Adjustment Disorders - Complications
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The importance of hopelessness among university students seeking psychiatric counseling.

17 Sep 2008 Hopelessness is a clinically important state relative to morbidity and suicide risk among university students. We examined its role in relation to presenting concerns, diagnosis, psychopharmacologic treatment and spiritual orientation among students ... Read more...

Substantia nigra hyperechogenicity in depressive subjects relates to motor asymmetry and impaired word fluency.

17 Sep 2008 BACKGROUND: Substantia nigra hyperechogenicity (SNH) is a characteristic transcranial sonography (TCS) finding in Parkinson's disease (PD). SNH, found also in about 10% of healthy adults, was related to a subclinical malfunction of the nigrostriatal ... Read more...

Autoenucleation in a 84-year-old dementia patient.

8 Apr 2008 BACKGROUND: Autoenucleation is a severe, rare form of self-mutilation. The majority of cases have been reported in the 15- to 60-year age group, usually in psychiatric patients with a history of depression or schizophrenia, sometimes caused by drug ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Adjustment Disorders - Complications'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The importance of hopelessness among university students seeking psychiatric counseling. 17 Sep 2008
• Substantia nigra hyperechogenicity in depressive subjects relates to motor asymmetry and impaired word fluency. 17 Sep 2008
• Autoenucleation in a 84-year-old dementia patient. 8 Apr 2008
• [Fatal interaction. Ailing psyche--weak heart] 8 Apr 2008
• [Suggestion of a new diagnostic category: posttraumatic embitterment disorder] 30 Dec 2007
• Perception for ischemic pain shows similarities in adjustment disorder and major depression. 16 Jan 2007
• [Acute intoxication with trichloroethylene--a case report] 30 Dec 2006
• Do patient requests for antidepressants enhance or hinder physicians' evaluation of depression? A randomized controlled trial. 29 Nov 2006
• Diagnostic ambiguity of subthreshold depression: minor depression vs. adjustment disorder with depressive mood. 30 Jul 2006
• Efficacy of etifoxine compared to lorazepam monotherapy in the treatment of patients with adjustment disorders with anxiety: a double-blind controlled study in general practice. 30 Mar 2006
• The 'afterthought' diagnosis: rehabilitating adjustment disorders. 30 Jan 2006
• Treating complicated grief: effects on sleep quality. 30 Dec 2005
• [The efficacy and safety of trazodone in the treatment of adjustment disorders--naturalistic research] 30 Jul 2005
• The adjustment to diabetes of school-age children with psychological adjustment problems. 30 Aug 2003
• Relationships among psychological mindedness, alexithymia and outcome in four forms of short-term psychotherapy. 30 May 2003
• Adjustment disorder: intergenerational conflict in a Chinese immigrant family. 29 Nov 2002
• Psychiatric morbidity and impact on hospital length of stay among hematologic cancer patients receiving stem-cell transplantation. 30 Mar 2002
• Suicidal behavior in patients with adjustment disorders. 30 Dec 2000
• A case of factitious skin disease. 29 Sep 2000
• Reactive psychoses revisited. 30 May 2000

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Technical information about 'Adjustment Disorders'

Definition: Maladaptive reactions to identifiable psychosocial stressors occurring within a short time after onset of the stressor. They are manifested by either impairment in social or occupational functioning or by symptoms (depression, anxiety, etc.) that are in excess of a normal and expected reaction to the stressor.

Descriptor UI: D000275

Alternative terms: Adjustment Disorders; Reactive Disorders; Disorder, Reactive; Disorders, Reactive; Reactive Disorder; Adjustment Disorder; Disorder, Adjustment; Disorders, Adjustment; Depression, Reactive; Depressions, Reactive; Reactive Depression; Reactive Depressions; Transient Situational Disturbance; Disturbance, Transient Situational; Disturbances, Transient Situational; Situational Disturbance, Transient; Situational Disturbances, Transient; Transient Situational Disturbances; Anniversary Reaction; Anniversary Reactions; Reaction, Anniversary; Reactions, Anniversary;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.075;

Online Note: use ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS to search DEPRESSION, REACTIVE 1966-80 (as Prov 1966-68)

History Note: 81; was DEPRESSION, REACTIVE 1966-80 (Prov 1966-68)