PURPOSE OF REVIEW Bariatric surgery has been consistently shown to be effective in long-term marked weight loss and in bringing significant improvement to medical comorbidities such as metabolic syndrome. Empirical data suggest a high prevalence of psychiatric disorders among bariatric surgery candidates. In this review, we focus on the studies published recently with a high impact on our under...

OBJECTIVE This manuscript reviews the current information concerning female sexual dysfunction that is relevant to general psychiatric practice. METHOD Research identified by the key words sexual dysfunction and prevalence, comorbidity, psychiatric drugs, or pharmacotherapy is reviewed. RESULTS Epidemiologic studies indicate that approximately 30% of female subjects between ages 18 and 59 y...

THE LAST 10 years have been marked by progress in the study of epilepsy. A new international classification of epilepsy has been put forward (Gastaut et al., 1964). Succinamides have been introduced for the treatment of petit mal (Heathfield & Jewsbery, 1961) and have become an established treatment, while sulthiame (Fenton, Serafetinedes & Pond, 1964; Liu, 1966) and carbamazepine (Bird et al.,...

Sexual abuse of children and adolescents has become an increasingly publicized phenomenon. Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are often called upon to evaluate and treat children and adolescents who may have been sexually abused, to provide counseling or treatment to the families of such children, and to provide reports and testimony for proceedings about such cases in the chil...

Childhood epilepsy is a chronic, recurrent disorder of unprovoked seizures. The onset of epilepsy in childhood has significant implications for brain growth and development. Seizures may impair the ongoing neurodevelopmental processes and compromise the child’s intellectual and cognitive functioning, leading to tremendous cognitive, behavioral and psychosocial consequences. Children with epilep...

Patients with Cushing's syndrome were studied (n = 209, 78% females). Control patients had pituitary adenomas secreting growth hormone or prolactin. Age at diagnosis of Cushing's syndrome was 8-74 (mean 39) years. Duration of symptoms was 0.2-9 (median 2.0) years. Adverse life events within the 2 years preceding the onset of Cushing's syndrome were not significantly commoner than in controls. D...

How important is pain as a topic for psychiatrists? A cursory glance at the index of a psychiatric journal suggests that it is of little interest, and yet as the authors of this monograph point out, pain cannot be defined other than as a psychological event and one, moreover, which occurs in 53% of psychiatric outpatients. We can no longer pretend that pain is a concern only for 'proper doctors'.