Mental Illness: Volume 2 Issue 1 , Open Access

Health professionals' familiarity and attributions to mental illness

Aghukwa Nkereuwem Chikaodiri

A few months from the time of this survey, the nearly completed inpatient psychiatric facility within the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital's complex would be ready for admissions…

Study habits among Nigerian secondary school students with brain fag syndrome

Bolanle A. Ola, Olufemi Morakinyo

Brain Fag Syndrome (BFS) is a psychiatric disorder associated with study affecting two to four out of every ten African students. One of the consequences of this illness is early…

Death by suicide long after electroconvulsive therapy. Is the sense of coherence test of Antonovsky a predictor of mortality from depression?

John E. Berg

Prediction of increased risk of suicide is difficult. We had the opportunity to follow up 20 patients receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) because of severe depression. They…

Post-traumatic stress, depression, and community integration a long time after whiplash injury

Britt-Marie Stålnacke

Psychological factors such as post-traumatic stress and depression may play an important role in the recovery after whiplash injuries. Difficulties in psychosocial functioning…

Anxiety, depression and impaired health-related quality of life are therapeutic challenges in patients with multiple sclerosis

Dominik Michalski, Stefanie Liebig, Eva Thomae, Susanne Singer, Andreas Hinz, Florian Then Berg

Anxiety, depression and impaired health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are commonly reported in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and are of great interest for therapeutic…

Device-guided breathing as a possible tool to improve the outcome of exposure therapy

Maartje Cathelijne de Jong, Cornelis Hendrikus Boersma

Exposure therapy is a widely used treatment for patients with post-traumatic stress dis -order. It involves reduction of fear through progressive exposure to frightening stimuli…

A new nosology of psychosis and the pharmacological basis of affective and negative symptom dimensions in schizophrenia

Costa Vakalopoulos

Although first rank symptoms focus on positive symptoms of psychosis they are shared by a number of psychiatric conditions. The difficulty in differentiating bipolar disorder from…

Comorbidity of paraphilia and depression in Mexico

Christian Haasen

The comorbidity of paraphilia-related disorders and other psychiatric disorders is high, but the paraphilia-related disorder often remains untreated until patients seek help for…

ADHD-hyperactive/impulsive subtype in adults

Christopher Gibbins, Margaret D. Weiss, David W. Goodman, Paul S. Hodgkins, Jeanne M. Landgraf, Stephen V. Faraone

This is the first study to evaluate ADHD-hyperactive/impulsive subtype in a large clinical sample of adults with ADHD. The Quality of Life, Effectiveness, Safety and Tolerability…

Detection of mental disorders with the Patient Health Questionnaire in primary care settings in Nigeria

Olawale O. Ogunsemi, Francis A. Oluwole, Festus Abasiubong, Adebayo R. Erinfolami, Olufemi E. Amoran, Adekunle J. Ariba, Christopher O. Alebiosu, Michael O. Olatawura

Mental disorders lead to difficulties in social, occupational and marital relations. Failure to detect mental disorder denies patients potentially effective treatment. This study…