introduction: the most important consequence of nephrogenic disease is the chronic renal failure and unfortunately, there is no significant program to improve the life quality of these patients. although they need mental support as well as physical rehabilitation but all current endeavors focused on increasing their physical ability not the mental aspect. the aim of this study was to evaluate t...

We have previously proposed that specific proteins may form insoluble aggregates as a response to an illness-specific proteostatic dysbalance in a subset of brains from individuals with mental illness, as is the case for other chronic brain conditions. So far, established risk factors DISC1 and dysbindin were seen to specifically aggregate in a subset of such patients, as was a novel schizophre...

To evaluate the diagnostic importance of event-related potential P300, the correlation between P300 and regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was investigated in various brain regions in patients with multiple cerebral infarction (16 cases), chronic alcoholism (11 cases) and Alzheimer's disease (5 cases) and in seven healthy people. Cognitive function was also evaluated by mini-mental state exami...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family physicians are trained to assess mental health symptoms and provide some mental health interventions to their patients. Because of obstacles to referring patients to mental health specialists, many family physicians independently provide outpatient mental health treatment such as brief office counseling. Questions exist regarding physicians' interest in, perceiv...

background: the purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that the addition of buspirone, a partial agonist of 5ht1a receptor, to ongoing treatment with typical antipsychotics would improve the positive and negative symptoms in patients with chronic schizophrenia. materials and methods: in this study, 50 patients including 40 male and 10 female were recruited with chronic schizophrenia w...

We assess the effectiveness of return to employment, and hence social inclusion in patients with chronic schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder within a British community mental health team.

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...

Introduction: The caregivers of persons with chronic psychiatric disability experience considerable amount of burden leading to a poor quality of life (QoL). Aim: The aim of the present study was to assess the QoL of caregivers of persons with mental retardation and compare them with caregivers of persons with chronic schizophrenia. Method: The sample comprised of 30 caregivers of patients with...

INTRODUCTION The prevalence of chronic physical and mental disorders is increasing among children and adolescents in the United States. In this study, we investigated the association between mental health disorders and chronic physical conditions among children, and we assessed whether having mental disorders is associated with increased health care costs for children with chronic physical cond...

Abstract Objective Chronic pain is an important health problem and affects both quality of life mental health. This study assessed psychological inflexibility, intensity, life, anxiety depression symptoms, self-efficacy, social support among patients with chronic pain. Method A quasiexperimental design was used to assess six adult participants pre- post-group intervention (eight sessions) based...