Psychiatry
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Using a Socratic dialogue to tackle thorny issues of psychiatry.

30 Oct 2009 Medical students often experience significant cognitive dissonance as they attempt to understand psychiatry. After the security of lab values and medical tests that characterize much of medical practice, the ambiguity of seemingly subjectively ... Read more...

The use of population based registers in psychiatric research.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: Much of the knowledge we now take for granted regarding major mental disorders such as schizophrenia, suicide and other disorders, would not exist without the use of population based registers. The use of population based registers in ... Read more...

The development of a knowledge test of depression and its treatment for patients suffering from non-psychotic depression: a psychometric assessment.

13 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: To develop and psychometrically assess a multiple choice question (MCQ) instrument to test knowledge of depression and its treatments in patients suffering from depression. METHODS: A total of 63 depressed patients and twelve psychiatric ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Psychiatry'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Using a Socratic dialogue to tackle thorny issues of psychiatry. 30 Oct 2009
• The use of population based registers in psychiatric research. 30 Oct 2009
• Strömgren remembered. 30 Oct 2009
• Patients and text messaging: a boundary issue. 30 Oct 2009
• Schizophrenia and NICE: all quiet on the community front? 30 Oct 2009
• A global perspective on the dissemination of mental health research. 29 Oct 2009
• Mental health services for older people. 22 Oct 2009
• Nada Logan Stotland, M.D., 135th President, 2008-2009. 29 Sep 2009
• Response to the presidential address. 29 Sep 2009
• Presidential address. American Psychiatric Association. 29 Sep 2009
• [Remembering Béla Mária (1903-1975)] 28 Sep 2009
• [Report from the 2009 scientific meeting of the Környey Society] 28 Sep 2009
• Report offers clinicians guidance for treating depression during pregnancy. 14 Sep 2009
• The development of a knowledge test of depression and its treatment for patients suffering from non-psychotic depression: a psychometric assessment. 13 Sep 2009
• [Between Griesinger and Kraepelin--Ludwig Meyer (1827-1900): anatomist and reform psychiatrist] 7 Sep 2009
• [Internet-based psychotherapy programmes--do they endanger the therapeutic relationships in psychiatry and pyschotherapy?] 7 Sep 2009
• Assessment of the capacity to consent to treatment in patients admitted to acute medical wards. 31 Aug 2009
• Electroconvulsive therapy in the Netherlands: a questionnaire survey on contemporary practice. 30 Aug 2009
• Nigerian medical students attitudes to unmodified electroconvulsive therapy. 30 Aug 2009
• [Ethnopsychiatry in the elderly] 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Psychiatry'

Definition: The medical science that deals with the origin, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders.

Descriptor UI: D011570

Alternative terms: Psychiatry; Psychiatrists; Psychiatrist;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: F04.096.544; H02.403.776.655;

Technical Notes: specialty only; do not confuse with MENTAL DISORDERS