Optimising prescribing for patients with severe mental illness: the need for criteria.The life expectancy of people with severe mental illness (SMI) is considerably shorter than those without SMI. Multimorbidity and poorer physical health outcomes contribute significantly to this health inequality. ...
Peer support specialist means an individual who has experienced a severe and persistent mental illness and who has successfully completed standardized training to provide peer support services through the medical assistance program or the Iowa Behavioral Health Care Plan. Eligibility Criteria means the lega...
On what evidence does the ICD-11 working group for the revision of ICD-10’s Somatoform Disorders, the Topic Advisory Group for Mental Health, the ICD-11 Revision Steering Group and WHO classification experts rely for the validity of BDD as a construct and its application in children? 1 Gold...
Target Population means persons with low incomes who have one or more disabilities, including mental illness, HIV or AIDS, substance abuse, or other chronic health condition, or individuals eligible for services provided pursuant to the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act (Division 4.5 (...
Figure 2. Meta-analyses of Cognitive Performance View LargeDownload Results of meta-analyses on Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE; A and B), episodic memory (C and D), and executive function (E and F) for the contrast of behavioral variant of Alzheimer disease (bvAD) vs typical Alzheimer...
The Symptom Checklist (SCL-90) [9], which is a widely used screening instrument for mental and physical dysfunctioning. The 90 items comprise eight subscales: Agoraphobia, Anxiety, De- pression, Somatic complaints, Insufficiency in thinking and acting, Suspicion and interpersona...
For example, insomnia in a medically ill patient could be related to pain or to difficulty in breathing. Conversely, an absence of sleep disturbance could be due to the use of sleeping medications in the hospital. Psychomotor agitation could be secondary to the patient’s illness, and many ...
This dependence introduces fundamentally confounding factors limiting better understanding of mental illness.1-4 For these reasons, the National Institute of Mental Health, under the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative,2 has emphasized broad neurobiologically based dimensions (eg, positive/negative ...
What is dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for borderline personality disorder? What are the symptoms of schizotypal personality disorder? What are the main causes of borderline personality disorder? What is DSM-IV-TR, and what are other methods for diagnosing mental illness?
Dr. Malhi notes that mixed states have long contributed to the concept of manic-depressive illness and that the criteria for mixed states have narrowed in successive editions of the DSM, from DSM-I to DSM-IV, from manic-depressive reaction mixed type to mixed episodes. ...