Movement disorders include both psychiatric illnesses with neurologic features and neurologic illnesses with frequent psychiatric complications. During 1998, neuropsychiatric progress was made on several fronts, notably in parkinsonism and tic disorders. This remains an exciting area for research, with many unsolved, clinically important problems, but increasing neurobiologic knowledge and soph...

In this research topic, we have gathered articles focusing on the psychomotor component of psychiatric disorders. Indeed,motor symptoms remain as an important dimension of psychopathology that can be assessed by objective means. Particularly, in major depressive disorder and schizophrenia, motor signs have been acknowledged from the very early descriptions (1–3). But, psychomotor abnormalities ...

Caregiving for an ill family member can be both stressful and rewarding. Caring for a relative with a psychiatric illness adds the burden of social stigma, both for the patient and the family caregivers, especially in minority cultures. Families from minority cultures may have a different understanding of mental illness and have difficulties with language, discrimination, and accessing services...

It is well recognized that many psychiatric disorders and illnesses present with acoustic markers that manifest in the speech of the affected people. Studies continue to uncover positive relationships between the human voice and a widening range of mental conditions. There is not much literature, however, on the use of voice in the grading of psychiatric illnesses. Here the term grading refers ...

patients with psychiatric disorders are usually more exposed to multiple somatic illnesses, including liver diseases. specific links are established between psychiatric disorders and alcohol hepatitis, hepatitis b, and hepatitis c in the population as a whole, and specifically in drug abusers. metabolic syndrome criteria, and associated steatosis or non-alcoholic steato-hepatitis (nash) are fre...

Psychiatric morbidity was analysed in 5,000 female patients who attended medical OPD from July 1985 to July 1986. The Psychiatric illnesses were found in 932 patients (18.42%). The commonest age to have psychiatric illness was 21-30 years (58.8%), and neuroses constituted the most common psychiatric diagnosis (44.6%). Schizophrenia was the least common psychiatric illness (3.2%) in patients att...

BACKGROUND Despite the increased risk, the quality of somatic healthcare is lower for patients with mental illnesses. Currently dominant approach separates physical and mental, primary and secondary healthcare. Objective of our study was to explore whether somatic comorbidities are associated with a poor HRQoL independently of some sociodemographic and clinical factors. Majority of studies have...

highest risks of premature death of all mental illnesses.1 One of the reasons for this high mortality rate, relative to other mental illnesses, may be the high rate of comorbid psychiatric conditions, as the presence of comorbidity may decrease treatment success. Recognition of comorbidity is important in providing an understanding of the context in which the eating disorder develops and perpet...

Psychiatric evaluation and assessment of common physical illnesses and disabilities was carried out in elderly depressives (aged 60 years and above). Correlation, if any, was seen between depression and physical problems. The 'patient group' comprised of 40 drawn from MHI, Cuttack, having a depressive disorder (ICD-10). The 'control group' of 20 was drawn from the general population with no psy...