The phrase
"psychiatric patients" refers to people who are receiving treatment or care for mental or emotional health issues. They may be staying in a hospital or receiving help from mental health professionals.
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The authors argue that there are substantial challenges to deciding who would be eligible for assisted dying
for psychiatric patients.
For more than half of those disorders, the women with PCOS had distress levels statistically similar to those of the
female psychiatric patients.
Furthermore,
psychiatric patients often react more strongly to social rejection than healthy persons and this can have negative consequences for the development and treatment of psychiatric disorders.
The description says I need to make this interesting, So I'm going to start out with the joke I love to
tell psychiatric patients!
In general, personality disorders are diagnosed in 40 - 60 percent
of psychiatric patients, which is the most frequent of all psychiatric diagnoses.
(1) Many practitioners assume that this number is actually much higher, seeing as B12 testing is not yet a standard procedure when it comes to
treating psychiatric patients.
The authors conclude that valproate may be effective for treating negative symptoms
in psychiatric patients with two copies of the «Val» variant of the COMT gene, which breaks down dopamine in the brain.
Eighty percent of pre-school children admitted
as psychiatric patients in two New Orleans hospitals came from homes without fathers.128 Similar percentages emerge among fatherless children in Canada, 129 South Africa, and Finland, at ages from pre - school through teenage.130
«We don't need hindsight to see that moving this facility, to the same campus as
adult psychiatric patients, downtown in a busy urban environment, will be a colossal mistake.»
A universal model of the effects of expressed emotion and its effects
on psychiatric patients would contain the previous elements discussed by McDonagh, but also be able to specify the effects to a broad cultural range as well.
The new study — published October 18, 2016 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry — combined genetic analysis of more than 9,000
human psychiatric patients with brain imaging, electrophysiology, and pharmacological experiments in mutant mice to suggest that mutations in the gene DIXDC1 may act as a general risk factor for psychiatric disease by interfering with the way the brain regulates connections between neurons.
Since 1982 Marton has been involved with the production of art
by psychiatric patients, not as art therapy, he says, but more as occupational training and as an aid in distracting the patients from symptoms that can worsen with the monotony of rehabilitation.
Depue says that if the results can be replicated in
psychiatric patients suffering from disorders such as clinical depression and PTSD, they could help scientists «in understanding where a dysfunction lies... and specifically, in developing psychopharmaceutical approaches to better target the suppression of [the] emotional memory mechanism.»
«Most domestic violence prevention policies for adults focus on partner violence, but this study shows that interventions for
psychiatric patients also need to target family violence,» says Dr Khalifeh.
Domestic violence from family members (other than partners) made up 63 % of total domestic violence cases against
psychiatric patients compared with 35 % of the general population.
My work with
psychiatric patients at the Seattle Well Mind Clinic provided me with ample evidence that psychiatry was missing the boat by not employing orthomolecular vitamin treatment.
Hans Schärer: «Madonnas and Erotic Watercolors» (through Feb. 7) One of Switzerland's most celebrated artists, Hans Schärer (1927 — 1997) created paintings that look as if made by a self -
taught psychiatric patient.
As Feast learned about his professor's research, he realized that software built using Pentland's findings could help social workers see if they were building trust with their clients, or determine
which psychiatric patients need emergency counseling.
In a sample of 3,519 8 — 16 - year -
old psychiatric patients, both boys and girls shared increasing levels of depression across this age range, but the rate of increase was faster in girls.
Taken together, it appears that also in case of
psychiatric patients presenting with complex genetic aberrations and additional psychosocial problems, traditional psychiatric and psychological approaches can lead to decrease of symptoms and improved functioning.
Morphine for pain management, Zofran to ease chemotherapy nausea, Amiodarone to stop life - threatening irregular heartbeats, and Valium to help highly
anxious psychiatric patients calm down are just a few examples.
As a parent of a child who will be heading to high school in a few short years, I was saddened to learn in this Psychology Today post that the average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the
average psychiatric patient in the early 1950s.
The Chief Psychiatrist of the Mental Health Authority, Dr. Kwasi Osei, has called for the enforcement of laws that prevent supposed healing centres from
chaining psychiatric patients in their care.
The governor said the new facility will be better located to serve
more psychiatric patients in Western New York, including families in Buffalo who do not have access to a car.
The study published in the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin reports preliminary results showing that a blood test, when used in
psychiatric patients experiencing symptoms that are considered to be indicators of a high risk for psychosis, identifies those who later went on to develop psychosis.
In 2002 a UCLA group led by Alexander Bystritsky noticed beneficial side effects in
psychiatric patients whose brains were imaged by TUS.
«Our results reveal a lack of equal treatment whereby
psychiatric patients don't seem to receive the care they need,» says principal investigator Dr Rickard Ljung, docent at Karolinska Institutet's Institute of Environmental Medicine.
Common use of electroconvulsive therapy for Chinese adolescent
psychiatric patients Zhang QE, Wang ZM, Sha S, Ng CH, Seiner SJ, Welch CA, Lok GK, Chow IH, Wang F, Li L, Xiang YT.
[A] bout half the patients did show dramatic improvement» and adverse events were «generally trivial» given the
younger psychiatric patient population than with movement disorders.