The results of medical examinations carried out on 212 missionary personnel from one missionary society returning on leave to the UK are presented. The great majority of missionaries worked in developing countries. They served in 27 countries altogether and for a total of 488 person years. The commonest illnesses reported overseas were malaria (87.3 per 1000 person years at risk), diarrhoea (63...

Structured ~nterview for the the Diagnosis of Dementia (SIDAM); c) the Global Deterioration Scale (GDS); and d) the Mini Mental State Examination OLIMSE). The clinical examination was performed by the interviewing ptliysicians, who made their diagnoses according to ICD-10 and DSMHI-R. Results. The suuctured interviews (GMS-A: 25.4%; SIDAMI SISCO: 214.0%; SIDAMI DSM-111-R: 27.8%; S'l.DAM/ICD-10:...

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...

INTRODUCTION Oral diseases in psychiatric patients are usually a result of bad oral hygiene and psychopharmaceutical side-effects. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to detect the most prevalent oral lesions in patients hospitalized in a psychiatric institution in Caracas, Venezuela with the confirmed diagnosis of psychiatric illness. MATERIAL AND METHODS A transversal study consisted of 6...

OBJECTIVE The authors examined videotaped behaviors of children who developed schizophrenia as adults and of comparison subjects to disclose possible social and neuromotor deficits foreshadowing later development of schizophrenia. METHOD In 1972, a sample of 265 11-13-year-old Danish children were filmed under standardized conditions while they were eating lunch. The examination was part of a...

Aims and method The Royal College of Psychiatrists is considering how best to introduce a post-MRCPsych-examination assessment ('exit examination') in anticipation of external pressures to ensure patient safety through the use of such assessments. The Psychiatric Trainees' Committee conducted an online survey to gather the views of psychiatrists regarding the possible format and content of this...

Modern psychiatric diagnostic systems classify neurological symptoms that cannot be explained by a physical disease or another psychiatric disorder as conversion disorder (CD) or dissociative motor disorder. It is a well-known fact that the overall rate of misdiagnosis of conversion symptoms is high. The most common presenting symptoms of misdiagnosed patients are gait and movement disturbances...

PURPOSE To evaluate the frequency and intensity of psychiatric disorders in a group of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) patients from a tertiary-care center. METHODS Clinical and sociodemographic data of 73 patients were collected and a neuropsychiatric evaluation was performed with the following instruments: Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), structured clinical interview (MINI-PLUS), Hamilto...

The personal, social and economic burden of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is high and therapeutic approaches are only partially effective. Therefore, there is an urgent need to understand the cellular and molecular alterations in PTSD brains in order to design more effective treatment strategies. Although brain imaging strategies have considerably improved our understanding of PTSD, the...