Autism Spectrum Disorder and Schizophrenia: Do They Overlap?
... the phenotypic spectrum of these disorders. Exploring the commonalities between ASD and schizophrenia could provide new insights to better understand their etiology, pathophysiology, treatment, and prevention. In this respect, some nuclear symptoms present in both disorders, such as negative symptom ...
... the phenotypic spectrum of these disorders. Exploring the commonalities between ASD and schizophrenia could provide new insights to better understand their etiology, pathophysiology, treatment, and prevention. In this respect, some nuclear symptoms present in both disorders, such as negative symptom ...
slides - Referent Tracking Unit
... • severely ill inpatients often meet criteria for more than one DSM-IV personality disorder; • many outpatients do not meet the criteria for any of the specific categories identified in DSM-IV; • patients with the same categorical diagnosis often vary substantially with respect to signs and symptoms ...
... • severely ill inpatients often meet criteria for more than one DSM-IV personality disorder; • many outpatients do not meet the criteria for any of the specific categories identified in DSM-IV; • patients with the same categorical diagnosis often vary substantially with respect to signs and symptoms ...
Axis-I comorbidity is linked to prospective Open Access
... reflected by changes in BMI. However this hypothesis has to be verified in further studies. Anxiety disorders are very common in ED patients (e.g., [20]), but the role of anxiety disorders on the diagnostic instability is still unclear. In the present study we could not find associations between dia ...
... reflected by changes in BMI. However this hypothesis has to be verified in further studies. Anxiety disorders are very common in ED patients (e.g., [20]), but the role of anxiety disorders on the diagnostic instability is still unclear. In the present study we could not find associations between dia ...
phobias, other psychiatric comorbidities and chronic migraine
... Despite of the importance of phobic disorders and the avoidant behaviour characteristic of phobic-anxious conditions, among psychiatric comorbidities observed in migraneurs, very little was studied about this issue. One study evaluated the personality of patients with headaches, demonstrating that p ...
... Despite of the importance of phobic disorders and the avoidant behaviour characteristic of phobic-anxious conditions, among psychiatric comorbidities observed in migraneurs, very little was studied about this issue. One study evaluated the personality of patients with headaches, demonstrating that p ...
The Stigma Associated with Mental Illness - CMHA-NL
... are more likely to be the target of violence rather than the catalyst for it. Another egregious misconception is that the poor and unintelligent are more apt to be mentally ill when in fact anyone of any social class or intelligence can be afflicted. Mental illness is also seen as characteristic ...
... are more likely to be the target of violence rather than the catalyst for it. Another egregious misconception is that the poor and unintelligent are more apt to be mentally ill when in fact anyone of any social class or intelligence can be afflicted. Mental illness is also seen as characteristic ...
Epidemrating part 2 Dr Sean Lynch 12th April 2013
... Performance on these with minimum of misclassification i.e. low false positive and low false negative The fine tuning of a scale cut-off point or score can be biased towards sensitivity (true positives/true positives and false negatives) in other words not “missing” too many cases, or specificity (t ...
... Performance on these with minimum of misclassification i.e. low false positive and low false negative The fine tuning of a scale cut-off point or score can be biased towards sensitivity (true positives/true positives and false negatives) in other words not “missing” too many cases, or specificity (t ...
Shattering the myths about mental illnesses
... often hear voices that aren’t there or have rambling speech. But the feelings of extreme guilt, rejection, and worthlessness characteristic of depression are much less obvious. You generally can’t tell whether someone has a mental illness just by looking at him or her. “Someone with a mental illness ...
... often hear voices that aren’t there or have rambling speech. But the feelings of extreme guilt, rejection, and worthlessness characteristic of depression are much less obvious. You generally can’t tell whether someone has a mental illness just by looking at him or her. “Someone with a mental illness ...
Guest editorial Volume 10 Number 1
... dh.gsi.gov.uk The views of Dr Griffiths expressed here are given in a clinical capacity and as a national expert in the field. They do not impose any mandatory requirements on NHS organisations. ...
... dh.gsi.gov.uk The views of Dr Griffiths expressed here are given in a clinical capacity and as a national expert in the field. They do not impose any mandatory requirements on NHS organisations. ...
Mental Health Facilities PPT Presentation
... common faulty reasoning or cognitive errors can help some out of depression, including depression associated with bipolar disorder. ...
... common faulty reasoning or cognitive errors can help some out of depression, including depression associated with bipolar disorder. ...
Alcohol and Mental Illness
... field, and few studies examine this question.18 There is scant data-based evidence to support any clear perspective, so each clinician is obliged to make an individual decision based on the patient’s best interests. ...
... field, and few studies examine this question.18 There is scant data-based evidence to support any clear perspective, so each clinician is obliged to make an individual decision based on the patient’s best interests. ...
PDF - Oxford Academic - Oxford University Press
... care of patients. They set the standard of care and training for health professionals and they also identify priority areas for further research, since they are based primarily on the available evidence, but also in areas where evidence is not available, on expert opinion (Fountoulakis, 2015i). In t ...
... care of patients. They set the standard of care and training for health professionals and they also identify priority areas for further research, since they are based primarily on the available evidence, but also in areas where evidence is not available, on expert opinion (Fountoulakis, 2015i). In t ...
The Reliability and Validity of Kiddie
... attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (Ambrosini, 2000; Kaufman et al., 1997). The concurrent validity of both the skip-out criteria and the diagnoses generated with the K-SADS-PL is well supported. However, despite the fact that we often need to administer an independent diagnostic instru ...
... attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (Ambrosini, 2000; Kaufman et al., 1997). The concurrent validity of both the skip-out criteria and the diagnoses generated with the K-SADS-PL is well supported. However, despite the fact that we often need to administer an independent diagnostic instru ...
Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents
... Bipolar Disorder “When I feel happy, I get real bouncy… I’m hopping all over the place, and my mind seems to be focused on one thing for a short time. Sometimes, I don’t necessarily feel bouncy, just kind of light and airy, like a butterfly. I sort of flit and float from place to place, physically a ...
... Bipolar Disorder “When I feel happy, I get real bouncy… I’m hopping all over the place, and my mind seems to be focused on one thing for a short time. Sometimes, I don’t necessarily feel bouncy, just kind of light and airy, like a butterfly. I sort of flit and float from place to place, physically a ...
Schizophrenia - the Peninsula MRCPsych Course
... Raised rates of psychotic disorders across several ethnic minority groups. Effects were strongest, and most consistent, amongst migrants and their descendants of black Caribbean and black African origin. Although the evidence in England for raised rates amongst ethnic minority groups descendant from ...
... Raised rates of psychotic disorders across several ethnic minority groups. Effects were strongest, and most consistent, amongst migrants and their descendants of black Caribbean and black African origin. Although the evidence in England for raised rates amongst ethnic minority groups descendant from ...
Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Women
... higher cortisol levels than infants of mothers who were not depressed, and this continues through adolescence. Maternal treatment of depression during pregnancy appears to help normalize infant cortisol levels. ...
... higher cortisol levels than infants of mothers who were not depressed, and this continues through adolescence. Maternal treatment of depression during pregnancy appears to help normalize infant cortisol levels. ...
Treatment of Rapid-Cycling Bipolar Disorder
... these agents can worsen overall illness, causing more mood episodes (including depression), in patients with a rapid-cycling course. Critics may suggest that the available randomized clinical trials of maintenance treatment for bipolar disorder do not uniformly provide evidence of increased cycling ...
... these agents can worsen overall illness, causing more mood episodes (including depression), in patients with a rapid-cycling course. Critics may suggest that the available randomized clinical trials of maintenance treatment for bipolar disorder do not uniformly provide evidence of increased cycling ...
PDF Full-text
... Physicians have long observed that medical afflictions tend to fall into syndromes with relatively stable patterns of signs and symptoms. Identifying such syndromes has considerable utility for medical practice, education, and research. Among patients who have similar signs and symptoms, the prognos ...
... Physicians have long observed that medical afflictions tend to fall into syndromes with relatively stable patterns of signs and symptoms. Identifying such syndromes has considerable utility for medical practice, education, and research. Among patients who have similar signs and symptoms, the prognos ...
Suicide and autism spectrum disorder: the role of trauma
... of symptoms, or in ASD subjects in which a diagnosis of comorbid BPD has been made. Somehow in agreement with this hypothesis, a small study conducted on 41 BPD patients found that those with comorbid ASD show grater suicidality than those with BPD alone 34. While further experimental data are neede ...
... of symptoms, or in ASD subjects in which a diagnosis of comorbid BPD has been made. Somehow in agreement with this hypothesis, a small study conducted on 41 BPD patients found that those with comorbid ASD show grater suicidality than those with BPD alone 34. While further experimental data are neede ...
What is Addiction? - National Partnership on Alcohol Misuse and
... renewed emphasis on addiction. Dependence, they pointed out, is often confused with physical dependence (i.e., the adaptations that result in withdrawal symptoms when substance use is discontinued), which can occur with therapeutic applications of a variety of medications. This terminological confus ...
... renewed emphasis on addiction. Dependence, they pointed out, is often confused with physical dependence (i.e., the adaptations that result in withdrawal symptoms when substance use is discontinued), which can occur with therapeutic applications of a variety of medications. This terminological confus ...
Psychiatrists` View on the Risk Factors for Aggressive Behavior in
... ascribe their violent behavior to external causes (10). Clinicians display a tendency to consider the illness of the patients as the cause of aggression, thereby neglecting other relevant factors that may contribute to this type of behavior (11). For example, Duxbury and Whittington (4) found that n ...
... ascribe their violent behavior to external causes (10). Clinicians display a tendency to consider the illness of the patients as the cause of aggression, thereby neglecting other relevant factors that may contribute to this type of behavior (11). For example, Duxbury and Whittington (4) found that n ...
Discovering the individual behind the diagnosis of conduct disorder
... both) showed a 70% risk of having been convicted of a crime at follow up 15-33 years after admission (Kjelsberg and Dahl 1998). In all, 63% of the males had a criminality record at follow up which was more than six times the prevalence for male criminality in the general Norwegian population at that ...
... both) showed a 70% risk of having been convicted of a crime at follow up 15-33 years after admission (Kjelsberg and Dahl 1998). In all, 63% of the males had a criminality record at follow up which was more than six times the prevalence for male criminality in the general Norwegian population at that ...
Traumatic grief as a disorder distinct from bereavement
... To our knowledge, the distinctiveness of the three symptom clusters has never been investigated with individuals other than recently bereaved elders whose partners died from illness. Replication of this distinctiveness with other groups is important in order to be able to determine the generalizabil ...
... To our knowledge, the distinctiveness of the three symptom clusters has never been investigated with individuals other than recently bereaved elders whose partners died from illness. Replication of this distinctiveness with other groups is important in order to be able to determine the generalizabil ...
Whelan et al 2013 Developmental continuity of odd
... Evaluated in 2 large-scale national samples, these DAWBA “bands” functioned well as ordered-categorical measures, showed dose–response associations with mental health service contacts, and showed associations with potential risk factors very similar to those of clinician-rated diagnoses.16 The DAWBA ...
... Evaluated in 2 large-scale national samples, these DAWBA “bands” functioned well as ordered-categorical measures, showed dose–response associations with mental health service contacts, and showed associations with potential risk factors very similar to those of clinician-rated diagnoses.16 The DAWBA ...
Evidence Summary: Treating Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) in Adolescence:
... of treatment for BPD in all age groups is the gulf that exists between ‘what works’ and the reality of ‘treatment as usual’ for this client group (16,28). It is well recognized that treating adolescents with BPD can cause considerable stress and strong emotions in clinicians (29). It is important th ...
... of treatment for BPD in all age groups is the gulf that exists between ‘what works’ and the reality of ‘treatment as usual’ for this client group (16,28). It is well recognized that treating adolescents with BPD can cause considerable stress and strong emotions in clinicians (29). It is important th ...