Current Psychiatry Research and Reviews - Volume 17, Issue 3, 2021

Background: Impulsiveness and compulsiveness, though traditionally assumed to represent the opposite poles of a spectrum, have increasingly been understood to have common, rather than disparate, features. Objective: We investigated the influence of the ECS on the intricate interplay between impulsiveness and compulsiveness. Methods: We conducted a search in PubMed, PsyhInfo, and Scopus by using the keywords c Read More

Background: Fatigue is generally a normal response to physical exertion or any stressful situation. Its prevalence rates have reached the level of 1.5-3% among the general population. Due to the unclear etiology, diagnostic ambiguity, and resultant heterogeneousness among the population, there is a lack of a solid treatment regimen for fatigue. As the absolute treatment option is vague, patients are moving towards comple Read More

Objective: The most effective modality for presbycusis is using hearing aids. However, the rate of adoption and use of hearing aids among the elderly is not in line with the expectations. This review investigates the current evidence to identify factors affecting the adoption and use of hearing aids among the elderly with hearing loss. Design: This is a systematic review whose sample includes English articles published in peer-re Read More

Background: Fear generalization is an adaptive mechanism which enables an individual to appropriately respond to novel stimuli based on overlapping features with a learned threat stimulus. When it is maladaptive, it is named overgeneralization. Overgeneralization was observed in psychiatric disorders, including Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Overgeneralization seems to be related to mnemonic discriminati Read More

Background: COVID-19 virus outbreak appeared in December 2019 and was announced as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020. Recent cases of reactive psychosis in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic have been reported. However, there has been observed reduced interest in cases of acute psychosis affecting patients with COVID-19. Here, we present a clinical case of a female patient who s Read More