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Health

Mental health (psychiatry)

The prevalence of suicides among children and adolescents around the world

Information available in the world literature on the incidence of suicides among children and adolescents is not numerous and, as a rule, contradictory.

Prevalence and statistics of suicides in different countries of the world

The study of the prevalence and statistics of suicides in various regions and countries of the world has attracted increasing attention in recent years by suicidologists.

Agoraphobia

Agoraphobia is a fear of open space and large concentrations of people, usually backed up by social embarrassment. Initially, the term was introduced to refer to fear of a market area.

Claustrophobia

Claustrophobia or fear of closed, closed, cramped premises can lie in wait everywhere: in the elevator, shower, airplane, in the solarium. Places where many people - theaters, shopping centers - also represent a danger to a person with claustrophobia. A terrible panic can provoke even clothing that fits snugly around the neck (for example, a tie).

Fear of heights

What is the name of fear of heights? Panic fear of height is called acrophobia. On the one hand, an absolutely natural survival instinct protects you from the danger of falling and breaking. Why do some people get a painful shade?

Fear of darkness

Fear of darkness is the most common phobia. You make any noise startle, are you sure that in the dark corner you are trapped by a wicked creature?

Sexual crimes

The treatment of sex offenders is of interest to forensic psychiatrists, because they often have to deal in practice with the impact of sexual offenses on children or adults who became child sexual abuse victims.

Mental retardation and crime

Learning disability is a synonym for the term "mental retardation" in the definitions of ICD-10 and DSM-IV. This classification is based on the coefficient of intellectual development (IQ), when the norm is taken as 100.

Psychopathic disorder

After 1992, there were significant changes in the concept of psychopathic disorder. In the 90s, psychiatry again noted the increased attention to all personal disorders, which led to the emergence of a large body of literature and excellent reviews.

Organic personality disorder

Organic personality disorder occurs after some types of brain injury. It can be a head trauma, an infection, for example encephalitis, or a result of a brain disease, such as, for example, multiple sclerosis.

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