Objetivos: contribuir para a compreensão do desenvolvimento histórico conceito de ansiedade, das classificações dos transtornos ansiosos e suas manifestações clínicas, bem como atualização sobre o processo avaliação diagnóstica. Métodos: todas as edições da Organização Mundial Saúde (OMS) - CID Associação Psiquiátrica Americana (APA) DSM foram examinadas, além livros-texto referência psiquiatri...

Salinity, where salts concentrate on the soil surface causing severe decline of crop yields, is a worldwide problem. In Tanzania salinity one major degradation challenges affecting over 3.5 million hectares limiting agriculture productivity various crops including rice. Most varieties grown are sensitive to and inadequate tolerant cultivars available in country. A hydroponics mass screening tec...

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...

BACKGROUND Criteria for alcohol use disorders (AUD) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM-5) were intended to result in a similar prevalence of AUD as DSM-IV. We evaluated the prevalence of AUD using DSM-5 and DSM-IV criteria, and compared characteristics of patients who met criteria for: neither DSM-5 nor DSM-IV AUD, DSM-5 alone, DSM-IV alone, or both, ...

The diagnostic category of adjustment disorder (AD) made its first appearance in DSM-III in 1968, replacing the previous “transient situational disturbance” of DSM-II, and shortly after was included in ICD-9. It has persisted into the current versions of both DSM-IV and ICD-10. The inclusion of AD recognizes that people can often develop symptoms or exhibit behaviors in response to stressful ev...

BACKGROUND Resistance to contemporary broad-spectrum beta-lactams, mediated by extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBL), is an increasing problem worldwide. Many of the emerging antimicrobial resistance problems of this decade have been characterized by difficulty in the recognition of resistance in the laboratory, particularly by rapid susceptibility test methods. The plasmid-encoded ESBL repr...

In DSM-5, the categorical model and criteria for the 10 personality disorders included in DSM-IV will be reprinted in Section II. Moreover, an alternative dimensional classification model will appear in Section III. This alternative DSM-5 proposal for the diagnosis of a personality disorder is based on two fundamental criteria: impairments in personality functioning (Criterion A) and the presen...