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Abstract BackgroundIndividuals with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder face a significantly elevated risk of obesity, primarily due to weight gain associated with psychiatric medications and lifestyle factors....

Abstract The aim of this study was to analyze and compare the profile of dual patients treated in mental health units or drug user services with patients using both. The sample consisted of 170 patients diagnosed with du...

Objective This research investigates and compares working-conditions, duty rosters, stress, sleep problems, fatigue levels, mental health, and well-being of pilots working for network (NWCs), and low-cost carriers (LCCs...

Abstract Objective Given anorexia nervosa’s (AN) status as one of the most difficult psychiatric disorders to treat, with the highest mortality rate, with millions of dollars spent on researching its treatment, and dec...

Vocational rehabilitation represents an important elementwithin the mental health care system. To ensure the successof rehabilitation, programs of varying degrees of complexityare needed in order to meet patients´ abili...

This paper describes recent developments in mental healthcare for women in Ireland and sets them in their historical context. The treatment of women’s mental health in the Republic of Ireland has evolved drastically si...

This article highlights the relevance of the humanities to psychiatric discussions. It considers Thomas De Quincey’s autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821), where the author charts his opium expe...

Background Ongoing debates question the harm of internet use with the evolving technology, as many individuals transition from regular to problematic internet use (PIU). The habenula (Hb), located between the thalamus an...

Immunophilins are a family of proteins whose signature domain is the peptidylprolylisomerase domain. High molecular weight immunophilins are characterized by the additional presence of tetratricopeptide-repeats (TPR) thr...

Introduction Paediatric anxiety disorders are among the most common psychiatric disorders of childhood and adolescence, affecting between 15% and 30% of youth. Rates rose sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic, and untreat...

A 10-year-old patient was admitted to the pediatric sub-intensive care unit due to massive rectal bleeding and severe acute anemia. His medical background included Asperger syndrome and a history of chronic constipation ...

Abstract Objective Childhood maltreatment is extremely harmful to health, especially in relation to development of the psychiatric disorders throughout life. The objective of this study was to describe the prevalence a...

BackgroundPatients suffering from psychiatric disorders tend to stigmatise themselves which had been linked to poor adherence to treatment.AimsThe aim of the present study was to study internalised stigma and medication ...

INTRODUCTION: This study aimed to investigate serum levels of proline, prolidase, proline dehydrogenase (PRODH), and reactive oxygen species (ROS) in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls, to evaluate potentia...

Abstract Introduction Glecaprevir/pibrentasvir (G/P) is globally approved for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and for acute HCV infection in the USA. The efficacy and safety of G/P has been cl...

Abstract Introduction Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the most common psychiatric disorders found among victims of disaster, kidnapping, accidents, sexual assaults and war in Indonesia. However, lacking...

Abstract Objective In recent decades, there have been considerable advances in treatment and prevention of acute ischemic stroke (IS). However, even after treatment, approximately two-thirds of patients with IS have som...

Abstract Background Migraine is a very common chronic neurological disorder associated with severe disability and significant social burden worldwide. Beyond recurrent headache attacks, increasing evidence indicates that...

Background The well-known ‘pyrotherapy’ of Julius Wagner-Jauregg might be the beginning of the study on the immunological concepts of schizophrenia. As the primary immune effector cells in the brain, microglia play a...

Abstract Objectives Burnout is a considerable challenge for healthcare personnel, particularly among surgical specialties. Although psychotropic medicines are advantageous for the treatment of psychiatric disorders, thei...

Abstract Introduction: Emotion regulation can be defined as the process by which individuals manage their emotional experience. It has been demonstrated that deficits in this ability are associated with various psychiat...

Background The incidence of paediatric cancers has increased in recent years; however, with advances in the treatment of paediatric cancer, almost 80% of children and adolescents who receive a diagnosis of cancer become ...

Abstract Introduction The recognition of facial expressions of emotion is essential to living in society. However, individuals with major depression tend to interpret information considered imprecise in a negative ligh...

Objective: Paradoxical sleep deprivation increases grooming behaviors in rats. Discordant data on the change promoted by such deprivation on the experimentally defined anxiety levels have made difficult to assess if the ...