Transition to alcohol dependence: clinical and neurobiological considerations.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The prognosis for eating disorders (ED) is unsatisfactory, and the literature about outcome indicators is controversial. The present study evaluates the roles of self-esteem, personality disorders (PD), and dissociation as outcome predictors. METHOD:Fifty-seven ED outpatients were recruited from a population...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： La Mela C,Maglietta M,Lucarelli S,Mori S,Sassaroli S

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The present study aimed to determine the prevalence and associated factors of orgasmic dysfunction among Malay women with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Malaysia. METHODS:This cross-sectional study involved 347 women (174 non diabetic and 173 diabetic subjects) who attended the diabetic clinic in a university ...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Ismail AH,Baw R,Sidi H,Guan NC,Midin M,Nik Jaafar NR,Das S,Manaf MR

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated several aspects of the validity of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition avoidant personality disorder (APD) construct, with emphasis on the psychometric properties of the diagnostic criteria and the prototype nature of the construct. A sample of 1,058 patien...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Hummelen B,Wilberg T,Pedersen G,Karterud S

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Poor treatment response is an important factor contributing to lack of treatment adherence. The goals of this research were to determine whether improvements in Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) symptom domains predict the likelihood of staying on treatment and whether differential responses to tr...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Liu-Seifert H,Osuntokun OO,Feldman PD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously published single case reports of patients with a unilateral lesion were assembled. After the lesion, each of the 244 cases presented at least one of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) symptoms of a manic episode, namely, elated or irritable mood, grandiosity, ...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Braun CM,Daigneault R,Gaudelet S,Guimond A

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substance use disorders are associated with increased suicidal behavior. The suicidal behavior in patients without a history of illegal substance abuse, who consume benzodiazepines (BZDs) regularly in doses higher than those recommended, has not been previously studied. The aim of this study was to investigate the fac...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Lekka NP,Paschalis C,Beratis S

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the prevalence and clinical correlates of abnormal subjective experiences across functional psychotic disorders. Patients were recruited from consecutive admissions with the following diagnoses; schizophrenia (n = 40), schizophreniform disorder (n = 40), schizoaffective disorder (n = 21), mood dis...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Peralta V,Cuesta MJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although reduced hippocampal volume (HCV) is a common finding in depression, it is unclear whether the structural alterations leading to reduction of HCV are pre-existing risk factors before the onset of clinical symptoms or a cumulative process that begins with the onset of clinical symptoms. The aim of the...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Durmusoglu E,Ugurlu O,Akan S,Simsek F,Kizilates G,Kitis O,Ozkul BA,Eker C,Coburn KL,Gonul AS

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Psychotic symptoms are commonly observed among heroin users. Low serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) levels have been reported in schizophrenia and psychosis; however, studies assessing the relationship between serum BDNF levels and psychotic symptoms in heroin dependence are lacking. METHOD:A to...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Han B,Zhang XY,Wang DY,Ren WW,Gu YY,Zhu L,Chang YL,Wang LP,Wu CW,Jin QQ,Chen C,Lyu DZ,Zhao JY,Shao B,He JC

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High comorbidity rates of mood disorders have been reported in patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD). Our study aims to identify the frequency of comorbid Axis I disorders in patients with SAD and to investigate the impact of psychiatric comorbidity on SAD. METHODS:The study included 247 patients with...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Koyuncu A,Ertekin E,Binbay Z,Ozyıldırım I,Yüksel C,Tükel R

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neurocognitive difficulties are commonly reported by patients suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Moderate improvements from 'best practice' therapy are promising, but to date reported efficacy is based entirely on subjective measures. This is problematic, given the well-documented divergence betw...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Cvejic E,Lloyd AR,Vollmer-Conna U

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Social support and sense of mastery are considered important resources in coping both with serious mental illness (SMI) and with motherhood-related challenges. However, their interactive effects on the parental stress of mothers with SMI are not clear. METHODS:Scales assessing parental distress, social supp...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Hasson-Ohayon I,Malka T,Goldzweig G,Roe D

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood sexual abuse has been associated with adult dissociative symptomatology. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between specific characteristics of sexual abuse and dissociative experiences in adulthood. Fifty-six female inpatients with a history of physical abuse and severe sexual abuse r...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Zlotnick C,Begin A,Shea MT,Pearlstein T,Simpson E,Costello E

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical and epidemiologic evidence has documented the significant associations between medical illnesses and psychiatric disorders. However, extensive research has focused on the comorbidity of medical conditions and depression, and most were cross sectional, focused on clinical samples, and grounded in DSM-III or DS...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Chou SP,Huang B,Goldstein R,Grant BF

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim was to observe if patients with panic disorder (PD) and patients with major depression with panic attacks (MDP) (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition criteria) respond in a similar way to the induction of panic attacks by an oral caffeine challenge test. We randomly selected 29...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Nardi AE,Lopes FL,Valença AM,Freire RC,Veras AB,de-Melo-Neto VL,Nascimento I,King AL,Mezzasalma MA,Soares-Filho GL,Zin WA

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Kraepelinian concept of pfropfschizophrenia refers to the intertwined coexistence of mental retardation and schizophrenia. Patients with this syndrome are relatively treatment resistant and are often harmed by diverging policies and cost cuts within the framework of mental health care services. Thus, a b...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Catinari S,Vass A,Ermilov M,Heresco-Levy U

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the seriousness of acute medical and psychological consequences of cocaine abuse, little knowledge exists about the chronic effects of the drug. Investigation of a sample of abstinent freebase (crack) abusers in the Bahamas provides the first research evidence that prolonged cocaine abuse may result in persist...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Manschreck TC,Schneyer ML,Weisstein CC,Laughery J,Rosenthal J,Celada T,Berner J

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-two percent of 86 major depressive patients with atypical features as defined by the DSM-IV and evaluated systematically were found to meet our criteria for bipolar II and related "soft" bipolar disorders; nearly 60% had antecedent cyclothymic or hyperthymic temperaments. The family history for bipolar disorde...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Perugi G,Akiskal HS,Lattanzi L,Cecconi D,Mastrocinque C,Patronelli A,Vignoli S,Bemi E

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a household survey of 3,012 adults aged 18 and over in order to estimate the prevalence of DSM-IV obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in urban areas in Konya, Turkey. Trained psychiatry interns administered the 2.1 version of the OCD section of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI). The ...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Cilliçilli AS,Telcioglu M,Aşkin R,Kaya N,Bodur S,Kucur R

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the occurrence of depression and related psychopathological features in chronic schizophrenics and attempts to examine whether depressive symptoms are independent of negative symptoms. We found that 54% of our sample of 240 chronic schizophrenics exhibited moderate to severe depression. Indepen...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Lindenmayer JP,Grochowski S,Kay SR

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Milder forms of depression are highly prevalent in the clinical setting as well as in primary care. However, it is still unclear whether there are distinguishable groups among the various subthreshold syndromes and to what extent they are associated with impairment, thus requiring treatment. Therefore, the s...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Backenstrass M,Frank A,Joest K,Hingmann S,Mundt C,Kronmüller KT

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High levels of anhedonia have been found in patients with schizophrenia; specifically they report higher levels of social anhedonia rather than physical anhedonia, and further, in the anticipatory rather than consummatory facets of pleasure. Nonetheless, contrasting results emerged regarding the underlying m...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Fortunati R,Ossola P,Camerlengo A,Bettini E,De Panfilis C,Tonna M,Maggini C,Marchesi C

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most diagnostic interviews depend on recall of past symptoms and may be vulnerable to recall bias. The objective of this study was to describe the epidemiology of major depression using an approach that is less reliant on recall using an assessment scale, the 9-item Brief Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9)...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Patten SB,Schopflocher D

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of nursing staff in the systematic rating of psychopathology has been explored in a small number of studies in recent years. Nurses are uniquely placed to carry out relatively continuous observations of high validity which are sensitive to change, yet on the basis of the limited data available, some doubts re...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： McGorry PD,Goodwin RJ,Stuart GW

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:It is recognized that early treatment can improve outcomes and generally improve recovery potential for those with schizophrenia. Data suggest that poor premorbid functioning has been found to be related to more severe symptoms and poor antipsychotic response; however, little is known about premorbid funct...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Kelly DL,Feldman S,Boggs DL,Gale E,Conley RR

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Kleptomania is characterized by repetitive stealing and has severe consequences for patients. Stigma, a lack of standardized therapy and a limited number of assessment tools hinder advances in treatment. This study provides preliminary data on the Portuguese-language version of the Kleptomania Symptom Assess...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Christianini AR,Conti MA,Hearst N,Cordás TA,de Abreu CN,Tavares H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this cross-sectional study was to examine the relationships between attitudes toward antipsychotics, insight, and other clinical variables in stable schizophrenia. METHODS:Fifty Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision-(DSM-IV-TR)-diagnosed schizophrenic...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Rocca P,Crivelli B,Marino F,Mongini T,Portaleone F,Bogetto F

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Preventing self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs) is particularly challenging on commuter campuses, given lower social cohesion and higher levels of stress than among traditional college populations. The present study examined the relationship between stressful life events (SLEs) and risk for differen...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Macrynikola N,Miranda R,Soffer A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depressive mixed states (major depressive episodes [MDE] with some hypomanic symptoms) are not classified in DSM-IV. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of depressive mixed states in depressed outpatients, and to compare bipolar II with unipolar depressive mixed states. Seventy consecutive bip...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Benazzi F

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although several studies have addressed the issue of the relationship between the subjective response to neuroleptics and drug compliance, very little attention has been given to the study of the subjective experience of psychosis and drug attitudes. The present study was therefore undertaken to examine the relationsh...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Rossi A,Arduini L,Stratta P,Pallanti S

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00