What influences the incidence of mental health problems in children and young people?
The incidence of the need for mental health professionals is increasing among children and young people. What is causing this? Is poor upbringing and an overabundance of electronics in the...
Mental health co-morbidity: one patient, many problems
Just as a patient with diabetes may have heart or liver failure at the same time, a person with depression may also suffer from other mental illnesses or disorders - a condition known as comorbidity....
Anorexia and bulimia: when one problem turns into another
Anorexia and bulimia are the most well-known eating disorders. They are now distinguished as separate disease entities, however, this has not always been the case - the reason for this has probably...
Imaging examinations in psychiatry
In psychiatry, diagnoses are mainly made on the basis of a psychiatric examination, i.e. a targeted interview with the patient. Various procedures, such as the determination of thyroid hormone...
Child psychopathology - what should worry a parent?
Ordinary sadness or something more serious? Are children's stories a manifestation of a rich imagination or an insidiously developing illness? Parents are the ones who pay the most attention to their...
What personality disorders predispose to so-called dissociative disorders?
Dissociative disorders are called transient or fixed states in which there is a disconnection of functions that are normally integrated, namely consciousness, memory, identity or perception. The...
Suicide and presuicidal syndrome
All too often tragedy strikes. Too often a person, racked by different emotions and for different reasons, raises his hand against his own life. It is always a tragedy. And all the more so because a...
Why are child psychiatrists increasingly needed?
"Children have such carefree lives that they cannot be depressed" - if one adheres to such a belief, one is completely wrong. Adolescent patients can suffer from both mood disorders and...
What types of delusions do patients experience?
Delusions are incorrect judgements that patients experiencing them strongly believe to be true. This symptom can occur as a stand-alone problem, but also in the course of a large number of different...
Creativity and mental illness
Already the ancient Greeks discovered that there might be a correlation between creativity and mental illness, but for good measure, the motif of the artistic genius troubled by inner demons was only...
Anorexia - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
The onset of anorexia in the worst case can even be life-threatening. This is mainly due to the consequences of nutritional deficiencies, the deficit of which dysregulates the work of basically every...
Dementias - what will a psychiatrist say and what will a neurologist say?
Before someone becomes a neurologist or psychiatrist, they have to undergo medical school. Their programme includes the acquisition of both psychiatric and neurological examination skills. Thus, the...
Visiting a psychiatrist - what can the doctor ask?
The term "visit to a psychiatrist" often evokes unpleasant associations resulting in some patients avoiding visits to these specialists. Is there really a reason for this? Definitely not! Although...
Should mental illness really be a taboo subject?
Psychiatry is an important field of medicine. This can be evidenced by the fact that an internship in this field is - in addition to work in departments such as internal medicine or gynaecology - one...
Hypomania - symptoms, diagnosis, treatment of affective disorders
Hypomania (hypomaniacal syndrome), usually described as a state of excessively elevated mood, a so-called 'high' or 'mania of milder intensity', can represent one of the episodes of bipolar affective...
Eating disorders - types, causes, treatment
Food is an expressive symbol in our culture. A positive symbol. It is an expression of love, care, connection, respect. It is used to celebrate important events and mourn losses. It becomes as often...
Dangerous Baron Munchhausen syndrome
Baron Munchhausen syndrome is categorised as a sham disorder, involving the induction of psychosomatic symptoms with the aim of leading to hospitalisation. The aim of people with the syndrome, is to...
Mathematics of the mind
Researchers are trying to create mathematical models of sequential thinking to understand a variety of mental disorders
Self-harm as a mental illness
More and more mental health professionals are calling for self-harm to be included in the list of mental illnesses.
Gut flora disorders and the development of anorexia
Researchers see a possible link between the bacterial flora content of anorexia patients and the progression of the disease.
