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"Drugs of abuse: their genetic and other chronic nonpsychiatric hazards".

We've produced mental-illness awareness guides for educators and nonpsychiatric health professionals.

(Not all nonpsychiatric ailments are that easily diagnosed, of course.)

Antidepressant prescriptions from primary care doctors for nonpsychiatric disorders increased from 3.1% to 7.1% during the study period.

We've developed a workshop on panic disorder for nonpsychiatric health professionals, and we've created a public-professional educational exhibition program.

"Techs, nonpsychiatric physicians, nurses, pharmacists, secretaries, cooks, plumbers, electricians, custodians."

Metabolic syndrome is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with schizophrenia, with a prevalence rate more than triple that of nonpsychiatric populations.

Nonpsychiatric applications are limited; however, its use is well established in the prophylaxis of some headaches related to cluster headaches (trigeminal autonomic cephalgias), particularly hypnic headache.

There were no indications of emotional disturbance, the official said, but he added that the ambulance crew was on "a nonpsychiatric visit" and not looking for signs of emotional distress.

Mid 20th century studies of psychiatric patients reported immune alterations in psychotic patients, including numbers of lymphocytes and poorer antibody response to pertussis vaccination, compared with nonpsychiatric control subjects.

Finally, the mean and median reliability estimates of the BAI tend to be lower when given to a nonpsychiatric population, such as college students, than when given to a psychiatric population.

Controlled scientific studies have repeatedly shown that there are safe and effective treatments for the majority of psychiatric illnesses with response rates as least as good as for common nonpsychiatric medical illnesses.

To the Editor: A. M. Rosenthal points out in "The Broken People" (column, Jan. 17) the irrational discrepancy in the way our society ignores individuals with psychiatric illness while promptly treating those with nonpsychiatric medical illness.

In addition to the huge overall drop in Rikers patients' visits to hospitals, one official in the city hospital system said that nonpsychiatric visits to Bellevue Hospital, one of three hospitals used by Rikers, had dropped markedly.

The term "pediatric psychology" was first used in 1967 by Logan Wright in the article "The Pediatric Psychologist: A Role Model," and was defined as "dealing primarily with children in a medical setting which is nonpsychiatric in nature".

"The absence of competitive candidates from nonpsychiatric disciplines or who are women or ethnic minori-ties suggests a lack of sensitivity to the diversity of the mental health professional community and to the special mental health concerns of women and minorities," the letter said.