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Cardiovascular disease is a relatively common comorbidity in patients with major psychiatric disorders. The mortality rate of people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders is described as excessive and premature. This...

Subject of a series of controversies in the recent literature, the ADHD diagnosis became with the new classification in DSM V a new entity in adult psychiatry. ADHD symptoms in...

The alternative DSM-5 model for personality disorders (PD) evaluates the level of personality functioning on a continuum and considers that the disturbances in self and interpersonal functioning constitute the...

A substantial amount of recent research highlighted the health benefits of human-animal interactions. Animal assisted therapies that included pets (cats, dogs), horses and dolphins were conducted in medical and...

Background: Comorbid personality disorder and psychotic disorders always represent a major challenge for every day practice. The aim of this study is to analyze the implications of dual diagnosis of...

Background: Episodic memory impairment has been recognised as the hallmark symptom of Alzheimer disease (AD).The occurrence of the retrieval difficulties when encoding specificiy was optimised by coordinating encoding and...

Introduction: In the child's life occur traumatizing events that can change its behavior, transitory or lasting, and its mental functioning, especially if the child is younger. The child's mental...

Personality disorders always reassert themselves as a field of controversies. Nowadays, the psychiatric and social complications of the patients' behavior with personality disorders are of a particular diversity and...

According to WHO's estimates, every 40 seconds one person dies by committing suicide somewhere in the world. The consequences on family, close friends and ...

The diagnosis of schizophrenia comprises mainly “negative” and “positive”, cognitive, disorganized and affective symptoms. The negative symptoms reflect the absence or the lack of emotional and behavioral functioning and...

The etiologies and pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) include not only biological factors but psychosocial and behavioral ones as well. When one considers the rhythm and the socio-economic particularities...

To understand the maniac-depressive illness, to diagnose it precisely and to treat it in an efficient way, it is necessary to get familiarized to what Kraepelin called “common fundamental...

Introduction: In Child and Adolescent Psychiatry somatic disorders are as frequent as they are difficult to diagnose. Children and their familes oftenly go from specialist to specialist in search...

Background: Despite the majority of guidelines recommending that atypical antipsychotics (AAP) should be used as monotherapy during acute psychotic episodes in subjects with schizophrenia, in the United States and...

Introduction.International research highlights the occupational risk of train drivers of being exposed to potentially traumatic incidents and...