Mental Disorders - Complications
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Common mental disorder and obesity: insight from four repeat measures over 19 years: prospective Whitehall II cohort study.

4 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVES: To examine potential reciprocal associations between common mental disorders and obesity, and to assess whether dose-response relations exist. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study with four measures of common mental disorders and obesity ... Read more...

Epileptiform discharges in psychiatric patients: a controversy in need of resurrection.

29 Sep 2009 The current view of the psychiatric significance of inter-ictal spike discharges (IIS) in nonepileptic, psychiatric patients is that the discharges are "incidental" and are of no clinical significance. Hence, despite a voluminous literature ... Read more...

Hypokalemia is associated with lengthening of QT interval in psychiatric patients on admission.

8 Sep 2009 Several studies have revealed a relatively high frequency of hypokalemia in the general psychiatric population. This may be explained by adrenergic stimulation observed in the acute phase of psychiatric disorders. Little is known about the effects ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Disorders - Complications'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Common mental disorder and obesity: insight from four repeat measures over 19 years: prospective Whitehall II cohort study. 4 Oct 2009
• Epileptiform discharges in psychiatric patients: a controversy in need of resurrection. 29 Sep 2009
• Primary focal dystonia -- a disease of brain and mind: motor and psychiatric manifestations have a common neurobiological basis. 29 Sep 2009
• Hypokalemia is associated with lengthening of QT interval in psychiatric patients on admission. 8 Sep 2009
• Treat early or wait and monitor? A qualitative analysis of provider hepatitis C virus treatment decision-making in the context of HIV coinfection. 30 Aug 2009
• The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in the Bergen Child Study: a conceptually and methodically motivated structural analysis. 30 Aug 2009
• Making rhetoric a reality: effective capacity building in mental health care provision. 30 Aug 2009
• Maternal mental health and childhood asthma among Puerto Rican youth: the role of prenatal smoking. 30 Aug 2009
• Psychiatric comorbidity and other psychological factors in patients with "chronic Lyme disease". 30 Aug 2009
• Mental distress in the general population in Zambia: impact of HIV and social factors. 16 Aug 2009
• Cross-national analysis of the associations among mental disorders and suicidal behavior: findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys. 9 Aug 2009
• Negotiating complexities: An ethnographic study of intellectual disability and mental health nursing in New Zealand. 30 Jul 2009
• Assessment of a point-of-care metabolic risk screening program in outpatients receiving antipsychotic agents. 30 Jul 2009
• Cardiac and psychiatric diagnoses among patients referred for chest pain and palpitations. 30 Jul 2009
• Factors associated with treatment failure of patients with psychiatric diseases and injecting drug users in the treatment of genotype 2 or 3 hepatitis C chronic infection. 30 Jul 2009
• [Opiate replacement therapy in France: assessment of the public policies] 28 Jul 2009
• Serotonin and Parkinson's disease: On movement, mood, and madness. 13 Jul 2009
• Unemployment and suicide. 5 Jul 2009
• Is there an association between psychological factors and the Complex Regional Pain Syndrome type 1 (CRPS1) in adults? A systematic review. 29 Jun 2009
• Predictors of 3-month retention in a drug treatment therapeutic community. 29 Jun 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