objective:  to evaluate the frequency of different psychiatric disorders among 7 to 12 years old children in urban areas of tehran. method: a sample of 799 children (6 to 11 years old) were selected from 250 clusters of the entire 22 municipality areas of tehran using a multistage sampling method from 250 clusters from the entire 22 municipality areas of tehran.. after responding to a persian v...

Increasing evidence demonstrates negative psychological, health, and developmental outcomes for children associated with parental HIV/AIDS illness and death. However, little is known about how parental AIDS leads to negative child outcomes. This study used a structural equation modelling approach to develop an empirically-based theoretical model of interactive relationships between parental or ...

Philosophers and other researchers interested in race have often ignored the explanations of racism developed by psychologists (for some recent exceptions, see Glasgow 2009; Blum forthcoming). We have argued elsewhere that this disregard of psychology has impoverished the arguments and considerations philosophers have relied upon (Faucher and Machery 2009; Kelly et al. in press). However, not e...

When we talk about psychosis and psychotic disorders, have in mind patients with disorganized thinking, mental retardation, delusions, other similar symptoms associated damage to the brain's normal functioning. Psychosis, however, is not only cause of dysfunction, abnormal functioning brain. The onset may be due psychological factors, stress one main factors. Psychological environmental factors...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this secondary analysis was to examine the relationships between a reduction in psychological distress and long-term cardiac and psychological outcomes in post-myocardial infarction patients who participated in a randomized trial of home-based psychosocial nursing interventions (the Montreal Heart Attack Readjustment Trial [M-HART]). Gender differences were considered...

BACKGROUND Psychological distress caused by cardiovascular pre-participation screening (PPS) may be a reason not to implement a PPS program. We assessed the psychological impact of PPS, including cardiac computed tomography (CT), in 318 asymptomatic sportsmen aged ≥45 years. METHODS Coronary artery disease (CAD) was defined as a coronary artery calcium score ≥100 Agatson units and/or ≥50% lum...

Myofascial trigger points (TPs) are a poorly understood phenomenon involving the myofascial system and its related neural, lymphatic, and circulatory elements. Compression or massage of a TP causes localized pain and may cause referred pain and autonomic phenomena. The authors describe a 58-year-old woman who experienced precipitation of substantial psychological symptoms directly related to he...

Chronic orchialgia is a challenging problem to both the practitioner and unhappy patient and may be a poorly understood manifestation of a potential variety of different discrete causes. Treatment options can be wide ranging and include conservative measures, medical therapy, in office treatments and surgical procedures. Research has primarily focused on these more concrete treatment options wi...

Background HIV infection causes in the patient the development of specific attitudes toward diagnosis, leading even to a psychological change in the patient’s personality expressed by a certain type of mental, emotional and behavioral participation, variable time depending on the stage of infection. The children of the Romanian cohort have an emotional and behavioral baggage marked by depressio...

ISSUES The major physical and psychological health effects of methamphetamine use, and the factors associated with such harms. APPROACH Comprehensive review. KEY FINDINGS Physical harms reviewed included toxicity and mortality, cardiovascular/cerebrovascular pathology, dependence and blood-borne virus transmission. Psychological harms include methamphetamine psychosis, depression, suicide, ...