INTERNET USE BEHAVIOR: EMERGING STUDENT MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEM

INTERNET USE BEHAVIOR: EMERGING STUDENT MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEM

Background: Internet addiction is emerging community mental health issue.Objective of study was to determine frequency of three types of internet use behaviors, modal reason of internet use and association of internet use behavior to different socio demographic variables.Material & Methods: This comparative cross-sectional study was conducted in Go

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A new day, a new treatment. A case report

Introduction We present the case of a 21 year-old male, with history of a psychotic episode, currently with monthly follow-up in an outpatient facility, with a favorable clinical evolution after one year of intensive follow-up.In the context of abandonment of his medication and a problematic family situation, the patient starts to show suspicious,

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Maintaining a ‘fit’ immune system: the role of vaccines

Introduction Conventionally, vaccines are thought to induce a specific immune response directed against a target pathogen.Long recognized but poorly understood nonspecific benefits of vaccination, such as reduced susceptibility to unrelated diseases or cancer, are now being investigated and may be due in part to “trained immunity’.Areas covered

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