Editorial: Brain and Somatization Symptoms in Psychiatric Disorders

Editorial Neurosurgery for psychiatric disorders

Editorial Neurosurgery for psychiatric disorders

Daring must be an inborn trait. Egas Moniz, the neurolo-gist who extrapolated from the abolition of experimental neurosis in two chimpanzees to the invention of a procedure to ablate pathways of the frontal lobes in mentally ill human beings, had already developed angiog-raphy and spent time in jail for opposition to the Portugese monarchy 1. Such a man could write, in recording the results in ...

Somatic Symptoms and Psychiatric Disorders

*Correspondence “A fellow psychiatrist once told an anecdote. He was at a conference about depression in developing countries. The essence of the lectures was that people in those areas commonly expressed depression as physical symptoms. They ‘somaticize’ their depression, to use the medical parlance, complaining of malaise, stomach aches, dizziness and other symptoms that are hard to pin down....

Somatic Symptoms and Psychiatric Disorders

The treatment pattern observed correlates with the worldwide changing trends in the treatment of schizophrenia. In recent years, the introduction of newer atypical antipsychotic agents like olanzapine, risperidone, quetiapine and ziprasidone have provided a better control of symptoms and reduced adverse effects especially the extrapyramidal ones in contrast with older drugs. The newer atypical ...

Editorial: Executive Functions in Psychiatric Disorders