The cognitive model and empirical research underline the importance of dysfunctional beliefs about bodily symptoms and illness in health anxiety and hypochondriasis. However, specificity of such beliefs has not yet been adequately demonstrated for patients with hypochondriasis. This study examined whether dys...
BACKGROUND: Existing research and media reports convey conflicting impressions of trends in the prevalence of mental illness. We sought to investigate trends in the prevalence of symptoms of mental illness in a large population-based cohort of Canadian children and adolescents. METHODS: We obtained po...
PersonalityNeurotic DisordersSex FactorsThe authors point out that there is a large overlap between the symptoms ascribed to anaemia, those ascribed to high blood pressure, and certain physical symptoms found in neurotic illness. The authors postulate that some patients with these conditions share a ...
The dog had been fighting with another dog so the bite was not aggressive in my regards and for the rest of the time that I saw him he was not at all aggressive..actually quite fond of me and stayed by side at all times. I did notice though that it had some sort of illness as ...
The impact of therapeutic relatives' groups on the course of illness of schizophrenic patients This study considers the question of whether relapse rates among schizophrenic patients can be reduced by means of relatives' groups. In a randomized, cont... G Buchkremer,H Schulze Mnking,R Holle,.....
A novel nairovirus associated with acute febrile illness in Hokkaido, Japan Here, Kodama et al. describe the discovery, isolation and characterization of a novel tick-borne orthonairovirus, designated Yezo virus (YEZV), from patients with an acute febrile illness in Japan. Serological testing of...
Many researchers now consider that two main series of events can lead to swine flu (and also avian or bird flu) becoming a major cause of influenza illness in humans. First, the influenza viruses (types A, B, C) are enveloped RNA viruses with a segmented genome; this means the viral RN...
Influenza D:This virus mostly infects cattle and isn’t known at this time to cause illness in humans. What sets influenza viruses apart is the rate at which they mutate. Influenza A viruses change more rapidly than influenza B ones. These changes are slight, but enough so that our immune...
It spreads from there to the rest of your body. In about half the cases, the spots turn red or purple after about a week. Southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI) symptoms.It may cause arash similar to Lyme disease, often appearing as a red bull’s-eye with the bite mark at the...
depression might be overdiagnosed in stroke patients because of changes in appetite, sleep, or sexual interest caused by their medical illness; others have suggested that depression may be underdiagnosed in stroke patients who deny symptoms of depression because of anosognosia, neglect, or aprosody. ...