Most elderly patients are reluctant to admit to sadness or depressed mood. Instead, the depressive symptoms are often expressed somatically. Additionally, an elderly patient is uniquely faced with loss of loved ones, social isolation, reduced financial resources, restricted freedom, and existential ...
Thousands of women with breast implants have developed various symptoms in response to the inflammation (foreign body reaction) and toxicity from their breast implants. They began seeking help from their physician and specialists – many adjust their lifestyles to cleaner eating, less work, various he...
For example, I went to therapy regularly from 1985 to 2002. It wasn’t until 10 years ago, however, when I was at couples therapy with the hubster, that I heard the word “trauma” applied to my childhood experience. “That must have been traumatic for you,” the therapist said, in ...
FGIDs are considered disorders of the brain-gut axis and commonly manifest with symptoms that include diarrhea, constipation, and abdominal pain (Drossman, 2016). The pathogenesis of FGID in GWI is not understood, and there are no therapies available (Dunphy et al., 2003; Murphy et al., ...
“internalizing” symptoms (which correlate with depressive/anxious symptomatology) in female, but not male, adolescents have been associated with greater resting-state connectivity between amygdala and regions implicated in emotional and somatosensory processing, salience detection, and action selection, ...
DCS alone is rather subject to inert gas bubbles related to decompression effects as aetiology by itself. Neurological symptoms of DCS might be quite similar to AGE caused by pulmonary barotrauma. However, spinal symptoms are only found in DCS. DCI is a spectrum, which may have no symptoms at...
Second, there was no systematic attempt to sub classify patients in the manic phase who had mixed symptoms. It is possible that the manic patients with lower pGABA levels were experiencing dysphoric ma- nia, were about to enter a depressed phase, or hadjust recently left the depressed ...
This was undertaken with the hope of understanding barriers to treatment for diarrhea, one of the leading causes of under-five mortality in Tanzania, as well as symptoms (i.e., fever and cough ac- companied with difficulty breathing) that may suggest more serious illness such ...
Multiple lines of evidence support the pathogenic role of neuroinflammation in psychiatric illness. While systemic autoimmune diseases are well-documented causes of neuropsychiatric disorders, synaptic autoimmune encephalitides with psychotic symptoms often go under-recognized. Parallel to the link between psyc...
According to the WHO surveillance case definition, ILI is defined as an acute respiratory infection with fever more than 38 °C and with cough symptoms, as well as morbidity within the last 10 days. This study will collect information on the rate of influenza-like emer- gency visits ...