The nature of psychiatric disorders

Fooling mother nature: epigenetics and novel treatments for psychiatric disorders.

358 CNS Spectr 15:6 June 2010 NEW TREND IN PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY Modern formulations of psychiatric disorders hypothesize that mother nature goes awry, causing both genetic and epigenetic disease actions. Genetic disease actions are the consequences of naturally inherited risk genes that have an altered sequence of DNA. This altered DNA sequence theoretically leads to the production of altered gen...

O5: Stigma in Psychiatric Disorders

Social stigma is a major challenge among the patients with mental illness, their families and the health care providers. Not only the patient with psychological disorders, but also who has an infectious disease suffer social stigma. Stigma refers to an extreme and unusual disapproval of a person from the other members of society. Stigma is a Greek word that in its origins referred to a type of ...

The nature and prevalence of psychiatric disorders in a Sudanese juvenile correctional facility.

High morbidity of mental disorders among juvenile offenders has been confirmed by several studies, thus challenging both the juvenile justice system and the mental health system. Data from developed countries may not reflect the situation in low-income countries and therefore cannot form a basis for intervention. No similar study has been done in Sudan. The objective to determine prevalence of ...

The Nature of Tic Disorders

Tics are defined, rather vaguely, in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) nosology as a recurrent, non-rhythmic series of movements (of a non-voluntary nature) in one or several muscle groups. Tics are usually divided into simple and complex tics of a motor, sensory, phonic or cognitive nature. In practice, simple tics have t...

The nature of dissociative disorders