It is well established that the idiopathic mental disorders have a genetic basis. Yet, genetic mapping has not definitively identified any genetic mutation or polymorphism underlying these disorders. This review discusses the role of epigenetics in the pathogenesis of the idiopathic mental disorders. Epimutations and epigenetic polymorphisms are emphasized as being an interface between the gene...

Background: Worldwide evidences showed that the magnitude of mental health such as common mental disorders is very high. It is also indicated that only a small proportion of people with common mental disorders seek help from different sources. Assessing pattern of help seeking behavior among people with common mental disorders is crucial in order to provide appropriate mental health service. Th...

OBJECTIVE Despite the number of studies investigating co-occurring disorders, and more recently, co-occurring disorders and criminal offending, few studies have considered samples from forensic mental health services. The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between mental illness, substance use disorders, antisocial personality disorder, and offending. METHOD The preva...

OBJECTIVE To show the disability associated with 1 month mental disorders and chronic physical conditions for the New Zealand population, controlling for comorbidity, age and sex. METHOD A nationally representative face-to-face household survey was carried out from October 2003 to December 2004 with 12,992 participants aged 16 years and over, achieving a response rate of 73.3%. Mental disorde...

introductionmental disorders are a major cause of morbidity and disability in the worldand can reduce the success and academic achievement. experts believe that exercise can be used as a means to achieve favorable mental status. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of physical education course (i) on mental health of bu-ali sina university students, hamadan.methodologyin this des...

The current experiments examine mental health clinicians' beliefs about biological, psychological, and environmental bases of the DSM-IV-TR mental disorders and the consequences of those causal beliefs for judging treatment effectiveness. Study 1 found a large negative correlation between clinicians' beliefs about biological bases and environmental/psychological bases, suggesting that clinician...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: dentistry is among the most stressful professions. active dentists may probably experience higher degrees of stress than the normal population. former studies have shown that occupational health disorders are sensibly more common among dentists. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of stress m...

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 ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association of mental and physical disorders with multiple domains of functioning and compare the two. METHOD Data were derived from the European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders, a general population study in which adults (n > 21,000) from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain were assessed using the Composite International Diagnosti...

IMPORTANCE Despite the potential importance of understanding excess mortality among people with mental disorders, no comprehensive meta-analyses have been conducted quantifying mortality across mental disorders. OBJECTIVE To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of mortality among people with mental disorders and examine differences in mortality risks by type of death, diagnosis, and ...