A gastric bezoar is defined as a foreign body resulting from the accumulation of ingested material, most commonly found hard mass or concretion in stomach. It has been described patients with psychiatric illnesses. We present case patient tricobezoar that composed hair required surgical extraction.

Patients attending the General Medical Out-patient department of a public hospital were selected randomly and screened by a physician and a psychiatrist independently. The data on 258 patients reveal an overall psychiatric morbidity of 36% consisting of 24% pure psychiatric illnesses and 12% with associated organic problems. Females are found to be suffering from psychiatric illnesses to a stat...

In recent years, hospitals across the nation have experienced a significant and growing number of patients with mental and substance use illnesses presenting in their emergency departments (EDs). This recent upsurge can be attributed to several factors, including the loss of acute hospital psychiatric capacity in both the public and private sectors; lack of access to primary and other outpatien...

The prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis is significantly high. Depressive Neurosis is the commonest among them. The psychiatric morbidity is related to the duration of illness, the degree of incapacitation and the knowledge of sputum AFB positive status. More attention has to be paid to the psychiatric manifestations in chronic illnesses like tuberculosis...

Addictions include a group of common, heritable psychiatric illnesses that have multiple psychiatric and medical comorbidities. Robust genetic associations have been found for alcohol dependence, nicotine dependence, and cocaine dependence. Common genetic associations have been found between alcohol dependence and aerodigestive cancers and between nicotine dependence and lung disease. These ass...

The distribution of psychiatric disorders and of chronic medical illnesses was studied in a population-based sample to determine whether these conditions co-occur in the same individual. A representative sample (N = 1464) of adults living in households was assessed by the Composite International Diagnostic Interview, version 1.1, as part of the São Paulo Epidemiological Catchment Area Study. Th...

This retrospective study aimed to explore the Socio-demographic characteristics and clinical profile of patients aged 60 years and above, attending psychiatric services for the first time at the Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour, Goa during 1993-1998. Hospital case files of six hundred and ninety-eight patients formed the study sample. Preliminary analysis revealed that 70% of the sam...

The high incidence of psychiatric disorder in parents of disturbed children is usually explained in reactive terms implying a relationship in time. The records of children attending a child psychiatric service and the psychiatric records of their parents were examined and the time between episodes of illness in parent and child were calculated. Fathers' illnesses preceded those of their daughte...

The remix of psychiatric nosology, according to the DSM-V, unfortunately missed to reconsider the classification of substance-related syndromes, and somehow define the limits of the dual diagnosis world. Since its birth, the expression (dual diagnosis) received strong criticism for failing to distinguish between concurrent illnesses, drug-induced syndromes and epiphenomenic substance use as a s...

Chronic subdural hematoma manifests differently and may mimic the presentation of psychiatric illnesses. Many a time, physicians are quick to judge that new onset of psychiatric symptoms is due to the worsening of the existing psychiatric illness. We reported a case of a lady with learning disability presenting with neuropsychiatric symptoms who was found to have an acute-on-chronic subdural he...