Modern psychiatric services

Psychiatric services in Algeria

The paper describes the current provision of psychiatric services in Algeria - in particular, in-patient and out-patient facilities, child psychiatry and human resources. Education, training, associations and research in the field of mental health are also briefly presented. The challenges that must dealt with to improve psychiatric care and to comply with international standards are listed, by...

Psychiatric Services in Advance

1 Persons with serious mental illness suffer from increased rates of comorbidity and die, on average, 25 years earlier than persons in the general population (1). Such morbidity has prompted searches for remedies, which have focused both on patients’ lifestyle (for example, smoking) and clinical practice (for example, physician-directed action). According to one recent study, compared with pati...

Psychiatric Services in 1975

Modern molecular genetic approaches to psychiatric disease.

Major advances in molecular genetics over the last 15 years have made it possible to identify the genes responsible for human diseases using purely genetic approaches that do not require knowledge about disease pathophysiology. Many successes have been achieved for single gene disorders and methods are being adapted and refined for complex diseases. The main strategies include linkage and assoc...

TOPIC REVIEW Modern Neurosurgery for Psychiatric Disorders

OBJECTIVE: The evolution, rationale, and results of modern functional neurosurgery to treat psychiatric disorders are documented. The potential benefits of neurosurgical treatment for selected, critically ill, psychiatric patients are considered. METHODS: The history, anatomic features, and evolution of and contemporary indications for the four currently used procedures (cingulotomy, subcaudate...