aim : the aim of present study was to screen two categories of psychiatric disorders in chronic functional constipation. background : it has been established that the prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders among patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders is higher than in the general population. patients and methods : fifty four constipated patients were recruited from patients refer...

introduction : comorbidity is a new term in psychiatric nosology which despite its expansive use is not clearly defined. overlapping of axis i and axis ii disorders in multiaxial system of dsm and controversy over which disorders belong to which axis, have also complicated the issue. a number of studies investigating patterns of comorbidity for axis i and axis ii disorders could not find a one ...

Declaration of interest None. Fundingdetailed in Acknowledgements. The Mexican National Comorbidity Survey (Medina-Mora et al, 2005; Borges et al, 2006) is the first nationally representative epidemiological survey of psychiatric disorders in Mexico, and forms part of the World Mental Health Surveys Initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO) (Demyttenaere et al, 2004; Kessler et al, 2004...

patients with psychiatric disorders are usually more exposed to multiple somatic illnesses, including liver diseases. specific links are established between psychiatric disorders and alcohol hepatitis, hepatitis b, and hepatitis c in the population as a whole, and specifically in drug abusers. metabolic syndrome criteria, and associated steatosis or non-alcoholic steato-hepatitis (nash) are fre...

Research advances in psychiatric genetics have raised expectations that genetic findings might lead to major breakthroughs in psychiatric nosology. The author reviews the plausibility of these claims. Four areas are addressed. First, it is argued that familial aggregation of a single putative psychiatric syndrome provides at best limited evidence for the validity of that syndrome. Second, both ...

The t(1,11) chromosome translocation co-segregates with major psychiatric disorders in a large Scottish family. The translocation disrupts the DISC1and Boymaw (DISC1FP1) genes on chromosomes 1 and 11, respectively. After translocation, two fusion genes are generated. Our recent studies found that the DISC1-Boymaw fusion protein is localized in mitochondria and inhibits oxidoreductase activity, ...

This review aims to summarize information about the genetic etiology of attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity (ADHD), with particular reference to the contributions of our research group. We also discuss the genetic comorbidity estimated from genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP´s) between ADHD and major psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia (E), major depressive disor...

OBJECTIVE School-teachers are exposed to high levels of stress and have high rates of premature retirement on psychiatric grounds. This study investigated factors associated with occupational disability due to psychiatric disorders in teachers in South Africa. METHOD This retrospective study investigated 81 school-teachers in the Cape Town area who had been declared permanently medically disa...

aim and background: mood disorders are a significant group of psychiatric disorders. bipolar spectrum disorders are mood disorders that usually remain unrecognized and subsequently undertreated. one of the most useful screening instruments for underdiagnosed bipolar disorders is the mood disorder questionnaire (mdq). this paper presented the persian version and psychometric properties of mdq fo...