This chapter provides a historical review of the psychoanalytic ideas associated with these personality disorder categories, discusses the recent empirical studies relevant to the DSM-III/ DSM-III-R definitions of the categories, and concludes with comments on the possible sex bias in the diagnosis ...
and number of substance use diagnoses in addition to cocaine depen- dence), and the other included dependent measures related to other psychopathology (family history of psychiatric disorder, number of comorbid depressive disorder diag- noses, number of comorbid anxiety disorder diagnoses, and the Per...
Exclusion criteria were: substance use disorders (other than cocaine, alcohol, and nicotine for the CD group); current DSM-IV diagnosis (except for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and antisocial personality disorder in the CD group); lifetime history of head injury with loss of ...
“shuts down,” or becomes insensitive to input from, the nondominant eye. In humans, the resulting perceptual disorder, amblyopia (or “lazy eye”), results in clear perceptual deficits if surgery does not correct this visual misalignment during the critical period. The strabismus-related ...
We conducted a cross-sectional case-control comparison of 65 male volunteers from the local community, half of whom satisfied the DSM-IV-TR criteria for cocaine dependence (n = 35) while the other half had no personal or family history of a psychiatric disorder, including substance abuse (n ...
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common malignant myeloid disorder in adults, and TP53 mutations or loss are frequently detected in patients with therapy-related AML or AML with complex karyotype. Here, we reveal that MEG3 is significantly downregulated in AML and suppresses leukemogenesis ...
The frontal lobe is involved in higher-order executive functions such as planning, reasoning, abstract thinking, decision-making, attention, and personality. Gray and white matters repre- sent the two broad components of the brain. Gray matter is heavily populated with neuronal cell bodies which ...
include behavioural and psychological signs and symptoms of dementia, age-related behavioural disorders, pervasive development disorders such as autism, Aspergers Syndrome, Retts syndrome and disintegrative disorder, attention deficit disorder, aggressivity, impulse control disorders and personality disorder. ...
Characteristic Age (years) MTD's dose (mg) MTD's tolerance Good tolerance, n (%) Medium tolerance, n (%) Poor tolerance, n (%) Personality disorder, n (%) No SD Patients (n = 12) 44 ± 9.75 32.5 ± 13.75 Mild (n = 21) 43 ± 11 40 ± 28 SD Patients (n = 73) Moderate...
BPPV is a mechanical disorder that occurs when debris called otoconia loosen and tumble into the semicircular canals of the inner ear. This causes false signals to be sent to the brain, triggering vertigo. The spinning lasts less than a minute and can provoke nausea, vomiting, and imbalance (...