Publications by authors named "Hamaoui Y"
Purpose Of Review: This is the first review of literature regarding forensic psychiatry in north Africa that analyzes diversity of practice in this region of the world and its impact on mental health patients dealing with the judicial system.
Recent Findings: The present study shows similarities and differences in various countries in north Africa. In fact, there are many more similarities than differences, because of a lack of resources, both in the mental health and in the judicial systems.
Introduction: Pseudocyesis is an imaginary pregnancy resulting from a strong desire or need for motherhood. Pseudocyesis has become increasingly rare in many parts of the world in which accurate pregnancy tests have become widely available. Cultures that place high value on pregnancy, or that make close associations between fertility and a person's worth, still have high rates of the disorder.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: The treatment of burned children needs to address also their psychic state. Since the child's emotional state depends heavily on the emotional state of its parents, especially the mother's, interest should also be focused on diagnosing and treating secondary psychiatric disorders in mothers of burned children. The AIM of this work was to study the prevalence of depression in mothers of burned children and its predicting factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study's first objective was to confirm that patients with schizophrenia and their nonmentally ill siblings share the same impaired executive function when compared to healthy control subjects. The second objective was to study the relation between Wisconsin card sorting task (WCST) performance and the persistence and severity of clinical symptoms, as well as different clinical dimensions.
Method: Ninety subjects were involved in this study, divided in 3 groups of 30 each: one group of patients with schizophrenia, one group of their siblings, and a control group.