In recent years there has been an increasing emphasis on the truism "one must treat the whole individual." It is generally admitted that the limitation of the physician's consideration to the disease process alone, disregarding the concomitant personality involvement, does not comprise satisfactory and comprehensive care. Various internists have stressed the-significance of "emotional factors" ...

This report pertains to the psychiatric problems in renal transplant recipients and its socio-demographic correlations.50 male recipient subjects with a post-transplant period ranging from six months to six years were evaluated through tape recorded interviews to study their pre and post-operative emotional reactions. A psychiatric examination was performed by two psychiatrists and a diagnosis ...

Surgical transplantation of human organs from deceased as well as living donors to sick and dying patients began after the Second World War. Over the past 50 years the transplantation of human organs, tissues and cells has become a worldwide practice which has extended, and greatly enhanced the quality of hundreds of thousands of lives. The field of transplantation medicine provides an importan...

The Babylonians (circa 2000 B.C.) attributed powers of augury and divination to the liver, designating it by the term used also for ' soul' or 'mood' (Baumann, 193 ), and clinical descriptions of an association between hepatic disease and mental disorders have been recorded since Hippocratic times. A patient with hepatitis' developed a state like rabies; he could not be held, said things which ...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Recently, there has been much interest and rapid progress in understanding the neuropsychiatry of Parkinson's disease. This paper reviews the most important papers published during 2004 on dementia and cognitive impairment, depression and psychosis in Parkinson's disease. RECENT FINDINGS Many new studies of cognitive impairment and dementia in Parkinson's disease have been p...

Psychiatric symptoms can be associated with several systemic and central nervous system infections and they can be the initial presenting symptoms, occurring in the absence of neurological symptoms in some disorders as in some cases of viral encephalitis. They could also be part of the clinical picture in other cases such as psychosis or mood symptoms secondary to brucellosis or toxoplasmosis. ...

"Penetrating the Defenses: How Antimicrobial Agents Reach Their Targets"; and "The Problems of Resistance to Antimicrobial Drugs." According to the Preface to the first edition, the text is drawn from lecture notes given to undergraduate students and is aimed at them and at "advanced students in many disciplines," as well as scientists "new to this area of research." As an introduction to the f...