BACKGROUND Studies on the effect of organizational factors on the involuntary admission of psychiatric patients have been few and yielded inconclusive results. The objective was to examine the importance of type of service-system, level of care, length of inpatient stay, gender, age, and diagnosis on rates of involuntary admission, by comparing one deinstitutionalized and one locally institutio...

Wakefulness, NREM sleep, and REM sleep are accompanied by specific changes in breathing control, which arise from the interaction of automatic (metabolic, involuntary) and behavioural (voluntary and involuntary control systems. Considering the complexity in the neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of breathing control, it is not surprising that neurologic disorders are frequently accompanied by sle...

Methods World Health Organization (WHO) and Council of Europe (CoE) guidance on the desirable components of mental health legislation were used to develop standards for criteria for involuntary admission and treatment. The standards include the presence of appeal or review procedures, conditions included/excluded under the remit of the law, and thresholds for risk and incapacity that would legi...

Hemifacial spasm (HFS) is characterized by involuntary irregular clonic or tonic movements of the muscles innervated by cranial nerve VII on one side of the face, and is most often a result of vascular compression of the facial nerve at the root exit zone (Muscle and Nerve 1998;21:1740). Disability associated with this disorder ranges from social embarrassment to interference with vision result...

Background Emotional and behavioral problems are common in young people and mental health problems are frequently intertwined with social problems. Both involuntary psychiatric treatment and taking into care may be used in order to manage youth behavioral problems. Compulsory interventions always endanger violating basic civil rights and therefore careful monitoring of them is warranted. The ob...

BACKGROUND Interventions to improve adherence to treatment in people with psychotic disorders have produced inconclusive results. We developed a new treatment, treatment adherence therapy (TAT), whose intervention modules are tailored to the reasons for an individual's non-adherence. AIMS To examine the effectiveness of TAT with regard to service engagement and medication adherence in out-pat...