OBJECTIVES 1) to assess the prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in a population of acute psychiatric in-patients; 2) to find out relationships between HCV comorbidity and clinical features of psychiatric patients. METHODS Prospective observational study in a 6-year period. RESULTS 2396 cases (1492 patients) were admitted in the considered period. Forty-two patients (2.8%) were a...

Physiology is a fascinating field for historians of gender and of women's place in science and medicine. In the United Kingdom at least, since the late nineteenth century, women's presence as undergraduate students in the field, as medical students and as subject specialists, has been relatively strong compared to their representation in science generally. A large body of public lectures and po...

The Frontline Reports column features short descriptions of novel approaches to mental health problems or creative applications of established concepts in different settings. Material submitted for the column should be 350 to 750 words long, with a maximum of three authors (one is preferred) and no references, tables, or figures. Send material to Francine Cournos, M.D., at the New York State Ps...

The aim of the study is to compare students taking Psychiatric Mental Heatlh Nursing (PMHN) course with face-to-face and distance education in terms learning outcomes perception psychiatric nursing. sample this descriptive consisted 229 PMHN academic years 2019-2020 2020-2021 volunteered participate research. Data were collected online Personal Information Form Perception Scale (PNPS). When par...

Diagnosis of Menière's Disease is based upon the wellknown labyrinthic syndrome (hypoacusia, tinnitus and dizziness) which manifests with the typical abscessual, recurrent and unforeseeable course. Many Menière patients also report panic attacks, agoraphobia and anxiety which make evaluation of labyrinthic symptoms difficult, affect the onset and maintenance of vestibular compensation and requi...

Despite the burgeoning of available therapeutic interventions, the sparse literature devoted to child psychiatric supervision concentrates on individual psychotherapy. The non-cognitive aspects of the expanding supervisory challenge continues to converge on the clinician's personality, which is a focus of educational attention only in sequestered or haphazard parts of programs. The unidimension...

I cannot be in the company of still active Yale colleagues without having far too many memories. To suffer reminiscences, Freud noted, is to suffer neurosis, and this should probably not be inflicted-even on deserving friends! Nor has Fritz Redlich done anything so drastic, in spite of being busted in bronze and hung in portraits, for us not to celebrate his astonishingly productive present. I ...

Movies are a complex entity representing simultaneously an art form, a powerful industry, and a social phenomenon. The movie industry has always shown keen interest in physicians and medicine in general, and psychiatry in particular has often been in the spotlight. While there can be positive aspects of interaction of the movies and the psychiatry, stigmatization and negative public perception ...

1. Screening programmes for postnatal depression and depression are useful for early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of the condition. 2. The majority of the women studied perceived marital problems as their major source of unhappiness. They did not take initiatives to seek help for their condition and many were unwilling to receive psychiatric treatment. 3. Screening for both postnatal dep...