BACKGROUND Chronic insomnia is among the most reported complaints of Veterans and military personnel referred for mental health services. It is highly comorbid with medical and psychiatric disorders, and is associated with significantly increased healthcare utilization and costs. Evidence-based psychotherapy, namely Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBTI), is an effective treatment and...

The psychiatric sequelae of trauma have been most often discussed in relation to disasters, both natural and man-made, and military conflict. This may sometimes lead psychiatrists to think of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other posttraumatic mental illnesses as being somewhat exotic and unusual in general psychiatric practice. In this paper, I propose that PTSD and related disorders ...

BACKGROUND Recent research studies aim at the examination of predictors of posttraumatic adaptation of war veterans. General aim of our research is an examination of predictors of posttraumatic adaptation of war veterans, who actively participated in combat situations. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Research was conducted on 100 male participants, war veterans who were seeking treatment at the Psychiat...

objective: those veterans suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) experience a low quality of life. this study investigated how the quality of life of warfare victims with ptsd was influenced by mindfulness training (mt) method: this study followed a randomized controlled trial and included a pre-test, post-test and delayed post- and was conducted in 2012 at shahid rajaee hospital ...

BACKGROUND Antiviral therapy for chronic infection with HCV is associated with significant neuropsychiatric side effects. Research indicates that patients with mental illness are less likely to receive antiviral therapy, despite limited data regarding the influence of antiviral therapy on psychiatric symptoms in patients with specific psychiatric disorders. The aim of this study was to determin...

From the Departments of *Medicine, *Psychiatric Medicine, and SMicrobiolagy, and the IIUniversity of Virginia Cancer Center, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908; the '{Human Immunology & Cancer Programs, Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Medical Center~Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, Tennessee 37920; and the **Departments of Medicine ...

Evidence-Based Review of Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Older Adults with Schizophrenia Aricca D. Van Citters, MS, Sarah I. Pratt, PhD, Stephen J. Bartels, MD, MS*, Dilip V. Jeste, MD New Hampshire-Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, 2 Whipple Place, Suite 202, Lebanon, NH 03755, USA Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, 3350 La Jolla Vill...

1 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA 2 James J. Peters Veterans’ Administration Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA 3 Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary 4 Hospital Italiano, Buenos Aires, Argentina 5 University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA 6 Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan 7 Psychiatric Center, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan 8 University Hospital Vall...

ôbjectivity, reliability and validity of examinations in psychiatry have always been one of the major concerns of experts in this discipline. recently, objective structured clinical examination (ôsçë) for its unique approach and by providing the requirements of psychiatric examinations has been a topic of interest. ïn ïran, an ôsçë has been replaced the individual patient assessment (ïpâ) for e...