An estimated 25 percent of adults in the U.S. suffer from some type of
psychiatric condition at any time, with the most common conditions being depression and anxiety.
Not exact matches
Though public records show that Nadya Suleman was on the payroll
at Metropolitan State Hospital until last year, it appears that she did little work (if any) after September 1999 due to a workman's compensation injury (back injury and
psychiatric condition) in which she's received up to $ 165,000 in compensation.
Because of stigma and other barriers, most people with a
psychiatric illness including depression and anxiety related
conditions don't get any help
at all.
If proved correct, drugs that modify the immune system may be effective
at treating this and other
psychiatric conditions that may be associated with mutated microglia, says Capecchi.
A small percentage of people diagnosed with a mysterious neurological
condition may only experience
psychiatric changes — such as delusional thinking, hallucinations, and aggressive behavior — according to a new study by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine
at the University of Pennsylvania.
However, in chronic inflammatory
conditions, negative emotional states associated with long - term pain can put affected individuals
at a higher risk for
psychiatric complications such as depression or substance abuse.
Rates of major depression, a
psychiatric condition marked by intense sadness, hopelessness, insomnia and a general loss of interest or pleasure, don't markedly change from one season to another among U.S. adults, says a team led by psychologist Steven LoBello of Auburn University
at Montgomery in...
More than five million Americans suffer from bipolar disorder, a progressive
psychiatric condition that, left untreated, puts sufferers
at high risk for suicide.
«Although we are currently looking
at neurodegenerative disease, there is potential for the technology to be expanded to
psychiatric diseases, chronic pain, seizure disorders and many other
conditions affecting the brain and nervous system down the road.»
«Our results show that,
at a population level, prescriptions of stimulants and antidepressant medications for children and adolescents do not appear to be prescribed
at rates higher than the known rates for
psychiatric conditions they are designed to treat,» said Dr. Sultan.
A policy for access to assisted dying by nonterminally ill patients with
psychiatric conditions will put many vulnerable and stigmatized people
at risk,» writes Dr. Scott Kim, a physician and bioethicist
at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States, with Dr. Trudo Lemmens, a professor
at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law & the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.
There are also a host of side effects, that could be as minor as sleep disturbances, loss of appetite, and facial tics, to paranoia and psychotic symptoms, other
psychiatric issues like bipolar disorder, depression, and suicide in those without a history of the disorders, and
at it can be fatal in those that have a diagnosed or undiagnosed heart
condition.
Findings in this heavily litigated area are often predicated on erroneous clinical assumptions such as: that doctors accept uncritically and
at face value what the client says about their history (HE (DRC — credibility and
psychiatric reports) Democratic Republic of Congo [2004] UKIAT 00321); that only psychiatrists can diagnose
conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (HH (Ethiopia) v SSHD [2007] EWCA Civ 306, [2007] All ER (D) 259 (Mar)-RRB-; and that doctors do not consider alternative explanations, including fabrication when, in fact, this is integrated into medical training and has always been a specified requirement of the IP (para 105 (f)-RRB-.
Provide initial patient assessment
at scene, determining first steps for stabilization of individuals and multiple parties suffering from illness, trauma,
psychiatric issues, overdose and other emergent health
conditions.
Children with developmental challenges experience behavioral and
psychiatric issues
at up to four times the rate of children without such
conditions.
Children of mothers who have recurrent depression in addition to anxiety, antisocial behaviour or problem alcohol use, are
at increased risk of developing a new
psychiatric condition
These included:
psychiatric disorder (duration and severity between ages 15 and 32 years, coded into none (59 %, no evidence of
psychiatric disorders), mild (37 %, minor or inconsequential nervous disorders) or severe (5 %,
psychiatric episodes of more than a year's duration, or any out - patient or in - patient episodes for
psychiatric disorder); neuroticism and extraversion (measured
at age 26 years by the Maudsley Personality Inventory14); chronic illness (physical, non-fatal
conditions in 14 % of parents between ages 20 — 25 years); physical activity (frequency and duration in the preceding month collected
at age 36 years.