Psychiatric Manifestation of Patients with Bronchial Asthma in Mosul, Iraq.

Aims And Methods: To identify risk factors and psychiatric morbidity in bronchial Asthma. Patients who consented to participate in the study, were checked for bronchial asthma. They were interviewed and their sociodemographic data were recorded, the hospital anxiety and depression was administered.

Psychiatric Manifestation of Patients with Epilepsy in Mosul, Iraq.

Background: It has been proven that physical morbidity is related to psychiatric illness. Some physical illnesses are more related to psychiatric morbidity compared to others. Epilepsy is considered one of them, as patients who suffer from epilepsy has disturbances of consciousness and this leads to a variety of psychological disturbance in addition to the psychological and social impact of the illness.

Trends of admissions of conversion disorder in Mosul Iraq.

Aims: Our study aims to make inferences from inpatient admission of conversion disorder with regards it's age and sex distribution, clinical presentation, yearly distribution of admission and morbidity of conversion disorder in comparison to total psychiatric admissions. It also compares it's results with those of previous studies in this country, neighbouring countries and western studies.

Methods: A case notes review was done for admissions of this disorder for five years in Mosul University Hospital.

Psychiatric morbidity among patients on haemodialysis in the Mosul district of Iraq.

Patients on chronic haemodialysis experience a wide range of physical and psychological stresses. The specific sources of stress include: loss or threatened loss of possessions; relationship problems (e.g.