Switchable hydrophilicity solvent-assisted solidified floating organic drop microextraction for separation and determination of arsenic in water and fish samples.

The aim of the current study was to separate and determine arsenic in water and fish samples using a novel and green solidified floating organic drop microextraction (SFODME), which is based on switchable hydrophilicity solvent (SHS)-assisted procedure followed by hydride generation atomic absorption spectrometry (HG-AAS). The 4-((2-hydroxyquinoline-7-yl)diazenyl)-N-(4-methylisoxazol-3-yl)benzene sulfonamide (HDNMBA) and tertiary amine (4-(2-aminoethyl)-N,N-dimethylbenzylamine (AADMBA) were used as ligand and SHS, respectively. The use of SHS promotes quantitative extraction of arsenic complexes into an extraction solvent (1-undecanol).

Serial killing in schizophrenia.

Serial criminality, although rare, has always aroused the interest of researchers in criminology, psychiatry, psychology, and sociology. We report the case of a patient, suffering from a chronic psychotic disorder, having committed several murders over a period of 9 years, underpinned by a delirium of misidentification of Frigoli syndrome.

Correlates of psychopathy in a Tunisian sample of incarcerated women.

Background: Considerable effort has been devoted to elucidating correlates of psychopathy in males, but only few researchers have turned their attention to this field in female counterparts, with most of the research in this field having been driven from western countries. We aimed to explore psychopathic traits, impulsiveness and psychiatric symptoms that characterize a Tunisian female prison population.

Method: Data were collected in a cross-sectional design during September 2017.

Homicide committed by individuals with severe mental illnesses: A comparative study before and after the Tunisian revolution of January 14th, 2011.

Background: Many studies have established a correlation between the increase of homicide rates, and economic crises and rapid social changes following historical events. We propose to analyse the impact of the Tunisian Revolution on homicide rates in Tunisia in a clinical population.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective comparative study of all individuals who commited an homicide and were admitted, at least once, to the forensic psychiatry unit in Razi Hospital between January 1st, 2004 and December 31st, 2018 after a decision of irresponsibility by reason of insanity.

[Assessment of mental states at risk of psychotic transition in a sample of young male prisoners in Tunisia].

Background: Prevalence of psychotic disorders in a prison population is higher than in the general population. Recent research has shown that early intervention is feasible in prison settings, and that approximately 5% of screened prisoners have met ultra-high-risk (UHR) for psychosis criteria. We aimed to identify the prevalence of the UHR states for developing psychosis in a group of newly incarcerated men in the Jendouba Civil Prison and to analyze the association between UHR states and socio-demographic data and substance use.

[The Eyes Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for children with traumatic traumatic stress disorder: A Tunisian experience].

Objectives: Evaluate the effectiveness of the Eyes Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing psychotherapy for children with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Methods: A retrospective study was conducted in the Child Psychiatry Department of CHU Mongi Slim, Marsa (Tunis, Tunisia). All Outpatients with a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder diagnosis and who had Eyes Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing psychotherapy during the period from July 2016 to May 2018 were included.

[Psychological distress and caregiving burden among spouses of women with breast cancer].

Breast cancer is a chronic disease that affects both patients and their caregivers. Spouses, in particular, will generally assume the role of primary caregiver and experience significant physical, social, economic and emotional stress. In the face of cancer, being the spouse of a patient is synonymous with unmet psychosocial needs and a new role assignment, that of a primary caregiver.

[Sexual violence against women in Tunisia].

Background: Sexual violence exists everywhere in the world. It depends mainly on the cultural and religious norms conveyed in the various societies. This is a neglected area of research.

Correlates of offense recidivism in patients with schizophrenia.

Introduction: Schizophrenia increases the risk of offending. Recidivism rates are significant. Literature doesn't provide recidivism risk factors specific to patients with schizophrenia independently of the offenses' types.

Postictal Delirium and Violent Behavior in Patients with Post-Neurosurgical Epilepsy.

Background: Neurosurgical brain interventions may result in lesions that can cause epilepsy. Diagnosis may be delayed in some situations. Meanwhile, violent behavior can occur during postictal delirium states.

Matricide in schizophrenia : a case report.

Introduction: matricide is the murder of the mother. In this study, we report through a clinical case the circumstances of matricide and we underlined the predictive elements of the acting out.

Clinical Case: mister S, 31 years old had low socioeconomic conditions.

[Bipolar disorder and criminality: a comparative study by gender].

Background: Unlike schizophrenia, the impact of gender on the criminality of patients with bipolar disorder has received little attention.

Aim: To estimate the sex ratio in relation to acts committed by forensic bipolar patients and evaluate the impact of gender on the characteristics of this crime.

Methods: A comparative study by gender, conducted at the psychiatric hospital Razi has included all patients with bipolar disorder hospitalized between 1990 and 2010 after being relaxed for mental illness, owing to the Tunisian penal code.

[Offensive and criminal acts in schizophrenia: comparative study according to gender].

Background: Schizophrenia does not involve the same risk of violence among women than men. The offensive and criminal acts were less studied in women.

Aims: To raise the sex ratio of the criminal acts and to seek the characteristics and the risk factors of this female violence.

[Psychotic parricide: clinical and analytic study of 16 cases].

Background: The parricide is defined as "murder of the father or the mother or any other legitimate ascendant." It represents 1 to 5% of all homicides and 20 to 30% of psychotic homicides. In Tunisia, few studies have focused on this issue.