Developing Patterns of Care in Mental Illness and Mental Handicap

Prevention of mental handicap in developing countries.

The Commonwealth Association for Mental Handicap and Developmental Disabilities held a workshop on 'Prevention of mental handicap-what is possible in developing countries?' in Bombay in March 1985. The workshop was attended by 40 invited participants from many parts of the world, both from developed and developing countries. During the two days various prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal problem...

Medical care in severe mental handicap.

Corticosteroids in Neurological and Mental Illness

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Shifting Patterns in Mental Illness

The genetic components of manic-like behaviors, associated with diverse neuropsychiatric disorders, have been difficult to pin down, and the scarcity of animal models for these phenotypes hinders the development of treatment strategies. Huda Zoghbi and colleagues (Han et al., 2013) now provide new insights into the mechanisms of hyperkinetic behaviors associated with mania through their study o...

Mental handicap and the mental health act.