BACKGROUND To examine relationships between recent DSM-III-R psychiatric disorders and work impairment in major occupational groups in the US labour force. METHOD Data are from the US National Comorbidity Survey (NCS), a survey of respondents ages 15-54 in the US. Employed people are the focus of the report. RESULTS There is substantial variation across occupations in the 30-day prevalences...

OBJECTIVE Previous research has demonstrated that psychiatric disorders are common among people who abuse alcohol and drugs, but few studies have examined the relationship of psychiatric disorders to drug treatment outcome. The authors conducted such an examination. METHOD They successfully reinterviewed 401 drug-dependent subjects (94% of the baseline in-treatment sample) and determined thei...

The psychiatric genetics field is currently undergoing a crisis due to the decades-long failure to uncover the genes believed to cause the major psychiatric disorders. Since 2009, leading researchers have explained these negative results on the basis of the ‘‘missing heritability’’ argument, which holds that more effective research methods must be developed to uncover presumed missing genes. Ac...

Although psychiatric disorders are common among current and former inmates, a putative causal relationship is contaminated by assorted influences, including childhood disadvantage, the early onset of most disorders, and the criminalization of substance use, which is itself comorbid with a variety of other subsequent psychiatric disorders. Using the National Comorbidity Survey Replication, this ...

BACKGROUND Vertigo and dizziness are often not fully explained by an organic illness, but instead are related to psychiatric disorders. This study aimed to evaluate psychiatric comorbidity and assess psychosocial impairment in a large sample of patients with a wide range of unselected organic and non-organic (ie, medically unexplained) vertigo/dizziness syndromes. METHODS This cross-sectional...

objectives: the present study explored the relationship between severity of psychiatric disorders and degree of opium dependence as a negative prognosis in treatment of drug addicts. method: this study is a descriptive-cross sectional, the subjects were 240 (232 men and 8 women) randomly selected from among opium addicts seeking treatment. the instruments were an mmpi test and a psychiatric int...

conclusions these findings support that the careful evaluation and prospective following of the psychopathology of children of parents with bipolar disorder are critical for early identification and treatment. results there were statistically significant differences between children of parents with and those without bipolar disorder regarding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, opposition...

Various studies have demonstrated a link between having arthritis increased the risk for developing psychiatric arthritis, particularly rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA), and psychiatric disorders. More than two decades ago, Wells et al. [1] published data from the NIMH catchment area study in the United States showing that persons with arthritis had a lifetime prevalence rate o...