Browsing by Subject "Psychiatry and Mental Health"
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(2014)Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the most important cause of disability in individuals under the age of 45 years and thus represents a significant social and economic burden. Evidence strongly suggests that oxidative stress ...
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(1992)Obesity is regarded in its triple connotation of symptom, risk factor and homeostatic organization, stressing the inadequacy of traditional formulations about psychological causation. Psychological factors most frequently ...
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(1980)It is suggested in this paper that alexithymia may be a graded behavioral characteristic in much the same way as psychological dimensions are. Under this assumption every person would possess an alexithymic score, however ...
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(1989)Seventeen outpatients with panic anxiety and agoraphobia were treated with a low, flexible dose of clomipramine in an 8-week open trial. Panic attacks ceased completely in 13 patients and markedly decreased in the other ...
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(1993)Establishing the frequency of mental disorders among patients cared for at the mental health unit of a primary care outpatient clinic of Santiago, Chile, is intended. In this connection, 618 medical records have been ...
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(1998)Personality traits and disorders have a strong influence on the course and outcome of depressive and bipolar disorders. Studies of the influence of personality disorders (PD) and some PD clusters on outcome of mood disorders ...
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(W.B. Saunders, 1996)This study examines premorbid personality traits from a self-reported and family-reported perspective on a group of unipolar major depression (n = 27), bipolar (n = 21), and schizophrenic (n = 16) recovered inpatients, and ...
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(1994)Background. The aims were to determine the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity among primary care attenders in a poor suburb of Santiago and to study the relationship with health service use. Method. A cross-sectional ...
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(1997)This paper presents the field of psycholexicology as an area of study concerned with etimology, meaning, and social legitimacy of the terms employed in psychiatric discourse, conceived of as the disciplinary foundation of ...
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(1988)In this paper, emotion is dealt with as a complex theoretical term, whose empirical referents derive from physiological, behavioral and subjective discourses (psychophysiological triad). It is argued that the meaning of ...
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(2013)Matricide, the killing of a mother by her biological child, is a rare event. We report a case of matricide associated with a woman who sustained a right ventromedial prefrontal lesion during surgery for nasal polyposis ...
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(Carfax Publishing Company, 1996)A qualitative and quantitative histological analysis of minor salivary glands was carried out in 60 alcoholics (20 alcoholics with liver damage, 20 without liver damage, 20 young alcoholics) and 20 matched control patients. ...
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(1989)Mitochondrial function appears to be an early target for ethanol toxicity, however it is not clear to what extent the effects of ethanol, which occur at levels of intake lower than those already reported in the literature, ...
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(Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria Ramon de la Fuente, 2015)Mental disorders in Latin-America are highly prevalent and represent a significant burden on users and their families. These people most of the times have to deal with the stigma attached to the diagnosis they receive. ...
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(2012)Mental health and addiction care have traditionally been conceived as specialized services. This long-standing perception has been changing globally as recognition grows that sound mental health, which includes being free ...
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(1986)Anxiety and hostility scores (Gottschalk-Gleser method of verbal content analysis) were studied in a mixed patient sample comprising psychosomatic, functional, and neurotic patients under two speech-eliciting conditions: ...