Hallucinations delusions & disorganized speech or behavior are usually called the positive symptoms of schizophrenia. Negative symptoms...

What is the optimal treatment program for schizophrenia? While there is not yet a definitive answer to this question, it seems clear that...

As per DSM-IV-TR (Axis II), the idea of personality disorders as independent conditions that might or might not be related to more...

People with Dependent Personality Disorder have 2 basic characteristics. First, they passively allow other people to make all the...

Health of mind and body are intensely related to each other. When someone gets mentally weak, it's assured that there will be some bodily...

According to DSM-IV-TR, Dissociative Disorder has 4 classifications. Dissociative Amnesia is one of them. Dissociation often involves...

Adjustment disorder is considered to be more straightforward than dissociative disorders because of the case if identifying triggers &...

Stress plays a role in most of the conditions that make up abnormal psychology. Acute stress disorders that require clinical intervention...

Stress is something which we don't welcome heartily. But, in life, situations appear in such manner that we get compelled to confront...

Though numerous questions remain unanswered, conditions like coronary heart disease & cancer are usually identifiable & several of the...

While experiencing extremely traumatic stressors like physical assault or witnessing accidental death or soon after it occurs, a person...

The most critical balance to maintain for family members of a schizophrenic patient is emotion. Like other coping skills, patient's...

People with schizotypal personality disorder are characterized by oddities of thinking, perceiving, communicating & behaving. These...

Bipolar II disorder differs from Bipolar I . Manic behavior present is present to a lesser degree, called hypomania. A hypomanic episode...

Behaviors & symptoms of some individuals don't fit into either major mood disorder or schizophrenia. Instead, they seem to have some...

It's a group of disorders characterized by early onset, combination of overacrive, poorly modulated behavior with marked inattention &...

Mental issues are still considered with stigma. Not everyone, but most people think likewise. But do you know how difficult it is to...

Forensic psychiatry comes into play to judge any sort of destructive or homicidal incident to gain some clear idea about criminal's modus...

We very commonly use the term "Mentally retarded" for any sort of developmental or behavior disorder. That's very surface level...

DSM-IV-TR contains diagnostic categories for many problems that affect children. Tic disorder is one of them. Tics are involuntary,...