Psychiatric illnesses are often associated with multiple symptoms, whose severity must be graded for accurate diagnosis and treatment. This grading is usually done by trained clinicians based on human observations and judgments made within doctor-patient sessions. Current research provides sufficient reason to expect that the human voice may carry biomarkers or signatures of many, if not all, t...

OBJECTIVE Quality of life measures can provide an important source of medical information for promoting the health status of chronically ill patients. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate health related quality of life in psychiatric veterans of the Iraq- Iran war of the 1980s. METHODS They were out patients diagnosed with various psychiatric symptoms. The present study used a cro...

Primary Focal Hyperhidrosis (PFH) is a debilitating condition that causes excessive sweating and known to be associated with lower quality of life psychosocial distress. However, little on the clinical consequences having PFH. Therefore, goal was examine association between PFH mental health (MH) disorders. A cross-sectional study conducted using data from National Inpatient Sample (2004-2014),...

There is some confusion in the psychiatric literature regarding the incidence, prevalence, and illness course of psychiatric disorders in late life. This can be partly attributed to a paucity of studies focused on determining the epidemiology of psychiatric illnesses in older adults (2). Moreover, there is a common belief (and some empirical evidence) that psychiatric disorders (except dementia...

Introduction Psychiatric admissions of elderly subjects with mental disorders is a difficulty in management and treatment. This problem essentially related to somatic comorbidities this population. Objectives To compare the demographic characteristics, comorbid conditions functional status younger older individuals major illnesses admitted psychiatry. Methods Using records patients between 2015...

Psychoactive drugs are those psychotherapeutic drugs used to modify emotions and behavior in the treatment of psychiatric illnesses. This statement will limit its scope to drug selection guidelines for those psychoactive agents used during pregnancy for prevention or treatment of the following common psychiatric disorders: schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, and o...