Psychiatric Disorders
Genetic studies of psychiatric disorders have become an important specialty area within medical genetics. Much of the progress in the area is the result of advances in molecular ...
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Mental Illness During the Middle Ages
Overview
Mental illness remains a mystery wrapped inside a puzzle. Although much research has been done, mental disorders remain elusive, and their treatment is s...
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Mental Illness
Mental, or psychological, illnesses and disorders occur in or relate to the mind. Mental disorders differ from physical (related to the body) disorders because there are usually no...
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Mental Illness
Mental illnesses are biologically-based disorders which interfere with an individual's ability to think, feel, act, and relate within the standard norms of society. The American Psychia...
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Mental Illness
Mental illnesses are biologically-based disorders which interfere with an individual's ability to think, feel, act, and relate within the standard norms of society. The American Psychia...
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Mental Illness and Mental Disorders
After years of empirical research and theoretical activity, social scientists still do not agree about what mental illness actually is, let alone about what its pri...
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Mental Disorder
Imprecise term, primarily used by laypeople, to refer to mental conditions.
This term is widely used, but has no precise definition. In fact, many mental health professionals feel the ...
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WHEN PEOPLE THINK of illness, a physical problem most often comes to mind—pneumonia, diabetes, cancer, or heart disease, for example. Yet the most common diseases in society are mental illnesses...
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“The incredible pessimism associated with schizophrenia has frustrated psychiatrists for a long time. —Patrick D. McGorry, psychiatry professor, Wall Street Journal, August 25, 1999
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In today's society, who one is and who one knows establish one's worth in the world. For people with mental illnesses, this means that their life will be difficult. The people one associates with ar...
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Mental Illness
INTRODUCTION: The Vogue and Consequence of Schizophrania and Depression in Modern Times
Throughout our daily lives, many notice a problem... a problem that is questioned. This proble...
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