The present study evaluated the psychometric properties and factor structure of the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) in a sample of clinical outpatients in Malaysia. The SWLS is a measure designed to assess subjective life satisfaction. Four hundred eighty-three participants (283 with psychiatric illnesses and 200 with other medical illnesses) completed the SWLS and other self-report instrum...

Neuropsychiatric symptoms and mental illness are commonly present in patients with chronic systemic diseases. Mood disorders, such as depression, are present in up to 50% of these patients, resulting in impaired physical recovery and more intricate treatment regimen. Stress associated with both physical and emotional aspects of systemic illness is thought to elicit detrimental effects to initia...

Antipsychotic medications are commonly prescribed to children and adolescents. These medications, however, are not only prescribed for young patients with psychosis, but are often prescribed for youths with a variety of psychiatric disorders. Despite the fact that psychiatric illness in the pre-adult era is not rare, few controlled clinical trials have examined the short-term safety and efficac...

Sixty-two inmates of a children's home were examined by using a symptom check list and Hindi adaptation of Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale-Form LM (1960). A high proportion (69.4%) of the inmates had one or other psychiatric problem. Mild mental retardation (I. Q. 50-70) was most common (40.3%), 11.3% were diagnosed as having unsocialized disturbance of conduct. Four most common psychiatric s...

Background Management of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) patients co-infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is highly challenging. Such patients are subject to long and potentially toxic treatments and may develop a number of different psychiatric illnesses such as anxiety and depressive disorders. A mental health assessment before MDR-TB treatment initiation may assist in early diagn...

Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a rare genetic disorder due to NOTCH 3 mutation on chromosome 19 resulting in small vessel disease that may mimic many other neurological disorders like migraine, stroke, transient ischaemic attack (TIA), dementia psychiatric illnesses. The confirmed by testing investigations MRI skin biopsy ...

The discovery that stress and depression, as well as other psychiatric illnesses, are characterized by structural alterations, and that these changes result from atrophy and loss of neurons and glia in specific limbic regions and circuits, has contributed to a fundamental change in our understanding of these illnesses. These structural changes are accompanied by dysregulation of neuroprotective...

" Gen Psychiat/Vol 26, Jan 1972 Diagnostic Criteria for Psychiatric Research/Feighner et a1 5 7 .Diagnostic criteria for 14 psychiatric illnesses (and for secondary deprnssion) along wi th the validating r,*idpnce for these diagnostic cate,/,,ries comes from workers outside ,,ti,. group as weU as from those within; i t consists of studies o f both outpatients and inpatients, o f family studies,...

At present, there are more small, open-label trials than large, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies of atypical antipsychotics in the treatment of nonpsychotic psychiatric illnesses. Existing evidence indicates both the safety and the efficacy of relatively low doses of the dopaminergic/serotonergic atypical antipsychotics as adjunctive, or augmentation, therapy for patients with nonpsycho...

OBJECTIVE To review neurobiological studies of alexithymia in order to achieve a better understanding of the relationship between alexithymia and psychosomatic diseases and psychiatric illnesses. METHODS Neurobiological studies of alexithymia were reviewed with a special focus on how emotional and cognitive elements of alexithymia are reflected in earlier research. RESULTS Studies that have...