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Abstract Objective This scoping review aims to identify and describe the instruments used to evaluate emotional intelligence in deaf and hard of hearing (D/HH) persons. Introduction Emotional intelligence is a person's a...

The objectives of this systematic review are as follows: a)To establish whether group‐based parenting programmes are effective in improving the emotional and behavioural adjustment of children less than three years of ...

Eating disorders represent important problem particularly among adolescent girls. Early onset of eating disorder represents risk factor for somatic, psychological, and social development. The length of the period between...

Background: Hemimaxilectomy surgery may cause facial defects, impaired function of speech, swallowing, mastication, esthetics as well as psychiatric patients and can cause problems I rehabilitation. Objective: This case ...

Abstract Eating disorders (ED) are a group of potentially severe mental disorders characterized by abnormal energy balance, cognitive dysfunction, and emotional distress. Cognitive inflexibility is a major challenge to s...

Abstract Introduction Although post-traumatic stress disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder have distinct diagnostic criteria, some psychopathological phenomena seem to be shared, which may lead to misdiagnosis and...

Background Methamphetamine (METH) addiction causes a huge burden on society. The prefrontal cortex (PFC), associated with emotion and cognitive behaviours, is also involved in addiction neurocircuitry. Although bulk RNA ...

Ahmad H Almadani,1,2 Ayedh H Alghamdi,1,2 Falwah S Alsalman,3 Abdullah J Alghanim,4 Refan T Hashim,2 Abdulrahman I Binbakhit,5 Aleen A Alkulyah,5 Reema M Almutairi,5 Laila A Alfarhan,5 Abdullah K Muhnna,5 Malak M Aldakhi...

Social factors, such as social cognition skills (SCS) and social determinants of health (SDH), may be vital for mental health, even when compared with classical psycho-physical predictors (demographic, physical, psychiat...

Abstract Introduction Sexual dysfunction is common in individuals with psychiatric disorders and under psychotropic medication such as antidepressants and antipsychotics. Several scales have been developed to assess sex...

Anxiety disorders represent the most common category of psychiatric disorder in children and adolescents and contribute to distress, impairment and dysfunction. Anxiety disorders or their temperamental precursors are oft...

Encephalitis in immunocompromised individuals presents a unique diagnostic and treatment challenge due to the interplay between infection and immune dysregulation.A 48-year-old male with a history of recurrent sinusitis ...

Depression and dementia can lead to generalised cognitive and memory dysfunction. Thus, differentiating these disorders is important and challenging. Pseudodementia is a term used clinically to describe symptoms that res...

OBJECTIVE: To assess the characteristics of alcohol and drug users who seek treatment at the Brazilian Unified Health System in Brazil.METHOD:A multicenter cross-sectional study involving five clinical and research cente...

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...

A crucial problem in psychiatry, affecting clinical work as well as research, is the generally low reliability of current psychiatric diagnostic procedures. This article describes the development and initial reliability ...

Cross-sectional data from the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) were analyzed to test the validity of the MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) scales as measures of physical and mental health constructs. Results from ...

A novel behavioural screening questionnaire, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), was administered along with Rutter questionnaires to parents and teachers of 403 children drawn from dental and psychiatric...

Subjects / keywords: psychiatric function, psychiatry dysfunction, cognition, mental dysfunction, computational modelling; Medicine: Medicine (General): Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics; Medicine: Internal medicine: Neu...

Abstract Thalamocortical circuits regulate information flow between sensory inputs and higher-order processing, and their disruption is increasingly implicated in psychotic disorders. However, scalable biomarkers of this...