[Qualitätsstandards in der Alterspsychiatrie].

Quality Standards in Old Age Psychiatry Quality standards and regulations are becoming increasingly important and are promoted in the context of the permission to treat, to bill and via financial incentives. In this context, the regulatory frameworks focus to varying degrees on structural, process or outcome criteria. On behalf of the Swiss Society for Old Age Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (SGAP), we summarize the quality elements in this document and group the requirements derived from them based on setting (outpatient, intermediate, inpatient) and structural quality criteria (staffing ratio, infrastructure).

[Psycho-social experiences and quality of life of pacemaker patients in Cotonou].

Purpose Of The Study: The aim was to study the psycho-social experiences and quality of life (QOL) of pacemaker patients at the National Teaching Hospital Hubert Koutoukou Maga in Cotonou.

Patients And Method: A descriptive cross-sectional observational study was performed in 2017 and included over a three-month period all pacemaker patients admitted on an ambulatory basis. The psychological impact of wearing a pacemaker was studied, as well as the limits and constraints of daily life and the quality of life appreciated by the SF-36 score.

Trajectories of medication adherence in patients with Bipolar Disorder along 2 years-follow-up.

Background: Bipolar disorder (BD) is a chronic and severe mental illness. It requires a non-discontinued pharmacological treatment to prevent mood recurrences but nonadherence to medication is frequent. To this date, medication adherence in BD has been mostly evaluated in cross-sectional studies and often considered as a stable trait.

Sleep quality and emotional reactivity cluster in bipolar disorders and impact on functioning.

Objective: Bipolar disorders (BD) are characterized by sleep disturbances and emotional dysregulation both during acute episodes and remission periods. We hypothesized that sleep quality (SQ) and emotional reactivity (ER) defined clusters of patients with no or abnormal SQ and ER and we studied the association with functioning.

Method: We performed a bi-dimensional cluster analysis using SQ and ER measures in a sample of 533 outpatients patients with BD (in remission or with subsyndromal mood symptoms).

[Psychiatric and psychological evaluation of Tako-Tsubo syndrome: about a case].

Stress cardiomyopathy or Tako Tsubo cardiomyopathy is a cardiac pathology evoking acute coronary syndrome characterized by electrocardiographic signs, cardiac enzyme elevation and no obstructive coronary lesions. It generally affects postmenopausal women and it usually occurs after periods of intense stress. Disease onset is widely variable, ranging from anginal pain (most common) to cardiogenic shock.

Seasonal pattern in bipolar disorders and cardio-vascular risk factors: A study from the FACE-BD cohort.

Seasonal pattern (SP) and metabolic syndrome (MetS) are major contributors to poor outcome in bipolar disorders (BD). Patients with seasonal bipolar depression present increased appetite, carbohydrate cravings, weight gain, and hypersomnia, which can increase the development of MetS. MetS also appears to be associated with seasonal mood changes in the general population.

[Depression in patients on chronic hemodialysis at the Sylvanus Olympio University Hospital of Lomé (Togo)].

Introduction: The aim of our study was to estimate the prevalence of depression and to investigate its associated risk factors in patients with chronic renal failure on hemodialysis.

Methods: We conducted a descriptive cross-sectional study in the hemodialysis unit of the Division of Nephrology at the University Hospital of Sylvanus Olympio Lomé (Togo) from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014. Self-evaluation Scale as calibrated using the Beck Depression Inventory in his simplified version was our screening tool.

Modulation of motor inhibition by subthalamic stimulation in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

High-frequency deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus can be used to treat severe obsessive-compulsive disorders that are refractory to conventional treatments. The mechanisms of action of this approach possibly rely on the modulation of associative-limbic subcortical-cortical loops, but remain to be fully elucidated. Here in 12 patients, we report the effects of high-frequency stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus on behavior, and on electroencephalographic responses and inferred effective connectivity during motor inhibition processes involved in the stop signal task.

Stimulation of subgenual cingulate area decreases limbic top-down effect on ventral visual stream: A DBS-EEG pilot study.

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subgenual cingulate gyrus (area CG25) is beneficial in treatment resistant depression. Though the mechanisms of action of Cg25 DBS remain largely unknown, it is commonly believed that Cg25 DBS modulates limbic activity of large networks to achieve thymic regulation of patients. To investigate how emotional attention is influenced by Cg25 DBS, we assessed behavioral and electroencephalographic (EEG) responses to an emotional Stroop task in 5 patients during ON and OFF stimulation conditions.

Adherence to medication is associated with non-planning impulsivity in euthymic bipolar disorder patients.

Background: Adherence to medication is a major issue in bipolar disorder. Non-planning impulsivity, defined as a lack of future orientation, has been demonstrated to be the main impulsivity domain altered during euthymia in bipolar disorder patients. It was associated with comorbidities.

Resting electroencephalographic correlates of the clinical response to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: A preliminary comparison between unipolar and bipolar depression.

Background: Major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder (BP) are two different types of mood disorders, sometimes difficult to distinguish from their depressive symptoms, and for which repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) has been proposed to treat refractory patients. Here we studied whether the electroencephalogram (EEG) at rest could be used to predict the therapeutic response to left DLPFC 10 Hz rTMS, and to which extent BP and MDD patients show similar correlation between the clinical response and the cortical networks at rest.

Methods: Eight MDD (6 females) and 10 BP patients (6 females) were included.

The efficacy and safety of low frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment-resistant depression: the results from a large multicenter French RCT.

Context: The aim of this study was to assess whether the combination of low frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and venlafaxine (150-225 mg/day) is effective and safe for treatment-resistant unipolar depression (TRD).

Method: In a multicenter (18 centers) randomized double blind controlled trial with three arms, 170 patients were allocated to receive active rTMS combined with active venlafaxine (n = 55), active rTMS combined with placebo venlafaxine (n = 60) or sham rTMS combined with active venlafaxine (n = 55). The patients received once daily sessions of active or sham 1 Hz rTMS applied over the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (360 pulses/day delivered at 120% of the resting motor threshold) for two to six weeks; rTMS was combined with active or sham venlafaxine (mean dose: 179.

Changes of oscillatory brain activity induced by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in healthy subjects.

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) modulates brain activity in different ways according to the stimulation parameters. Although the after-effects of rTMS over motor cortex are well documented in healthy individuals, less is known about the stimulation of dorso-lateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). Here, we studied in 20 healthy subjects how cortical oscillations are modulated by four different active rTMS protocols (1Hz, 10Hz, continuous and intermittent theta bursts - cTBS and iTBS) of the left DLPFC, and by a sham protocol used as a control condition, by comparing the spectral power of pre- and post-rTMS electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings of 15min duration.

[From stress to post traumatic stress disorder].

Beside the major events like catastrophe, the psychological consequences of a traumatic confrontation can represent for the subject multiple clinical forms, even in events likely to be regarded as usual. After immediate stress often spectacular and sometimes maladjusted, subject is able in the short or the long term to develop a whole of symptoms often invalidating. Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) represents a specific condition known to be frequent and disabling as well in general population as in exposed populations.

[Commercial sexual exploitation of minor girls. A multifocal, exploratory and prospective study in Cameroon].

To obtain reliable information on commercial sexual exploitation of minor girls under the age of 21, a multifocal, exploratry and prospective using a questionnaire was undertaken in Cameroon. This investigation was initiated and funded by the Cercle International pour la Promotion de la Création (CIPCRE) and carried out by the Cameroon Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (CASPCAN). The survey was performed during the last quarter of year 2004 in four major cities of Cameroon, i.

[Infanticide in the postpartum period: about a clinical case].

Background: Infanticide is an extremely traumatic criminal act, which has psychopathologic repercussions and severe sociofamilial consequences. It is marked by its plurality of forms, the variety of its aspects and the frequency of its hidden cases. Circumstances and modes of completion of the infanticide act are variable according to the nature of the author and the sociocultural context.

[Effects of anxiety and depression on haemodialysis adequacy].

Unlabelled: Depression and anxiety are the most commonly encountered psychological problems in patients with end-stage renal disease, especially those on renal replacement therapy. We sought to assess the prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms in patients undergoing haemodialysis treatment and to establish the relationship between these psychological problems and criteria of haemodialysis adequacy.

Methods: We implemented a transversal study on 93 adult haemodialysis patients recruited from in Ibn-Sina Haemodialysis department in Rabat in April 2003.

[Psychiatric disorders and psychopathologic manifestations associated with pregnancy and postpartum in Cameroon].

This retrospective study was conducted from Januaty 1, 2002 to May 31, 2004 to ascertain the sociodejnographlc profile of women phychiatric disorders and psychopathologic manifestations during puerperiuni and determine the most common clinical entities at the Jamot Hospital in Yaounde, Cameroon. Study included 40 paturient women who presented psychiatric disorders related to pregnancy, postpartum, abortion, or breastfeeding. Most patients (80%) were less than 34 years of age including 50% under 20 years.

[From the biology of trauma to secondary preventive pharmalogical measures for post-traumatic stress disorders].

Of all the psychological complications that an individual is likely to present with when confronted with an exceptional event, the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is characterized by being progressive, frequent, invalidating, strongly associated with comorbidity, and having the tendency to become chronic if it is not detected clinically. By definition, it is threatening and produces an intense fear reaction. The traumatic event is a situation of extreme stress, not only capable of altering the physical and psychological homeostasis of the individual, but is also recognized as determinant in the aetiopathology of complications.

[Treatment of clozapine-induced granulocytopenia with lithium (two observations)].

Despite the availability of new treatments, the antipsychotic effectiveness of clozapine has not been matched yet. Unfortunately, its regulation is limited by the side effects. The most detrimental is the hematologic toxicity (neutropenia and agranulocytosis) which requires a regular biological monitoring.