Mental Disorders - Classification
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Sex, immorality, and mental disorders.

16 Aug 2009 Although the definition of a mental disorder has remained essentially the same from Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, Third Edition, Revised (DSM-III-R) through DSM-IV to DSM-IV-TR, the account of the paraphilias has changed ... Read more...

The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Biomedical Research Centre (SLAM BRC) case register: development and descriptive data.

10 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Case registers have been used extensively in mental health research. Recent developments in electronic medical records, and in computer software to search and analyse these in anonymised format, have the potential to revolutionise this ... Read more...

Prolonged grief disorder: Psychometric validation of criteria proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11.

2 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Bereavement is a universal experience, and its association with excess morbidity and mortality is well established. Nevertheless, grief becomes a serious health concern for a relative few. For such individuals, intense grief persists, is ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Disorders - Classification'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Mental illness in China. 24 Sep 2009
• Sex, immorality, and mental disorders. 16 Aug 2009
• The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Biomedical Research Centre (SLAM BRC) case register: development and descriptive data. 10 Aug 2009
• Prolonged grief disorder: a problem for the past, the present, and the future. 2 Aug 2009
• Prolonged grief disorder: Psychometric validation of criteria proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11. 2 Aug 2009
• Issues for DSM-V: the role of culture in psychiatric diagnosis. 30 Jul 2009
• Developing Korean Academy of Medical Sciences Guideline for rating the impairment in mental and behavioural disorders; a comparative study of KNPA's new guidelines and AMA's 6th Guides. 28 Jul 2009
• The good, the bad, and the severely mentally ill: Official and informal labels as organizational resources in community mental health services. 19 Jul 2009
• Research on treating neuropsychiatric symptoms of advanced dementia with non-pharmacological strategies, 1998-2008: a systematic literature review. 7 Jul 2009
• Neuroimaging in psychiatry: evaluating the ethical consequences for patient care. 29 Jun 2009
• Falls in a psychiatric institution in Beijing, China. 29 Jun 2009
• Neuropsychiatric sequelae of traumatic brain injury. 21 Jun 2009
• Clinical usefulness of the diagnostic manual-intellectual disability for mental disorders in persons with intellectual disability: results from a brief field survey. 31 May 2009
• Prevalence of serious mental illness among jail inmates. 30 May 2009
• Lessons learned from the clinical reappraisal study of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview with Latinos. 30 May 2009
• Reel psychiatry. 30 May 2009
• [Psychopharmacological treatments in childhood and adolescence] 30 May 2009
• Are there "hebephiles" among us? A response to Blanchard et al. (2008). 30 May 2009
• Hebephilia plethysmographica: a partial rejoinder to Blanchard et al. (2008). 30 May 2009
• When is an unusual sexual interest a mental disorder? 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Mental Disorders'

Definition: Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.

Descriptor UI: D001523

Alternative terms: Mental Disorders; Disorder, Mental; Disorders, Mental; Mental Disorder; Diagnosis, Psychiatric; Psychiatric Diagnosis; Behavior Disorders; Disorders, Behavior;

Related Mesh Headings: Mentally Ill Persons;

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

Tree Number: F03;

Online Note: pre-explosion = MENTAL DISORDERS (PX)

History Note: use pre-explosion 1974-97