brain disorders. Altered oxysterol levels have been described in patients with numerous neuropsychiatric disorders. Recent studies have shown that Bipolar disorder (BD) is associated with the disruption of cholesterol metabolism.

Predictive value of oxidative stress biomarkers in drug‑free patients with schizophrenia and schizo-affective disorder.

Several studies have suggested that oxidative stress may represent one of the primary etiological mechanisms of schizophrenia (SZ) and schizoaffective disorder (SAD) which can be targeted by therapeutic intervention. The present study was conducted over a period of 24 months, between June 2016 and June 2018. All enrolled subjects were Tunisian, forty five drug‑free male patients with SZ (mean age: 37.

[Bipolar disorder vulnerability: The vitamin D path].

Objectives: Bipolar disorder (BD) etiopathogenesis is still not well elucidated. It has recently been proven that 25-hydroxy vitamin D (25OHD) has an anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective role. Our objectives were to measure 25OHD plasma levels in patients with BD in acute decompensation and compare them with patients with schizophrenia (SCZ) or schizoaffective disorder (SAD) and with healthy controls.

Factors Affecting the Management of Somatic Comorbidity in Tunisian Patients with Schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia is often accompanied by somatic comorbidities, which make the management challenge of such patients more difficult. In this study, we proposed to identify the sociodemographic and clinical factors correlating with somatic comorbidities in patients with schizophrenia to facilitate screening and prevention. It was a retrospective descriptive study of 78 schizophrenia patients in clinical remission and followed in outpatient psychiatry.

The Management of Depressed Patients by the Tunisian General Practitioners: A Critical Trans-sectional Study.

Under-diagnosed and under-treated, depression has a pejorative prognosis. The general practitioners (GP) represent the most often consulted healthcare professionals by depressed patients. The aim was to describe how the Tunisian GPs manage the depressed patients and to note the difficulties they encounter in order to suggest corrective measures.

Effect of the phosphogypsum amendment of saline and agricultural soils on growth, productivity and antioxidant enzyme activities of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.).

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of phosphogypsum (PG) amendment on the physiochemical proprieties of saline and agricultural soils along with the growth, productivity and antioxidant enzyme activities of tomato plants ( Solanum lycopersicum L.) grown on the amended soils under controlled conditions. Obtained results showed that the amendment of saline soil (H) by PG induced a decrease in pH as well as in electrical conductivity.

Quality of life in chronic hemodialysis patients:about 71 cases.

Background: The chronic hemodialysis imposes various limitations on patients that may affect their quality of life. However, Tunisian studies on this matter remain scarce.

Aims: To assess the quality of life among hemodialysis patients and to identify the factors influencing their quality of life.

A study of the relationship between eating disorders, stress level and selfesteem among medicine students.

Background: Stress of the higher studies leads to various disorders, especially eating ones. Such disorders, once present, may influence body image and self-esteem of young students.

Aim: to assess the prevalence of eating disorders among a group of Medicine students and to study its links with stress level and selfesteem.

QoS and energy aware cooperative routing protocol for wildfire monitoring wireless sensor networks.

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are presented as proper solution for wildfire monitoring. However, this application requires a design of WSN taking into account the network lifetime and the shadowing effect generated by the trees in the forest environment. Cooperative communication is a promising solution for WSN which uses, at each hop, the resources of multiple nodes to transmit its data.

[Emotional disorders and inflammatory bowel disease].

Background: The co-occurrence of emotional disorders (alexithymia, depression and anxiety) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is reported in the literature. There are several possible explanations for this co morbidity.

Aim: To evaluate the prevalence of alexithymia, anxiety and depression among patients with IBD and to compare them with a control group of healthy individuals and to discuss the relation between emotional disorders and IBD.

[Depression in chronic hemodialysis patients: report of 106 cases].

Background: Depression is the most common psychiatric disorder in chronic hemodialysis patients and is associated with mortality.

Aim: To evaluate the prevalence of the depression in patients undergoing chronic hemodialysis, and to identify the correlated factors.

Methods: The study population included 106 patients on chronic hemodialysis.