PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN IDIOPATHIC TRANSVERSE MYELITIS
Consecutive patients with idiopathic transverse myelitis and first-episode stroke (30 each) underwent two-stage screening for psychiatric morbidity. A high prevalence of psychological distress, psychiatric morbidity (principally major depression), and cognitive impairment was found in idiopathic TM, comparable to that found among patients with stroke. This morbidity was associated with greater disability.

Subho Chakrabarti
Chandigarh, In

  

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Substance dependence patients have significant better marital adjustment compared with bipolar affective disorder patients. Substance dependence patients have significantly better social and sexual adjustment than patients with bipolar affective disorder as well as significantly better sexual adjustment than schizophrenia patients.

Suprakash Chaudhury
Loni, In

  

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La paroxetina actúa sobre varios sistemas de neurotransmisión, además del serotoninérgico, y esas acciones contribuyen a sus efectos antidepresivos y ansiolíticos. Por otra parte, además de los efectos beneficiosos sobre las manifestaciones clínicas, en los pacientes con comorbilidades es importante tener en cuenta la probabilidad de interacciones farmacológicas y efectos adversos.

J Franco-Perez
Mexico DF, México

     

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WHEN TO PLACE DENTAL IMPLANTS IN GROWING CHILDREN
To determine the optimal individual time point of implant insertion, the status of skeletal growth, the degree of hypodontia, and extension of related psychological stress should be taken into account. If the goals of treatment planning favor implant use before skeletal maturation, parents of the child need to be informed about the benefits and possible complications of its use.

Sunil Mishra
Bhopal, In

  

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PSYCHO-SOCIAL STRESS AND COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTCOMES IN A PENNSYLVANIA ENERGY BOOMTOWN
Ethnographic methodology within an environmental justice framework can be useful in monitoring the psychological and socio-cultural determinants of community health in unconventional oil and gas fields. This paper provides examples of such an approach via an ethnographic case study from fieldwork conducted from 2009-2011 in the Marcellus shale gas fields of rural Pennsylvania.

Simona Perry
Montgomery Village, Us

  

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