psychiatric diseases are one of the oldest and well known diseases that many scientific and medical solutions are presented about treatment of them. among psychiatric diseases, schizophrenia is one of the important diseases that are special for humanity. schizophrenia is a mental disease that has many signs and symptoms in thought, perception, excitement, and also, have observable behavioral di...

background: psychiatric patients have an increased risk of some infections like toxoplasmosis. investigations on toxoplasma gondii infection among psychiatric patients have been limited in mashhad, northeast of iran. in this case-control study, prevalence of t. gondii was investigated by serological method. methods: this case-control study was performed among psychiatric patients admitted to av...

hepatitis b, as a chronic disorder that may be associated with several psychiatric disorders, such as depression, and decrease quality of life of affected patients. one of the most important consequences of psychiatric problems is reduced patient compliance with prolonged therapeutic regimens. psychotherapy, such as solution– focused therapy, may help these patients to resolve psychiatric probl...

We propose that accountability plays an implicit, important, and relatively unexamined role in psychiatry. People generally think of as a relation which one party is held accountable by another. In this paper, we examine virtue, drawing on philosophy, psychiatry, psychology to what it means welcome being excellent way promotes flourishing. When people manifest they are both responsive others ow...

This article critiques the Mental Health Policy in Brazil with emphasis on history of struggle for right people who have mental disorders and against violence psychiatric institutions. The is divided twofold; firstly, addressing exclusion, exercise citizenship, highlighting Psychiatric Reform Movement from 1970; secondly, contextualising Ximenes Case hospital-centred model Brazil, bringing info...

BACKGROUND The classical extrapyramidal movement disorder following beta haemolytic streptococcus (BHS) infection is Sydenham's chorea (SC). Recently, other post-streptococcal movement disorders have been described, including motor tics and dystonia. Associated emotional and behavioural alteration is characteristic. AIMS To describe experience of post-streptococcal dyskinesias and associated ...

INTRODUCTION Psychiatric comorbidity is common in patients with functional dyspepsia (FD) but a good screening tool for psychiatric disorders in gastrointestinal clinical practice is lacking. AIMS 1) Evaluate the performance and optimal cut-off of 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) as a screening tool for psychiatric disorders in FD patients; 2) Compare health-related quality of li...

OBJECTIVE Frontal and/or temporal lobar atrophy (F/TA) is sometimes detected on neuroimaging in patients with psychiatric disease. This observation leads to difficulty in distinguishing whether patients have fronto-temporal dementia (FTD) or psychiatric illness. This paper sets out to develop clinical profiles that might be useful at first presentation to distinguish these two populations. ME...

With exemplary thoroughness Noel Timms has surveyed the history, annals anCl publications of psychiatric social workers and attempts to answer the searching question: "Who are these creatures and what do they do?" "Psychiatric social work began both as a specialised clinical function with1^ psychiatry and as an attempt to bring the 'psychiatric viewpoint' into social workMr. Timms goes on to re...

AIM The aim of the paper was to present the case of a patient who developed acute psychotic symptoms on her visit to Jerusalem. METHOD The analysis of the clinical case and medical history. RESULTS The presented 62-year-old women with a history of previous psychiatric disorder arrived with her husband to Jerusalem as a part of organised touristic group. She developed acute psychotic reactio...