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Special gender issues in psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2014

Ilsemarie Kurzthaler  and
Barbara Sperner-Unterweger
Ilsemarie Kurzthaler
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University Innsbruck, Austria
Barbara Sperner-Unterweger
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University Innsbruck, Austria
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Abstract:

Significant gender differences exist in the course, manifestation and treatment of mental illness. Regardless of specific diagnosis age is one of the key factors in gender differences. Such differences between the sexes exist not only concerning origin and perpetuation of specific psychiatric diseases, they are also available and notable in specific fields of pharmacological and psychotherapeutically treatment. That review should sensitize clinicians for their responsibility to provide individualized, optimally effective, gender-specific care to patients suffering from mental diseases in some special topics. It should be a short overview considering some important gender details illustrated in concern with the epidemiological background, the symptoms and general used psychiatric treatment strategies of some frequent psychiatric diagnoses.

Type
Joint Meeting of the Pula Congress with Alps-Adria Neuroscience Section: Gender Differences in Neurologic and Psychiatric Disorders
Information
Acta Neuropsychiatrica , Volume 21 , Issue S2: Special Issue: Abstracts of 49th Neuropsychiatric Pula Congress, 17-20 June 2009, Pula, Croatia , June 2009 , pp. 38 - 41
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Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons A/S

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