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  • Psychiatric co-morbidity in children and adolescents with CHDs: a systematic review

  • Sara H. Lau-Jensen, Christian F. Berg, Julie L. Hejl, Kamillia Baker, Charlotte U. Rask, Vibeke E. Hjortdal
  • Journal:
    Cardiology in the Young / Volume 33 / Issue 10 / October 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 August 2023, pp. 1791-1799
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  • The population of long-term survivors with CHDs is increasing due to better diagnostics and treatment. This has revealed many co-morbidities including different neurocognitive difficulties. However, the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among children and adolescents and the specific types of disorders they may experience are unclear. We systematically reviewed the existing literature, where psychiatric diagnoses or psychiatric symptoms were investigated in children and adolescents (age: 2–18 aged) with CHDs and compared them with a heart-healthy control group or normative data. The searches were done in the three databases PubMed, psychINFO, and Embase. We included 20 articles reporting on 8035 unique patients with CHDs. Fourteen articles repoted on psychological symptoms, four reported on psychiatric diagnoses, and two reported on both symptoms and diagnoses. We found that children and adolescents with a CHD had a higher prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ranging between 1.4 and 9 times higher) and autism (ranging between 1.8 and 5 times higher) than controls, but inconsistent results regarding depression and anxiety.

  • Clinical and demographic characteristics of psychiatric patients seropositive for Borrelia burgdorferi

  • T. Hájek, J. Libiger, D. Janovská, P. Hájek, M. Alda, C. Höschl
  • Journal:
    European Psychiatry / Volume 21 / Issue 2 / March 2006
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 April 2020, pp. 118-122
  • Purpose.

    Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) infection can affect the central nervous system and possibly lead to psychiatric disorders. We compared clinical and demographic variables in Bb seropositive and seronegative psychiatric patients and healthy controls.

    Method.

    Nine hundred and twenty-six consecutive psychiatric patients were screened for antibodies to Bb and compared with 884 simultaneously recruited healthy subjects.

    Results.

    Contrary to healthy controls, seropositive psychiatric patients were significantly younger than seronegative ones. None of the studied psychiatric diagnostic categories exhibited stronger association with seropositivity. There were no differences between seropositive and seronegative psychiatric patients in hospitalization length, proportion of previously hospitalized patients and proportion of subjects with family history of psychiatric disorders.

    Conclusion.

    These findings elaborate on potential association between Bb infection and psychiatric morbidity, but fail to identify any specific clinical ‘signature’ of Bb infection.

  • Early adulthood psychiatric diagnoses and the subsequent risk of life-time incarceration: a cohort study

  • Sophie D. Walsh, Bruce P. Dohrenwend, Itzhak Levav, Mark Weiser, Gilad Gal
  • Journal:
    Psychological Medicine / Volume 50 / Issue 11 / August 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 August 2019, pp. 1906-1913
  • Background

    The association between incarceration and psychiatric disorders has been noted. Yet, existing studies are cross-sectional or examine the risk of recidivism, which has limited the predictive validity of psychiatric disorders as a risk factor for incarceration. To overcome this limitation, this study used a prospective cohort to examine whether psychiatric diagnoses in early adulthood predicted incarceration throughout a 30-year follow-up. It tested the association between psychiatric diagnoses with future incarcerations, their number and durations, controlling for education and ethnic status.

    Methods

    This study merged data from three sources in Israel: a prospective 10-year birth cohort study of young adults aged 25–34, conducted in the 1980s (N = 4914) that included a psychiatric interview; data from the Prison Service, including the cause, number and duration of incarcerations; and from the Vital Statistics Registry on death records.

    Results

    Multivariate analysis showed that substance-use disorders, antisocial personality and lower levels of education predicted future incarceration, their number and maximum duration. The remainder diagnoses were not significantly associated with future incarceration.

    Conclusions

    Results limited the prediction of future incarcerations to persons diagnosed with substance use and antisocial personality, and do not support an independent predictive association between additional psychiatric diagnoses and future incarceration.

  • Chapter 22 - Restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movements and excessive sleepiness

  • from Section 2 - Sleep Disorders and Excessive Sleepiness
  • Edited by Michael J. Thorpy, Michel Billiard
  • Book:
    Sleepiness
    Published online:
    04 February 2011
    Print publication:
    27 January 2011, pp 238-248

  • Summary

    Kleine-Levin syndrome (KLS) is a rare neurological disorder primarily affecting young subjects. The first episode usually begins within a few hours, with patients becoming extremely tired, generally after an identifiable triggering event, such as a banal infection in most cases, alcohol intake, or a head trauma. The symptomatic periods involve hypersomnia, and cognitive, behavioral and psychological problems, and last from two days to several weeks. The most difficult differential diagnoses are psychiatric disorders (psychosis and depression), hence many patients are sent to the psychiatric department before the diagnosis of KLS is made. Recent methods of investigation such as SPECT indicate that the brain dysfunction could be larger than expected, and would encompass both cortical and subcortical (and especially thalamus and hypothalamus) areas. This general picture and the fluctuating symptoms in KLS are consistent with the possibility of an autoimmune mediation of the disorder.

  • 9 - When the Illness Is Psychiatric

  • Edited by Thomasine Kushner
  • Book:
    Surviving Health Care
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    29 March 2010, pp 124-135

  • Summary

    Psychiatric diagnoses, for the most part, are based on the information reported by the patient (and sometimes by third parties, such as family and friends) and on the observations made by an examining psychiatrist. Most psychiatric consultations involve one or two meetings, each lasting anywhere from forty-five minutes to an hour and a half. Sometimes the psychiatrist will extend the consultation process beyond two sessions. Psychiatric treatments can be divided broadly into three categories: biological treatments, psychological treatments, and social treatments. Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of research on the brain and the biology of psychiatric illness, including a search for genetic causes of mental diseases. From the pharmacological relief of difficulties in thought and mood to the psychotherapeutic untangling of self-defeating relationship patterns, psychiatry offers the possibility of living a healthier, more fulfilling life.