Background: A high percentage of the patients referred to dermatologic clinics are either suffer from self inflicted disorders or from misinterpretation about their own health and organ integrity and or may suffer from different skin sensations including itching, pain, and burning; all of which may develop as a result of their underlying psychopathologies. Objective: Identification of underlyin...

The goal of this talk will be to familiarize the audience with the nature and prevalence of anxiety disorders and document their impact on society. Anxiety is the most common form of psychopathology affecting an estimated one in four people at some point during their lifetimes. In comparison to all types of diseases and injuries, a 2013 JAMA report indicated that anxiety disorders were the fift...

Objectives: Violence is a widespread problem that occurs all over the word among all ages, genders, races, educational level and socio- economic groups.  The aim of this study was to investigate modeling of different processes that could account for the link between experiencing spouse abuse in women and psychology, psychopathology, social and demographic factors. Methods: Data were gathere...

• Pathological Internet use fits to a latent “psychopathology factor”. Excessive “risk behavior” factor. A dimension ranging from normal via risky pathological is likely. dimensional approach could be applied guide prevention and intervention. (but only with respect gaming) classified as mental disorder in the ICD-11. However, there large group of adolescents showing excessive use, which may ra...

background:  this  study  aimed  to  prospectively  analyze  the  effect  of  a  major  earthquake on the prevalence of psychological disorders such as acute stress disorder (asd), anxiety, depression,  mixed  anxiety  depression  disorder  (madd),  phobia,  aggressive  behavior, insomnia, psychosomatic disorders and also sociodemographic aspects among residents of rural community sample in eas...

Background & Aims: Substance abuse may have different effects on multiple sclerosis. Till now, studies on substance abuse and its correlation with psychopathology, type and severity of multiple sclerosis are limited. We conducted this study to evaluate the psychopathology of patients with multiple sclerosis with and without substance abuse. Methods: In this case-control, cross-sectional study p...

objective: this study was performed to evaluate the mental health status of 6 - 11 year-old children of tehran in a community-based sample using the persian version of the strength and difficulties questionnaire (sdq) parent-report. method: parents of 799 children (6 to 11 years old) were selected from 250 clusters of the entire 22 municipality areas of tehran; they responded to 25 questions of...