This overview summarizes the research results on depression and dementia in ethnic Chinese elderly conducted by the Gerontology Research Programme of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Health policies are dependent on information of evidence-based studies and it is of utmost importance to encourage research on preventive psychiatry. Interventional strategies ...

Centuries. By Denis Leigh (Pergamon Press. 70s.) Workers in the field of psychiatry are indebted to Dr. Denis Leigh, who has been collecting material on the history of psychiatry since boyhood, for embarking on the "Historical Development of British Psychiatry". Indeed, a work of this nature is aS essential for the student of psychiatry as the study of embryology is to the student of anatomy. T...

1 Department of Psychiatry and Legal Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil 2 Mood Disorders Program (PROTHUM), Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil 3 Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 4 Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 5 Department of Psychia...

389 Harald Baumeister Engelbergerstrasse 41 DE–79085 Freiburg (Germany) Tel. +49 761 203 3044, Fax +49 761 203 3040 E-Mail baumeister @ psychologie.uni-freiburg.de 3 Parker G: Beyond major depression. Psychol Med 2005; 35: 467–474. 4 Parker G, Roy K, Mitchell P, Wilhelm K, Malhi G, Hadzi-Pavlovic D: Atypical depression: a reappraisal. Am J Psychiatry 2002; 159: 1470– 1479. 5 Leventhal AM, Reh...

medical curriculum can exposed the medical students to a significant levels of mental pressure. therefore, the prevalence and incidence of psychiatric disorders including abnormal value of stress, depression and anxiety are higher in the schools of medicine. there are two major types of sources that can lead to stress and further mental problems in the medical students: 1. stresses related to t...

Background: Alcoholism, also known as alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a broad term for any drinking of that results in mental or physical health problems like anxiety, dependence and depression. The present study was conducted with an aim to determine the association between depressive episode before after treatment dependence.
 Materials Methods: An observational among all diagnosed depend...