Chromosome Examination of Male Patients in a Psychiatric Hospital

1975 ◽  
Vol 127 (4) ◽  
pp. 404-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Chromosome Aberrations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Male Patients ◽  
Hospital Population ◽  
The One

The present study has been made with the purpose of studying the frequency of chromosome aberrations in a male psychiatric hospital population, especially in order to look for possible associations between minor chromosome aberrations such as variations in short arms or satellites in D or G chromosomes as well as in Y length on the one hand and mental illness and criminality on the other.

scholarly journals Time for a shift in focus in schizophrenia: From narrow phenotypes to broad endophenotypes

2005 ◽  
Vol 187 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Weiser ◽  
Jim van Os ◽  
Michael Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Genetic Factors ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Impairment ◽  
Response To Treatment ◽  
Social Impairments ◽  
Biological Explanation ◽  
Biological Substrate ◽  
The One

SummaryMany manifestations of mental illness, risk factors, course and even response to treatment are shared by several diagnostic groups. For example, cognitive and social impairments are present to some degree in most DSM and ICD diagnostic groups. The idea that diagnostic boundaries of mental illness, including schizophrenia, have to be redefined is reinforced by recent findings indicating that on the one hand multiple genetic factors, each exerting a small effect, come together to manifest as schizophrenia, and on the other hand, depending on interaction with the environment, the same genetic variations can present as diverse clinical phenotypes. Rather than attempting to find a unitary biological explanation for a DSM construct of schizophrenia, it would be reasonable to deconstruct it into the most basic manifestations, some of which are common with other DSM constructs, such as cognitive or social impairment, and then investigate the biological substrate of these manifestations.

scholarly journals Soldati e neuropsichiatria nell'Italia della Grande Guerra

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Romano
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
The Other ◽  
Military Psychiatry ◽  
Constant Tension ◽  
War Effort ◽  
The One ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The Relationship

Against the backdrop of a critical reflection on the psychiatric concepts of organicism and predisposition to mental illness, the research investigates the relationship between psychiatry and the Great War from a perspective that considers the complexity of the orientations assumed by both the Italian alienists on war pathologies and the health practices implemented towards soldiers. The study highlights the comparison/clash between two totally different approaches forced to coexist during the conflict: on one side, the one from military psychiatry, and on the other the distinctive one from civil asylums. The two perspectives were not always clearly separated, but it is possible to detect a constant tension between the duties towards the war effort and the professional ethics dictated by the neuropsychiatric discipline.

Educational and Diagnostic Mmpi Characteristics of a Private Hospital Population

1971 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 724-726
Author(s):  
Donna M. Blum
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Private Hospital ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Hospital Patients ◽  
Educational Groups ◽  
Male Patients ◽  
Hospital Population ◽  
Standard Deviations ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Personality Patterns

Little data have been published on the educational and diagnostic differences of private hospital psychiatric patients on the MMPI. The present study reports the distributions of MMPI T scores and standard deviations for 4 female and 5 male educational groups and for 3 diagnostic groups of both sexes within a randomly selected group of 363 female and 542 male patients in a private psychiatric hospital. Results suggest that MMPI personality patterns should not be considered independently of the individual testee but that private psychiatric hospital patients do not produce MMPI profiles significantly different from those in state or provincial institutions.

scholarly journals Not as Straight-Forward as that It’s Just ‘An Added Fuss’ – Untangling How Indian Psychiatrists Construe Domestic Human Rights Legislation

2021 ◽  
pp. 70-91
Author(s):  
Alena Kahle
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The Law ◽  
The One

After its ratification of the 2006 United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (UNCRPD), the Indian government proceeded to work through a list of laws from various fields – employment, housing, healthcare, personal status – that would need to be amended to guarantee the rights in the UNCRPD. Regarding the healthcare of persons with mental illness, the law-drafters deemed it insufficient to merely amend the existing law and proceeded to draft a new, innovative mental healthcare law. When the Mental Healthcare Act (MHA) was passed in 2017, responses were strongly polarised: On the one hand, it was lauded for staying true to the vision of the UNCRPD (Duffy & Kelly, 2019), while on the other hand, especially psychiatrists heavily criticised that they anticipated the law would adversely affect their ability to treat patients

Relationship Between Body Build and Mental Illness

1978 ◽  
Vol 132 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham Verghese ◽  
Pamela Large ◽  
Edmond Chiu
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Body Build ◽  
Schizophrenic Group ◽  
Male Patients ◽  
Two Indices ◽  
Paranoid Schizophrenic ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Body Index

SummaryA study to test the relationship between body build and mental illness, conducted in Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital, Melbourne, is described. The Rees-Eysenck body index (REBI) and androgyny score (AGS) were determined for 225 male patients and 24 normals. As age increases, there is a decreasing trend in the scores for these two indices. There were no significant differences between the various diagnostic groups and the normal group for the AGS. But the difference between the non-paranoid schizophrenic group and paranoid schizophrenic group in REBI was significant.

An Example of Similar Mental Disorder in Identical Twins

1946 ◽  
Vol 92 (389) ◽  
pp. 817-817 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Identical Twins ◽  
The Other ◽  
The One

The following two case-records furnish an interesting example of similar mental illness occurring in identical twins, in which, however, in the one case the illness had come on endogenously, whereas in the other there was an apparent precipitating cause. Their age when seen was 25 years.

Cross-cultural Psychiatry

1994 ◽  
Vol 165 (4) ◽  
pp. 561-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Dein
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Psychiatry ◽  
Emil Kraepelin ◽  
Cultural Variations ◽  
Asian Populations ◽  
The One

“Insanity is then a part of the price we pay for civilisation. The causes of the one increase with the developments and results of the other” (Jarvis, 1851).Emil Kraepelin, while visiting southeast Asia at the turn of the century, noted the absence of depression among various Asian populations. He believed that mental disorders were organic diseases for which specific pathogens would ultimately be found. Despite the cultural variations in mental disorders he observed during his world trip in 1904, he considered mental disorder to be universal: “mental illness in Java showed broadly the same clinical picture as we see in our country … The overall similarity far outweighed the deviant features.”

scholarly journals P. Snsarev. To the study of neuroglia and the outer, perivascular and inner surface of the brain. Medical and economic report on the Hospitals of All Sorrows in St. Petersburg. 1911 p. fifty

1912 ◽  
Vol XIX (4) ◽  
pp. 855-859
Author(s):  
R. Averbuch
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Report ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Inner Surface ◽  
The One ◽  
Pathological Material ◽  
The Brain

The object of the author's research was, on the one hand, the brains of various vertebrates, and, on the other hand, pathological material from the psychiatric hospital "All the Sorrows". The author formulates the results of his research in the following provisions:

Mental Disorder and Transformation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Benning
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Psychiatric Illness ◽  
William James ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Community Psychiatric ◽  
Faith Traditions ◽  
The One

Throughout history and in all the world’s major faith traditions, it has been noted that conversion and other important spiritual and religious experiences may share or have features that overlap with signs and symptoms of psychiatric illness. William James, especially in The Varieties of Religious Experience, contributed significantly to the understanding of this overlap. The aim of this chapter is to explore the ethical and clinical dilemmas that arise when clinicians attempt to negotiate the seemingly conflicting imperatives of diagnosing on the one hand and of being open to the transformational significance of mental illness on the other. This is achieved by presenting three clinical cases from the author’s community psychiatric practice and analyzing them through the lens of Jonsen’s Four Quadrants Model for ethical case analysis.

Note on Selection of Coordinate Systems for Geodynamics

1975 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 395-407
Author(s):  
S. Henriksen
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Coordinate Systems ◽  
Mean Sea Level ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The One ◽  
Static Systems ◽  
Selection Of

The first question to be answered, in seeking coordinate systems for geodynamics, is: what is geodynamics? The answer is, of course, that geodynamics is that part of geophysics which is concerned with movements of the Earth, as opposed to geostatics which is the physics of the stationary Earth. But as far as we know, there is no stationary Earth – epur sic monere. So geodynamics is actually coextensive with geophysics, and coordinate systems suitable for the one should be suitable for the other. At the present time, there are not many coordinate systems, if any, that can be identified with a static Earth. Certainly the only coordinate of aeronomic (atmospheric) interest is the height, and this is usually either as geodynamic height or as pressure. In oceanology, the most important coordinate is depth, and this, like heights in the atmosphere, is expressed as metric depth from mean sea level, as geodynamic depth, or as pressure. Only for the earth do we find “static” systems in use, ana even here there is real question as to whether the systems are dynamic or static. So it would seem that our answer to the question, of what kind, of coordinate systems are we seeking, must be that we are looking for the same systems as are used in geophysics, and these systems are dynamic in nature already – that is, their definition involvestime.

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