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Attitudes toward three types of disorders and a normal subject portrayed in vignettes were assessed among university students. The variables assessed were: perception of mental illness in the vignettes; desired social distance; emotional and physical burden expected; and expected negative influence on one's mental health from association with the type of persons portrayed in the vignettes. Analysis revealed that, in terms of variables assessed, the most "negative" ratings were recorded for the paranoid schizophrenic case and the most "positive" recorded for the normal subject. The simple schizophrenia and the anxiety neurosis/depression cases fell between the other two cases. Finally, with a few exceptions, all the variables assessed were significantly correlated with each other.
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PMID:Attitudes toward mental illness: recognition, desired social distance, expected burden and negative influence on mental health among Turkish freshmen. 250 Jul 13

The socio-demographic attributes and the different diagnostic categories of patients attending Aro Neuropsychiatric Hospital for the first time over a 1-year period are presented. There was an overall preponderance of males but more females than males suffered from depression. Factors which distinguished patients with anxiety neurosis from those with neurotic and endogenous depression are identified. Two patients who suffered from obsessional neurosis, commonly regarded as rare in the black Africans, are described. Heredodegenerative diseases of the nervous system are rare in the Africans and one patient with hereditary spinocerebellar degeneration is described. Eclampsia was a probable predisposing factor for epilepsy in four women.
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PMID:Neuropsychiatric disorders in Nigerians: 1914 consecutive new patients seen in 1 year. 255 Nov 61

48 consecutive male patients of potency disorders were examined and classified as 'Dhat' syndrome, impotence or premature ejaculation. The age range of these cases was found as 20-38 years (mean 23.5 +/- 3.3 years) while age of onset was 16-24 years (mean 20.6 +/- 4.5 years). Majority of cases were unmarried (54.2%) and educated 5th class or above (79.1%). 31 cases (64.6%) had Dhat syndrome with or without impotency and/or premature ejaculation while 7 cases (14.6%) had only premature ejaculation and 10 cases (20.8%) only impotence. The cases with 'Dhat' syndrome or with impotence scored maximally on neuroticism and depression scales. Neurotic depression was the commonest associated psychiatric illness (39.5%) followed by anxiety neurosis (20.8%) while 31.3% did not have any possible diagnosis. The common presenting symptoms of 'Dhat' syndrome include weakness (70.8%), fatigue (68.7%), palpitations (68.7%), sleeplessness (62.4%) etc. Among the four groups on the basis of type of treatment (antianxiety drug, antidepressant, placebo, psychotherapy), the best response was seen in those receiving antianxiety or antidepressant drugs while those receiving psychotherapy showed minimal response. 7 cases (14.6%) dropped out of treatment and the maximum dropout (40.6%) was seen in psychotherapy group.
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PMID:'Dhat' syndrome--a useful clinical entity. 263 75

The clinical efficacy of alprazolam has been evaluated in both anxiety states and depressive disorders. In anxiety neurosis, studies have been conducted vs placebo and/or other benzodiazepine tranquilizers. Reports, to date, with regard to panic/phobia disorders have been limited to open-label studies and a single report from a placebo-controlled study. In depression, both open-label and double-blind studies (vs tricyclic antidepressants) have been published.
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PMID:Brief review of published alprazolam clinical studies. 285 79

A review on indications, target points and results of stereotactic operations for treatment of psychiatric diseases is given, based on personal experiences and reports in the literature. As a conclusion the author suggests that the anatomical target should be chosen selectively. There is strong evidence that different approaches lead to different results. Cingulotomy is effective for chronic pain with addiction and depression, anterior capsulotomy for obsessive-compulsive and anxiety neurosis, innominotomy for chronic and recurrent depression, and postero-medial hypothalamotomy for restless, aggressive and destructive behaviour. Therefore, the target should be selected according to the individual symptoms of the patient. The results of operation are usually good and most patients can return to a normal life. The side-effects are infrequent and seldom serious. Modern psychosurgery does not modify the personality of the patient. On the contrary it often relieves it from disturbing symptoms of illness.
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PMID:Psychosurgery today. 306 32

Generalized anxiety disorder is a relatively new clinical entity and current understanding of this syndrome lacks a solid research base. However, useful generalizations can be derived from earlier studies of anxiety neurosis and other previously defined anxiety syndromes. Most persons with GAD are seen by primary care physicians, but recognizing these patients may be difficult. In the primary care setting they often present with physical complaints suggesting a specific organ system disease. Depression and substance abuse may be presenting problems in patients with primary GAD. Primary care physicians are usually able to provide appropriate care for generalized anxiety disorder patients. By keeping in mind the cognitive, behavioral, affective, and physiologic aspects of the syndrome, they can appropriately address the specific therapeutic needs of individual patients. The nature of the doctor-patient relationship in primary care favors the development of therapeutic trust that is important for effective management of GAD. Drug therapy is a useful adjunct in the treatment of many patients with GAD. However, the use of drugs as the sole therapeutic modality is seldom appropriate.
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PMID:Generalized anxiety disorder. 332 27

In a study of 60 elderly patients in a general hospital referred for psychiatric assessment, the commonest psychiatric disorders were depressive illness (41.6%) and dementia (35.0%). Patients with depression (mean age 69.5 years) were a younger age group compared with dementia (mean age 75.8 years)--this difference is statistically significant (p less than 0.01). Seven patients with depression were admitted for attempted suicide and 5 were referred because of headache and chest discomfort. The main reasons for referral of patients with dementia were disturbed and confused behaviour. The other psychiatric disorders in the sample were delirium (6.7%), paraphrenia (6.7%), alcohol dependence syndrome (5.0%) and anxiety neurosis (5.0%).
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PMID:Psychiatric referrals of elderly patients in a general hospital. 359 77

Nervous bladder symptoms without any established organic causes would appear to be a psychosomatic illness that usually affects married women in midlife. The majority of these patients manifest serious neurotic disorders such as anxiety neurosis, hysteria, phobia, and depression or larvate depression. It is often possible to identify psychosexual disorders in these patients. The predominant situations that seem to trigger irritable bladder symptoms are: sexual intercourse that ends unsatisfactorily for physical or psychological reasons, a partnership conflict, or even a separation conflict. Patients with a hysterical personality structure who are dominated by Oedipus or phallic problems and who, by inhibiting the sexual impulse, frequently suffer from sexual disorders may, in a situation experienced in such an atmosphere of conflict, regress to the stage of urethral erotism; at this stage, the symptoms serve as self-punishment as well as reduction of the fear of guilt and punishment; the unconscious vexation and frustration manifest themselves in these symptoms. In the case of depressive patients, unconscious anger and helplessness can be manifested as irritable bladder symptoms. As a result of the close connection between these urinary disorders and sexual disorders, irritable bladder symptoms without any established organic causes would appear not to be a urological but rather a covert functional sexual disorder.
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PMID:[Psychosomatic aspects of irritable bladder. A review]. 371 43

In this study we analyze from a cardiologic and psychiatric point of view a consecutive sample of 194 patients treated in a cardiology outpatient unit. A psychiatric morbidity of 44.8% is found, expressing itself fundamentally as depression and anxiety neurosis. It is observed how the presence of chest pain significantly conditions the appearance of psychiatric disturbance, there being, moreover, a tendency in the same direction with increasing degrees of impairment of cardiac function. Certain personal and sociocultural factors also play a significant role in the development of mental illness in these patients.
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PMID:Mental illness and ischemic heart disease: analysis of psychiatric morbidity. 387 15

One hundred and fifty anxiety neurotic and neurotic depressive twin probands were differentiated into three groups by means of discriminant analysis, 50 in each group. The groups were named pure anxiety neurosis, mixed anxiety-depression and pure neurotic depression. Childhood environmental factors seemed important in the development of pure neurotic depression, while mixed anxiety-depression seemed to be determined by environmental factors in adult life. Further investigation showed that loss of a parent before the age of 16, and moving before the age of 14 seemed important in the development of pure neurotic depression. Loss, or threat of loss, of love objects appeared to be the most common precipitating event for the neurotic depression and mixed anxiety-depression groups, while pregnancy and childbirth seemed to be of great significance in the development of pure anxiety neuroses. Furthermore, unmarried status was most frequent in the mixed anxiety-depressive group of probands.
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PMID:Developmental differentiation of anxiety and affective neuroses. 398 72


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