INTRODUCTION The emergency medical evaluation of psychiatric patients presenting to United States emergency departments (ED), usually termed "medical clearance," often varies between EDs. A task force of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry (AAEP), consisting of physicians from emergency medicine, physicians from psychiatry and a psychologist, was convened to form consensus recomme...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency and features of psychiatric morbidity in a cross section of 38 outpatients with neurocysticercosis. METHODS Diagnosis of neurocysticercosis was established by CT, MRI, and CSF analysis. Psychiatric diagnoses were made by using the present state examination and the schedule for affective disorders and schizophrenia-lifetime version; cognitive state was asse...

Fifty cases of chronic non-specific abdominal pain were studied prospectively. All patients were subjected to a detailed clinical examination and investigations related to gastrointestinal system. A full psychiatric assessment was done with application of Goldberg's 60 item's General Health Questionnaire. Thirty four (68%) patients had psychiatric symptoms, of whom twenty six (52%) had a defini...

BACKGROUND Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) may present with psychiatric symptoms, usually together with neurological ones and in cases with a family history of dementia. We describe the case of an FTD behavioural variant with a psychiatric presentation and a normal neurological examination, due to a C9Orf72 gene mutation. CASE PRESENTATION The patient was a 57 years-old Caucasian woman with a r...

The aim of this article is to review recent advances and the latest research trends in psychiatric epidemiology. Examination of mental disorders prevalence delivers important information about the mental state of society and need for professional psychiatric care. The 12 months prevalence estimates are 30% for any mental disorders. Knowledge about historical methods of data collecting helps to ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To determine the completeness of documentation and accuracy of medical evaluation for a sample of emergency psychiatric patients. DESIGN Descriptive, retrospective chart review. SETTING Nine hundred-bed community teaching hospital with a voluntary psychiatric inpatient unit. TYPE OF PARTICIPANTS Two hundred ninety-eight emergency department patients with psychiatric chief...