Inebriety A Mental Disease

Mechanisms linking Mental Health Problems and Cardiac Disease: A Review

Psychological problems play a critical role in development of cardiovascular disease. Several mechanisms were suggested to explain the association and mechanism of this effect, recently. Knowledge of the mechanisms mediating the association between psychological status and heart disease could help in developing treatments. The effects of mind and mood on the cardiovascular system can be due to ...

Association between Mental Health and Coronary Heart Disease: A Prospective Cohort Study

Background and purpose: According to some evidence, psychological factors play an important role in the development and progression of cardiac diseases. But there are contradictions about the independent relationship between psychological distress and coronary heart disease. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between mental health and non-fatal coronary heart disease (CH...

W1: Somatoform Pain Disorders Fibromyalgia is a Mental or Somatic Disease?

Mental disorders with pain as a leading symptom are remnat diagnostic categories for physicians and psychotherapist, even if they are educated in pain treatment. Patients with somatoform pain disorder (ICD-10: F45.4) are often diagnosed only after several years and multiple diagnostic procedures, in some cases after iatrogenic impairment. The clinical practical features, diagnostic procedure an...

mechanisms linking mental health problems and cardiac disease: a review

psychological problems play a critical role in development of cardiovascular disease. several mechanisms were suggested to explain the association and mechanism of this effect, recently. knowledge of the mechanisms mediating the association between psychological status and heart disease could help in developing treatments. the effects of mind and mood on the cardiovascular system can be due to ...

A Primer of Psychology and Mental Disease