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Encephale
October 2016
Pôle universitaire de psychiatrie de l'adulte et de la personne âgée, centre Jean-Marie-Léger, centre hospitalier Esquirol, 87000 Limoges, France.
Introduction: In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association published the DSM-5. In this new version, new diagnoses were proposed including the Hoarding disorder. In the French semeiology, the Diogenes syndrome is described, among other symptoms, by a pathological tendency to accumulate objects called syllogomania which is very close to hoarding.
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September 2013
1] Federation of Neurology, La Salpêtrière Hospital, Groupe Hopsitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière (GHPS), Paris, France [2] Department of Neurogenetics, La Salpêtrière Hospital, Groupe Hopsitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière (GHPS), Paris, France.
Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis (CTX) is a rare and severe, but treatable, inborn disorder of bile acid biosynthesis and sterol storage with autosomal recessive inheritance and variable clinical presentation. CTX treatment consists of chenodeoxycholic acid and must be started as early as possible to prevent permanent disability. Psychiatric manifestations are rare and non-specific, and often lead to significant diagnostic and treatment delay.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe difference of concept between somatic anxiety (" angoisse ") and psychic anxiety (" anxi été") as it was considered by authors in the past, has now fallen into disuse. However, it is worth considering this difference on the basis of the recent data relative to the selective effect that certain antidepressant drugs may have on panic attacks, while they have no effect on the basic anxiety. Consequently, a new nosography could then be considered in function of several factors: the reaction to imipramine, the preponderance in the disorders of their acuity and of the somatic impact, the spontaneous appearance of these same disorders.
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