Abstract Are personality traits related to symptom overreporting and/or underreporting? With this question in mind, we evaluated studies from 1979 2020 ( k = 55), which were linked scores on stand-alone validity tests, including tests (SVTs) and measures of socially desirable responding (SDR) supernormality. As 14), associations with depression, alexithymia, apathy, dissociation, fantasy pronen...

While parents primarily want a pediatrician who is readily available for and competent in the early recognition and treatment of physical disease, they increasingly come to the physician not only because of illness but because they want his guidance in keeping their children healthy. They wish to discuss with him concerns about problems in child care and rearing, for example, discipline, sleep ...

This is the first of a three-part series (to appear in consecutive issues) exploring the psychosocial and psychological concomitants of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD), with emphasis on anxiety and depression. The reciprocal nature of dyspnea, anxiety and depression is clarified. Isolation, denial, and repression are the classic defenses of COPD patients and some, not all, patient...

Sometimes the research articles that appear in The American Journal of Psychiatry are more informative for clinical practice than one might first suspect. This month’s featured Journal Club article by Dr. Melissa Brotman, titled “Parental Diagnoses in Youth With Narrow Phenotype Bipolar Disorder or Severe Mood Dysregulation,” is a prime example. Both parents and psychiatrists are troubled by th...

Generally all morphological physical features of human body change throughout ones life span, the rates of change are not constant and there are certain ages when anthropometric characteristics reach its peak. The maturity of the anthropometric characteristics varies among populations/communities and sexes due to genetic make-up, environment and other concomitants. Present study examined the na...

Mates appear to assort on political attitudes more than any other social, behavioral, or physical trait, besides religion. Yet the process by which ideologically similar mates end up together remains ambiguous. Mates do not appear to consciously select one another based on ideology, nor does similarity result from convergence. Recently, several lines of inquiry have converged on the finding tha...

It is evident that there are two distinct types of response on the part of the body to the infectious agent of rheumatic fever; viz., proliferative and exudative. The perivascular proliferative type of lesion, resembling an infectious granuloma, explains the subacute and chronic character of the clinical symptoms in many patients with this disease. Marked exudation of serum into the periarticul...