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Obsessive-compulsive disorder in black South Africans - A case series
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1996)
Background. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has been shown to be highly prevalent in both developing and developed countries. Nevertheless, data on OCD in blacks, and black South Africans in particular, are limited. ...
Screening for syphilis and neurosyphilis in acute psychiatric admissions
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1992)
The value of blood screening for syphilis and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) screening for neurosyphilis in acute psychiatric admissions is assessed. Of 1296 patients, 248 (19%) had evidence of previous or current syphilis as ...
D8/17 in obsessive-compulsive disorder and trichotillomania
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1999)
The finding that patients with Sydenham's
chorea often demonstrate obsessive-compulsive disorder
(OeD) has fostered increased interest in possible neuroimmunological
mechanisms in OCD.' Increased expression of
the ...
Psychiatric manifestations of neurosyphilis
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1992)
To investigate referral patterns, initial diagnoses and clinical features of patients with neurosyphilis who present with psychiatric manifestations, records were kept of 21 such patients admitted to an acute psychiatric ...
Medical research in South Africa : a psychiatric perspective
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1996)
We read the recent editorials on medical research in the new South Africa with great interest. MBewu1 argued convincingly that medical research in this country can be 'the fairy godmother who provides a brighter future for ...
Disability claims on psychiatric grounds
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1996)
Recent years have seen an alarming increase in South Africa in applications for medical disability on psychiatric grounds. Psychiatric disorders now rank as the second most common indication for these applications, after ...
The new psychiatry
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1993)
Doctors who qualified a decade or more ago are
likely to be experiencing difficulties in keeping
up with the changes taking place in the field of
psychiatry, and may be surprised to see it assuming an
increasingly ...
Alcohol and brain damage
(HMPG, 1993)
Acoholism may constitute the major health problem
in many pans of the world, with its effects on
morbidiry and monality grossly underestimated
in world health statistics.' Alcohol-related neuropsychiatric
disorders ...
The usefulness of cerebrospinal fluid tests for neurosyphilis
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1994)
To determine the usefulness of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tests for syphilis at a large academic hospital, clinical and laboratory data on 644 patients in whom such testing was requested over a 12-month period were analysed. ...
A double-blind placebo-controlled trial of paroxetine in the management of social phobia (social anxiety disorder) in South Africa
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1999)
Background. Social phobia, also known as social anxiety disorder, is a highly prevalent disorder with significant morbidity. Patients with social phobia frequently develop co-morbid psychiatric disorders such as depression ...