Current Psychiatry Reviews - Volume 13, Issue 4, 2017

Background: Health is influenced by numerous factors that affect the health service system and health status of the people in every country. This article aims to compare the determinants of the health service system and the health status of the people in Thailand, the Lao PDR, Vietnam, and Cambodia; and to recommend policies that impact the population's health and the country's development. Methods: A comprehensive s Read More

Background: ASEAN integration aims to transform the GMS into a single market with free flows of products, services, and skilled labor, as well as investment openness, which will ultimately force regional economic growth. Therefore, this integration is likely to bring about a big change to this area in the new era; it can subsequently cause many problems as well, including mental health issues of the people in this region. The c Read More

Background: Mental health disorders can affect physical and psychological behaviors. The people of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) have a high risk of mental health disorders, such as depression, stress, and substance abuse because the people in this region are trafficked for forced sex work and various forms of forced labor. In these situations, victims often endure violence and abuse from trafficking recruiters, employe Read More

Background: The characteristic differences among the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries in terms of trade and investment, society and cultural values, medical information and technology, and the living and working environment have become major health problems in terms of mental disorders. The purpose of this article is to identify the gaps in those aspects, to propose mental health and mental disorder reco Read More

Background: The diagnosis of depression is not only highly prevalent but also remarkable heterogeneous symptomatically. Only a few symptoms are considered common to most presentations of depression, while others form various combinations to define subtypes of depressive disorder. Most antemortem neuroimaging studies and postmortem neurochemical and cellular research have demonstrated significant structural, Read More

Background: The aspects of cultural identity and its impact on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have been understudied. There are different opinions, ranging from the idea that culture does not affect the symptoms of this condition to the idea that cultures with high religiosity may have more severity of OCD. Also, the concept of OCD has considerably varied across history and cultures, from being considered an issue rel Read More

Background: Neuropsychiatry is now witnessing a consistently increasing number of reports in peer reviewed literature suggesting that internet use may have addictive potential, conglomerated and mediated through reward pathway and akin to substance abuse. Methods: We searched for papers indexed in PubMed/Medline with various combinations of the following terms; Internet use, Internet overuse, Internet Addiction, Read More

Background: Major depression is a serious mental disorder and an important social problem in which cognitive functions of the patients are substantially deteriorated. Depression is also commonly associated with suicides. Stress induced hyperactivity of the hypothalamic-pituitaryadrenal axis is thought to be an important contributory factor for the development of this psychiatric disease. Objective: The aim of the article is Read More

Background: Over a number of decades, Cognitive Behavior Therapy has evolved and been modified by various theorists and researchers. Concerns regarding the integrity of cognitive and behavioral treatment in research studies, including fidelity, competence, and treatment differentiation, have been raised. Ensuring adequate treatment fidelity and competency is a prerequisite to have a reliable measure of t Read More