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Nature, Diagnosis and Classification of Mental Disorders
What is a mental disorder? This question must be addressed by any diagnostic and classification system in psychiatry. In this chapter, a brief...
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A Diagnostic Perspective of Schizophrenia: From Past to Present
Schizophrenia is a chronic manic-depressive illness. It is a mental illness characterized by a combination of symptoms such as perceptual...
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Saudi Clinical Psychologists’ Competence in Sleep Disorders Management: A Comprehensive Perspective
Sleep disorders comprise a range of medical conditions that interfere with regular sleep patterns. Despite the fact that clinical psychologists have...
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The association between prenatal famine, DNA methylation and mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis
BackgroundUndernutrition in pregnant women is an unfavorable environmental condition that can affect the intrauterine development via epigenetic...
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Male Sexual Pain and Chronic Prostatitis: A New Point of Vision
The male sexual pain in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) has something to do with dyspareunia....
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Aberrant Hippocampal Development in Early-onset Mental Disorders and Promising Interventions: Evidence from a Translational Study
Early-onset mental disorders are associated with disrupted neurodevelopmental processes during adolescence. The methylazoxymethanol acetate (MAM)...
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Comorbidity of Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures with Mental Disorders
This review addresses the comorbidity of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) with other mental disorders. Data on the prevalences of affective,...
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Neuroendocrinology of Perinatal Mental Illness
Mental illness during pregnancy and the postpartum period is a growing health crisis. We know that at least 1 in 7 women during the perinatal...
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Caffeine, Mental Well-Being, and Psychiatric Disorders
Caffeine is the most consumed substance in the world. It is well known to affect alertness and interfere with sleep. Caffeine acts as an adenosine...
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The Kraepelin Model
Since antiquity, the mental disorders of melancholia, mania, and hereditary insanity had been recognised, but not dementia praecox (now...
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Challenges and Strategies for Current Classifications of Depressive Disorders: Proposal for Future Diagnostic Standards
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) was revised based on a combination of a categorical and a...
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Emotional and Affective Disorders in Cognitive Aging
The increased aging population who have aging-related diseases poses a serious challenge to health services, including mental health services. Due to...
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Grey matter structural alterations in anxiety disorders: a voxel-based meta-analysis
Anxiety disorders (ADs) are a group of prevalent and destructive mental illnesses, but the current understanding of their underlying neuropathology...
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Sleep Disorders
Pieces of evidence support the association between sleep disorders and sexual dysfunctions. The main biological link between these two conditions is...
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Iron and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Over the preceding several decades, significant improvements have been made in our understanding of the processes and mechanisms of mammalian brain...
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Machine Learning and Brain Imaging for Psychiatric Disorders: New Perspectives
Psychiatric disorders include a broad panel of heterogeneous conditions. Among the most severe psychiatric diseases, in intensity and incidence,...
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Endogenous and Exogenous Opioids: Role in Substance Use Disorders
Opioid use disorders have become an epidemic in recent years with rates nearly quadrupling since 1999 according to the US Centers for Disease Control...
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Eating Disorders
Nowadays, eating disorders plague both the feminine and masculine population, and they show new and different peculiarities compared to the past...
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Emphasizing the Crosstalk Between Inflammatory and Neural Signaling in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a chronic incapacitating condition with recurrent experience of trauma-related memories, negative mood,...
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Sestrin-2 and hypoxia-ınducible factor-1 alpha levels in major depressive disorder and its subtypes
BackgroundThe objective of this study is to measure the levels of sestrin-2 (SESN2) and hypoxia-inducible factor-1 alpha (HIF-1α), which can be...
