Objective: Lycanthropy is an unusual psychiatric syndrome involving the delusion of being animal. Cotard's another rare condition in which patient has nihilistic delusions and ideation immortality. We report a who had both syndromes simultaneously. Method: A single case was reported. Results: meeting DSM‐IV criteria for bipolar mood disorder, mixed type with psychotic feature transformed into dog. He also deluded that he dead. restless serious sense guilt about his previous sexual contact...

Objective: Despite accumulated evidence that demonstrates clinical outcome of telepsychiatry is comparable with conventional method; little research has been done on in developing countries. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic agreement between assessment and face-to-face assessment. Moreover, patient doctor satisfaction was assessed by self-report questionnaire. Method: conducted an inpatient department a university-affiliated hospital Kerman University Medical Sciences, Iran. The...

Mental imagery impairment has been reported in schizophrenia. The present study aimed to investigate the neural evidence for mental patients with participants included 20 chronic schizophrenia and 18 healthy control subjects. Event-related potentials were recorded during a hand rotation task, which instructed judge laterality of hands displayed different orientations. performances significantly less accurate slower than subjects on task. Moreover, showed reduced rotation-related negativity...

Objective: To discuss a case of Cotard's syndrome in 65‐year‐old male patient who refused to eat and drink. Method: A single is presented. Results: The was especially sensitive water showed panic reactions when he offered glass water. These symptoms began deluded himself believe that his stomach shrunk. Diagnosis major depressive disorder with psychotic feature based on DSM‐IV. Conclusion: Hydrophobia as symptom not reported before. This often known evidence rabies but may be seen syndrome.

Background:: Drug non adherence is one of the major problems in treatment psychiatric patients which could increase risk relapse and re-hospitalization. Objectives:: The aim this study to determine factors associated with drug by mood disorders after their discharge from hospital assessment relation between attitude adherence. Patients Methods:: In cohort, prospective, descriptive study, 150 (major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder) at time were assessed. For each patient, demographic...

Objective: Lycanthropy is a rare psychiatric condition in which the patient believes being transformed into an animal. Belief transformation of another person animal has not been reported, so far. Here, with impression bipolar mood disorder (mixed type) and such delusion reported. Method: A single case Results: young male his first episode, developed delusional conviction mother's wolf. He did have any delusions regarding himself animal, although he reported drooling for months before...

Capgras syndrome is the most common type of delusional misidentification syndromes. In this phenomenon, patient believes conviction that a familiar person has been replaced by imposters. was thought to occur in psychotic and organic contexts. It some rare variants. one these variants, delusion inanimate doubles. There are reports which regard relationship between epilepsy as contributing factor. We present case grandmal with features including doubles.A single reported.A 55-year-old woman...

Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) is a valid self-reported tool to evaluate both non-pathological and pathological dissociative experiences. This study aims at evaluating the psychometric properties of Persian version DES-II on non-clinical samples patients with schizophrenia mood disorders. The back-translated was administered 370 individuals being divided into three groups (270 healthy subjects, 50 disorders, schizophrenia) recruited from Shahid Beheshti Hospital Kerman Medical...

Background Some study suggest that unipolar mania could be a separate subtype, while there is no listing in DSM. We compared sociodemographic and clinical data of bipolar mania. Methods In an analytical-observation study,through 850 patients with I disorder, 10 years illness duration, 240 were included. evaluated demographic information interview their families consistent DSM, then we assessment the comorbidities other conditions analysed our by using mann-witney test, chi-squar test fisher...