The objective of this study was to review outcomes of acute service delivery in old age psychiatry. Sources of data included Medline, PsycINFO and Cochrane Collaboration databases of English language papers to 1998 on service delivery evaluation in 'old age psychiatry', 'psychogeriatrics' and 'geriatric psychiatry', supplemented by a manual search of references from relevant literature. All con...

BACKGROUND Our study describes the change in the research output, trends and content of published research involving medical students over the last century. METHODS Pubmed® and Scopus® were searched for keywords 'Medical Student' in the affiliation field. The search results were combined in Endnote® and duplicate entries removed and the multiple variables described below were assessed. RESU...

Objective Obesity is a medical condition that may have a harmful effect on health, leading to increased illness and reduced life expectancy. This studyaimed to evaluate the relationship of psychiatry disorders in overweight and obese children and adolescents. Materials & Methods In this case-control study, 160 children and adolescent were enrolled refereed to Clinic of Pediatric Endocrinology...

H name was Mr. Fuller. He was in his late 60s, and he had Alzheimer’s. I met him when I was a third year medical student, doing my psychiatry rotation 25 years ago. He was on the inpatient ward at the VA hospital associated with my medical school. The reason he was an inpatient was that he was part of a study concerning the use of amitriptyline in patients with dementia. He needed to have an el...

High rates of mental illness, particularly depression have been reported in Pakistan. The health system is both under developed and poorly resourced. It is therefore not surprising that psychiatric training is at its very early stages, at both undergraduate and the postgraduate level. In order to look after the mentally ill patients radical changes need to be implemented in training of doctors....

Objective: It has been shown that low haemoglobin count is associated with psychological consequences and psychiatric morbidity. The association between depression not properly interpreted standard values. Hence the purpose of this pilot study to know whether there a relation levels risk developing disorders morbidities.
 To find out if any relationship in rural healthcare setup.
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John F. Greden, M.D., is the Executive Director of the University of Michigan Comprehensive Depression Center and Founder and Chair of the National Network of Depression Centers (NNDC). His academic activities include 28 years of NIH-funded projects studying major depressions and bipolar disorders, emphasizing biomarker and clinical correlates of depression and bipolar disorders over a patient’...

BILATERAL DMPFC-RTMS LEADS TO SUSTAINED REMISSION IN GERIATRIC TREATMENT-RESISTANT DEPRESSION: A CASE REPORT David Sender, Bruno Palazzo Nazar, Tathiana Baczynski, Flávia Paes, Peter Fettes, Jonathan Downar, Carlos Campos, Antonio Egidio Nardi & Sergio Machado Laboratory of Panic & Respiration (LABPR), Institute of Psychiatry (IPUB), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, ...

objective: the objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of addiction to the internet, computer games, dvd, and video and its relationship to anxiety and depression in a sample of iranian high school students. methods: in this cross-sectional study 1020 high school students (males and females) were selected randomly from different areas of shiraz city in southern iran. they were inte...

This study reviewed the presentations of psychiatric patients admitted through the Emergency Department (ED), The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi. Psychiatric patients admitted through the ED to the psychiatry ward were compared to those admitted through the same units other than the psychiatry ward, from 2006 to 2010 using medical records. Psychiatric patients were defined as those in wh...