In psychopathology, incoherent communication and the articulation of unusual associations is central to a diagnostic ascription of formal thought disorder (FTD; Box 1), a common phenotype in psychosis3,4. In line with the idea that coherent communication relies on an interaction between shared interna...
Individuals are different in a relatively constant pattern of thoughts, feeling, and behaviors, which are called personality traits. Mental health is a condition of well-being in which people may reach their full potential and deal effectively with stres
In particular, the misdiagnosis of a general medical disorder with eating symptoms as anorexia nervosa may have grave consequences. We would argue that the availability of a diagnostic entity such as “Eating Disorder Due to a General Medical Condition” would help clinicians to appreciate an ...
The goal of this paper is to both understand and depathologize clinically significant mental distress related to criminalized contact with psychoactive biotic substances by employing a framework known as critical political ecology of health and disease f
While there is general support for ‘lumping’ the ASDs rather than ‘splitting’ them, there has been little or no research on the clinical utility of these specifiers nor on whether these are the ‘right’ specifiers. It is to be hoped that this conceptualization of a single disorder with...
A gash … as wide as an open grave —Jimmy Sangster Generalized racking misery that makes him feel as if his pores are bleeding and his brain is leaking out of his ears —T. Coraghessan Boyle A head like a sore tooth —Anon Her stomach reacted as though she’d eaten sulfuric pancakes...
Personality features may predispose an individual to depression; the personality can be modified after a depression; the personality can modify the clinical presentation of a depressive disorder; and finally the personality can be considered like a subclinical manifestation of a depressive disorder (e.g...
Psychological resilience has emerged as a key factor in mental health during the global COVID-19 pandemic. However, no work to date has synthesised findings across review work or assessed the reliability of findings based on review work quality, so as to
A curriculum comparison showed that PBL students tend to have lower levels of anxiety, depression, and general mood disorder than LBL students, but this was not statistically significant (Fig. 5). Factoring in gender into the curriculum comparison of mood disorder showed no significant difference (...
Many studies have demonstrated a high prevalence of SUDs in patients with mental disorders, e.g., in general patient samples [57,58], and in patients with psychoses or schizophrenia [59,60], bipolar disorder [61], depression or anxiety [62], personality disorders [63], and eating disorders...