Lessons in early identification and treatment from a case of disabling vitamin C deficiency in a child with autism spectrum disorder.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the most common psychotherapy approach for the treatment of PTSD. Nevertheless, previous reviews on the efficacy of several types of psychotherapy were unable to detect differences between CBT and other psychotherapies. The purpose of this study was to conduct systematic ...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Mendes DD,Mello MF,Ventura P,Passarela Cde M,Mari Jde J

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethical and pragmatic considerations often preclude the application of classical experimental approaches to in vivo thanatological research. While quasi-experimental and correlational designs may be employed to circumvent a number of potential problems, many more empirically testable research questions simply remain u...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Devins GM

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The development of instruments to measure emotional maladjustment in diabetic Hispanic populations has received little attention. We present the development and validation of the Diabetes Emotional Adjustment Scale in Spanish. METHOD:An eighteen-item self-administered scale was construed to assess emotional ...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： De León OA

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In August 2016, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, issued a letter to healthcare providers requesting aid in addressing "an urgent health crisis facing America: the opioid epidemic." In this article, we address some of the more poignant challenges that surface in treating patients with opiate addiction. We pr...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Gedzior J,Kwong A

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examines the sensitivity and specificity of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a screening instrument for post-stroke depression. Eighty stroke patients were evaluated by a research nurse over a two-year period using the CES-D and also by a trained psychiatrist using a s...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Parikh RM,Eden DT,Price TR,Robinson RG

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Across the lifespan, alcohol misuse affects a large percentage of patients seen in primary care clinics. It can lead to alcohol use disorders, ranging from risky use to alcohol dependence. Alcohol use disorders frequently complicate acute and chronic illnesses of patients seen in FM clinics. Screening patients for alc...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Rule JC,Samuel P

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes four approaches to the evaluation of hospital psychiatric consultation. These are: 1) a survey of actual consultation use; 2) a house staff attitudinal survey; 3) a patient chart review; and 4) a patient questionnaire. The findings of this project and those previously reported are: 1) The psychia...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Sasser M,Kinzie JD

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This article reviews burnout in psychiatrists. A model of burnout is presented which considers three factors: those which may predispose, precipitate, and perpetuate burnout. Lastly, recommendations are made for future research. METHODS:We conducted a selective literature review to expand on two recent syste...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Kumar S,Hatcher S,Huggard P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of patterns of communications in families with a terminal cancer patient being treated at three urban institutions revealed that may first-order relatives (spouses, children, siblings) of patients did not have a communication link to the physician, especially if direct communication was not established at the ...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Krant MJ,Johnston L

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the use of a behavior modification program as an adjunct to the medical treatment of essential hypertension. The subjects, outpatients with medically treated, but uncontrolled, essential hypertension, were exposed to group interaction (including such processes as peer reinforcement, peer competitio...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Ziesat HA Jr

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonazepam, a unique benzodiazepine with anticonvulsant and serotonin enhancing capacity, can be used in conjunction with conventional psychopharmacologic agents to treat a variety of psychiatric conditions including schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, and psychotic mania. Three representative case studies...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Freinhar JP,Alvarez WA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To seek possible relationships between psychological factors and survival after an intensive medical therapy, using bone marrow transplantation as a model. METHOD:Candidates for bone marrow transplantation underwent two to three psychodynamically-oriented psychiatric interviews that explored family functioni...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Hoffman LH,Szkrumelak N,Sullivan AK

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the present study was to explore the relations between religious attitudes and subjective well-being in a sample of chronic pain (CP) patients and to investigate whether these associations would differ from those obtained with healthy controls. METHOD:A total of 155 CP patients (72% women) and 166...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Dezutter J,Luyckx K,Büssing A,Hutsebaut D

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of the putative "serotonin irritation syndrome" (SIS) was tested in a human population. Volunteers were exposed to a highly cationized environment for two hours. Symptoms of anxiety and excitement significantly increased. During the time of exposure serum serotonin levels also increased significantly. Th...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Giannini AJ,Jones BT,Loiselle RH,Price WA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emphasis on the process and content of the emotional aspects of rehabilitation are presented as a process interwoven with a patient's physical rehabilitation. The impact of trauma and subsequent rehabilitation involves for patients the resolution of these stages: shock, denial, depressive reaction, reaction against in...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Krueger DW

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Mania and other mood changes are known to be associated with various organic etiologies. This article documents a case of organic mania associated with hyponatremia, a phenomenon which has not been previously reported, and reviews the pertinent medical literature. METHOD:The mental status of a patient with e...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Baar JM

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrating behavioral health into primary healthcare offers multiple advantages for patients and health professionals. This model requires a new skill set for all healthcare professionals that is not emphasized in current educational models. The new skills include interprofessional team-based care competencies and ex...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Ruddy NB,Borresen D,Myerholtz L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:No systematic information exists on what U.S. medical schools are teaching on spirituality and health or on the attitudes of faculty toward inclusion of this subject in the medical curriculum. We systematically surveyed U.S. medical school deans and assessed both attitudes about and the extent to which spirit...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Koenig HG,Hooten EG,Lindsay-Calkins E,Meador KG

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The article seeks to provide an international perspective on the facilitating role of health services research in the treatment of psychiatric disorders in primary care. It builds on Goldberg and Huxley's model describing pathways to mental care for the psychiatrically ill in the community. METHOD:Seventy st...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： van der Feltz-Cornelis CM,Lyons JS,Huyse FJ,Campos R,Fink P,Slaets JP

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Priapism is a rare but severe medical condition of sustained and painful erection of penis in the absence of any sexual stimulation, in which the penis does not return to a flaccid state. It is considered to be a medical emergency because without treatment it can lead to permanent damage and fibrosis of penis and in t...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Bhat IA,Shannon KD,Ara A,Coe I

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of accident/error rates was carried out on thirty-one nursing students. Recent life changes and stresses, social support available to cope with this stress, depression, illness rate, and coping skills were measured at baseline. Five weeks later students recorded accidents suffered and errors made o...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Sheehan DV,O'Donnell J,Fitzgerald A,Hervig L,Ward H

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Although generalized social anxiety disorder (gSAD) is more prevalent in women, the role of female reproductive hormones in gSAD has never been investigated. Therefore, our aim was to make a first inventory of the influence of female reproductive hormones on gSAD symptoms. METHOD:Female patients with gSAD wh...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： van Veen JF,Jonker BW,van Vliet IM,Zitman FG

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:An extraordinary case of an organic psychosis during the treatment of a patient with a bipolar affective disorder. METHODS:Clinical observation and further investigations including monitoring of serum levels (case report). RESULTS:A significant interaction between venlafaxine and propafenone causes markedly...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Pfeffer F,Grube M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors discuss the case of a mildly disfigured patient with Neurofibromatosis from the perspectives of his distorted body image, need to attribute problems in his social and work lives to unrealistic assessment of his disfigurement, changes in his self-concept following communication training, and the need for ph...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Roback HB,Kirshner H,Roback E

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients coming to general hospital emergency rooms often present mixed physical and psychological problems. An unfortunate tendency of physicians caring for these patients to "label" them as either "organic" or "psychiatric," based on initial impressions, may lead to inadequate diagnosis and improper treatment. Four ...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Leeman CP

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mrs. A. B., a 61-year-old woman who presented with carcinoma of the breast in 1964, was readmitted to the hospital in 1974 in respiratory distress ensuing from chronic lung disease and metastatic illness. An active member of Alcoholics Anonymous for the past sixteen years, she had a living pattern in which she felt in...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Abramson R

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents several case studies which illustrate the way in which a terminal patient's attention may be diverted from the primary disease process, cancer, to secondary somatic symptomatology such as pain and nausea. This phenomenon has important consequences for the patient, family, physician, and the patie...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Wright MH,Nehemkis AM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Recent genome wide association studies (GWASs) assessing the relationship between schizophrenia (SZ) and the ZNF804A gene, particularly the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs1344706, have yielded conflicting results. Schizophrenia is a heterogeneous disorder, so it is possible that an association may be ...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Yang Y,Li W,Yang G,Xiao B,Wang X,Ding M,Zhao J,Song X,Yue W,Zhang D,Zhang H,Lv L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study developed a Japanese self-rating anxiety scale, the Himorogi Self-rating Anxiety Scale (HSAS), and tested psychometric properties of its use in Japanese psychiatric patients. METHODS:The process of developing the scale consisted of an intensive literature review, assessment of existing instruments...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Mimura C,Nishioka M,Sato N,Hasegawa R,Horikoshi R,Watanabe Y

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During five years of self-medication with Prednisone, a forty-one-year old asthmatic businessman experienced periods of euphoria, psychomotor hyperactivity, and poor judgement; a period of depression and anxiety during temporary steroid withdrawal; and finally, with resumption of Prednisone, episodes of grandiosity an...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Gifford S,Murawski BJ,Kline NS,Sachar EJ

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00