objective: tardive dyskinesia (td), is one of the important problems of the patients with schizophrenia. the emergence of these side effects depends on so many factors such as the patients' age and the duration of antipsychotic treatment. by discovering new drugs (atypical), there has been an outstanding decrease in the emergence of these side effects. the present study investigates the symptom...

BACKGROUND Anti-psychotics, prescribed to people with dementia, are associated with approximately 1,800 excess annual deaths in the UK. A key public health objective is to limit such prescribing of anti-psychotics. METHODS This project was conducted within primary care in Medway Primary Care Trust (PCT) in the UK. There were 2 stages for the intervention. First, primary care information syste...

A psychoticism questionnaire in Hindi consisting of 60 items was standardised by administering it to 100 psychotics (schizophrenics and manic-depressives), 100 neurotics, 100 psychiatrically normal relatives of psychotics and 100 normals. The mean psychoticism score (P-score) of psychotics, neurotics, relatives and normals were 30.69, 13.63, 13.85 and 8.83 respectively, were significantly diffe...

A psychoticism questionnaire was designed constituting 110 questions framed on the basis of the following constructs: desocialization, paranoia, thought disorder, depression, perceptual disturbance, superstitions and mania. In the initial tryout, it was administered to 40 psychotics, 40 neurotics and 40 normals and 40 items inadequately discriminating between psychotics and normals/neurotics we...

Background: The clinical presentation of Juvenile Huntington’s Disease (JHD) can be very different from adult-onset HD with little evidence to guide symptomatic management. Aim: To survey the current use of pharmacological treatments for JHD. Methods: Patients were identified through the HD Association, Hospital Doctors and the European Huntington’s Disease Network REGISTRY study. Results: The ...

Neurotic and psychotic patients who had been temporarily retired from naval service were reevaluated periodically and rated on degrees of disability by physical evaluation boards. Personal history and symptom variables were correlated with changes in amount of psychiatric disability over a S-yr. period. Recovery or improvement was more rapid and complete in neurotics, but improvement was more p...