UNLABELLED Along with well-defined categories in classification systems (e.g., autistic disorders and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)), practitioners are confronted with many children showing mixed forms of developmental psychopathology. These clusters of symptoms are on the borderlines of more defined categories. The late Donald Cohen proposed heuristic criteria to study a grou...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the possible interaction between religious beliefs and psychiatric disorders among Black Americans. METHODS In this study, we used data of 5181 adult Black Americans who had participated in National Survey of American Life (NSAL) from February 2001 to June 2003. Variables such as socio-demographics, religious beliefs, and psychiatric disorders were entered in a Cox regre...

Joint effects of genotype and the environment have turned out to be significant in the development of psychotic disorders. The purpose of the present study was to assess the association of an adoptive child׳s thought and schizophrenia spectrum disorders with genetic and environmental risk indicators and their interactions. A subgroup of the total sample used in the Finnish Adoptive Family Study...

Phenytoin (Diphenyl Hydantoin or Dilantin) is highly effective and widely prescribed anticonvulsant agent used in the treatment of grand mal and psychomotor epilepsy. Phenytoin has been used to treat thought, mood and Behavior disorders, cardiovascular disorders, Neuro muscular disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, Endocrine disorders.

Introduction One of the methods for early diagnosis in individuals at clinical high-risk state psychosis could be identifying specific symptoms, such as thought disorders. Thought disorders may a separate symptom, unrelated to attenuated positive symptoms (APS) with an independent predictive value. Objectives Correlation analysis and APS patients psychosis. Methods The study included 30 young m...