background: social phobia is a pervasive and debilitating disorder, with relatively high prevalence, which is affected by different variables and influences many aspects of human life. this study was carried out with the aim to determine the relationship between social anxiety and personality dimensions among students of rafsanjan university of medical sciences, iran, in 2013. materials and met...

Methods The study was carried out in the Tuzla Canton region in the period from 2000 to 2002, and included 283 women aged 43 ± 9.6 years. Out of 283 women, 104 received psychiatric treatment at the Department for Psychiatry of the University Clinical Center Tuzla, 50 women were refugees; and 129 were domicile inhabitants of the Tuzla Canton. Domestic Violence Inventory, Cornell Index, Symptom C...

Chao-Gan Yan, Zhen Yang, Stanley J. Colcombe, Xi-Nian Zuo, Michael P. Milham CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Center, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric...

Biomarkers are regularly used in medicine to provide objective indicators of normal biological processes, pathogenic processes or pharmacological responses to therapeutic interventions, and have proved invaluable in expanding our understanding and treatment of medical diseases. In the field of psychiatry, assessment and treatment has, however, primarily relied on patient interviews and question...

BACKGROUND Often mental disorders are serious problems concerning psychological well-being. They require comprehensive and specialized psychiatric and psychological help, but there are no public methods of controlling your mental state. The aim of study was the evaluation of the utility of Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale and Barratt Impulsiveness Scale in the diagnosis of social anxiety, impulsi...

Earlier research reported that female undergradu ates performed significantly better than their male counterparts in medical school examinations. Such findings were partly explained by biases in admission policies with women (who formed only 25% of the student body) being higher achievers than men prior to entry to medical school. While some recent studies provide evidence of higher achievement...

This study was carried out at the Schizophrenia Program at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. * Dietitian. Specialist in Clinical Nutrition. MSc. student, Graduate Program in Psychiatry, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. ** Dietitian. Specialist in Public Health. MSc. in Medicine: Psychiatry, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS,...

OBJECTIVE Incorporating new neuroscience findings relevant to psychiatry into the medical school curriculum is challenging, especially at the level of clinical learning. In this pilot project, third-year medical student volunteers in their required 8-week clerkship participated in an e-mail-based experience relating contemporary neuroscience to psychiatry. METHODS A faculty preceptor guided p...