genetic studies were carried out on a total of 196 psychiatric patients, hospitalized in sorkhe hesar, roozbeh, cherazi and chaharom aban hospitals. out of all the patients studied, 74 were schizophrenic, 30 manic-depressive, 47 depressive (neurotic), 12, hysteric, 9 epileptic and the remainder had different psychiatric diseases and conditions such as: anxiety and phobia, scrupulousness mental ...

There is one school of psychiatric nursing which is at the provincial mental hospital, and works through two main teaching methods. These are, first, dividing the class into small groups, to discuss lectures and prepare for classes. Secondly, ward practice, which correlates classroom and clinical learning, and helps tutors and nursing staff to appreciate what the students are learning and what ...

We explore the regularities apparent in comorbid psychiatric and chronic inflammatory disorders from an extension of Irun Cohen’s perspective on autoimmune disease, finding that structured psychosocial stress can literally write a distorted image of itself onto child development, resulting in a life course trajectory to characteristic forms of comorbid mind/body dysfunction. Extension of the ap...

Although there is a growing body of literature about the medical problems which arise in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), rather little has been written about psychiatric issues characteristic of the critical care setting for children. This article will describe the PICU as a community made up of several sub-groups, the various psychosocial stresses, the reactions to stresses, and the in...

Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric eating disorder with multisystemic complications. Several dermatologic abnormalities have been described but an association with purpura is rare. We report two cases of anorexia nervosa presenting with diffuse reticulate purpura over the trunk and extremities. The skin lesions resolved after the patients’ nutritional status improved. We emphasize that the diffu...

While it has long been recognized that certain hallucinations accompanying a high fever or epilepsy or appearing as a side effect of medication are common in childhood, it is only recently becoming clear that hallucinations may also occur as a feature of common psychiatric disorder without the unfavorable prognosis of childhood psychosis. The case described below illustrates some of the charact...

OBJECTIVE Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (anti-NMDAR) encephalitis is a newly recognized antineuronal antibody-mediated inflammatory brain disease that causes severe psychiatric and neurologic deficits in previously healthy children. The present study was undertaken to describe characteristic clinical features and outcomes in children diagnosed as having anti-NMDAR encephalitis. METHODS C...

Anti-N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (anti-NMDAR) encephalitis, the most common type of autoimmune encephalitis, is characterized by autoantibodies against NMDA receptor. Patients with anti-NMDAR encephalitis also present with various non-specific symptoms, such as flu-like symptoms, neurological, and psychiatric manifestations. Here, we first reported a rare case of anti-NMDAR encephalitis in a ...

Background: Infertility is an emotional crisis with physical, economic and psychosocial challenges, because it interferes with all personal life aspects. This event is a sever tension of life and produces strong emotional shock in the infertile couple. This study is done with the aim of determination the psychiatric problems of infertile women referring to infertility clinic of Hamadan Fatemyeh...

Current cigarette smokers have reduced monoamine oxidase (MAO) and there is evidence that this is a pharmacological effect of tobacco smoke exposure rather than a biological characteristic of smokers. This article summarizes human and animal studies documenting the inhibitory effects of tobacco smoke on MAO and discusses MAO inhibition in the context of smoking epidemiology, MAO inhibitor compo...