Mental Disorders - Research News and Information

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Medicalizing mental health: a phenomenological alternative.

29 Nov 2008 With the increasingly close relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) there has been a growing tendency in the mental health professions to interpret everyday emotional suffering and behavior as ... Read more...

Mythos and mental illness: psychopathy, fantasy, and contemporary moral life.

29 Nov 2008 Medical accounts of the absence of conscience are intriguing for the way they seem disposed to drift away from the ideal of scientific objectivity and towards fictional representations of the subject. I examine here several contemporary accounts of ... Read more...

What do we know about serotonin?

30 Oct 2008 The present review focuses on what is known of basic serotonin physiology in the human body. Here, we describe serotonin biochemistry and metabolism and summarize the results of studies that have contributed significantly to our understanding of ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Disorders'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Medicalizing mental health: a phenomenological alternative. 29 Nov 2008
• Mythos and mental illness: psychopathy, fantasy, and contemporary moral life. 29 Nov 2008
• Rethinking suicide prevention in Asian countries. 6 Nov 2008
• What do we know about serotonin? 30 Oct 2008
• Addiction and substance abuse in anesthesiology. 30 Oct 2008
• What explains the diffusion of treatments for mental illness? 30 Oct 2008
• Teaching critical thinking in psychiatric training: a role for the social sciences. 30 Oct 2008
• [Alcohol-related disorders in the preclinical medicine] 26 Oct 2008
• The mental wealth of nations. 21 Oct 2008
• Neuropsychiatric disease. 14 Oct 2008
• A glimmer of light for neuropsychiatric disorders. 14 Oct 2008
• Failure of neuronal homeostasis results in common neuropsychiatric phenotypes. 14 Oct 2008
• Copy-number variations associated with neuropsychiatric conditions. 14 Oct 2008
• WHO launches programme to extend treatment of mental and neurological disorders. 13 Oct 2008
• A movement for global mental health is launched. 9 Oct 2008
• The Lancet's series on global mental health: 1 year on. 9 Oct 2008
• Retrospective analysis of hospital episode statistics, involuntary admissions under the Mental Health Act 1983, and number of psychiatric beds in England 1996-2006. 7 Oct 2008
• Estimating co-occurring behavioral trajectories within a neighborhood context: a case study of multivariate transition models for clustered data. 7 Oct 2008
• Behavioral modification. With the historic enactment of mental health parity legislation, providers may see themselves freed from treatment limitations. 4 Oct 2008
• Worldwide genetic variation in dopamine and serotonin pathway genes: implications for association studies. 3 Oct 2008

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Technical information about 'Mental Disorders'

Definition: Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.

Descriptor UI: D001523

Alternative terms: Mental Disorders; Disorder, Mental; Disorders, Mental; Mental Disorder; Diagnosis, Psychiatric; Psychiatric Diagnosis; Behavior Disorders; Disorders, Behavior;

Related Mesh Headings: Mentally Ill Persons;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03;

Online Note: pre-explosion = MENTAL DISORDERS (PX)

History Note: use pre-explosion 1974-97