Extended suicide attempt: psychopathology, personality and risk factors.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite increasing evidence of cognitive dysfunctions in bipolar I disorder, there is no specific neuropsychological profile of the disorder. SAMPLING AND METHOD:The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of processing speed on other cognitive functions in a population-based sample of 32 fam...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Antila M,Kieseppä T,Partonen T,Lönnqvist J,Tuulio-Henriksson A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 'nonunderstandability' that traditional psychopathology attributes to 'true' delusion does not have a clear demarcation line, but, rather, it is a continuum of various delusional experiences. The attention paid to emotional situations and, specifically, to dysphoria, often contributes to making the delusional phen...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Ballerini A,Ballerini AC

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:97 nonpsychotic consecutive day patients were diagnosed by the axis 1 and 2 in the DSM-III and DSM-III-R system, and their treatment response during their stay was measured by the Health Sickness Rating Scale. The interrater reliability was equally good for both diagnostic systems. On axis 1, there were only minor dif...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Vaglum P,Friis S,Vaglum S,Larsen F

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In this study, we conducted a broad investigation of neuropsychological functioning in schizophrenia patients with first-rank (passivity) symptoms (FRS) using standardized cognitive tests. We focused on 3 neuropsychological domains, partly informed by 3 broad hypotheses concerning the pathogenesis of FRS. We...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Waters FA,Badcock JC,Dragović M,Jablensky A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present report studies the differences between schizophrenic responders and nonresponders within the different symptomatologic groups of the Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS) and the Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SAPS). The relationship between the different electrodermal activi...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Fuentes I,García Merita M,Miquel M,Rojo J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is evidence that anxiety is common, perhaps even more prevalent than depression, in the post-partum period. In this review we propose adopting a transdiagnostic approach to perinatal mental health: to delineate psychopathology and identify potential underlying cognitive mechanisms such as repetitive ne...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Moulds ML,Black MJ,Newby JM,Hirsch CR

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Up to 60% of bipolar disorder (BD) patients develop alcohol use disorders (AUD) at some point in their lives. The causes of this highly prevalent comorbidity are unknown. High trait impulsivity characterizes both isolated BD and AUD and may be a link to explain the association between BD and AUD. In this stu...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Nery FG,Hatch JP,Monkul ES,Matsuo K,Zunta-Soares GB,Bowden CL,Soares JC

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little interest has been taken in the characteristics of depression in medical and surgical patients and its correlations with syndromes which may be subsumed under the rubric of abnormal illness behaviour. Depressive symptoms and abnormal illness behaviour as measured by self-rating scales were studied among 325 inpa...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Fava GA,Zielezny M,Pilowsky I,Trombini G

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While considerable research attention has been devoted to the causal relationship between substance use and psychosis, the phenomenology of the association between the two has largely been ignored. This is a significant shortcoming, because it blinds researchers to the possibility that there may be elements ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Nelson B,Sass LA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study on a delusional misidentification patient with both Frégoli symptoms and intermetamorphosis investigates the cognitive structure of others and of the self-representations with a new clustering method (HICLAS conjunctive model). Results show that this patient, free from face recognition disorders, shows seve...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： de Bonis M,De Boeck P,Lida-Pulik H,Bazin N,Masure MC,Féline A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to compare the prevalence of certain symptoms in adolescence with those at other ages, 6,034 apparently normal subjects aged 9-60 years were studied by questionnaire. Fear of blushing and fear of being looked at showed a maximum in the mid-teens and a subsequent gradual decrease both in males and females. The...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Abe K,Suzuki T

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case report is presented of a koro-like syndrome in a 34-year-old Bedouin man living in the Negev desert in Israel. The patient's disturbance is accompanied by voyeurism and the onset appears to be related to his sexual practices. This is the first reported case among Bedouins, who are an Arab nomadic tribe living i...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Witztum E,Bersudsky Y,Mayodovnik H,Kotler M

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two instruments for the assessment of the DSM-III-R personality disorders were compared: The Personality Disorders Questionnaire--Revised (PDQ-R) and the Munich Diagnostic Checklist for the assessment of DSM-III-R Personality Disorders (MDCL-P). Using kappa value as a measure of agreement, the diagnostic agreement was...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Bronisch T,Flett S,Garcia-Borreguero D,Wolf R

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reliability of suicide reporting remains a concern. Problems include procedural deficiencies, ambiguous evidence and the determination of intent. In this study, Queensland Suicide Register (QSR) data were compared to the usual official source - the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). QSR deaths were coded as be...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Cantor C,McTaggart P,De Leo D

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown encouraging plasticity in some schizophrenic patients' Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) performance while receiving detailed specific instructions on task and reinforcement. The present study examines the efficacy of a modified procedure for WCST administration that bound schizophrenic pa...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Stratta P,Mancini F,Mattei P,Daneluzzo E,Bustini M,Casacchia M,Rossi A

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:38 patients with late paraphrenia and 38 with endogenous depression of late onset were examined and various premorbid characteristics and biographical data compared. The main objective of the study was to look for differential risk factors and for biographical experiences that suggested a specific premorbid vulnerabil...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Fuchs T

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a severe psychiatric illness that is difficult to treat. The effects of trazodone hydrochloride treatment were studied, both with and without the addition of a monoamine oxidase inhibitor, in OCD patients. Changes in symptoms correlated with changes in local cerebral metabolic ra...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Baxter LR Jr,Thompson JM,Schwartz JM,Guze BH,Phelps ME,Mazziotta JC,Selin CE,Moss L

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study is to present a theoretical paper about a clinical issue. Our aim is to propose some clinical and semiological considerations for a psychopathological conception of psychopathy. We will discuss several major theoretical works dedicated to this nosographic entity (mainly those of Schneider [...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Englebert J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to show that objective extrapyramidal symptoms (O-EPS) were strongly correlated to negative and depressive symptoms while subjective extrapyramidal symptoms (S-EPS) were not. Ninety-one schizophrenic patients were evaluated by the Extrapyramidal Symptoms Rating Scale (ESRS), Montgomery and As...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Dollfus S,Ribeyre JM,Petit M

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical follow-up lasting from 1 to 6 years on 25 outpatients affected by endogenous psychoses and manifesting ego disorders demonstrates the presence of both activity and passivity experiences in schizophrenias and affective psychoses. No differential diagnosis between the two nosographical groups can be based on ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Stanghellini G,Rossi Monti M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical survey indicates a similar incidence of depression in old age and Parkinson's disease. Divergences, therefore, are apparent, when the biochemical basis of depression is related to the pathobiology of Parkinson's disease (PD) and endogenous depression. However, a common biological concept for endogenous depr...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Birkmayer W,Riederer P

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anxiety and depression are often found in cardiac patients, but also in the general population. Therefore, evaluation of these symptoms in patients requires a comparison with norm values. The purpose of this study was to explore differences between cardiac patients and the general population in age dependenc...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Hinz A,Kittel J,Karoff M,Daig I

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The DSM criteria for a delusion indicate that it should not include any beliefs held by a person's 'culture or subculture'. The internet has many examples of people reporting 'mind control experiences' (MCEs) on self-published web pages, many of which suggest a community based around such beliefs and experie...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Bell V,Maiden C,Muñoz-Solomando A,Reddy V

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies reveal a heightened risk for anxiety and other mental disorders in the offspring of patients with panic disorder and other anxiety disorders. Data on the specific type of transmitted disorders, however, are inconsistent. We investigated the specificity of the relationship between parents' and children'...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Unnewehr S,Schneider S,Florin I,Margraf J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcoholism is a multifaceted medicosocial problem. Recent literature discusses a common dyad, alcoholism and anxiety. Both disorders are interdigitated with the brain amine serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT). Direct 5-HT activation reportedly attenuates alcohol consumption, whereas depletion enhances use patterns. ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Tollefson GD

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of this descriptive review is to summarize the current scientific evidence on the effect of prenatal exposure to maternal infection and immune response on the offspring's risk for mental disorders (schizophrenia spectrum disorders, autism spectrum disorders, attention-deficit hyperactivity diso...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Flinkkilä E,Keski-Rahkonen A,Marttunen M,Raevuori A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cases of schizophrenia are described, in which subjects reported anomalous perceptual experiences confined to one visual field, in all cases the left visual field. The pattern, content and laterality of such anomalous perceptions point to the presence of right hemisphere dysfunction in schizophrenia. Further evid...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Persaud R,Cutting J

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have shown that alexithymia is associated with gene polymorphisms that regulate the availability of serotonin (5-HT) in the brain. Since the 5-HT network is involved in interferon (IFN)-induced depression, this paper aimed to investigate the role of alexithymia and the functional gene varian...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Porcelli P,Cozzolongo R,Cariola F,Giannuzzi V,Lanzilotta E,Gentile M,Sonnante G,Leandro G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sample of 83 first-admitted patients with delusional depression were diagnosed according to DSM-III, ICD-9 and reactive and endogenous types. They were followed up twice after a mean of 10 and 18.5 years. As to background, course and outcome variables DSM-III schizoaffective patients were closely related to affectiv...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Opjordsmoen S

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper describes a patient who exhibited 'Alice in Wonderland' (AIW) syndrome as well as Lilliputian hallucinations. The patient regularly consumed a cough syrup that contained dihydrocodein phosphate and dl-methylephedrine hydrochloride over 3 years. At the age of 46, he developed AIW syndrome. The patient...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Takaoka K,Takata T

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00