Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, severe psychological distress, explosive anger and grief amongst partners of survivors of high levels of trauma in post-conflict Timor-Leste.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Results of adulthood mental health of those born late-preterm (34 + 0-36 + 6 weeks + days of gestation) are mixed and based on national registers. We examined if late-preterm birth was associated with a higher risk for common mental disorders in young adulthood when using a diagnostic interview, and if this ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Heinonen K,Kajantie E,Pesonen AK,Lahti M,Pirkola S,Wolke D,Lano A,Sammallahti S,Lahti J,Andersson S,Eriksson JG,Raikkonen K

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Childhood early life stress (ELS) increases risk of adulthood major depressive disorder (MDD) and is associated with altered brain structure and function. It is unclear whether specific ELSs affect depression risk, cognitive function and brain structure. METHOD:This cross-sectional study included 64 antidep...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Saleh A,Potter GG,McQuoid DR,Boyd B,Turner R,MacFall JR,Taylor WD

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A long-standing issue in the health anxiety literature is the extent to which health anxiety is a dimensional or a categorical construct. This study explores this question directly using taxometric procedures. METHOD:Seven hundred and eleven working adults completed an index of health anxiety [the Whiteley ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Ferguson E

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison between general practice attenders and community subjects with emotional distress (as measured by GHQ-12) showed that women from a general practice sample reported more social problems than those from the community. In both men and women, problems with their spouse or partner were far more likely among gene...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Pini S,Piccinelli M,Zimmermann-Tansella C

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-eight boys, referred for psychiatric treatment because of serious problems of behaviour, underwent a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial of methylphenidate and placebo. Methylphenidate was an effective treatment over a 3-week period. A good response to methylphenidate was predicted by higher level...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Taylor E,Schachar R,Thorley G,Wieselberg HM,Everitt B,Rutter M

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the pathways to psychiatric care and recognition of delay points are crucial for the development of interventions that aim to improve access to mental health-care services. METHOD:Over a 2-month period in 2003, a total of 1044 patients at the commencement of new episodes of care at Amanuel Spe...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bekele YY,Flisher AJ,Alem A,Baheretebeb Y

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-three chronic obstructive bronchitic patients were psychologically assessed before being randomly allocated to 1 of 3 management regimes. The following measures were taken: psychiatric disturbance, personality, social-desirability response set, vocabulary, expectations about treatment, attitudes and beliefs abo...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Rutter BM

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The histological basis of schizophrenia is unknown, but it appears to affect the hippocampal and neocortical cytoarchitecture. Some cytoarchitectural parameters normally differ between the two cerebral hemispheres. Moreover, schizophrenia is associated with altered structural cerebral asymmetry. However, few...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Zaidel DW,Esiri MM,Harrison PJ

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neuropsychological impairment is a common finding in schizophrenia. However, a significant proportion of patients are not impaired in conventional neuropsychological tests. In this study, we investigated whether remitted patients with schizophreniform disorder exhibited dysfunctions in specific cognitive tas...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kéri S,Kelemen O,Benedek G,Janka Z

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The output of many healthy physiological systems displays fractal fluctuations with self-similar temporal structures. Altered fractal patterns are associated with pathological conditions. There is evidence that patients with bipolar disorder have altered daily behaviors. METHODS:To test whether fractal patt...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Knapen SE,Li P,Riemersma-van der Lek RF,Verkooijen S,Boks MPM,Schoevers RA,Scheer FAJL,Hu K

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Breathlessness in asthma often cannot be explained with objective variables indicating airways obstruction. The hypothesis that unrealistic breathlessness results from false interpretation of sensations was tested. METHODS:Sixty-four children and adolescents with asthma, aged 9-18 years, were randomly assig...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Rietveld S,Everaerd W,Vanbeest I

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the potential importance of prolonged action neuroleptics for the delivery of care to schizophrenic patients, and because of the availability of new, extensive data from clinical trials on the utility of these drugs, a workshop conference was convened by the United States National Institute of Mental Health...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Levine J,Schooler NR,Cassano GB

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although accurate differentiation between bipolar disorder (BD) and unipolar major depressive disorder (MDD) has important prognostic and therapeutic implications, the distinction is often challenging based on clinical grounds alone. In this study, we tested whether psychiatric polygenic risk scores (PRSs) i...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Liebers DT,Pirooznia M,Ganna A,Bipolar Genome Study (BiGS).,Goes FS

更新日期：2020-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Results are reported from a large population study (of working people) comparing Holocaust survivors and a control group in regard to emotional distress, satisfaction in life and psychosomatic symptoms. It was found that, even 40 years after the traumatic experience, this group of survivors exhibited a slightly higher...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Carmil D,Carel RS

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often, but not always, persists into adulthood. Investigations of the associations between clinical and biological markers of persistence can shed light on causal pathways. It has been proposed that compensatory improvements in executive neuropsychological func...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Coghill DR,Hayward D,Rhodes SM,Grimmer C,Matthews K

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the relationship between personality factors and depression in subjects who may have a familial vulnerability to depression (i.e. first-degree relatives of depressed patients). Four groups comprised our study sample: relatives who had never experienced a psychiatric episode of depression; relatives...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Katz R,McGuffin P

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Excessive worry is a defining feature of generalized anxiety disorder and is present in a wide range of other psychiatric conditions. Therefore, individualized predictions of worry propensity could be highly relevant in clinical practice, with respect to the assessment of worry symptom severity at the indivi...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Feng C,Cui Z,Cheng D,Xu R,Gu R

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the association of eating disorder subtypes across multiple categories of substance use in population-based samples. We examined the association between eating disorders and substance use in a large population-based sample. METHOD:Female participants (n=13 297) were from the Swedish Tw...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Root TL,Pisetsky EM,Thornton L,Lichtenstein P,Pedersen NL,Bulik CM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fatigue syndromes and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) often occur together. Explanations include being different manifestations of the same condition and simply sharing some symptoms. METHOD:A matched case-control study in UK primary care, using data collected prospectively in the General Practice Research D...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hamilton WT,Gallagher AM,Thomas JM,White PD

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent neurobiological models provide a possible mechanism of daily life stress directly affecting the intensity of psychotic experiences in vulnerable individuals. In order to validate such a mechanism, the impact of daily life stress on psychosis intensity was investigated in two groups at increased risk o...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Myin-Germeys I,Delespaul P,van Os J

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Patients with unipolar depression show impaired performance on the Tower of London planning task. Positron emission tomography, which has previously identified resting state blood flow abnormalities in depression, was used to investigate neural activity associated with performance of this task in depressed...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Elliott R,Baker SC,Rogers RD,O'Leary DA,Paykel ES,Frith CD,Dolan RJ,Sahakian BJ

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Discrepancies between population-based estimates of the incidence of psychotic disorder and the treated incidence reported by early psychosis intervention (EPI) programs suggest additional cases may be receiving services elsewhere in the health system. Our objective was to estimate the incidence of non-affec...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Anderson KK,Norman R,MacDougall AG,Edwards J,Palaniyappan L,Lau C,Kurdyak P

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy eight men were assessed one month before coronary artery bypass graft surgery using standardized measures of psychiatric morbidity and personality as well as a measure of emotional expression (the CECS). All patients had at least one coronary vessel occluded by 75% or more of its diameter, and functional capac...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bass C,Akhras F

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A structured assessment instrument, the Quality of Life Interview, was used to explain the quality of life of seventy patients with chronic psychiatric illness attending a day treatment programme. The interview was found to have acceptable psychometric properties. Factors that best predicted the quality of life of the...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Levitt AJ,Hogan TP,Bucosky CM

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Public figures are at increased risk of attracting unwanted attention in the form of intrusions, stalking and, occasionally, attack. Whereas the potential threat to the British Royal Family from terrorists and organized groups is clearly defined, there is a dearth of knowledge about that from individual hara...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： James DV,Mullen PE,Pathé MT,Meloy JR,Preston LF,Darnley B,Farnham FR

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A consecutive series of 45 female bulimic patients treated by one of us was followed four to six years after termination of treatment. Thirty-five (78%) were successfully followed, six refused to participate in the study and four were untraced. At least seven (16%) had diagnosable bulimia nervosa at follow-up, and at ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hsu LK,Sobkiewicz TA

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a modified version of the MRC Needs for Care Schedule (the Cardinal Needs Schedule), for measuring needs for psychiatric and social care amongst patients with severe psychiatric disorders. The modified schedule has three new features: (i) it is quick and easy to use; (ii) it takes systematic accou...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Marshall M,Hogg LI,Gath DH,Lockwood A

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Assaultive violence events are associated with increased risk for adverse psychiatric outcomes, including post-traumatic stress (PTS), depression, and generalized anxiety. Prior research has indicated that economic, legal, and social stressors that could follow assaultive events may explain the increased ris...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Lowe SR,Joshi S,Galea S,Aiello AE,Uddin M,Koenen KC,Cerdá M

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from a general population survey of psychiatric disorder in Camberwell were used to calculate the risk of a CATEGO-defined depressive episode before the age of 65, using a modification of Strömgren's method. Current depression was defined as cases within the relevant categories of the CATEGO program and at thresh...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bebbington P,Katz R,McGuffin P,Tennant C,Hurry J

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that a diagnosis of cancer and the subsequent treatment can cause a great deal of stress, and the need for psychosocial support is increasingly being advocated. The data for the efficacy of intervention programmes are reviewed. The evidence relating to the benefits gained by patients is equivoca...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Watson M

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00