[Tardive dyskinesia and second generation antipsychotics: a review of four cases].

We report four cases of tardive dyskinesia (TD) with second generation antipsychotics (SGA). All of those cases where women, three of them had affective psychosis. The presentation of TD where choreo athetosis in one case, respiratory dyskinesia in another and a tardive dystonia in a third.

[Body dysmorphic disorder and psychosis. Case reports and discussion].

Introduction: The diagnosis of patients who have a preoccupation about physical ugliness is not easy. Many diagnoses can be made. Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is defined as a preoccupation with an imaginary defect in physical appearance.

Major depression in males: effects of age, severity and adaptation on sleep variables.

Sleep abnormalities have been repeatedly demonstrated in major depression. However, the respective influences of age, severity, adaptation and gender have never been clearly disentangled. In a retrospective study, full polysomnograms of 67 male depressive patients and 67 carefully age-matched male healthy control subjects were analyzed.

[Influence of depressive history on biological parameters in major depression].

Background: Major depressive disorder is associated with several biological abnormalities. Among them, sleep disturbances and alterations of hypothalamic structures and cortisol system have been largely studied. Most studies have found a relationship between depression and alteration of sleep.