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Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52834#.VKn-iMnQrzE Author(s)    Ekkasit Tharavichitkul 1* , Sukon Prasitwattanaseree 2 , Cholthicha Thipmate 2 , Somvilai Chakrabandhu 1 , Pitchayaponne Klunklin 1 , Wimrak Onchan 1 , Razvan M. Galalae 3 , Imjai Chitapanarux 1 Affiliation(s) 1 The Division of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand . 2 Biostatistics and Applied Statistics Laboratory, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand . 3 Faculty of Medicine, Christian-Albretch University, Kiel, Germany . ABSTRACT Purpose: To report the retrospectiv...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50307#.VDXf_FfHRK0 Author(s)   Benedict Francis 1 , Stephen Thevananthan Jambunathan 1,2 , Subash Kumar Pillai 1 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Psychiatry, University Malaya Medical Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia . 2 The Mind Faculty, Solaris Mont Kiara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia . ABSTRACT Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and schizophrenia have been considered to be variants of the same disorder. At the advent of psychiatry, there was a distinction between neurotic, mood disorders and psychotic disorders. As perceptions and thoughts evolve in this dynamic field, there has been a paradigm shift in the way these disorders are being perceived. Of particular interest...