Patients with functional dyspepsia (FD) would have a greater prevalence of treatable psychiatric disorders, higher scores on measures of psychiatric symptomatology and characteristic symptoms distinguishing them from those with duodenal ulcer (DU). The aim of the work is to study the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and somatic symptoms in patients with functional dyspepsia and in comparison...

We investigated stability and change in personality disorder (PD) symptoms and whether depression severity, comorbid clinical psychiatric disorders, and social support predict changes in personality pathology among adolescent outpatients. The 1-year outcome of PD symptoms among consecutive adolescent psychiatric outpatients with depressive disorders (N = 189) was investigated with symptom count...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of subclinical hypothyroidism (sHT) treatment on health-related quality of life (QoL), psychiatric symptoms, clinical score, and muscle function. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this randomized double-blind study, patients were assigned either to treatment (n = 35) or placebo (n = 36). Clinical and psychiatric symptoms were assessed by the Zulewski, Hamilton and Bec...

Risperidone treatment in a steroid-induced psychosis case Steroids have been used effectively for many years to treat a wide variety of both acute and chronic medical conditions. Despite some well-known side effects, the association of psychiatric disorders with the use of these drugs has not been well established and documented. We describe a case of a 46-year-old man with a recent diagnosis o...

I read with interest the article by Kachhwaha et al (Journal, Oct 1994) on 'Psychiatric morbidity in investigated cases of chronic pain abdomen'. The authors had assessed psychiatric symptoms among patients with abdominal pain using Goldberg's General Health Questionnaire, and report that thirty four of the fifty patients studied had various psychiatric symptoms on the GHQ and sixteen had pure ...

A prospective psychiatric study of women undergoing hysterectomy conducted in Christian Medical College, Vellore, is described. About 20% of patients who had Hysterectomy developed depressive symptoms during the first year of follow up. Those who developed these symptoms had higher N score on Eysenck Personality Inventory and a higher M. R. Score on Cornell Medical Index before the operation wh...

Psychiatric disorders occur more often among alcoholics than among the general population. The psychiatric disorders that alcoholics most frequently experience include mood disorders (e.g., depression), anxiety disorders, and antisocial personality disorder. The evaluation of psychiatric symptoms in alcoholic patients is complicated by the multiple relationships that exist among heavy drinking,...

The aim of the paper is to show the various neurological and psychiatric symptoms in coeliac disease (CD). CD is a T cell-mediated, tissue-specific autoimmune disease which affects genetically susceptible individuals after dietary exposure to proline- and glutamine-rich proteins contained in certain cereal grains. Genetics, environmental factors and different immune systems, together with the p...