Burning mouth syndrome is the occurrence of oral pain in a patient with a normal oral mucosal examination. It can be caused by both organic and psychologic or psychiatric factors, which can be broken down into local, systemic. psychologic or psychiatric, and idiopathic causes. The most frequently associated conditions are psychiatric (depression, anxiety, or cancerphobia); xerostomia; nutrition...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The population of elderly is growing globally and so are the physical illnesses and psychiatric morbidity. This study was planned to assess the prevalence and patterns of psychiatric morbidity amongst rural older adults in Lucknow, north India. METHODS A survey was conducted in subjects aged 60 yr and above to identify the cases of psychiatric morbidity in rural popula...

BACKGROUND More research is needed to improve our understanding of the manifestation of psychopathic traits in violently offending girls. Our aim here was to assess psychopathic traits and psychopathy-related background variables in a Finnish nationwide consecutive sample of girls charged with violent crimes and referred to a pretrial forensic psychiatric examination. These girls were then comp...

fahr’s disease is a progressive and idiopathic basal ganglia calcification with normal metabolism of calcium and phosphor with motor and psychiatric signs and symptoms. dementia, chorea attetosise, psychosis and depression due to fahr’s disease are frequently reported, but fahr,s disease with bipolar mood disorder manifestation is very rare and we found only 3 case in review of literature from ...

Recent findings of mitochondrial abnormalities in brains from subjects with neurological disorders have led to a renewed search for mitochondrial abnormalities in psychiatric disorders. A growing body of evidence suggests that there is mitochondrial dysfunction in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder, including evidence from electron microscopy, imaging, gene expressio...

Method: A standardized childhood neu­ rological examination was administered to a sample of 265 Danish children in 1972, when participants were 10–13 years old. Adult diagnostic information was available for 244 members of the sample. Participants fell into three groups: children whose mothers or fa­ thers had a psychiatric hospital diagnosis of schizophrenia (N=94); children who had at least o...

BACKGROUND This retrospective study aimed to determine the time-frame regarding the first appearance of psychiatric side effects in the course of antiviral treatment and the subsequent referral to consultation-liaison psychiatric services. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Medical records of patients receiving combined antiviral treatment with alpha interferon and ribavirin for hepatitis C at a hepatology...