David M. Ndetei

TL;DR: Prevalence rates of different physical illnesses as well as important individual lifestyle choices, side effects of psychotropic treatment and disparities in health care access, utilization and provision that contribute to these poor physical health outcomes are reported.

TL;DR: The adoption of the recommendations presented in this paper across health care systems throughout the world will contribute to a significant improvement in the medical and related psychiatric health outcomes of patients with SMI.

TL;DR: This Series paper examines the application of syndemic theory to comorbidity and multimorbidities in low-income and middle-income countries and illustrates the different syndemics across these countries and the potential benefit of Syndemic care to patients.

TL;DR: Data suggest that the risk of subtle cognitive deficits may be increased in asymptomatic stages of HIV-1 infection, however, these deficits are not associated with neurologic changes and do not seem to affect subjects' social functioning.

TL;DR: Psychiatric assessment revealed a significantly higher prevalence of current mental disorders in symptomatic seropositive persons compared with seronegative controls among intravenous drug users in Bangkok and homosexuals/bisexuals in São Paulo, suggesting the significance of the psychopathological complications of symptomatic HIV-1 infection may have been underestimated.