• Psychiatric comorbidity, Restless Legs Syndrome and Nocturnal Eating Disorder: a case-control study
  • Marconi, Sara <1979>

Subject

  • MED/26 Neurologia

Description

  • Objective: to evaluate the psychopathological profile in primary Restless Legs Syndrome (p-RLS) patients with and without nocturnal eating disorder (NED), analysing obsessive-compulsive traits, mood and anxiety disorder, and the two domains of personality proposed by Cloninger, temperament and character. Methods: we tested ten p-RLS patients without NED, ten p-RLS patients with NED and ten healthy control subjects, age and sex-matched, using Hamilton Depression and Anxiety Rating Scales, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Maudsley Obsessive Compulsive Inventory (MOCI) and Temperament and Character Inventory - revised (TCI). Results: p-RLS patients, particularly those with NED, had increased anxiety factor scores. MOCI-total, doubting and checking compulsion, and TCI-harm avoidance scores were significantly higher in p-RLS patients with NED. p-RLS patients without NED had significantly higher MOCI-doubting scores and a trend toward higher checking compulsion and harm avoidance scores with an apparent grading from controls to p-RLS patients without NED to p-RLS with NED. Conclusions: higher harm avoidance might predispose to display obsessive-compulsive symptoms, RLS and then, with increasing severity, compulsive nocturnal eating. RLS and NED could represent a pathological continuum in which a dysfunction in the limbic system, possibly driven by a dopaminergic dysfunction, could be the underlying pathophysiological mechanism.

Date

  • 2013-06-11

Type

  • Doctoral Thesis
  • PeerReviewed

Format

  • application/pdf

Identifier

urn:nbn:it:unibo-10743

Marconi, Sara (2013) Psychiatric comorbidity, Restless Legs Syndrome and Nocturnal Eating Disorder: a case-control study , [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Scienze mediche specialistiche: progetto n. 2 "Medicina del sonno" , 25 Ciclo. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/5343.

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