Sentences with phrase «between psychiatric diagnoses»

Mental illness has reached crisis proportions, yet we still have no clear links between psychiatric diagnoses and what's going on in the brain — and no effective new classes of drugs.

Not exact matches

There already exists a bidirectional relationship between all of the major chronic diseases and psychiatric diagnoses (patients who struggle with chronic diseases are more likely to be depressed and vice versa).

Digby is interested in the psychiatric diagnosis and the relationship between the brain and environment.

In the future, the ability to understand and contextualize the report of early adverse or traumatic experiences will fundamentally influence the approach to diagnosis and treatment of all psychiatric entities.1 This proposition is reminiscent to some extent of the longstanding distinction between the categorical and dimensional approaches to conceptualization.

A review of twenty studies on the adult lives of antisocial adolescent girls found higher mortality rates, a variety of psychiatric problems, dysfunctional and violent relationships, poor educational achievement, and less stable work histories than among non-delinquent girls.23 Chronic problem behavior during childhood has been linked with alcohol and drug abuse in adulthood, as well as with other mental health problems and disorders, such as emotional disturbance and depression.24 David Hawkins, Richard Catalano, and Janet Miller have shown a similar link between conduct disorder among girls and adult substance abuse.25 Terrie Moffitt and several colleagues found that girls diagnosed with conduct disorder were more likely as adults to suffer from a wide variety of problems than girls without such a diagnosis.26 Among the problems were poorer physical health and more symptoms of mental illness, reliance on social assistance, and victimization by, as well as violence toward, partners.

The clinical diagnosis of hypochondriasis was made with the Structured Diagnostic Interview for Hypochondriasis based on operationalized DSM - III - R criteria.27 Interrater agreement with this instrument is 96 %, and the univariate correlation between the interview responses and self - report questionnaire scores is 0.75.27 The DSM diagnosis of hypochondriasis specifically excludes hypochondriacal symptoms that are better explained by another, comorbid psychiatric disorder or by major medical illness.

Across the 8 years of the study, a significant negative correlation between family income and child psychiatric diagnoses (r = − 0.13, P <.001) and number of symptoms (r = − 0.15, P <.001) was observed.

Furthermore, a large proportion of comparison participants qualified for a lifetime psychiatric diagnosis (combining subthreshold and full diagnoses)(Table 4), sometimes exceeding population rates.40 It seems more compelling that differences at the mean age of 41 years between probands and comparison participants reflect differential development, especially because findings are highly consistent with other, briefer follow - up studies.

Similarly, another recent functional imaging study focused on 1129 community youths (mean age 15.5 years) and investigated the relationship between psychopathology and activation of the executive system during a working memory task.9 Overall psychopathology was associated with hypoactivation in the frontal pole, anterior cingulate, anterior insula and precuneus, implicating a network of executive regions across a range of psychiatric diagnoses.

The psychiatric diagnosis Reactive attachment disorder (RAD)(DSM - IV - R 313.89) can be understood as the result of significant impairment in the intersubjective sharing of experience between caregiver and child.

Of more concern were psychiatric diagnoses of alcohol / drug dependence: among women and men, respectively, lifetime rates ranged between 19 % — 24 % and 23 % — 40 % among NESSY - Os at age 26; and 11 % — 16 % and 19 % — 27 % among NESSY - Ys at 22.

Children were aged between 11 and 18 years and met criteria for at least one psychiatric diagnosis.

Conclusions: These results extend to a paediatrically referred population with previously reported findings in psychiatric samples documenting good convergence between structured interview diagnoses and syndrome congruent CBCL scales.

The DAWBA is a valid hybrid between a structured and a semi-structured interview for the diagnosis of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders according to both the ICD - 10 and DSM - IV [60, 61].

These results extend to a paediatrically referred population previously reported findings in psychiatric samples documenting good convergence between structured interview diagnoses and syndrome congruent CBCL scales.

Conclusions: There are different genetic and family environmental pathways between infant temperament and psychiatric diagnoses in this sample of Puerto Rican preschool age children.