An adult male presented with dyskinetic movements of the face and choreiform movements associated with dysphagia and vocaltics.Obsessive compulsive symptoms and depressive symptoms occurred 3 months after the onset of the illness.Peripheral blood smear revealed an excess of acanthocytes. A diagnosis of neuroacanthocytosis was made and he was started on treatment.

*Correspondence “A fellow psychiatrist once told an anecdote. He was at a conference about depression in developing countries. The essence of the lectures was that people in those areas commonly expressed depression as physical symptoms. They ‘somaticize’ their depression, to use the medical parlance, complaining of malaise, stomach aches, dizziness and other symptoms that are hard to pin down....

The treatment pattern observed correlates with the worldwide changing trends in the treatment of schizophrenia. In recent years, the introduction of newer atypical antipsychotic agents like olanzapine, risperidone, quetiapine and ziprasidone have provided a better control of symptoms and reduced adverse effects especially the extrapyramidal ones in contrast with older drugs. The newer atypical ...

I found the recent report that appeared in your publication entitled Psychiatric symptom during oseltamivir treatment to be extremely interesting. Lan et al concluded that “the possibility that oseltamivir can cause psychotic or affective symptoms suggests that additional caution is necessary for its use in patients with an established psychiatric diagnosis.” In fact, oseltamivir is considered ...

The authors reviewed 21 studies dealing with the rate of diagnosed and undiagnosed physical illnesses in the psychiatric patient population. These studies performed by different authors in variable clinical settings with diverse methodology in different locations over a period of 45 years yielded a close concordance. Approximately half of the patients (50.1%) suffered from significant physical ...

Alpha-mannosidosis is characterized by mild to moderate intellectual disability (ID), moderate to severe neurosensory hearing loss, frequent infections, psychomotor disturbances and skeletal dysmorphism. For the first time, a panel of nine alpha-mannosidosis patients with psychiatric symptoms is presented. The clinical picture has several similarities: a physical or psychological stressor prece...

background: schizophrenia is a devastating psychiatric disorder and its  positive and negative symptoms have negative effects on social functions. a combination of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments is considered more effective for this condition. the present study aimed to determine the effect of a group horticulture program on psychiatric symptoms in patients with chronic schi...

Abstract Background Cancer diagnosis may cause deep emotional and affective problems in patients and their families.Nowadays, however, despite its rising prevalence,cancer is no longer synonymous with death. Given the significance of emotional well-being in cancer patients, we decided to assess the frequency of psychological problems in seven to seventeen yearolds with acute lymphoblastic leu...