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Family influence and psychiatric care: physical treatments in Devon mental hospitals, c. 1920 to the 1970s [PDF]
‘What is it that appears to make the mentally ill so vulnerable to therapeutic experimentation?’1 One commentator wrote in the 1990s, regarding mental hospitals as repressive, coercive and custodial institutions where medical staff subjected patients to ...
Baur, Nicole
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Diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders – a review of the scientific literature
Introduction: Unambiguous definition of mental disorders is difficult, mainly because of the heterogeneity of this group of diseases and the clarity of the line between pathology and normal.
Piotr Pawłowski+9 more
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The treatment of psychiatric patients presents significant challenges to the clinical community, and a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and management is essential to facilitate optimal care.
Michael D. Staudt+5 more
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Treatments used for obsessive-compulsive disorder-An international perspective [PDF]
© 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to characterise international trends in the use of psychotropic medication, psychological therapies, and novel therapies used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
Albert, Umberto+34 more
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Egas Moniz: 90 years (1927-2017) from cerebral angiography [PDF]
In June 2017 we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the pioneer discovery of cerebral angiography, the seminal imaging technique used for visualizing cerebral blood vessels and vascular alterations as well as other intracranial disorders.
Alessandro Frati+10 more
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. The case of Phineas Gage is an integral part of medical folklore. His accident still causes astonishment and curiosity and can be considered as the case that most influenced and contributed to the nineteenth century's neuropsychiatric discussion on the
Ricardo Vieira Teles Filho
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Summary Objectives Patients with epilepsy and refractory comorbid psychiatric disorders often experience functional impairments and a lower quality of life as well as showing a lack of compliance with anti‐epileptic medication regimens. We reasoned that widespread clinical benefits could be gained if the psychiatric comorbidities among these patients ...
Peng Huang+8 more
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Depression is currently recognized as a crucial problem in everyday clinical practice, in light of ever‐increasing rates of prevalence, as well as disability, morbidity, and mortality related to this disorder. Currently available antidepressant drugs are notoriously problematic, with suboptimal remission rates and troubling side‐effect profiles.
Mervin Chávez-Castillo+7 more
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Building the Next Bioethics Commission
Abstract At every moment, somewhere in the world, a group of men and women are sitting around a table deliberating about an ethical issue posed by medicine and research, whether as a research ethics committee; a hospital or clinical ethics committee; a stem‐cell review committee; a gene transfer research committee; a biobank ethics committee; an ethics
by Alexander M. Capron
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The following is another chapter of the revised Medico-Moral Problems book of Father Gerald Kelly, S.J., being published by The Catholic Hospital Association.
Kelly, Gerald
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