highest risks of premature death of all mental illnesses.1 One of the reasons for this high mortality rate, relative to other mental illnesses, may be the high rate of comorbid psychiatric conditions, as the presence of comorbidity may decrease treatment success. Recognition of comorbidity is important in providing an understanding of the context in which the eating disorder develops and perpet...

a psychiatric survey has been carried out in a solitary small village located in the fringes of central desert of iran. out of 106 individuals of 15 years old and over, selected randomly, 57 (53.8%) were found to be suffering from psychiatryic disturbances 21 (41.2%) of them were males and 36 (65.5%) were females. depressive illnesses were found to be the most frequntfy encontered disorder. the...

As a representative of a Government agency that funds mental health services and that has a role in shaping and funding policy initiatives in the United States, few areas of schizophrenia research are as exciting to me as the prospects engendered by the studies on early intervention described in this special issue. In recent years, the concept of recovery from serious mental illnesses promoted ...

Outpatient chronic hemodialysis facilities often serve large populations of patients in an open and sometimes fast-paced environment. Any sizeable group of people will contain a sample of mental illnesses -and the end-stage renal disease diagnosis can be accompanied by co-occurring or comorbid mental illness. Thus, it is important for professional teams to be able to effectively manage related ...

The end of the 20 century has witnessed the 'coming of age' of psychiatry. After a history of scientific obscurity, during which an almost complete lack of functional insights into mental illnesses caused psychiatry to drift towards psychoanalysis and community or social psychiatry, the field has changed fundamentally. Epidemiological findings, twin studies, studies on the genetics of mental di...