Early descriptions of various disorders, now recognized as part of Lyme borreliosis, included various psychiatric symptoms. Although they occur frequently in Lyme disease patients, they are poorly documented in the…

In the present study, depression and anxiety were evaluated in a sample of 81 secondary school-aged adolescents, hospitalised at the Adolescent Department, Centre for Mental Health, Ljubljana. The results were…

Modern medicine has been paying increasing attention to eating disorders. The official classification of the diseases deals only with those clinical entities which are related to serious mental and physical…

In this paper the author presents the classification of affective disorders, proceeds with the importance of basic genetic research, bit does not refer to the epidemiological studies. Different methods of…

The paper presents the background, conditions and procedures for psychiatric evaluation, along with its individual components, with the intention to provide medical students with some basic guidelines on how to…

Auditory perception is prone to disturbances on various levels. The article deals with those usually encountered in patients with mental disorders, auditory hallucinations being the most frequent. The article also…

Eight females with anorexia nervosa under treatment, and seven women with a past history of this disorder were evaluated by a directed interview. They were found to share several characteristic…

The issue of mental health in children with mental retardation began to be addressed more closely after the recent introduction of the term »dual diagnosis« denoting the coincidence of mental…

An ideal medical treatment for affec­tive disorders is not yet available. Specific needs of individual patients can be met by selecting from among a wide range of drugs on the…

Adolescence is a developmental stage in which a person is learning to master cognitive, emo­tional, social and moral maturity. Adolescents growing up with chronic renal disease enter this stage later…

Near-death experiences are experiences of deep feelings of out-of-body experiences and of entering other dimensions outside the usual borders of time and space. They mostly occur when a person is…

The aim of this study was to identify the symptoms, disabilities and needs of schizophre­nic outpatients. Fifty schizophrenic outpatients (5% sample, 31 males and 19 females; mean age 43 years)…

Sexual dysfunction and depression often occur together, however the causal relation is unclear and has not been studied enough. Sexual dysfunction secondary to depression has been well studied, but less…

The aim of the study is to identify psychosocial risk factors among adolescents with epilepsy and compare them with those among healthy peers. We will also search for gender differences…

Prejudice about people with severe mental illness is a major obstacle to high-quality men­tal health care. The reasons for stigmatization are lack of information, outdated information about the causes and…

Postpartum depression largely develops during the first six months following delivery. Its world-wide prevalence is between 3 and 33%, depending on the diagnostic methods and criteria. An attempt was made…

The postpartum period is a time of rapid and fundamental biological, psychological and social changes, which can precipitate various psychiatric disorders in women. The aim of this study was to…

Changes in the classification of delirium were introduced in the 10th revision of International Classification of Diseases. Delirium is an etiologically nonspecific organic cerebral syndrome. Elderly in-patients are especially prone…

The author presents some recent views on the disorders due to psychoactive substances use and groups them according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Classification. He explains…

Psychosocial characteristics of 60 secondary school adolescent female suicide attempters 
were determined in the present study. We compared 
them with 60 secondary school females, representing a normal population. The data…

The authors give a brief description of schizophrenia based on the established international criteria, and discuss its epidemiology and aetiology. They present family, twin and adoption studies wich have reinforced the role of…

Essential information about antidepressant drugs is given, with special emphasis on their adverse side effects, toxicity and interaction with other drugs and certain foods.

The main principles of crisis interventions are discussed and illustrated by reports on three patients admitted to the Crisis Intervention Unit. The author wants to point out one of the…

The invention of computed tomogra­phy (CT) afforded a safe, non-invasive tool for examining the intracranial contents. It has soon become the most frequently used neuroradiological method. Thanks to its well…