Disease relevance of Mentally Ill Persons

• Reliability, validity, and a total score cutoff for the dyskinesia identification system: condensed user scale (DISCUS) with mentally ill and mentally retarded populations [1].
• Clonazepam: its efficacy in association with phenytoin and phenobarbital in mental patients with generalized major motor seizures [2].
• The fourth case was that of a mentally ill patient who suffered sudden cardiac arrest after an intramuscular injection of chlorpromazine, but with no apparent signs of an anaphylactic reaction [3].

Psychiatry related information on Mentally Ill Persons

• This paper traces and explains the emergence of the mental health users movement in Great Britain, focusing specifically upon the formation of the Mental Patients Union in the early 1970s [4].

High impact information on Mentally Ill Persons

• The American Psychiatric Association's Task Force on the Homeless Mentally Ill concluded that this is not the result of deinstitutionalization per se but of the way it has been carried out; homelessness among the chronically and severely mentally ill is symptomatic of the grave problems facing them generally in this country [5].
• In deciding Addington vs Texas the US Supreme Court established "clear and convincing evidence" as the standard of proof necessary for civil commitment of the mentally ill rather than the criminal standard, "beyond a reasonable doubt." This decision has major implications for the mentally ill person, the family, and the psychiatrist [6].
• New develpments in civil commitment of the mentally ill. Impact for patient, family, and psychiatrist [6].
• The delineation of dopamine dysfunction in the mentally ill has been a long-standing quest of biological psychiatry [7].
• Psychiatry and the homeless mentally ill: a reply to Dr. Lamb [8].

Biological context of Mentally Ill Persons

• METHOD: A survey of 101 long-term mentally ill adults in 16 general practices in the South Thames (West) Region [9].
• To investigate clinical pharmacokinetics of lithium carbonate, 28 hospitalized mental patients and 8 healthy volunteers were studied [10].

Anatomical context of Mentally Ill Persons

• Leukocytes from 200 mentally ill patients and 100 normal controls were analyzed for electrophoretic variants of arylsulfatase A. Four different variant forms were found in 15 subjects [11].

Associations of Mentally Ill Persons with chemical compounds

• An electrophysiological study on the effects of tryptophan and cortisol on schizophrenic and other mentally ill patient groups and on normal subjects [12].
• CONCLUSION: New studies, specially designed to test for transcultural differences in nicotine dependence, are needed to verify that nicotine dependence in severely mentally ill patients is consistently high and similar in different countries [13].
• Factor analysis of the Community Attitudes toward the Mentally Ill (CAMI) inventory revealed three components: Fear and Exclusion, Social Control and Goodwill [14].
• The identification of nicotinamide-N1-oxide as a metabolite in the urine of a schizophrenic patient prompted a study of the relative metabolism of nicotinic acid and nicotinamide in mental patients and healthy volunteers [15].
• Data from a study in which 12 chronic mental patients and 12 control subject were given D-[3-14C] glucose intravenously in our arterio-venous technique for determining cerebral metabolism in vivo were reexamined [16].

Gene context of Mentally Ill Persons

• The document presented here, discovered in 1978 in the Archives nationales in Paris, reveals the crucial role of Jean-Baptiste Pussin, the "governor" of mental patients at Bicêtre [17].
• Delusional visitors to the White House or other government offices (often seeking a personal audience with the President) are interviewed by the Secret Service and then sent to Saint Elizabeths Hospital if they are considered mentally ill and potentially dangerous to themselves or others [18].
• CONCLUSIONS: Sleep-EEG abnormalities associated with major depressive disorder are present in never mentally ill individuals at high risk for the illness [19].
• A search for such a relationship in schizophrenics with evidence of brain atrophy has been initiated by measuring the activity of the important antioxidant enzyme glutathione peroxidase (GPx) in blood samples from a population of chronic schizophrenics and age- and sex-matched nonschizophrenic mental patients as controls [20].
• Principles and practice of measuring needs in the long-term mentally ill: the MRC needs for care assessment [21].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Mentally Ill Persons

• This report describes the MICA (Mentally Ill Chemically Abusing) Program at the Tewksbury Hospital campus in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. Several campus facilities collaborate in the MICA Program. Through Expert Case Conferences, principles of integrated psychosocial treatment with dual diagnosis patients are demonstrated [22].
• Legal case briefs for nurses. IL: OBS: caesarean and appendectomy. MO: Psyc: force-medicating mental patients [23].
• Forty-six rehabilitation workers from the Tel Aviv metropolitan area were tested for their views about mentally ill people [24].

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