\ ,7hile it is widely recognized that patients with a major medical illness often have psychiatric symptoms, it is less commonly appreciated that psychiatric symptoms may be the first presentation of the illness. This has been documented by several authors’-3 who report that 9 percent’ to 40 percent2 of patients undergoing treatment for presumed psychiatric disease may actually have a medical i...

It is apparent from previous studies in clinical populations that there is a high comorbidity rate between alcoholism and other psychiatric diagnoses. However, this may simply be an expression of Berkson's bias (i.e., an increased tendency for persons with multiple diagnoses to seek and receive treatment and thus fall into study populations drawn from treatment sources). In this article, we use...

BACKGROUND It is our contention that both categorical and dimensional approaches to diagnosis are important for clinical work and research alike, and that each approach has its drawbacks and advantages. As the processes toward developing DSM-V and ICD-11 progress, we suggest that another exclusively categorical revision of psychiatric taxonomies will no longer be sufficient and that adding a di...

This study investigates whether individualized, anticipatory temperament guidance could benefit the parent-child relationship and improve children's mental health over time. Parents of preschoolers in a health management organization completed a temperament questionnaire, received written parenting information tailored to their child's temperament, and were asked to complete a program evaluatio...

In this second part of our study, we examined the extent of agreement between treating practitioners and expert witnesses on psychiatric diagnoses in evidence presented in criminal proceedings. We found good agreement on diagnoses of acquired brain injury, schizophrenia-spectrum psychoses, depressive disorders, intellectual disability, substance abuse, and personality disorders; fair agreement ...

of previous publications detailing SGCE mutation status and psychiatric disease. Inclusion criteria included: use of recognised MDS diagnostic criteria, a case control study design, SGCE status, and the use of standardised and validated psychiatric assessment tools. When data were pooled, these showed a significant association between SGCE mutations and psychiatric disease (p1⁄40.028), includin...

AIM This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adult psychiatric outpatients. Moreover, comorbid psychiatric diagnoses in adults with ADHD were determined. Patients with and without ADHD were compared regarding DSM Axis I-II comorbidity and sociodemographic characteristics. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included patients that present...