Mental Disorders - Physiopathology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Viral infection leading to brain dysfunction: more prevalent than appreciated?

13 Oct 2009 Virus infections of the brain can lead to transient or permanent neurologic or psychiatric dysfunction. Some of the complexities in establishing the causal role of viruses in brain disease are explored ... Read more...

Neuroendocrine and immune influences on the CNS: it's a matter of sex.

13 Oct 2009 Most neuropsychiatric diseases have a sex bias in their presentation, age of onset, or treatment response. Yet surprisingly, we have considered very little the contribution of the sexually dimorphic brain when thinking about disease etiology and the ... 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...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Disorders - Physiopathology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Viral infection leading to brain dysfunction: more prevalent than appreciated? 13 Oct 2009
• Neuroendocrine and immune influences on the CNS: it's a matter of sex. 13 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
• The neurochemistry of rule use. 13 Aug 2009
• Psychiatric symptoms among juveniles incarcerated in adult prison. 30 Jul 2009
• The long-term impact of employment on mental health service use and costs for persons with severe mental illness. 30 Jul 2009
• Does the use of a physical health assessment tool improve the physical health of clients of a community mental health team? 30 Jul 2009
• An international conference on Brain Plasticity, Aging and Neuropsychiatric disorders hosted by the Ramon Areces Foundation. Preface. 30 Jul 2009
• Translating biological parameters into clinically useful diagnostic tests. 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 Brixton Spatial Anticipation Test as a test for executive function: validity in patient groups and norms for older adults. 27 Jul 2009
• Biomarkers in psychiatry. 7 Jul 2009
• A triplet repeat expansion genetic mouse model of infantile spasms syndrome, Arx(GCG)10+7, with interneuronopathy, spasms in infancy, persistent seizures, and adult cognitive and behavioral impairment. 6 Jul 2009
• Focus on HTR2C: A possible suggestion for genetic studies of complex disorders. 3 Jul 2009
• [Role of vasopressin receptor in psychological and cognitive functions] 29 Jun 2009
• Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. In this issue. 29 Jun 2009
• Thyroid disorders in mental patients. 29 Jun 2009
• Emergent research in the cause of mental illness in women across the lifespan. 29 Jun 2009
• Mild traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder and their associations with health symptoms. 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