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INTRODUCTION A GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF DISEASE COMMUNICATION MAJOR WORLD WAR II DISEASES: THE BIG FOUR Tuberculosis Venereal Diseases Malaria Hepatitis OTHER INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES IN WORLD WAR II THE BIG FOUR IN KOREA THE BIG FOUR IN VIETNAM PUBLIC HEALTH ASPECTS OF THE BIG FOUR Tuberculosis and Screening Venereal Diseases and Ambulatory Treatment Malaria and Vector Transmission Hepati...

The past few decades have seen concerted efforts by ‘‘Team Science’’—universities, Government, private foundations, industry, and advocacy groups—to find and develop better treatments for patients with mood disorders. Multiple technologies including genetics, proteomics, transcriptomics, optical genetics, and neuroimaging (to name a few) have been used to explore the pathophysiology of these di...

Excesses of sex chromosome abnormalities in patients with psychiatric diseases have recently been observed. It remains unclear whether sex chromosome abnormalities are related to sex differences in some psychiatric diseases. While studies showed evidence of susceptibility loci over many sex chromosomal regions related to various mental diseases, others demonstrated that the sex chromosome aneup...

Sleep is a sensitive indicator of well-being and a helpful early-warning symptom in many psychiatric disorders. Healthy sleep and a balanced sleep-wake rhythm are desirable goals of a salutary conduct of life. Preventive and psychoeducational measures should take up this point. Non-organic sleep disorders are commonly associated with psychiatric diseases such as major depressive disorder, hypom...

The frequent occurrence of comorbidity has brought about an extensive theoretical debate in psychiatry. Why are the rates of psychiatric comorbidity so high and what are their implications for the ontological and epistemological status of comorbid psychiatric diseases? Current explanations focus either on classification choices or on causal ties between disorders. Based on empirical and philoso...

genetic studies were carried out on a total of 196 psychiatric patients, hospitalized in sorkhe hesar, roozbeh, cherazi and chaharom aban hospitals. out of all the patients studied, 74 were schizophrenic, 30 manic-depressive, 47 depressive (neurotic), 12, hysteric, 9 epileptic and the remainder had different psychiatric diseases and conditions such as: anxiety and phobia, scrupulousness mental ...

background although the number of infectious diseases has sharply decreased in last few decades, parasitic diseases persist in developing countries. on the other hand, chronic psychiatric patients tend to have low self-control, poor personal hygiene, long term institutionalization and extremely low self-care should be monitored for parasitic diseases since psychosocial conditions can contribute...

Repeated, extreme, or traumatic stressors can elicit pathological effects leading to many negative physical and psychological outcomes. Stressors can precipitate the onset of psychiatric diseases, or exacerbate pre-existing disorders including various anxiety and mood disorders. As stressors can negatively impact human psychiatric health, it is essential to identify neurochemicals that may conf...

Most diseases run in families--this is also true of virtually all psychiatric disorders. Twin and adoption studies have shown that most psychiatric disorders have a genetic component, yet very few genetic factors are known, as is true for most disorders with a complex genetic origin. Here I review, for nongeneticists, some of the basic terminology and concepts used when studying complex genetic...