Mental health problems after stroke

The extent and impact of mental health problems after disaster.

Disasters are events that challenge the individual's ability to adapt, which carries the risk of adverse mental health outcomes including serious posttraumatic psychopathologies. While risk is related to degree of exposure to psychological toxins, the unique vulnerabilities of special populations within the affected community as well as secondary stressors play an important role in determining ...

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 ...

ABC of mental health. Common mental health problems in hospital.

Mental health problems at work.

organising the randomised trials that are needed to evaluate the numerous interventions that have been suggested and are in current use. Finally, venous thromboembolism. Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism are avoidable and treatable risks for all ill patients. Yet few hospitals provide a coherent and informed preventive service, or a good treatment service, of the sort that has been pi...

Evacuation and Mental Health Problems

"... There are children who are shy and distressed in cottage homes that are run on old fashioned discipline lines. . . . Either they cry and cry, or prove aggressive and go home. ... Yet most children tolerate their billets, and I suppose, so far, 50 per cent, would not go back if they could. Say 25 per cent are passably contented. 25 per cent, would go back at once, and of these, say 10 per c...