Review of Diagnostic Criteria for Functional Psychoses (2nd ed.).

1993 ◽  
Vol 38 (11) ◽  
pp. 1234-1234
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Trull
Author(s):  
P. Berner ◽  
E. Gabriel ◽  
H. Katschnig ◽  
W. Kieffer ◽  
K. Koehler ◽  
...  

1994 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Häfner ◽  
K Maurer

SummaryPsychiatric diagnoses provide short labels for diseases or discrete symptom clusters. They should designate the same throughout the world, give information about course, outcome and indications for therapy as well as provide an heuristic basis for etiological research. Hence, the core question is how to attain an optimal representation of real morbidity in diagnosis, sets of diagnostic criteria and diagnostic classifications. Clinical observation can be improved considerably by multi-centre field trials, as applied in the preparation of ICD-10 and DSM-IV. But the approach has considerable limitations due to a lack of external measures in many psychiatric disorders and a highly limited representation of many diagnostic groups in clinical populations. Therefore, epidemiological methods are required in validating diagnosis and diagnostic criteria. The simplest way is to supplement clinical multicentre diagnostic studies by general-practice studies, but these, also, cannot fully replace population studies. Operational diagnosis and case criteria can be defined either categorically or dimensionally. Most of the categorical diagnoses in ICD-10 or DSM III also include dimensional characteristics. The impact of various diagnostic criteria, particularly cut-offs of dimensional characteristics, on the assignment of a diagnosis and, thus, on the morbidity figures of a diagnostic category is demonstrated by data from a large representative sample of first-admitted schizophrenics. Attempts at etiological validation by methods of genetic epidemiology provide limited support for Kraepelin's dichotomous model of functional psychoses. Validation by epidemiological course studies has shown that the stability of diagnosis in functional psychoses differs according to the sets of diagnostic criteria of different classification systems.


1991 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 328-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Lenz ◽  
C. Simhandl ◽  
K. Thau ◽  
P. Berner ◽  
E. Gabriel

Author(s):  
W.T. Gunning ◽  
G.D. Haselhuhn ◽  
E.R. Phillips ◽  
S.H. Selman

Within the last few years, adrenal cortical tumors with features concordant with the diagnostic criteria attributed to oncocytomas have been reported. To date, only nine reported cases exist in the literature. This report is the tenth case presentation of a presumptively benign neoplasm of the adrenal gland with a rare differentiation. Oncocytomas are well recognized benign tumors of the thyroid, parathyroid, and salivary glands and of the kidney. Other organs also give rise to these types of tumors, however with less frequency than the former sites. The characteristics generally used to classify a tumor as an oncocytoma include the following criteria: the tumor is 1) usually a solitary circumscribed mass with no gross nor microscopic evidence of metastasis (no tissue nor vascular invasion), 2) fairly bland in terms of mitotic activity and nuclear morphology, and 3) composed of large eosinophillic cells in which the cytoplasm is packed full of mitochondria (Figure 1).


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-141
Author(s):  
Cristina Rincon ◽  
Kia Noelle Johnson ◽  
Courtney Byrd

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the frequency and type of speech disfluencies (stuttering-like and nonstuttering-like) in bilingual Spanish–English (SE) children who stutter (CWS) to SE children who do not stutter (CWNS) during narrative samples elicited in Spanish and English to provide further diagnostic information for this population and preliminary data toward an expansion of this study. Method Participants included six bilingual SE children (three CWS, three CWNS) ranging in age from 5 years to 7;5 (years;months) and recruited from the surrounding Houston, Texas area. Participants provided a narrative sample in English and Spanish. The frequency of speech disfluencies was tabulated, and mean length of utterance was measured for each sample. Results Results indicate that both talker groups exceed the diagnostic criteria typically used for developmental stuttering. Regardless of the language being spoken, CWS participants had a frequency of stuttering-like speech disfluencies that met or exceeded the diagnostic criteria for developmental stuttering that is based on monolingual English speakers. The CWNS participants varied in meeting the criteria depending on the language being spoken, with one of the three CWNS exceeding the criteria in both languages and one exceeding the criteria for percentage of stuttering-like speech disfluencies in one language. Conclusion Findings from this study contribute to the development of more appropriate diagnostic criteria for bilingual SE-speaking children to aid in the reduction of misdiagnoses of stuttering in this population.


2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 421-421
Author(s):  
Veronica Triaca ◽  
Christian O. Twiss ◽  
Ramdev Konijeti ◽  
Larissa V. Rodriguez ◽  
Shlomo Raz

1999 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. S75-S75
Author(s):  
G HABIB ◽  
P BARNAY ◽  
J AVIERINOS ◽  
G DERUMEAUX ◽  
J LEFEVRE ◽  
...  

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
PATRICE WENDLING
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