OBJECTIVE To determine if risky sexual intercourse, sexually transmitted diseases, and sexual intercourse at an early age are associated with psychiatric disorder. DESIGN Cross sectional study of a birth cohort at age 21 years with assessments presented by computer (for sexual behaviour) and by trained interviewers (for psychiatric disorder). SETTING New Zealand in 1993-4. PARTICIPANTS 99...

Prepulse inhibition (PPI) is considered to be one of the most promising neurophysiological indexes for translational research in psychiatry. Impairment of PPI has been reported in several psychiatric diseases, particularly schizophrenia, where PPI is considered a candidate intermediate phenotype (endophenotype) of the disease. Recent findings from a variety of research areas have provided impor...

OBJECTIVE To study the referral pattern of physical diseases in psychiatric in-patients in a university teaching general hospital. METHODS A longitudinal prospective study, over 12 months with a consecutive series of referrals from psychiatric in-patient unit to other specialties, in King Khalid University Hospital, using a predesigned format that included information on age, sex, physical ex...

It is of vital importance to differentiate psychiatric symptoms secondary to organic causes from primary psychiatric disorders. Early diagnosis of the primary organic etiology is necessary for early intervention and for avoiding side effects of using long term psychotropic medications. This will be particularly helpful if the underlying cause is treatable and its treatment can lead to improveme...

We searched databases and used various online resources to identify and systematically review all articles on occupational psychiatric disorders among Korean workers published in English and Korean before 2009. Three kinds of occupational psychiatric disorders were studied: disorders related to job stress and mental illness, psychiatric symptoms emerging in victims of industrial injuries, and o...

In this study, studies published in Turkey and included ULAKBIM TR Index Turkish Psychiatry containing the keyword stigmatization were examined terms of bibliometrics A total 143 evaluated within scope study.. It was determined that 80.4% research articles they frequently made a descriptive design. 65% related to type public stigma, conducted field psychiatric nursing, most Journal Psychiatric ...

Introduction Patients with systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) often develop neuropsychiatric disease. Central nervous system (CNS) manifestations of SLE occur in about half of all patients, and psychiatric presentations are seen with a prevalence of 35% to 60% in this group. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) also known as electroshock therapy is a psychiatric treatment in which electricity/electri...

It has become common to say psychiatric illnesses are brain diseases. This reflects a conception of the mental as being biologically based, though it is also thought that thinking of psychiatric illness this way will reduce the stigma attached to psychiatric illness. If psychiatric illnesses are brain diseases, however, it is not clear why psychiatry should not collapse into neurology, and some...

OBJECTIVE To identify the psychiatric illnesses in patients with hematological/oncological disorders encountered during blood and bone marrow transplantation. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Bismillah Taqee Institute of Health Sciences and Blood Diseases Centre, Karachi from December 2002 to December 2005. PATIENTS AND METHODS All consecutive patients, aged 15 ye...