One hundred and seven patients with neurosurgical disease treated in a combined neurosurgical, neurological, and psychiatric unit within a psychiatric service were reviewed retrospectively. Most patients had acute confusional states or dementia without gross localizing signs and in only three cases did the neurosurgical illness closely resemble a non-organic psychiatric syndrome. The great majo...

Background: This study focuses on common psychiatric problems that generally surface during post operative period of patients who have undergone major abdominal surgeries and reviews issues specific to specialized surgical settings patients. Aims: To assess the prevalence morbidity among surgeries. Study design: Longitudinal prospective was made underwent from April 2021 November 2021. Details ...

BACKGROUND We assessed factors that might contribute to clinicians erroneously attributing medically based changes in a patient's mental status to psychiatric illness. METHODS Records of 1340 patients admitted to a VA hospital psychiatric unit and 613 to a public hospital psychiatric unit from 2001 to 2007 were reviewed. Cases admitted because of an unrecognized medical disorder underwent fur...

The aim of this study was to evaluate mental health and learning disability nursing students' perceptions of the usefulness of the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) in assessing their administration of medicine competence. Learning disability (n = 24) and mental health (n = 46) students from a single cohort were invited to evaluate their experience of the OSCE. A 10-item survey q...

thinking: Somewhat concrete; similarities: apple/orange—“both fruits”; poem/statue —“both have form”; fly/tree—“both are nature, both are iridescent green, flies fly around crap, which is brown, the same color as tree bark” Insight: Poor. The patient does not recognize the presence of any illness or that his behavior is dangerous, stating, “Maybe I have a very mild case of mania, but if I need ...

The Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS), Part I, and the Present State Examination (PSE) are both structured interviews to assess the present psychiatric condition. The present article attempts to provide researchers with information that may help them to decide which of the two instruments would be most suitable for their purposes. We describe the similarities and differe...

Multicentric glioblastoma is a uncommon brain malignant tumour.We report the case of a 43-years-old woman, born in Ukraine and living in Italy, who manifested an initial isolated epileptic seizure and subsequent atypical psychiatric symptoms. Clinical neurological examination, Brain Computed Tomography and standard EEG examinations were negative at the moment of admission. A month later, she pr...