Human population is increasing in immense cities with millions of inhabitants, in which life is
expected to run 24 hours a day for seven days a week (24/7). Noise and light pollution are …

Objective: This paper illustrates the preliminary psychometric properties of the Questionnaire
for Adaptive Hyperactivity and Goal Achievement (AHGA), aimed at measuring adaptive …

This paper tries to summarize the results of studies from different areas of knowledge
supporting the idea that temperamental traits, such as “reckless/hyper-exploratory” attitudes …

Objective: The objective is to verify whether a genetic condition associated with bipolar
disorder (BD) is frequent in old adults adapted to their environment, without BD, but with …

Background: Bipolar Disorder (BD), along with depression and schizophrenia, is one of the
most serious mental illnesses, and one of the top 20 causes of severe impairment in …

Bipolar disorder (BD) is amongst the most common heritable mental disorders, but the
clarification of its genetic roots has proven to be very challenging. Many single nucleotide …

Objective: To determine whether people with a Sardinian genetic background who live in the
megacities of South America have a higher frequency of hypomania than residents of …

Background: Despite much evidence that season of birth (SOB) my influence the
vulnerability to psychiatric disorders, divergence has been reported, in particular between …

Introduction The aim of this study was to carry out a 2-year follow-up of refugees in a camp in
Burkina Faso who had been interviewed previously. We also aimed to verify whether the …

Under certain conditions, the hyperthymic temperament traits associated with an increased
risk of developing bipolar disorders may in fact produce adaptive responses. The purpose of …