conclusions the prevalence of mental disorders among the hiv-positive patients in bandar abbas city, iran, was high. the findings of this study demonstrate the need for more attention to improve mental health status of individuals with hiv/aids and further research on the mental health status of hiv-positive patients. background acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) is a fatal disease that...

Some months ago, the N.A.M.H. sent a questionnaire on this subject to medical superintendents of Mental Deficiency Institutions in the United States. Amongst the replies received was one of special interest from Dr. Neil Dayton, who is Superintendent of the Mansfield State Training School, Connecticut, and a prominent member of the American Association on Mental Deficiency. His views and those ...

To the average American citizen, mental deficiency was a problem that seemed remote enough before the war. To the man on the street it had to do with a comparatively small number of persons, considerably less than one per cent, ot the Population, who were safely and comfortably isolated in some more or less distant institution. Small wonder then that this same citizen was startled into an ^plea...

In 1957 we demonstrated a defect of 5-hydroxyindole metabolism in 10 patients with phenylketonuria and suggested that, in view of the probable importance of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5HT) in normal brain function, this deficiency might be a factor in the mental defect (Pare, Sandler and Stacey, 1957). In the work described below, the previous findings are extended and the relationship of the 5-hydro...