Mental Disorders - Drug therapy
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Applied psychometrics in clinical psychiatry: the pharmacopsychometric triangle.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To consider applied psychometrics in psychiatry as a discipline focusing on pharmacopsychology rather than psychopharmacology as illustrated by the pharmacopsychometric triangle. METHOD: The pharmacopsychological dimensions of clinically ... Read more...

Upper gastrointestinal symptoms, psychosocial co-morbidity and health care seeking in general practice: population based case control study.

7 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: The pathophysiology of upper gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms is still poorly understood. Psychological symptoms were found to be more common in patients with functional gastrointestinal complaints, but it is debated whether they are ... Read more...

The incidence of diabetes in atypical antipsychotic users differs according to agent--results from a multisite epidemiologic study.

30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine the association between atypical antipsychotics, including the newer agents, aripiprazole and ziprasidone, and newly treated diabetes, using the largest post-marketing cohort of patients exposed to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Disorders - Drug therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Applied psychometrics in clinical psychiatry: the pharmacopsychometric triangle. 30 Oct 2009
• Benefits exceed risks of newer antidepressant medications in youth--maybe not. 29 Sep 2009
• Benefits exceed risks of newer antidepressant medications in youth--maybe. 29 Sep 2009
• PANDAS: horse or zebra? 28 Sep 2009
• Upper gastrointestinal symptoms, psychosocial co-morbidity and health care seeking in general practice: population based case control study. 7 Sep 2009
• The incidence of diabetes in atypical antipsychotic users differs according to agent--results from a multisite epidemiologic study. 30 Aug 2009
• Extrapyramidal symptoms and medication use in Mucopolysaccharidosis type III. 30 Aug 2009
• Nicotinic receptors: allosteric transitions and therapeutic targets in the nervous system. 30 Aug 2009
• Childhood bullying behavior and later psychiatric hospital and psychopharmacologic treatment: findings from the Finnish 1981 birth cohort study. 30 Aug 2009
• The neurochemistry of rule use. 13 Aug 2009
• [Neuropsychological disorders in multiple sclerosis] 12 Aug 2009
• Community pharmacist services for people with mental illnesses: preferences, satisfaction, and stigma. 30 Jul 2009
• Mental health treatment received by youths in the year before and after a new diagnosis of bipolar disorder. 30 Jul 2009
• State mental health policy: implementation of computerized medication prescribing algorithms in a community mental health system. 30 Jul 2009
• [Neurological aspects described in The treasure of medicines for all illnesses by Gregorio López] 30 Jul 2009
• Clinical implications of chirality and stereochemistry in psychopharmacology. 30 Jul 2009
• The importance of medication in consumer definitions of recovery from serious mental illness: a qualitative study. 30 Jul 2009
• Assessment of a point-of-care metabolic risk screening program in outpatients receiving antipsychotic agents. 30 Jul 2009
• Psychogenic movement disorders. 30 Jul 2009
• Medical treatment of Parkinson disease. 30 Jul 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