"Porphyria: Psychiatric Sequelae or Comorbid Primary Psychosis?"

Acute Porphyria amongst Psychiatric Patients

A total of 519 consecutive patients, admitted to psychiatric wards of two different hospitals, were screened for evidence of increased excretion of porphobilinogen in the urine by original Watson Schwartz test and modified Watson Schwartz test supported with quantitative estimation of porphobilinogen by Remington's method in search of cases of acute porphyria amongst psychiatric patients. An ad...

Comorbid anxiety in patients with psychosis.

A diagnosis of psychosis has tended to discount the considerable degree of emotional disorder associated with it, in a manner that may also inform psychological treatment options. Depression and anxiety are often associated with schizophrenia. Up to 40% of people have clinical levels of depression and anxiety symptoms could occur in 60% of patients with chronic psychotic disorder. Among emotion...

Psychiatric sequelae of acquired brain injury

Improvements over recent decades in acute care of the brain-injured now ensure that all but the most severely injured survive. The legacy of that survival is an increasing number of people with enduring organic mental disorders. Here, I will focus upon the psychiatric sequelae of five types of severe singleinsult brain injury: head trauma, subarachnoid haemorrhage, and hypoxic, hypoglycaemic an...

Psychiatric Sequelae of Amputation : I Immediate Effects

Twenty-five subjects, who had undergone amputation within last 6 weeks, were studied for psychiatric complications, including phantom limb phenomena. The patients were interviewed on SCID, HRSD and HARS. Out of a total of 25 subjects, 8 (34.6%) developed psychiatric disorders - PTSD and major depression. The whole sample was thus divided into 2 groups-sick and nonsick. Phantom limb was seen in ...

Some psychiatric sequelae to crib death.