OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between specific mental disorders and the common cold. METHODS Negative binomial regression analyses were applied to examine cross-sectional associations of a broad range of mental disorders according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) employing the standardized Munich Composite International Diagnosti...

The term common mental disorder (CMD) is generally reserved for those mental disorders that are anxietyor depression-related and tend to be seen in primary care. These disorders are recognised as causing considerable social and economic burden in the UK, with community prevalence estimated at 15–30% and the cost of depression alone estimated as £9 billion per year. Although many occurrences of ...

Anorexia nervosa is one of a few mental health diagnoses that affects every organ system. Patients with AN often present with multiple secondary effects of starvation at the time of first assessment, including gastrointestinal (GI) complaints. In extreme cases, severe GI complications such as rectal prolapse may be encountered as a consequence of the illness although formal studies investigatin...

BACKGROUND Mental disorders of women during the postnatal period are a major public health problem. Compared with women's mental disorders, much less attention has been paid to men's mental disorders in the perinatal period. To date, there have been no reports in the literature describing secular changes of both maternal and paternal hospital admissions for mental disorders over the period cove...

Objective: Bullying behavior that occurs in the educational environment, such as insulting, giving a bad nickname, slandering, terrorizing, and others. is disturbing causes mental damage to its victims. This study aims describe occurrences of bullying among nursing students Pekanbaru, Indonesia.

PURPOSE New pharmacovigilance methods are needed as a consequence of the morbidity caused by drugs. We exploit fine-grained drug related adverse event information extracted by text mining from electronic medical records (EMRs) to stratify patients based on their adverse events and to determine adverse event co-occurrences. METHODS We analyzed the similarity of adverse event profiles of 2347 p...

The main objective of this work is to develop a logic called IAL (Intentional Agency Logic) in which we can reason about mental states of agents, action occurrences, and agentive and group powers. IAL will be exploited for a formal analysis of different forms of power such as an agent i’s power of achieving a certain result and an agent i’s power over another agent j (alias social power).

There has been tremendous progress in the detection and diagnosis of hereditary neuropathies and while the genes responsible for these rare neuropathies have improved our understanding of the development of the sensory system, they remain clinical enigmas with rare occurrences and diverse presentations. In 1963, Swanson first described two brothers with congenital insensitivity to pain, anhidro...