Introduction: Schizophrenia represents a risk factor for violent behavior , even escalating to murder. Objectives: The current study aims to provide information regarding the prevalence and types of criminal acts committed by schizophrenic patients and identifying the precipitating factors. Aims: The purpose of this study is to obtain an overall view on the peculiarity of criminal behavior in schizophrenic patients in order to create efficient means of prediction and prevention. Methods: The current study collected all the data from Medline PubMed , from articles published between 2004-2014, by searching key words like violent behavior, schizophrenia, schizophrenia and criminality. Results: Schizophrenia spectrum disorders are usually associated with a substantially increased rate of violent crimes, in comparison to the general population. The risk factors include the same as in the general population, with a social and family background, and also specific risk factors found in schizophrenic patients like delusional and hallucinatory elements which drive patients to perform criminal actions. Conclusions: The criminal behavior manifested in schizophrenic patients shows certain features, especially at a motivational level, emphasizing the need for the early detection of delusional and hallucinatory symptoms that drive patients to do act of crimes, in a close relationship to the social cultural and also family context that creates their background.
An individual's behavior can be defined as a set of complex reactions of the body to internal and external stimuli. Case description: We present a case of a young adult student who, under the circumstances of an anomic environment, causes a female person multiple stab wounds to the cervical region. The patient has an addiction to virtual reality, personal psychiatric history of a depressive disorder, emotional and anxious behavioral disorders, as he was a regular cannabis user. The young man was attending an event where he was consuming alcohol and banned substances (Ecstasy), whose effect combined with antidepressants creates a virtual reality in which the individual has a particular mental state, having the impression that bystanders want to hurt him. Under the impulse of this state, the individual uses a bladed weapon and causes multiple wounds to the victim. The patient is examined in the psychiatric forensic examination commission to determine the discernment at the time of the act of violence and for recommendations regarding safety measures. Conclusion: The approach of hetero-aggression behaviour is based on three categories of causal factors, in a triune concept that implies the consequence of the interaction of the existential environment, with the personality structure of the young individual and with the circumstantial factors that precipitate the act.
This paper presents a fully documented rare case of school bullying in which one of bullies has suffered traumatic injuries which were incompatible with life. The authors present judicial, social, clinical, morphological, somatic and mental medical data. The data from specialized literature of high scientific quality is analyzed, the aim being to improve the prediction and prophylaxis of the phenomenon.
The paper presents an analysis of the management of hazardous chemical waste from medicolegal. activities. The analysis is based on eight years survey of the hazardous chemical waste management, ponting out the current procedures. The time series analysis is used to predict the evolution of such medical waste, and according to the forecast some strategic objective for reducing the amount of chemical waste are proposed.
Background: Due to the aging process and the associated psychiatric pathology, the decrease in visual acuity, anemia, muscle atrophy and the decrease in bone resistance, the most common mechanism of hip fracture production is represented by falling from the same level. Early diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric diseases can reduce the occurrence of hip fractures through proper care of patients in different centers under the strict supervision of qualified personnel. Objectives: Assessment of pain, measurement of locomotion capacity after surgery, quality of life and life expectancy in patients with dementia and hip fractures surgically or functionally treated. Evaluation of the patient's well-being and prognosis after specific types of osteosynthesis and hip arthroplasty. Results: During one year, 520 patients with hip fractures presented themselves at the EU, of which 66 presented both pathologies. The mortality rate seemed to be lower in patients that underwent surgery, compared to those who chose functional treatment. However, treatment decisions require a multidisciplinary team and individualized recommendations for each patient, due to high surgical risk in the elderly.
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