We examined behaviour management problems as predictors of psychotropic medication, use of psychiatric consultation and in-patient admission in a group of 66 adults with pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) and intellectual disability (ID) and 99 controls matched in age, gender and level of ID. Overall, people with PDD had higher rates of most DAS behaviour problems and more frequent use of a...

A psychoticism questionnaire developed by the authors (Arora & Varma, 1980 a, b) was administered to 100 psychotics, 100 neurotics, 100 relatives of psychotics, and 100 normals. Relationship of P-score with six socioeconomic variables, i.e., age, sex, education, occupation, religion and urban, rural background was studied. P-score was found to be higher in younger age group (15-24 years) in eac...

This second of two articles on the ‘typical’ (‘ first-generation’) anti psychotics covers nonphenothiazines: thio xan thenes (flupentixol and zuclo penthixol), butyro phenones/diphenyl butylpiperidines (including one-time world marketleader haloperidol, and pimozide) and sulpiride, for many years the only substituted benzamide available in the UK. Several tolerability issues ascribed specifical...

Clinical Excellence (NICE) issued guidance Clinical Excellence (NICE) issued guidance on the use of new (atypical) antipsychotic on the use of new (atypical) antipsychotic drugs in the treatment of schizophrenia in drugs in the treatment of schizophrenia in England and Wales (National Institute for England and Wales (National Institute for Clinical Excellence, 2002). The guidance Clinical Excel...

Authors have studied the pattern of psychiatric morbidity at the general emergency out-patient services and at the emergency psychiatric services being run concurrently at a large teaching institution. The percentage of psychotics was observed to be maximum at emergency psychiatric services. Non-psychiatric medical officers were observed to deal with non-psychotic psychiatric emergencies themse...

Background Mental health problems are common in England, and new medications potentially offer equal or greater efficacy with increased patient safety and fewer side-effects. Objective To examine the use of psychotropic medications in primary care, in particular the use of more modern drug therapies. Subjects and setting Using routinely collected computer data from 12 general practices with a c...

INTRODUCTION Post-operative delirium (POD) is a serious surgical complication that can cause significant morbidity and mortality. It is associated with prolonged hospital stay, delayed admission to rehabilitation programs, persistent cognitive deficits, marked health-care costs, and more. The pathophysiology is multi-factorial and not completely understood, which complicates the optimal managem...