Neuropsychiatric Aspects Research Articles

Neuropsychiatric aspects of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus

Neuropsychiatric aspects of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus

Psychosocial and neuropsychiatric aspects of HIV infection: Review of their extent and implications for psychiatry

HIV infection in general and AIDS in particular, present a major challenge for the health services worldwide. The possibility of central nervous system effects of HIV infection has been known for some time, and information is now accumulating about the range of psychiatric disorders associated with it. This paper considers in detail the psychosocial and neuropsychiatric problems which can develop at the various stages of HIV infection, and discusses the implications for the mental health services in terms of provision of services, legal and ethical problems, and further research.

Definition of Asthma

The limitations of clinical definitions of asthma which focus on the symptoms and signs of an acute attack of asthma are discussed. Implicit in such definitions is a research interest focused on the immediate causes of an attack. This is the final expression of a whole sequence of events and to fully understand the natural history of asthma requires the development of a broader definition of asthma. Atopy, bronchial hyperreactivity and neuropsychiatric aspects of the condition are identified as the major aspects of the natural history of asthma requiring detailed investigation.

Neuropsychiatric complications of AIDS: a literature review.

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has become a major public health problem with over 12,000 cases and 6,000 deaths reported to date. Although there has been an explosion of knowledge in the virology, immunology and pathology of AIDS, relatively little has been written on the neuropsychiatric aspects. This report reviews the existing literature on the neuropsychiatric complications of AIDS. As many as 40 percent of patients with AIDS have neurologic complications at some point in their illness. These complications include either focal deficits attributable to opportunistic organisms infecting the CNS or diffuse encephalopathy caused by viral infection or lymphoma infiltration. Psychiatric complications include major depression, adjustment disorder with depressed mood, and organic brain syndrome with affective, delusional or demented features. Inpatient and consulting psychiatrists must be alert to these complications of AIDS so as to make accurate diagnoses and deliver appropriate therapy. Further studies, integrating both psychiatric and neurologic perspectives, are needed to better elucidate the neuropsychiatric complications of AIDS and help plan appropriate therapeutic interventions.

Radiation damage to the brain: Neuropsychiatric aspects

Although radiation necrosis of the brain is a recognized complication of irradiation of the central nervous system, the psychiatric aspects of this phenomenon are less well defined. Two cases of radiation necrosis in which psychiatric symptoms were a prominent part of the clinical picture are presented. Factors that determine the evolution and clinical presentation of radiation necrosis are reviewed. In particular, the role of the consultation psychiatrist in the diagnosis and management of such patients is discussed.

Neuropsychiatric aspects of AIDS: A case report

The acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a diverse disease that can affect all the systems of the human body. Frequently it can present initially as a neurologic or psychiatric illness due in part to the various infectious and neoplastic illnesses often encountered in susceptible individuals. Psychiatrists should be aware of the signs and symptoms of AIDS since they can be in the position to make the diagnosis first. A case of AIDS presenting as a psychiatric illness is described and its implications discussed further.

Introduction: Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Child Psychiatry

Introduction: Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Child Psychiatry

Neuropsychiatric manifestations of alkali metal deficiency and excess

The alkali metals from the Group IA of the periodic table (lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium and francium) are reviewed. The neuropsychiatric aspects of alkali metal deficiencies and excesses (intoxications) are described. Emphasis was placed on lithium due to its clinical uses. The signs and symptoms of these conditions are characterized by features of an organic brain syndrome with delirium and encephalopathy prevailing. There are no clinically distinctive features that could be reliably used for diagnoses. Sodium and potassium are two essential alkali metals in man. Lithium is used as therapeutic agent in bipolar affective disorders. Rubidium has been investigated for its antidepressant effect in a group of psychiatric disorders. Cesium is under laboratory investigation for its role in carcinogenesis and in depressive illness. Very little is known of francium due to its great instability for experimental study.

Huntington chorea: report of 16 cases

The neuropsychiatric aspects and both hereditary and therapeutic study from 16 patients with Huntington's chorea are presented. The differential diagnosis from a clinical approach has been emphasized. The results of this research and those of the literature were compared.

Therapeutic amenorrhoea induced by endometrial irradiation technique in mentally retarded women: neuropsychiatric aspects.

Menstruation may cause many difficulties in the care of mentally retarded women. We have applied the low-dose endometrial after-loading irradiation method for the termination of menstruation of such persons. So far, we have studied 29 women during the period 1970-1978. Twenty-two of them had earlier received gestagen treatment for the same purpose. The radiation dose was chosen in such a way that the dose in the endometrium was 14 Gy, giving an ovarian dose of about 4 Gy. One treatment gave a cessation of menstruation in 22 patients and two had minor flow with no clinical inconvenience, but five required a repeated irradiation. The hormonal changes after radiotherapy were found to be minor. The need for tranquilizers did not change. There were some changes in the frequency of epileptic seizures, possibly due to the termination of gestagen treatment, which has antiepileptic effects. The care of four of the 21 in-patients became so much easier after radiotherapy that they could be transferred to home care.

The Burn Unit

For children and adolescents, being burned, hospitalized, and treated over weeks to months is a traumatic and painful experience. Because of immaturity and dependency, and the arduous treatment and rehabilitation process, the stress on parents and staff is profound. Consultation work with burned patients, family, and staff is most effective when the psychiatrist is an integral part of the Burn Team using modern principles and techniques of consultation-liaison psychiatry. This article discusses the liaison approaches to burns including the methods and hazards of entry onto a burn unit, the general milieu approaches to bum management, the neuropsychiatric and medication aspects of or- ganicity and pain control, and the approach to expectable crises at various stages of bum hospitalization and immediate aftercare.

Book Review: Ergot Compounds and Brain Function: Neuroendocrine and Neuropsychiatric Aspects.

Book Review: Ergot Compounds and Brain Function: Neuroendocrine and Neuropsychiatric Aspects.

Ergot Compounds and Brain Function--Neuro endocrine and Neuropsychiatric aspects

Ergot Compounds and Brain Function--Neuro endocrine and Neuropsychiatric aspects

Neuropsychiatric aspects of chronic renal disease

Chronic renal disease, hemodialysis, and renal transplantation may be accompanied by a variety of derangements of higher cortical functioning, mental processes, and behavior. Many treatable toxic metabolic, degenerative, and structural processes may occur as a result of the progression of the renal disease itself, associated medical conditions, or secondary neurologic complications. Associated behavioral changes may easily be confused with functional disorders. latrogenic complications may also arise. An understanding and awareness of these entities is important for the consulting psychiatrist in order to properly diagnose and care for the renal patient who shows disturbances in behavior.

Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Pernicious Anemia: Report of a Case

Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Pernicious Anemia: Report of a Case

Clinical Disturbances of Renal Function

This book is meant for the physician dealing with a patient who has albuminuria, or edema, or hypertension, or other possible manifestations of renal dysfunction. The aim is to answer practical questions of diagnosis and management, but the orientation is biochemical and physiological. An immense number of publications on the kidney have been reviewed, and diagrams are liberally used in order to explain such concepts as clearance, balance, filtration, and transudation. Four early chapters deal with the nephritides, nephrosis, hypertension, and acute renal failure. Eight subsequent chapters deal with the obstetrical, surgical, urologic, cardiopulmonary, hormonal, genetic, and neuropsychiatric aspects of renal dysfunction. The 3 final chapters deal with the relation of age to renal disorders, the therapeutic use of water and electrolytes, and the evaluation of renal function for diagnostic purposes. The author's logic is not always clear, and the opening definitions, which the author refers to as "thematic," are

Brain and Personality. Studies in Psychological Aspects of Cerebral Neuropathology and the Neuropsychiatric Aspects of the Motility of Schizophrenics.Paul Schilder

<i>Brain and Personality. Studies in Psychological Aspects of Cerebral Neuropathology and the Neuropsychiatric Aspects of the Motility of Schizophrenics.</i>Paul Schilder

Neuropsychiatric aspects of Cushing's syndrome.

SINCE Harvey Cushing's original description of a disease occurring in association with basophile adenoma of the pituitary gland, 1 it has become widely recognized that the characteristic clinical picture may occur not only in association with this specific anatomical lesion, but with a wider variety of pathological conditions. 2 Thus, it has become customary to speak of Cushing's syndrome rather than of Cushing's disease, and to apply the latter term, if at all, to those cases in which a basophile adenoma is demonstrable. Furthermore, it now seems clear that, whatever additional pathological changes are uncovered at autopsy, the clinical picture of both Cushing's disease and Cushing's syndrome can be regarded as the result of adrenocortical hyperfunction, whether neoplastic or hyperplastic in anatomical expression. As this study, therefore, is concerned principally with neuropsychiatric aspects, which are in themselves of a primary clinical nature, only the term Cushing's syndrome will be used

Injuries of the Brain and Spinal Cord and Their Coverings. Neuro-Psychiatric, Surgical and Medico-Legal Aspects

Injuries of the Brain and Spinal Cord and Their Coverings. Neuro-Psychiatric, Surgical and Medico-Legal Aspects

Injuries of the brain and spinal cord and their coverings. Neuro-psychiatric, Surgical, and Medico-legal Aspects. Edited by Samuel Brock, New York University. Third edition. 6 × 9 in. Pp. 783 + xii, with 125 illustrations. 1949. London: Baillière, Tindall &amp; Cox. 76s. 6d

Journal Article Injuries of the brain and spinal cord and their coverings. Neuro-psychiatric, Surgical, and Medico-legal Aspects. Edited by Samuel Brock, New York University. Third edition. 6 × 9 in. Pp. 783 + xii, with 125 illustrations. 1949. London: Baillière, Tindall & Cox. 76s. 6d Get access Injuries of the Brain and Spinal Cord and their Coverings. Neuro-psychiatric, Surgical, and Medico-legal Aspects. Edited by SamuelBrock, New York University. Third edition. 6 × 9 in. Pp. 783 + xii, with 125 illustrations. 1949. London: Baillière, Tindall & Cox. 76s. 6d. British Journal of Surgery, Volume 37, Issue 148, April 1950, Pages 491–492, https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.18003714836 Published: 06 December 2005