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Definition of 'Mental Disorders'

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.

Common names: Mental Disorders; Disorder, Mental; Disorders, Mental; Mental Disorder; Diagnosis, Psychiatric; Psychiatric Diagnosis; Behavior Disorders; Disorders, Behavior

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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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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

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