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The impact of diet on mental health
- Authors:
- McCULLOH Andrew, RYRIE Iain
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 11(4), December 2006, pp.19-22.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
The authors present an overview of the relationship between diet and mental health. The article focuses particularly ADHD, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease and depression.
Food, mood and mental health
- Authors:
- RYRIE Iain, CORNAH Deborah, VAN DE WEYER Courtney
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, February 2006, pp.23-26.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The Mental Health Foundation, in partnership with Sustain, the national alliance for better food and farming, commissioned a comprehensive review of evidence on the links between diet, mental well-being and specific mental disorders. The two resulting reports argue that policy-makers and the industry, as well as health practitioners, service users and the public generally, need to recognise the potential contribution of diet to easing the growing health, economic and social burden of mental ill health. This article summarises some of the key findings from the review.
Thinking through delusions in Alzheimer’s disease
- Authors:
- SHANKS Michael F., VENNERI Annalena
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 184(3), March 2004, pp.193-194.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Delusions are common, disabling and persistent in the course of Alzheimer’s disease and are likely to relate to a range of specific cognitive failures with regional associations as much as to an interaction between neurological and psychosocial factors. It can be suggested that Alzheimer’s disease, far from being a diffuse degenerative disease in the course of which poorly differentiated psychotic symptoms emerge from global neurological causes, offers an opportunity to increase our understanding of higher cognitive functions including normal and abnormal belief formation. The investigation of delusions in this disease, compared with studies of the functional psychoses, has the advantage that a population is studied whose abnormal beliefs appear in a context often relatively free from overlapping psychopathological and treatment effects, perhaps in a form less integral with the individual psyche and against a background of normal cognitive development. Such studies of the breakdown in higher mental functions in the course of Alzheimer’s disease can clarify the fundamental mechanisms involved in delusional thinking and abnormal experience and inform qualitative comparisons with the phenomena seen in the schizophrenias and other delusional disorders. The ‘purer’ culture of individual symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease may, in the end, help provide the basis for a more truly scientific psychopathology.
Long-term outcome of late-onset schizophrenia: 5-year follow-up study
- Authors:
- BRODATY Henry, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 18(9), September 2003, pp.213-219.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
There is controversy about whether late-onset schizophrenia is a precursor of cognitive decline. The purpose of this research was examine the long-term outcome of a group of patients with late-onset schizophrenia. Patients with onset of DSM–III–R schizophrenia at age 50 years or over, but without dementia, and a healthy control group were assessed at baseline (n=27 andn=34, respectively), after 1 year and after 5 years (n=19 and n=24, respectively) on measures of psychopathology, cognition and general functioning, and compared on rates of decline and incidence of dementia. Nine patients with late-onset schizophrenia and none of the control group were found to have dementia (5 Alzheimer type, 1 vascular, 3 dementia of unknown type) at 5-year follow-up. There appeared to be a subgroup of late-onset schizophrenia patients without signs of dementia at baseline or at 1 year follow-up who subsequently declined. Late-onset schizophrenia may be a prodrome of Alzheimer-type dementia. More longitudinal studies are required to determine its nosological status.
Phantom boarder symptom in dementia
- Authors:
- HWANG Jen-Ping, YANG Chen-Hong, TSAI Shih-Jen
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 18(5), May 2003, pp.417-420.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Phantom boarder symptom (PBS), which has been labelled a misidentification and is commonly observed in cases of Alzheimer's disease, is the perceptual dysfunction where it is imagined that there are people in the home. It may also be encountered in cases of vascular dementia and other variants of this cognitive dysfunction. This study was undertaken to investigate PBS frequency and characteristics for a sample of dementia inpatients, and to determine the strength of the association with other psychotic symptoms. The sample population consisted of 240 dementia patients admitted to our geropsychiatric ward. Patients with and without PBS were compared in terms of general characteristics and psychotic symptoms. Of the 240 dementia patients, PBS was identified in 56 (23.3%). There were no significant gender differences between the PBS and non-PBS groups. Means for age and onset-age were higher for the PBS group, and the prevalence of hallucinations and other misidentifications was greater compared to the non-PBS analog. Occurrence of PBS was not significantly associated with delusions or physical aggression. PBS is a common symptom in dementia of various etiologies. Our association findings suggest that it may be more productive to classify PBS as a type of misidentification, instead of as a delusion.
Clinical evidence: mental health; the international source of the best available evidence for effective mental health care
- Editor:
- GODLEE Fiona
- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing,|Gaskell
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 264p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book is designed to make the best available evidence easily accessible to mental health practitioners, general practitioners and students. The content is maintains standards of rigorous quality control and ease of access to relevant evidence. For each of the following conditions the literature has been thoroughly searched, appraised and condensed into concise but comprehensive summaries: Alzheimer's disease, Anorexia nervosa, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, Bulimia nervosa, Chronic fatigue syndrome, Depression in children and adolescents, Depressive disorders, Generalised anxiety disorder, Obsessive compulsive disorder, Panic disorder, Post-traumatic stress disorder, and Schizophrenia.
Reducing risks for mental disorders
- Editors:
- MRAZEK Patricia J., HAGGERTY Robert J.
- Publisher:
- National Academy Press
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 632p.,bibliogrs.
- Place of publication:
- Washington, DC
Outlines a model of preventative medicine in physical illness and suggests this can be applied to mental illness. Defines five illustrative mental disorders with relevant risk factors. Lists and reviews an extensive series of preventive interventions aimed at people at different life stages. Ends with suggestions as to how a programme of further research can be instituted and its findings put into practice.
Mental distress: video directory
- Author:
- MENTAL HEALTH MEDIA
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Media
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- London