I do not function primarily as a surgeon, p.ediatrician, or psychiatrist. I do, however, have considerable experience with minor surgery in children and am pleased to have this opportunity to share my approach with you. The reader will quickly note the paucity of references, reflecting in part the dearth of suitable sources and in part my own personal preferences. Also appreciate that rarely is...

StudyWise: A-Level Psychology Revision (1) CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA It is a psychotic disorder characterised distorted thinking, poor interpersonal skills, impaired emotional responses and loss of touch with reality. It’s an episodic illness where periods of psychotic disturbance are interspersed with more normal periods of functioning. Early signs include withdrawal, mood chan...

This study examines associations between caregivers' satisfaction with children's Medicaid-funded behavioral health care plans and the likelihood that children with severe emotional disturbance receive mental health services. Data are from a multisite study of managed care versus fee-for-service (FFS) settings. In multivariate logistic regression analyses controlling for demographic, environmen...

Seventy-two patients with eczema were randomly allotted to one of two treatment groups: A, those receiving dermatological treatment only, and B, those receiving the same dermatological treatment plus psychiatric treatment, limited where possible to four months. Cases were followed up at six-monthly dermatological assessments, 57 (79%) for 18 months. The findings suggest that in the presence of ...

Chronic lymphocytic inflammation with pontine perivascular enhancement responsive to steroids (CLIPPERS) is an inflammatory central nervous system disorder that mainly involves in the brainstem, basal ganglia and cerebellum. We herein report the case of a patient with CLIPPERS, which was diagnosed based on the clinical and radiological features. After initially responded to steroid treatment, t...

Essential to a cohesive system of energy medicine, is a technical conception of the nature of illness. Illness can be classified as an unstable energy, by definition, because the phenomenon of illness itself is merely a disturbance, or instability, in a normally stable condition of health. Accordingly, we can rely on the premise that illness whether physical, mental or emotional can be treated ...

Over a period of one year 12 children with complaints which had been diagnosed as due to a psychiatric disorder presented to a paediatric neurological unit where neurological disease was diagnosed. The group was characterized by behavioural symptoms such as deteriorating school performance, visual loss, and postural disturbance, which are unusual in children attending child psychiatric departme...

Data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study of Special Education Students are used to describe the high school performance, social experiences, postsecondary education and labor market participation, and residential independence of students with serious emotional disturbance (SED) nationally. Young people with SED are found to fare poorly compared with youths with disabilities as a who...

OCCASIONALLY reports liave appeared in the literatuire of cases in which there was paresis of the lower part of one side of the face for emotional movements without any correspondinig disturbance of facial movements when carrying out definite tests at command such as showinig the teeth or whistling. This type of facial paresis has been referred to briefly as emotional paralysis of the face or m...