Lung tissue developmental abnormalities are seldom reported. According to the classification of Schneider (1900), which was amended by Boyden (1955), they include pulmonary agenesis, aplasia and hypoplasia. Due to the early onset of symptoms, lung agenesis and aplasia are usually detected soon after birth. Conversely, lung or lobar hypoplasia may remain clinically silent for a long time. A sing...

PURPOSE The objective of this study was to identify the sleep problems most often encountered by the elderly according to the presence or absence of anxiety and mood disorders. The aim was also to determine whether groups of anxious, depressive, and asymptomatic individuals differ in relation to sleep onset latency; awakenings at night or early in the morning; subjective quality of sleep; takin...

OBJECTIVE This study examined recent changes in the prescribing patterns for medications to treat bipolar disorder in office-based psychiatric practice. METHOD The authors analyzed physician-reported data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey for 1992-1995 and 1996-1999, focusing on physicians specializing in psychiatry. Demographic, clinical, and medication prescription characteri...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the symptom frequencies of a relatively large sample of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) sufferers and compare male and female symptom profiles. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 103 consecutive attendees at a clinic for PTSD were examined using a checklist of DSM-IV PTSD characteristics. The presence and absence of all symptoms was evaluated in a research i...

This paper summarizes four decades of research on the social, psychological, and cultural issues facing men and women who spend the austral winter under conditions of prolonged isolation and confinement in the Antarctic. Analyses of data collected from over 1,100 Americans who wintered-over between 1963 and the present are used to make the case that the process of psychosocial adaptation to iso...

BACKGROUND Mental health problems are a leading cause of long-term sickness absence (LTSA). Workers at risk of mental LTSA should preferably be identified before they report sick. The objective of this study was to examine mental health symptoms as predictors of future mental LTSA in non-sicklisted workers. METHODS Prospective cohort study of 4877 non-sicklisted postal workers. Mental health ...

BACKGROUND This case report documents the effectiveness of inositol treatment on a chronic patient with bipolar disorder I and severe psoriasis. Her lithium treatment was discontinued due to psoriasis exacerbation and inositol was administered. The remarked positive effect of inositol was noted on her stable mood during the last 4 years, the absence of psoriatic lesions, which lead to an improv...