Psychiatric classification: Merely repetitive and problematic?

Problematic internet use and psychiatric co-morbidity in a population of Japanese adult psychiatric patients

BACKGROUND Many studies reported the high prevalence of problematic internet use (PIU) among adolescents (13-50%), and PIU was associated with various psychiatric symptoms. In contrast, only a few studies investigated the prevalence among the adult population (6%). This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of PIU and psychiatric co-morbidity among adult psychiatric patients. METHODS Thre...

Factors associated with problematic drug use among psychiatric outpatients 1

Objective: to examine the factors associated with problematic drug use among psychiatric outpatients. Method: a cross-sectional study was carried out in two mental health services. Eligible individuals were patients of these mental health services, who used them within the data collection period. Instruments: standardized questionnaire with sociodemographic, social network, social harm, and c...

[Letter: Psychiatric classification of psychiatric patients].

Repetitive DNA Detection and Classification Source

Motivation Repetitive DNA is detected for variety of reasons. Among other things, repetitive DNA is generally not found to have any function and thus can be masked out for computational purposes in homology searches to avoid an explosion of unnecessary results. In addition, since repetitive DNA is usually reliably inherited without much change from parents to their offspring, they are suitable ...

Merely lights and wires?