Apsychiatric interviewis a complex institutional encounter (Sullivan, 1970; Shea, 1998). For the psychiatrist, the interview aims at gathering the patient's information to reach a diagnosis and establish a course of action for proper treatment. An agenda should be followed to address and assess t...
This allows patients to tell their story in their own words and to describe associated social circumstances and reveal emotional reactions. The interview should first explore what prompted the need for psychiatric assessment (eg, unwanted or unpleasant thoughts, problematic...
Mostpsychiatric conditionscomprise syndromes, in other words they are characterized by groups of symptoms that tend to run together. Such syndromes are clearly described in operational terms in documents such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association and the...
Medical education encompasses training to become a medical practitioner; or a specialist. It requires mastering large volume of information, a longer duration of training and more intensive method of assessment [1]. Many medical students struggle with their own capacity to meet the demands of the c...
The databases including Web of Science, PubMed and CINAHL were comprehensively searched by using combinations of key words that corresponded to the domains of interest: “offspring OR child*” AND “cognitive development OR cognitive functions OR neurodevelopmental disorders OR neuropsychiatric disorders OR...
The term “shell shock” was then gradually replaced with terms that were “less suggestive of incapacitation” and were less of a “grievous misnomer” [26]. During World War II (WWII), “combat exhaustion” or “battle fatigue” was used to describe PTSD states instead of “shell shock...
There is currently a deficit of knowledge about how to define, quantify, and measure different aspects of daily routine disruptions amid large-scale disasters like COVID-19, and which psychiatric symptoms were more related to the disruptions. This study
(PTSD), depression, and anxiety among veterans, there appears to be scant published literature on psychiatric disorders among military personnel in the West African region. It is important to contextually understand the psychiatric disorders among military personnel in this region who may be faced ...
63 patients without a psychiatric diagnosis and 47 patients with psychiatric diagnosis. Specifically, the psychiatrics comorbidities of our sample included the following: eating disorders (e.g., binge eating disorder, night eating syndrome, bulimia nervosa), mood disorders (e.g., major depressive dis...
and BBB dysfunction—in MDD, BPD, schizophrenia, and OCD. We also describe how innate inflammation may be mechanistically linked to the traditional monoaminergic and glutamatergic abnormalities reported in these disorders (Figures1and2). The therapeutic role of antiinflammatory agents in psychiatric dis...