Menopause is a permanent termination of the menstrual cycle caused by loss activity ovarian follicles which enforced when experiencing amenorrhea for 12 months. The mean age women to stop menstruating was 51.5 years. cause menopause decrease in hormones. When ovaries working and estrogen levels drop, woman will experience several complaints such as changes patterns, vasomotor, somatic, p...

BACKGROUND Violence against women is increasingly recognised as an important issue in both research and social policy. AIMS To assess the lifetime experience of physical and sexual violence among lone and partnered mothers and the association with psychiatric disorders. METHOD Analysis of the Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. The representative sample included 2232 ...

OBJECTIVE There were two objectives; first, to investigate the prevalence and characteristics of child sexual abuse in an American Indian community, and second, to determine whether persons with histories of child sexual abuse are at greater risk to develop psychiatric disorders and behavioral problems than persons who report no such history. METHOD A sample of 582 Southwestern American India...

OBJECTIVE To describe sexual functioning in women with eating disorders. METHOD We assessed physical intimacy, libido, sexual anxiety, partner status, and sexual relationships in 242 women from the International Price Foundation Genetic Studies relative to normative data. RESULTS Intercourse (55.3%), having a partner (52.7%), decreased sexual desire (66.9%), and increased sexual anxiety (59...

ment was with moderate doses of insulin, despite the enormously raised blood-sugar levels, and 0 45% saline infusions. Besides the physiological, biochemical, and clinical approaches to diabetes, another way in which the problem has been studied is with epidemiological techniques.8 One of the many interesting facts to emerge from this type of investigation is the relative impairment of glucose ...

BACKGROUND Adolescent onset bipolar disorder often presents with co-morbid disorders of which psychoactive substance use disorders are notable. Mania symptoms and co-morbid psychoactive substance use disorders prone adolescents with bipolar disorder to impulsivity, impaired judgment, and risk taking behavior which often includes sexual risk behavior. There are dearth of information on pattern o...

The World Health Organization is currently developing the 11th revision of the International Classifications of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11), with approval of the ICD-11 by the World Health Assembly anticipated in 2018. The Working Group on the Classification of Sexual Disorders and Sexual Health (WGSDSH) was created and charged with reviewing and making recommendations for cat...

Hypersexual Disorder is proposed as a new psychiatric disorder for consideration in the Sexual Disorders section for DSM-V. Historical precedents describing hypersexual behaviors as well as the antecedent representations and proposals for inclusion of such a condition in the previous DSM manuals are reviewed. Epidemiological as well as clinical evidence is presented suggesting that non-paraphil...

The sexual pain disorders included in different editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III-R 1987; DSM-IV-TR, 2000) are dyspareunia and vaginismus. Both these clinical entities have undergone intense scrutiny and international discussion in the more recent years (Basson et Al 2003; Binik 2005; Graziottin, 2005; Meana et Al, 1997; Pukall et Al, 2005, Reissing ...