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[PP-040] Ref. No: 176
Tardive akathisia with aripiprazole: A case report
Ömer Şenormancı, Oya Gönüllü Güçlü, Ramazan Konkan, Yavuz Altunkaynak, Güliz Şenormancı
Bakırköy Research and Training Hospital for Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery, İstanbul, Turkey
E-mail: senorman_7@hotmail.com
Tardive akathisia is characterized by feelings of restlessness, discomfort, and tension causing the patient to be unable to settle down and
sit still. The patient should also be taking a long term antipsychotic medication without any recent changes in dosage or type, and no
withdrawal of antiakathisic drugs. Aripiprazole is a potent partial agonist that shows high affinity binding to dopamine (D2) and serotonin
(5HT1a) receptors and is an antagonist at 5HT2a, 5HT2b receptors. Although there are a number of case reports about arippiprazole
causing acute akathisia, only one tardive akathisia case, who was a nonpsychotic female patient, has been reported so far. In this case
tardive akathisia with aripiprazole developed in a patient who had diagnoses of mental retardation and psychotic disorder not otherwise
specified and who was treated by supplementary drugs without stopping aripiprazole.
Key words: Antipsychiotics, aripiprazole, extrapyramidal side effects, atypical antipsychotics, tardive akathisia, tardive syndromes
Bulletin of Clinical Psychopharmacology 2011;21(Suppl. 2):S144
[PP-041] Ref. No: 178
Comparing mental disorders between divorced couples and normal
couples in a city of Iran
Majid Kazemi 1 , Sima Karimi 2 , Hadi Hasankhani 3 , Somayeh Kazemi 4
1 Rafsanjan University of Medical Science, Iran
2 Islamic Azad University- Sirjan Branch, Iran
3 Tabriz University of Medical sciences, Iran
4 Islamic Azad University- Mashhad Branch, Iran
E-mail: maj_kaz@yahoo.com
Background: The family is the first and the most important source for fulfilling needs of human beings including love, satisfaction and
peace. One serious difficulty in couple’s lives is the phenomenon of divorce, which recently has been increasing in Iran. Divorce has a lot
of negative effects, both physical and psychological, on couples.
Objective: The aim of this study was to compare mental disorders between the couples who were divorced and normal couples in a town
in Iran.
Method: This research was causal –comparative on couples in Sirjan in 2010. Seventy couples were chosen voluntarily and randomly
based on the duration of their marriage from couples applying for divorce and refereeing to the administration of justice and normal
couples. The questionnaire symptom checklist-90-revised (SCL-90-R) was used. The data were collected and analyzed.
Results: The averages of mental disorder scores between two groups in nine dimensions were compared and showed different
significances. People who had gotten divorced had more high scores comparing the total coefficient of global severity index (GSI).
The findings revealed that the divorced couples had higher GSIs and a significant correlation was observed (p