Mental Disorders - History
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

[Neurological aspects described in The treasure of medicines for all illnesses by Gregorio López]

30 Jul 2009 INTRODUCTION: Latin American medicine in the 16th century produced the first collections of herbs with native plants from the New World. Treatises on popular therapies appeared, which included gallenic remedies as well as incorporating autochthonous ... Read more...

Neurological problems of jazz legends.

30 Jul 2009 A variety of neurological problems have affected the lives of giants in the jazz genre. Cole Porter courageously remained prolific after severe leg injuries secondary to an equestrian accident, until he succumbed to osteomyelitis, amputations, ... Read more...

The history of psychosurgery in Turkey.

29 Jun 2009 The modern age of psychosurgery can be said to have started with Moniz and Lima. Freeman and Watts subsequently revised and popularised the lobotomy procedure. Moniz shared the 1949 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology for his discovery of the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Disorders - History'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Remembering Béla Mária (1903-1975)] 28 Sep 2009
• [Was Nietzsche's genius a consequence of mental disease] 30 Aug 2009
• [Neurological aspects described in The treasure of medicines for all illnesses by Gregorio López] 30 Jul 2009
• Neurological problems of jazz legends. 30 Jul 2009
• The history of psychosurgery in Turkey. 29 Jun 2009
• Journeys in complex genetics: music and mental illness. 29 Jun 2009
• Bethlem's Irish: migration and distress in nineteenth-century London. 30 May 2009
• Creating order. A quantitative analysis of psychiatric practice at the Swiss mental institutions of Burghölzli and Rheinau between 1870 and 1970. 30 May 2009
• The historical development of psychiatry in Serbia. 30 May 2009
• [Abraham Joly (1748-1812), a breaker of the hospital chains] 25 May 2009
• [Physician literature mystery. Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, poetry] 11 May 2009
• Eugene Bleuler's four As. 29 Apr 2009
• A century of psychology and psychotherapy: is an understanding of 'control' the missing link between theory, research, and practice? 30 Mar 2009
• Dr. Irmfried Eberl (1910-1948): mass murdering MD. 30 Mar 2009
• BJN 100 years ago: Care after mental illness. 30 Mar 2009
• Genomewide association studies: history, rationale, and prospects for psychiatric disorders. 30 Mar 2009
• Neurological problems of famous musicians: the classical genre. 28 Mar 2009
• Body and risk: cultural ambivalence towards radioactivity through the history of two protagonists. 2 Mar 2009
• A life devoted to crime. 27 Feb 2009
• [Describing neurolathyrism. Physicians and the lathyrism epidemic in post-civil war Spain] 27 Feb 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