Mental Disorders - Etiology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Improvement of neurological status and quality of life in children with opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome at long-term follow-up.

29 Nov 2009 BACKGROUND: Kinsbourne syndrome or opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome (OMS) is characterized by rapid, involuntary, irregular conjugate eye movements (opsoclonus), myoclonic jerking of the limbs and trunk, ataxia, and behavioral disturbances. In general, ... Read more...

Prevalence of psychopathology in childhood epilepsy: categorical and dimensional measures.

17 Nov 2009 Few studies have utilized both categorical and dimensional measures of psychopathology in children with epilepsy. We evaluated 173 children (88 males, 85 females; mean age 11.7y [SD 1.8]; range 9-14y) who had epilepsy (generalized 36%, partial 61%) ... Read more...

Management of injecting drug users admitted to hospital.

8 Oct 2009 General hospital clinicians frequently deal with injecting drug users because substance use has diverse medical and psychiatric complications. Non-specialist clinicians often initiate management when specialist consultation is not available or ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Disorders - Etiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Improvement of neurological status and quality of life in children with opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome at long-term follow-up. 29 Nov 2009
• Prevalence of psychopathology in childhood epilepsy: categorical and dimensional measures. 17 Nov 2009
• Management of injecting drug users admitted to hospital. 8 Oct 2009
• Complementary mutations in seipin gene in a patient with Berardinelli-Seip congenital lipodystrophy and dystonia: phenotype variability suggests multiple roles of seipin gene. 29 Sep 2009
• A scoring system for early prognostic assessment after neonatal seizures. 12 Sep 2009
• [Insomnia] 8 Sep 2009
• Extrapyramidal symptoms and medication use in Mucopolysaccharidosis type III. 30 Aug 2009
• Violence, suffering, and mental health in Afghanistan: a school-based survey. 19 Aug 2009
• [Research and quality control at a neuropsychiatric epilepsy clinic] 12 Aug 2009
• [Neuropsychological disorders in multiple sclerosis] 12 Aug 2009
• Approach to treatment of mental illness and substance dependence in remote Indigenous communities: results of a mixed methods study. 30 Jul 2009
• [Role of glutamate transporters in the pathophysiology of major mental illnesses] 30 Jul 2009
• Mental health: a long way to go. 30 Jul 2009
• Disability from "soft" neuropsychiatric sequelae due to frontal lobe injury. 30 Jul 2009
• Neuropsychiatric disorders in early untreated Parkinson's disease. 30 Jul 2009
• The spectrum of neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with early untreated Parkinson's disease. 30 Jul 2009
• Personality changes in temporal lobe epilepsy. 27 Jul 2009
• The trap of meaning: a public health tragedy. 20 Jul 2009
• Mitochondrial dysfunction and psychiatric disorders. 29 Jun 2009
• Reduction of road traffic noise and mental health: an intervention study. 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