INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The literature on psychiatric illness in surgical patients is limited and mostly confined to small patient samples within surgical subspecialties. The findings suggest that depression, anxiety,…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The skin is the largest organ of the body, and skin disease is unique in often being immediately visible to others. This is one reason why…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen OVERVIEW Depression is among the most common health conditions affecting older adults. Depression may present in a phenotypically distinct manner in older, as opposed to younger,…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The comorbidity of major depression and substance use disorder (SUD), which includes both alcohol and drugs, remains very common in medical and psychiatric settings (Fig. 19-1).1–3…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen There are many challenging issues presented to a clinician when dealing with persons who have a primary report of chronic pain but who also present with…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Endocrine disorders often cause or co-occur with depression. Thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal disease, as well as diabetes and abnormalities in the hypothalamic–pituitary–thyroid (HPT) and hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA)…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Psychiatry has enjoyed a particularly interesting relationship with the gastrointestinal (GI) illnesses since the brain–gut relationship was considered one of the core examples of how psychological…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen One in five patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) will experience at least one major depressive episode, which is likely to be detrimental to the course…

EPIDEMIOLOGY Print Section Listen Diseases of the lung are diverse in pathophysiology, course, and treatment, creating several challenges for the assessment and treatment of comorbid depression. The anxiety associated with…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Depression and infectious diseases are linked in multiple ways. Depression contributes to initial infection in several diseases; for example depression predisposes to both hepatitis C (HCV)…