Background: Conceptualisation and classification of functional disorders appear highly inconsistent in the health-care system, particularly in primary care. Numerous terms and overlapping diagnostic ...

Emotional distress is common in cancer patients. This study aimed to describe, in the year after a cancer diagnosis: the incidence of anxiety, depression and excessive alcohol use; the pattern of ...

Health care utilization and costs at end of life among patients with leukemia or lymphoma in a regional cancer registry-insurance claims linked database. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 ...

Nick Haslam receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The language of mental ill health is inescapable. Diagnostic terms, such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), ...

By focusing too much on diagnosing mental disorders, we are teaching people to understand and label their distress in unhelpful ways, says psychologist Joanna Barlas of JCU in Singapore.

In favour of the validity of BDS is the fact that the clinical description of the BDS symptom profiles originates from principal component analyses analysis based on data from a large study of 978 ...