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Quality of life in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a review
Torresan, Ricardo Cezar; Smaira, Sumaia Inaty; Ramos-Cerqueira, Ana Teresa de Abreu; Torres, Albina RodriguesBACKGROUND: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has been considered by the World Health Organization as the 10th leading cause of years lived with disability, but studies on quality of life (QOL) in OCD are still scant. OBJECTIVES: A literature review of studies on quality of life in OCD. METHOD: A MEDLINE, Psychoinfo and LILACS literature review from 1980 to 2007 was conducted, using the following key-words: o...
Bipolar affective disorder and gender
Dias, Rodrigo da Silva; Kerr-Corrêa, Florence; Torresan, Ricardo Cezar; Santos, Carlos Henrique R. dosAlthough the bipolar disorder (BD) occurs almost with the same frequency in both genders, the phenomenology and the outcome of the illness differ between them. Nevertheless, there is evidence that women with BD show, more than men, delayed beginning, especially in their fifth decade, more rapid cycling outcome, more depressive episodes, more dysphoric mania, more mixed states and more BD type II. Even so, the f...