Obsessions of infanticide and imminent psychosis

In young mothers an obsession of infanticide, that is, fear that they may murder their children, may be coupled with an obsession of imminent psychosis, that is, fear that the first obsession is a sign of approaching insanity. Sixteen mothers with this clinical picture were evaluated in interviews. Seven of them entered psychotherapy and improved. The causative factors in childhood and adolescence wich led to the later development of these obsessive difficulties are analyzed. Even when psychotherapy was not possible, as was the case in nine patients, they should be strongly reassured and explanations should be given about the nature of the problem, for such encouragement and clarification helps them to improve to a significant extent. The prognosis of patients who have systematic psychoterapy is good.

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Core dimensions of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry ◽

10.1093/med/9780198713005.003.0031 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 301-308

Author(s):

Eric Taylor

Keyword(s):

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ◽

Attention Deficit ◽

Clinical Picture ◽

Severe Form ◽

Diagnosis And Treatment ◽

Childhood And Adolescence ◽

Hyperkinetic Disorder ◽

Hyperactivity Disorder

This chapter presents an account of the clinical picture of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and the severe form hyperkinetic disorder. They are disabilities that change with development and are often accompanied by other problems that can mask it or themselves be masked by it. Clinical and standardized ways of making the diagnosis are described. Inattentiveness and impulsive hyperactivity are rewarding challenges for diagnosis and treatment in adulthood, as well as during childhood and adolescence.

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Language use, not language, is what develops in childhood and adolescence

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x06239062 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 280-281 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Derek Bickerton

Keyword(s):

Life History ◽

Language Acquisition ◽

Language Use ◽

Developmental Stages ◽

Language Evolution ◽

Childhood And Adolescence ◽

Life History Stages ◽

Acquisition Period ◽

Causative Factors

That both language and novel life-history stages are unique to humans is an interesting datum. But failure to distinguish between language and language use results in an exaggeration of the language acquisition period, which in turn vitiates claims that new developmental stages were causative factors in language evolution.

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Study over the clinical picture and histopathology of leukoplakia and to establish the correlation between causative factors in the patients of Garhwal hill region

National Journal of Maxillofacial Surgery ◽

10.4103/0975-5950.127647 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 177 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

RavindraS Bisht ◽

Anshuman Darbari ◽

Vikas Sikarwar ◽

AmitK Singh

Keyword(s):

Clinical Picture ◽

Hill Region ◽

Causative Factors

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Unusual clinical picture of food-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis associated with soybean allergy and a reverse sequence of causative factors

Advances in Dermatology and Allergology ◽

10.5114/ada.2021.108895 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 38 (4) ◽

pp. 517-519

Author(s):

Anna Radlińska ◽

Krzysztof Gomułka ◽

Anna Zaleska ◽

Wojciech Mędrala

Keyword(s):

Clinical Picture ◽

Causative Factors ◽

Reverse Sequence ◽

Soybean Allergy ◽

Exercise Induced

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The clinical picture, creating diagnostic constructs, and causation

The Medical Model in Mental Health ◽

10.1093/med/9780198807254.003.0004 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 53-69

Author(s):

Ahmed Samei Huda

Keyword(s):

Clinical Picture ◽

Clinical Utility ◽

Individual Factors ◽

Common Elements ◽

Medical Conditions ◽

Scientific Validity ◽

Causative Factors ◽

Framework Conditions ◽

Diagnostic Investigations

The clinical picture is the doctor’s interpretation based on what has happened to the patient and symptoms, signs, and results of investigations that are available to her. It is created by the interaction of causative factors as well as multiple cultural, interactive, and individual factors. The doctor matches the patient’s clinical picture with the diagnostic construct and the most common elements of an attached clinical picture. Diagnostic constructs based on similarity with the clinical picture may have clinical utility by accumulating information about likely outcomes and responses to treatments. Diagnostic constructs based on common mechanisms (such as changes in structure or processes) and/or causes have greater scientific validity and allow more reliable diagnostic investigations and better prospects of developing superior treatments. Most medical conditions are caused by a combination of causative factors. Proving a factor is causative is complex. One of the best known methods is Austen Hill’s framework. Conditions occur due to combinations of causes, characteristics, and contexts.

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Jansky-Bielschowsky syndrome, a lysosomal disease: First diagnosed cash in Oman

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100123568 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 632-633

Author(s):

Line Buhl ◽

David Muirhead

Keyword(s):

Mental Retardation ◽

Clinical Picture ◽

Neurological Disorder ◽

Clinical Presentation ◽

Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis ◽

Infantile Form ◽

Lysosomal Disease ◽

Juvenile Form ◽

Progressive Encephalopathy ◽

Lysosomal Diseases

There are four lysosomal diseases of which the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis is the rarest. The clinical presentation and their characteric abnormal ultrastructure subdivide them into four types. These are known as the Infantile form (Santavuori-Haltia), Late infantile form (Jansky-Bielschowsky), Juvenile form (Batten-Spielmeyer-Voght) and the Adult form (Kuph's).An 8 year old Omani girl presented wth myclonic jerks since the age of 4 years, with progressive encephalopathy, mental retardation, ataxia and loss of vision. An ophthalmoscopy was performed followed by rectal suction biopsies (fig. 1). A previous sibling had died of an undiagnosed neurological disorder with a similar clinical picture.

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Social Communication Intervention for an Adult with Asperger Syndrome: Experiences, Perspectives, and Challenges

Perspectives on Language Learning and Education ◽

10.1044/lle21.1.29 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 29-37

Author(s):

Siva priya Santhanam

Keyword(s):

Asperger Syndrome ◽

Social Communication ◽

Autism Spectrum ◽

Childhood And Adolescence ◽

Work Settings ◽

Social Abilities ◽

Old Adult ◽

Social Communication Intervention ◽

Highly Able ◽

Organizational Needs

Adults on the autism spectrum, despite having received intervention throughout their childhood and adolescence, continue to experience challenges with everyday social interactions, forming and maintaining relationships, and social abilities needed in work settings. This article presents a case example of a 22-year-old adult with Asperger syndrome, and highlights the issues in providing intervention for highly able young adults on the autism spectrum. A unique feature of this report is the inclusion of the client's own insights into his experiences, perspectives, and challenges with the intervention. The approaches used to address his social communication and organizational needs are outlined, and clinical implications discussed.

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