"Mental Disorders" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.
| Descriptor ID |
D001523
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F03
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| Concept/Terms |
Mental Disorders- Mental Disorders
- Disorder, Mental
- Disorders, Mental
- Mental Disorder
Mental Disorders, Severe- Mental Disorders, Severe
- Disorder, Severe Mental
- Disorders, Severe Mental
- Mental Disorder, Severe
- Severe Mental Disorder
- Severe Mental Disorders
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2014 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Mental Disorders" by people in Profiles.
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Effective Treatment for Mental and Substance Use Disorders in 21 Countries. JAMA Psychiatry. 2025 Apr 01; 82(4):347-357.
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Excess mortality in COVID-19-negative people with non-communicable disorders during the first pandemic wave. BMC Public Health. 2025 Feb 22; 25(1):736.
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Adolescent mental health in sub-Saharan Africa: crisis? What crisis? Solution? What solution? Glob Health Action. 2024 Dec 31; 17(1):2437883.
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Perceptions of HIV and mental illness as "Western" or "Traditional" illnesses: a cross-sectional study from Limpopo Province, South Africa. BMC Complement Med Ther. 2024 Nov 21; 24(1):404.
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Championing mental health: sport and exercise psychiatry for low- and middle-income countries using a model from South Africa. Br J Sports Med. 2024 May 02; 58(10):519-521.
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Pathways to care among patients with mental illness at two psychiatric facilities in Johannesburg, South Africa. Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2023 Dec; 69(8):2059-2067.
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Obstacles and facilitators to communicating with children about their parents' mental illness: a qualitative study in a sub-district of Mpumalanga, South Africa. BMC Psychiatry. 2023 01 27; 23(1):78.
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Mental health delivery and neurogenetics discovery in Africa. Lancet Psychiatry. 2020 06; 7(6):473-474.
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Mental Health of Adolescents in the Era of Antiretroviral Therapy: Is There a Difference Between HIV-Infected and Uninfected Youth in South Africa? J Adolesc Health. 2020 07; 67(1):76-83.
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A prospective observational study of heroin users in Johannesburg, South Africa: Assessing psychiatric comorbidities and treatment outcomes. Compr Psychiatry. 2019 11; 95:152137.