BACKGROUND Patients on neurology wards have been shown to have high rates of psychiatric illness. Prevalence figures of 39-64% have been reported previously. However a low rate of recognition of psychiatric illness is also observed in this population. OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence of psychiatric illness in neurology inpatients in a regional neuroscience centre and to assess the sensit...

objective: to report the case of a 39- year old unmarried female with factitious edema of the right hand two weeks after being struck by her brother and following self injury of the right arm. method: a 39-year old unmarried female with severe edema of the right hand and forearm diagnosed as factitious lymphedema was admitted to roozbeh psychiatric hospital. after hospitalization, with elevatio...

The evaluation of cochleovestibular dysfunction in psychiatric patients often causes a difficult problem in neurootological experience. The authors discuss here the neurobiological basis of panic disorders and cochleovestibular dysfunction. In this multicenter study, we examined 63 patients with vertigo and panic disease. Twenty patients with primary panic disease and consecutive vertigo compos...

Two hundred patients with chronic intractable pain have been evaluated in order to study the clinical characteristics of pain and associated psychiatric illnesses. The commonest site of pain was reported to be head and face, usually dull in nature. Almost 75% of patients reported continuous pain. A great majority (40%-80%) had some psycho-social problem or other problem resultant from the chron...

The article examines some aspects of providing psychiatric aid for a person in compulsory order according to the civil procedural legislation Ukraine. In particular, current legal norms, which regulate procedure conducting examination, outpatient care, and hospitalization care facility event that does not gives his informed consent this, are analyzed.An analysis proposed legislative initiatives...

*Assistant Professor, **Associate Professor, ***Resident, ****Professor and Head, Psychiatry Dept, MGM Medical College, Navi-Mumbai Abstract Brain tumours have been notorious for masquerading as psychiatric disorders. Psychiatric disorders like acute psychosis, schizophrenia, depression, mania and panic disorders have been described to be associated with brain tumors. We had a case of a patient...

Objective The aim of the current study was to evaluate whether cognitive behavioral group therapy has a positive impact on psychiatric, and motor and non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD). Methods We assigned 20 PD patients with a diagnosis of psychiatric disorder to either a 12-week cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) group or a psychoeducational protocol. For the neurological examin...

Meningiomas are mostly benign tumors of the meninges that may stay clinically silent or present first with psychiatric symptoms only. We present a case of medial cranial fossa meningioma that was first diagnosed as mixed anxiety disorder with dissociative symptoms and vertigo. In light of the intact neurological and vestibular system examination, our patient's vertigo and depersonalization were...

The mental status examination includes general observations made during the clinical encounter, as well as specific testing based on the needs of the patient and physician. Multiple cognitive functions may be tested, including attention, executive functioning, gnosia, language, memory, orientation, praxis, prosody, thought content, thought processes, and visuospatial proficiency. Proprietary an...

OBJECTIVE To describe psychiatric presentations in individuals with genetic mutations causing frontotemporal dementia (FTD). DESIGN Case descriptions from five carriers of FTD-related gene mutations with symptoms associated with non-neurodegenerative psychiatric disease. SETTING A comprehensive research program investigating genetic and non-genetic FTD at the University of California, San F...