Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
Pivot Concepts:   Target Concepts:
Query: UMLS:C0036341 (schizophrenia)
 60,220 document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)

The pattern of inpatient referral to a general hospital psychiatry department was examined in the present study. The referral rate of 3.6% was higher than those reported by other investigators from India. The majority of the patients had concurrent physical illness. Neurotic depression and alcohol dependence were the most frequent diagnoses. A diagnosis of schizophrenia was relatively infrequent. Among the patients referred for consultation, there was a high percentage of cases of self-inflicted injury and poisoning. Psychiatric disturbances were of transient nature in about one third of the cases. In about 20% of the cases, no physical illness was detected and their somatic complaints were considered to be psychologically determined.
 ...
PMID:A study of inpatient referral patterns to a general hospital psychiatry unit in India. 367 10

An evaluation was made of schizophrenics (140), schizoaffectives (40), unipolar depressives (59), and bipolars (30), and their relatives who had a chart diagnosis of psychosis or depressive neurosis. The purpose was to determine whether the psychosis (delusions and hallucinations) was transmitted independently of the illness itself. If this were true, there would be an excess of pairs of probands and relatives both positive for psychosis and pairs of relatives and probands both negative for psychosis when compared to relatives and probands who were not concordant for the variable. This was found to be true in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder and is probably the result of the simple transmission of an illness which includes the presence of psychotic symptoms in the definition. Thus, this would be a manifestation of the genetic propensity in schizophrenia. For the affective disorders there was no evidence that psychotic probands were more likely than the nonpsychotic to have psychotic relatives. So far the reason why some patients have psychosis and others not in the affective disorders remains unexplained.
 ...
PMID:A family study of psychotic symptomatology in schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, unipolar depression, and bipolar disorder. 398 37

Fifty patients with severe weight loss thought to be caused by anorexia nervosa were hospitalized for evaluation. On the basis of psychiatric history and mental state examination, they were divided into three diagnostic categories: anorexia nervosa; other. The MMPI of patients with anorexia nervosa was markedly abnormal, with highest peaks on the D (depression), PT (obsessionality and anxiety), and SC (schizophrenia) scales. This profile was similar to that of patients with obsessional symptoms and neurotic depression, but differed significantly from the profile of patients with low weight but normal mental state examination. These findings suggest that starvation alone does not explain the psychopathological symptoms similar to those with depressive and obsessional symptomatology. The MMPI is useful in differentiating anorexia nervosa from those with lowered weight from nonpsychiatric causes, but does not by itself provide a distinct diagnostic category when compared with neurotic disorders having similar symptom clusters.
 ...
PMID:The MMPI in three groups of patients with significant weight loss. 652 72

Among 243 patients with a family history of suicide, almost half (118 [48.6%]) had attempted suicide, more than half (137 [56.4%]) had a depressive disorder, and more than a third (84 [34.6%]) had recurrent affective disorder. These 243 patients with a family history of suicide were compared with 5,602 patients with no family history of suicide. A family history of suicide was found to significantly increase the risk for an attempt at suicide in patients with a wide variety of diagnoses: schizophrenia, unipolar and bipolar affective disorders, depressive neurosis, and personality disorders.
 ...
PMID:Family history of suicide. 661 60

This study compares the diagnostic terminology used for 592 consecutive discharges from a psychiatric unit before and after teaching psychiatric trainees the use of the ICD-9 classificatory system. The results show a marked increase in specificity of diagnostic labels, with a decrease of diagnoses with the term 'not otherwise specified', and an increase in the diagnoses of organic psychoses, paranoid and hebephrenic schizophrenia and depressive neurosis. The implications of this for training about diagnosis, clinical practice and recording of data for national statistics are discussed.
 ...
PMID:The effect of the use of the International Classification of Diseases 9th revision: upon hospital in-patient diagnoses. 685 Jan 80

Twenty-three depressive inpatients and the same number of matched non-psychiatric controls were examined on three occasions - following admission, 14 days after, and 28 days after the admission - by administering a self-rating questionnaire of time awareness and Hamilton's Rating Scale for Depression (HRS). The patients were found to feel time passing slowly. This was correlated with the severity of depression expressed as the total HRS score. No significant differences emerged between diagnostic groups, namely endogenous depression, neurotic depression, and schizophrenia or paranoid state with depressive symptoms. Correlations of the time awareness with symptoms listed in the HRS also denied a specific relationship of time awareness to specific diagnoses. The subjective feeling of slow time flow reflects, therefore, the depth of depressive state in general, which is nevertheless not specific to any diagnostic subcategory.
 ...
PMID:Time passes slowly for patients with depressive state. 712 24

We investigated the extent psychiatric illnesses can be differentiated by means of psychopathological symptoms. The present condition of 2269 patients was analyzed; they had been admitted to the psychiatric clinic of the Free University of Berlin during 1971-1976, as documented by the AMP (PAS) documentation system. The most frequent diagnosis in the sample was schizophrenia (32%), followed by neurosis (22%), affective psychosis (14%), addiction (6.7%), and organic psychosis (6.2%). We could demonstrate that even such diagnostic groups are usually discernible by symptoms, where the differential diagnosis is often difficult. Organic psychosis vs paranoid schizophrenia and depressive neurosis vs depressive psychosis can be determined, but manic syndromes in schizoaffective psychosis vs manic syndromes in affective psychosis are hardly discernible. The potential to differentiate, however, only pertains to diagnostic groups, since many individual patients cannot accurately be classified into diagnostic groups by psychopathological symptoms alone. Only a few symptoms are pathognomonic, and if there are pathogomonic symptoms characterizing a diagnostic group, only a few patients in this group show these symptoms. These results indicate, at least for the high number of patients without severe and typical symptomatology, that we must: 1. Achieve better differentiation on the diagnostic axis "psychopathology" by means of empirically derived syndromes instead of isolated symptoms. 2. Use other diagnostic axes (like etiology and course) for differential diagnostic purposes.
 ...
PMID:[The potential of psychopathological symptoms to differentiate diagnostic groups (author's transl)]. 727 35

A retrospective study covering the period 1974-1978 was conducted on the inpatient population at the Department of Psychiatry, Howard University Hospital, for the two major diagnostic categories, major affective disorders (MAD) and the schizophrenias. Among the schizophrenias, the diagnoses of schizophrenia, paranoid type, and schizophrenia, not otherwise specified, account for approximately 73 percent of all schizophrenic diagnoses. The distribution of diagnoses among the MAD category demonstrated that approximately 74 percent of all diagnoses were accounted for by the subcategory depressive neurosis. Further analyses according to age at admission and annual trends were also conducted. The implications of these analyses, conducted on all black patient populations who were diagnosed by nonwhite diagnosticians, are discussed.
 ...
PMID:Frequency of schizophrenia and depression in a black inpatient population. 742 Apr 48

We studied 97 patients who were diagnosed at the time of discharge having depressive neurosis within the period of 1984-1992. They were rediagnosed according to the diagnostic criteria of CCMD-2, dysthymia and mild degree of depression in ICD-10 and DSM-III-R. Only 23 patients were in accord with diagnostic criteria of CCMD-2 and maintained the diagnosis of depressive neurosis. The other 74 patients were diagnosed as having depression (single or recurrent episode) other types of neurosis, bipolar affective disorders (depressive phase or mixed phase) and schizophrenia. These diagnoses were similar to those in ICD-10 and DSM-III-R.
 ...
PMID:[Diagnosis of depressive neurosis]. 784 33

In this paper, manic-depressive psychosis in childhood, in whom the age of onset was under 15 years old, is discussed. Firstly, I surveyed the history of studies in manic-depressive psychosis in childhood and dealt with the recent concept. Secondly, I reported the clinical features, such as classification, age of onset, sex, genetic factors, clinical symptoms, therapy and prognosis. Clinical study of 27 children who were diagnosed as mood disorders (manic-depressive psychosis) according to DSM-III-R is mainly cited. Finally, I emphasized the importance of physical symptoms and discussed the lower limit of age of onset. The problem of clinical entity, referring to schizophrenia and neurotic depression (dysthymia) in childhood, is discussed.
 ...
PMID:[Manic-depressive psychosis in childhood]. 800 96


<< Previous 1 2 3 4 Next >>