Background and Objectives: Diagnostic reliability is of major concern both to clinicians and researchers. The aim has been to investigate the trustworthiness of clinical ICD-10 affective disorder diagnoses for research purpose. Methods: 150 ECT patients with chronic affective disorders were investigated. A standardized schema for basic anamnesis and the Operational Criteria Checklist for Psycho...

The use of the term hypomania in this and other countries impressively follows the Humpty Dumpty principle. Indeed, in the UK many, perhaps a majority of, inpatients are diagnosed to be ‘hypomanic’, perhaps partly out of a sense of politeness. The term manic does, after all, have a pejorative flavour to some ears (pace Jamison, 1996). The original Greek sense of the word is that hypomania is hi...

The use of the term hypomania in this and other countries impressively follows the Humpty Dumpty principle. Indeed, in the UK many, perhaps a majority of, inpatients are diagnosed to be ‘hypomanic’, perhaps partly out of a sense of politeness. The term manic does, after all, have a pejorative flavour to some ears (pace Jamison, 1996). The original Greek sense of the word is that hypomania is hi...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization recently proposed significant changes to the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnostic criteria in the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). OBJECTIVE The present study investigated the impact of these changes in two different post-conflict samples. METHOD Prevalence and rates of concurrent depression and anxiet...

The Monash Interview for Liaison Psychiatry (MILP) is a structured interview designed for use with patients who have physical and psychiatric comorbidity. Linked to a computerized diagnostic algorithm, the MILP is able to establish diagnoses according to DSM-III-R, International Classification of Diseases--10th Edition (ICD-10), and DSM-IV criteria, as well as a range of other criteria relevant...

ةـصلاخلا : يوتحت لا و ةضفخنملا ةقاطلا تاذ تادحولا نم ديدعلا ىلع ةيكلسلالا تارعشتسملا ةكبش ةلصوب ةدوزم سلا ةيكل ثيح ، اهنيب اميف لاصتلال إ نكمي تارعشتسملا كلت ن دختسا ا اهم تا قيبطتلا نم د يدعلا يف . م ت د قو ا هتبقارم دار ملا ة قطنملا ى لع يئاوشع لكشب تارعشتسملا عيزوت ثحبلا اذه يف ا م لكش ب اهميس قت و إ ى ل ةدحاو لآ يوتحت ثيح ،ةقرفتم تانايب دعاوقآ لمعتل تاعومجم ة يناكم تا نايب ى لع تارعش تسمل...

A research interview was used to evaluate the relationships between DSM-IV, DSM-III-R and ICD-10 diagnostic criteria for substance use disorders. The sample of 1992 subjects, including both men and women, was composed of subjects and their relatives from the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) study. With regard to diagnoses of substance dependence, the analyses revealed th...

BACKGROUND A number of studies have shown that current classification systems (ICD 10, DSM IV TR) have limitation when applied to autistic children and the category PDD NOS (DSM IV TR) has in particular been criticized. To check the possible usefulness of other classification systems to better describe patient's functioning, we retrospectively studied 84 patients, seen consecutively in our Chil...

همدقم : ي رييغت يديئوريت ياهنومروه نازيم نيفرم هب هتسباو دارفا رد هتفا تـسا هدـش شرازـگ ديئوريت و زيفوپيه سوملااتوپيه روحم تيلاعف صوصخ رد يتوافتم جياتن و . رد غت هعلاطم نيا يي لاعف تار ي ت هدغ ت ي ئور ي ول نمزم و داح زيوجت اب د تفرگ رارق يسررب دروم نيفرم عطق مئلاع رب نيسكوريتو . شور اه : 42 رد غلاب رن يهاگشيامزآ ديفس شوم 6 دش هدافتسا هورگ . نيسكوريتوول هدننك تفايرد ياههورگ يقافص لخاد mg/...