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Each year, one in four U.S. adults suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder according to the National Institute of Mental Health. When diagnosed, such individuals often are culturally…

Objective: To examine the risk of sustaining a traumatic brain injury (TBI) associated with prior psychiatric conditions beyond that of fixed demographic variables.

Design: Retrospective cohort study of non-referred…

A unique study by researchers at the University of York and Hull York Medical School has confirmed a link between depression and low levels of…

The aim of this study was to determine whether there is a difference between men and women in terms of suicide age, suicide method and suicide reason in Turkey.…

Heavy daily smoking among under 18-year-old psychiatric inpatients is associated with increased risk for suicide attempts

Purpose - To investigate the relationship between heavy…

A recent study reported a decreased risk of fractures among lithium users. We conducted a case–control study within the UK General Practice Research Database, comparing never, ever, current, recent and…

Relative antidepressant efficacy of bupropion and the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in major depressive disorder: gender-age interactions

To determine whether age/gender-based differences in efficacy exist between…

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) coexisting with epilepsy is poorly understood; thus, we compared the clinical correlates and psychiatric comorbid conditions of 36 children with epilepsy and…

Borderline personality disorder, mother-infant interaction and parenting perceptions: preliminary findings

Parents diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are likely to find the emotional aspects of parenting challenging. Research into…

Purpose of review: Many psychiatric disorders have their highest first-onset rates in adolescence and young adulthood. We summarize recent work indicating where interventions are most needed and effective. We also…

Purpose of review: Many studies aimed at prevention and early intervention for mental disorders have focused on depressive disorder because it causes substantial disability.…

Men who did not have good relationships with their siblings in childhood are more likely to develop major depression as adults, a new study shows.

In fact, the quality of sibling…

While studies have linked depression to a higher risk of death from heart disease, new research suggests that it may contribute to deaths from a range of causes.

In…

Although most studies have reported a higher risk of depression in people with epilepsy as compared with normal controls, almost all studies (with a few exceptions such as Blumer 2002) report no difference…

Treatment of psychiatric disorders in epilepsy is largely opinion-led, with little evidence from systematic randomized control trials (Krishnamoorthy 2003).

Pre-ictal and ictal depression do not usually require treatment; an improvement in seizure…

Depression in epilepsy is multifactorial in nature and has been shown to be influenced by a number of factors.

Gender
In contrast to the increased prevalence of depression in females,…

Forced normalization
In the 16th century, Cardenus (Whitwell 1936) wrote about a case of melancholia alternating with epilepsy, describing what is possibly the first case of forced normalization associated with epilepsy.…

Depression is a common and important accompaniment of epilepsy.  Depression in epilepsy is phenomenologically different from the usual forms of depression and it is essential that treating physicians assess for…

While the symptoms of bipolar disorder can be disabling on their own, most patients with the condition also are afflicted with a variety of other psychiatric, substance use…

An intensive form of talk therapy, known as transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP), can help individuals affected with borderline personality disorder (BPD) by reducing symptoms and improving their social functioning, according…

Knowing pharmacokinetics can improve efficacy, help avoid adverse effects.

Where do you turn for help in dosing an antidepressant for a child with major depressive disorder? You might…

Marriage provides greater psychological benefits to depressed people compared to people who are not depressed before they walk down the aisle, a new study reveals. This remains true even though…

Depression following myocardial infarction is associated with poor cardiac prognosis. It is unclear whether antidepressant treatment improves long-term depression status and cardiac prognosis.

People with schizophrenia have been categorised into three groups: those with full insight (aware, correct attributers); those aware of being unwell, but who misattributed their symptoms (aware, incorrect attributers); and those…

Mothers of young children who feel they lack emotional support or help in caring for their children have more than three-times the risk of mental health problems compared to…