Migraine headache in affectively ill latino adults of mexican american origin is associated with bipolarity.

Background: The objective of this cross-sectional study was to determine the prevalence of migraine headache among depressed Latino adults of Mexican American origin meeting the criteria for bipolar disorder (BPD) or major depressive disorder (MDD) relative to patients in a psychiatric comparison group.

Method: In a mental health clinic for the indigent, consecutively and systematically evaluated acutely depressed Latino adults received structured diagnostic psychiatric interviews based on modules extracted from the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV. All were asked as part of routine assessment whether they had headaches "in the last week.

Differential patterns of lifetime multiple anxiety disorder comorbidity between Latino adults with bipolar I and major depressive disorders.

Background: To determine the lifetime rates of panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), social phobia, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among adult Latino patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder (BPD), and whether there are dose-response relationships between loading for comorbid anxiety disorders, the probability of having BPD, and attributes of severity of illness.

Methods: In a public sector clinic for the indigent located in a semiclosed rural community, 187 consecutively presenting affectively ill Latino patients were evaluated by use of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV. Polarity and the lifetime prevalence of panic disorder, OCD, social phobia, and PTSD were determined.

Pain complaints in latino adults of mexican origin with and without major depressive episode: a cross-sectional study.

Background: The aim of this retrospective, cross-sectional study was to determine the prevalence of 5 pain complaints among Latino adults of Mexican origin meeting the criteria for major depressive episode (MDE).

Method: In a mental health clinic for the indigent, consecutively evaluated Latino adults of Mexican origin received structured diagnostic psychiatric interviews based on modules extracted from the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders-Clinical Version. All were specifically asked whether they had experienced headache, backache, abdominal pain, myalgia, or arthralgia "in the last week.

Mixed states: the most common outpatient presentation of bipolar depressed adolescents?

Background: The purpose of this study was to determine the rate of bipolar disorder in adolescent outpatients presenting with DSM-IV major depressive episode (MDE) and, among the bipolar group, to find out what proportion were in a mixed state.

Methods: 247 MDE Hispanic adolescents presenting to a community mental health clinic received structured screens for hypomania/mania by history. One hundred met the criteria for bipolar I or II disorder, depressed.

Preschool-onset mania: incidence, phenomenology and family history.

Objective: To ascertain the incidence of mania among preschool children presenting in a community mental health clinic over a 24-month period, to describe the signs and symptoms of the children meeting criteria for mania and present their family histories based on systematic diagnostic interview.

Methods: Forty children less than the age of 5 years presented between October 2001 and September 2003. Signs of mania were determined using a structured interview.

Occult mood disorders in 104 consecutively presenting children referred for the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in a community mental health clinic.

Objective: To ascertain the prevalence of mood disorders among consecutively evaluated prepubertal children presenting for the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in a community mental health clinic.

Method: 104 children received systematic assessments designed to identify individuals meeting the DSM-IV criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD), mania, and ADHD. "Standard" and "modified" criteria for mania were employed.