To study the prevalence of somatoform disorders (SDs) in primary care, a questionnaire including the modified 25-item version of the Symptom Checklist-90 was administered to 191 patients consecutively consulting their family physician. A stratified sample of the patients was interviewed with the Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry. The study showed that 22.3% (confidence interv...

UNLABELLED The DSM-5 and ICD-11 classifications, the latter still under development, are aimed at harmonizing the diagnoses of mental disorders. A critical review is presented in the issues that can converge or separate both classifications regarding bipolar disorders, and those conditions–included in depressive disorders–with special relevance for bipolar (e.g. major depressive episode). The m...

Asperger syndrome (AS) is a pervasive developmental disorder recently introduced as a new diagnostic category in the ICD-10 and the DSM-IV. Along with motor clumsiness, pedantic speech has been proposed as a clinical feature of AS. However, few attempts have been made to define and measure this symptom. We studied 17 patients with AS (ICD-10; 14 male, 3 female; mean age 16.4 years, mean full-sc...

A behavioural syndrome of childhood characterised by overactivity, excitability, and explosive behaviour has been recognised since the turn of the last century and is now thought to be, at certain ages, the most common disorder of childhood. The disorder is now recognised in the terminology of ICD-10 as ‘‘hyperkinetic disorder’’, and in DSM-IV as ‘‘attention deficit hyperactivity disorder’’ (AD...

The article deals with the frequency of vaginismus, its definitions and criteria, which are presented in encyclopaedical sources, International Classification Diseases, 10th 11th Revisions (ICD-10 ICD-11), Diagnostic Statistical Manual Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (USA) (DSM-V), as well publications made by some authors. It is reported that while ICD-10 presents psychogenic biogenic variants...

AIMS To investigate whether DSM-IV abuse and dependence criteria and the ICD-10 criterion for craving differentially predict a chronic course of alcohol use disorders (AUD) in the general population. METHODS Data were derived from the Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Study, a large representative sample of the general Dutch population with a baseline and a 1- and 3-year follow-u...

هدیکچ فده و هقباس : نیئتورپ نایب ا یکی نارادناتسپ ریش رد یجراخ یاه هار ز یعیـسو دربراک جیردت هب هک تسا ییاهراک هدروآرف هوبنا دیلوت رد یم بیکرتون ییوراد یاه هب ،دبای هدروآرف هژیو تسد هک ییاه شیب شوخ سـپ تارـییغت نیرت زا همجرت یا یم دنوش . شوم داجیا قیقحت نیا زا فده سنارت یاه سنارت دجاو هک دوب یکینژ نایب نژ هدننک یسلک نینوـت رد دیربیه دنشاب شوم یریش ددغ . شور و داوم اه : یدنفـسوگ نیلوبلگوتک...