Mental Disorders - Research News and Information

Saturday, July 04, 2009

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...

[The problems of compliance and adherence, using the example of chronic inflammatory bowel disease]

21 Jun 2009 To what extent do patients comply with their doctor's treatment recommendation, i.e. show "compliance" and "adherence" ?. The treatment of chronic diseases in particular is associated with enormous problems of adherence. Patients often take only 40 ... Read more...

Psychiatric disorder as a first manifestation of cancer: a 10-year population-based study.

13 Jun 2009 To investigate the possibility that psychiatric symptoms could be caused by a yet undetected cancer or be part of a paraneoplastic syndrome, nationwide population-based registers were linked including the Danish Psychiatric Central Register and the ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Disorders'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Prevalence of psychopathology in childhood epilepsy: categorical and dimensional measures. 17 Nov 2009
• [The problems of compliance and adherence, using the example of chronic inflammatory bowel disease] 21 Jun 2009
• Psychiatric disorder as a first manifestation of cancer: a 10-year population-based study. 13 Jun 2009
• [Access to somatic health care among mentally ill] 9 Jun 2009
• Stigma and discrimination in mental illness: Time to Change. 4 Jun 2009
• Traditional healers in the treatment of common mental disorders in South Africa. 30 May 2009
• The conceptual development of DSM-V. 30 May 2009
• Last observation carried forward versus mixed models in the analysis of psychiatric clinical trials. 30 May 2009
• Prevalence and sex differences of psychiatric disorders in young adults who had intermittent exotropia as children. 30 May 2009
• [Self-fulfilling prophecies and development in the field of pensions] 30 May 2009
• Geographic patterns of frequent mental distress: U.S. adults, 1993-2001 and 2003-2006. 30 May 2009
• Long-term psychiatric consequences from carbon monoxide exposure: progression of endogenous cause or toxicant effect? 30 May 2009
• Individual and family adaptation in Taiwanese families of individuals with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI). 30 May 2009
• Are there "hebephiles" among us? A response to Blanchard et al. (2008). 30 May 2009
• Hebephilia plethysmographica: a partial rejoinder to Blanchard et al. (2008). 30 May 2009
• When is an unusual sexual interest a mental disorder? 30 May 2009
• Adult sexual attraction to early-stage adolescents: phallometry doesn't equal pathology. 30 May 2009
• Should hebephilia be a mental disorder? A reply to Blanchard et al. (2008). 30 May 2009
• Manufacturing mental disorder by pathologizing erotic age orientation: a comment on Blanchard et al. (2008). 30 May 2009
• Adult hippocampal neurogenesis and related neurotrophic factors. 29 May 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