Department of Psychiatry, AN Magadh Medical College, Gaya, Bihar, India 1Clinical Psychologist, Akanksha – An Institute of Mentally Challenged, Bodhgaya, Bihar, India Address for correspondence: Dr. Choudhary Laxmi Narayan, “Deepayan”, Tilha, Kali Bari, Gaya - 823 001, Bihar, India. E-mail: moc.liamg@nayaranlcrd This is an open access article distributed under…
Biological fallout from 50 generations of first cousin marriages from a Lockheed employee in Saudi Arabia. During the pilot transition program with the KV-107 and C-130 with Lockheed, we found that most Saudi pilot trainees had very limited night vision, even on the brightest of moonlit nights. Their training retention rate was minimal including maintenance personnel…
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders includes standardized diagnostic criteria for many psychiatric disorders. First published by the American Psychiatric Association in 1952, the manual is used as a resource by the majority of mental health professionals. In its earlier editions, many clinicians considered the DSM merely a tool for researchers…
One in seven prisoners have a psychotic illness or major depression and around one in five enter prison with clinically significant substance abuse disorders. As these disorders are common and mostly treatable, better screening and mental health services before and after release are essential to prevent future violence and improve both public health and safety,says…
Symptoms of Social Anxiety Disorder Social interaction may cause the following physical symptoms: blushing nausea excessive sweating trembling or shaking difficulty speaking dizziness or lightheadedness rapid heart rate Psychological symptoms may include: worrying intensely about social situations worrying for days or weeks before an event avoiding social situations…
Starred Review These DVDs introduce teens to the concept of good mental and emotional health. In Common Psychological Disorders of Adolescence, several real teens share their stories and struggles with five common mental health issues: anxiety disorders, depression, eating disorders, ADHD, and substance abuse disorder. A teen host introduces the stories, indicating…
Functional or psychogenic neurological disorders are conditions with neurological symptoms that are thought to be due to psychological dysfunction rather than an underlying neurological disorder. They can be classified as malingering if the person is intentionally having the symptoms. Perhaps someone is pretending an arm or leg is weak after a car accident in…
Hoarding Disorder Hoarding has long been considered a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder, but it will get its own clinical definition in the DSM-V. As of May 22, hoarding disorder will be defined as “persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of their actual value.” According to the APA, hoarding is defined by its harmful emotional…
Eating disorders are very complex diseases that can have severe physical and emotional consequences if left untreated. For this reason, it is imperative that men or women dealing with eating disorders seek professional help, especially with more clinically severe eating disorders. Utilizing a professional treatment team who specialize in eating disorders can…
Getty Images / Getty Images Illustration of the double helix structure of DNA; suagr phosphate backbones in antiparallel coil with coding nucleobases attached in between Diverse mental illnesses may actually represent variations on a common theme rather than separate disorders. A quiet autistic child is certainly unlike a manic adult with bipolar disorder, or…
Here you will first find a list of all the major medications and the problems they address. Then you will see each of the major problems (panic attacks, generalized anxiety, and so forth), with descriptions of the commonly recommended medications for that difficulty. (I gratefully acknowledge James Ballenger, MD for his review of this section.) BENZODIAZEPINES…
GETTY Bad dreams: It could indicate a future brain condition The researchers believe that unusual dreaming could act as warning sign decades before diagnosis of a brain condition. Indeed, they discovered that 80 per cent of people who suffer will eventually develop neurological disorders. John Peever, neuroscientist from the University of Toronto, said: “Our…
FOD is the persistent or recurrent inability of a woman to achieve orgasm. This lack of response affects the quality of the woman s sexual experiences. To understand FOD, it is first necessary to understand the physiological changes that normally take place in a woman s body during sexual arousal and orgasm. Normally, when a woman is sexually excited, the blood…
There are many causes of emotional detachment disorder and it manifests differently for everyone although there are core features: Emotional detachment disorder often forms in response to some sort of severe emotional trauma. As children, we are in an unequal relationship with adults who are powerful. If there is any type of abuse going on, a child often can’t…
A Biochemical Restoration and Mental Health Program Dedicated to Correcting the Biochemical Imbalances That Create “Emotional” Disorders Recent discoveries about the workings of the brain have shed important new light on the role a wide variety of natural chemicals play in manufacturing normal thought patterns, feelings, self-awareness, and perceptions. The human…
Personality disorder also called Character Disorder, that is marked by deeply ingrained and lasting patterns of inflexible, maladaptive, or antisocial behaviour. A disorder is an accentuation of one or more to the point that the trait significantly impairs an individual’s social or occupational functioning. Personality disorders are not, strictly speaking, illnesses…
Click on one of the topics below Rare chromosome disorders include extra, missing or re-arranged chromosome material but do not include the more common chromosome conditions such as Down s Syndrome. Using the latest technology, it is now possible for smaller and more complex chromosome defects to be identified. The amount of chromosome material duplicated, missing…
The lifetime prevalence of all eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and related syndromes) is about 5%.1 “Recent comprehensive estimates suggest that 20 million people in the European Union have an eating disorder, with a cost of about €1 trillion per year (financial costs of about €249 billion plus burden of disease costs…
Perhaps the most important thing to keep in mind is that many patients with BDD do not spontaneously reveal their BDD symptoms to their clinician because they are too embarrassed and ashamed, fear being negatively judged (e.g., considered vain), feel the clinician will not understand their appearance concerns, or do not know that body image concerns are treatable…
Schizoid Personality Disorder is characterized by a long-standing pattern of detachment from social relationships. A person with schizoid personality disorder often has difficulty expression emotions and does so typically in very restricted range, especially when communicating with others. A person with this disorder may appear to lack a desire for intimacy…
Children who have had breaks from their primary caregiver, unmitigated pain, abuse, neglect or in other ways have not had their needs met can often be impaired in their ability to develop healthy emotional attachments. This is currently called by many names, such as insecure attachment. These less-than-healthy ways of attaching are often not diagnosed as disorders…
Traditionally it has been thought that there are four main categories of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), as well as numerous sub-types of the illness within each category. However, typically a person’s OCD will fall into one of the following four areas. Checking Contamination / Mental Contamination Hoarding Ruminations / Intrusive Thoughts This list categorises…
I started compulsively overeating at a very young age. And then I almost stopped eating altogether at the age of 12, after being harassed by kids at school, for being fat . My eating disorder will continue to affect me for the rest of my life, but I m proud to say that I got the help I needed, and am now the happiest and healthiest I have ever been! Eating disorders…
Depression is much more than sadness, it varies from person to person and even with age but has some common symptoms. Sometimes psychological problems can cause depression and sometimes it depends on the day to day life of an individual where they experience depressed mood, loss of interest, feeling of guilt etc. More than 25% of patients suffering with depression…
