Factor analytical study of the short version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Instrument.

abstract：:In this study we have examined four parts of the 5th revision of the World Health Organization schedule for Standardized Assessment of Depressive Disorders (WHO/SADD-5): (I) items that cover the present depressive state; (II) items that cover the psychiatric history; (III) a global assessment scale for the severity of...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Bech P,Gjerris A,Andersen J,Rafaelsen OJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 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:Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a debilitating mental illness that affects approximately 6% of the general population and 10-20% of psychiatric patients. The Borderline Symptom List (BSL) is a self-report questionnaire designed to comprehensively assess BPD symptomatology. SAMPLING AND METHODS:The ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Glenn CR,Weinberg A,Klonsky ED

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the cardinal somatic symptoms associated with anxiety states are produced by the sympathoadrenal medullary discharge of catecholamines (CA) described over 50 years ago as 'fight or flight' responses. During the last decade, development of sensitive convenient assays for CA and their metabolites in tissues, cer...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Kopin IJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to verify whether an increasing degree of alexithymia correlates with a prevalence of negative over positive symptoms. The framework of the research is phenomenologically oriented conception of the illness-coping vulnerability paradigm. Schizophrenic basic symptoms as markers of schizotrop...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Stanghellini G,Ricca V

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the case of a 44-year-old woman admitted with mania with psychotic symptoms who presented with delusion of twin pregnancy a month after admission, which temporally correlated with hyperprolactinemia secondary to antipsychotic medication. Modification of antipsychotic medication was associated with fall in ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Ahuja N,Vasudev K,Lloyd A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author describes the 12-year history of a functional (endogenous) psychosis in a 25-year-old woman and the subsequent full social remission. The central symptom in the case history is the delusion that the patient has already lived through this life once. This delusion appears as the experience of reduplication, d...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Pethö B

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Humor is an important coping mechanism and can improve mood. However, it is unclear whether depressed patients are able to enjoy funny material, e.g. jokes, and make use of their sense of humor for coping with adverse situations. This study aims at investigating the influence of depression on various aspects...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Falkenberg I,Jarmuzek J,Bartels M,Wild B

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence to suggest basal ganglion involvement in the aetiopathogenesis of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Twenty subjects with rheumatic chorea were assessed for presence of OCD and evaluated on Leyton's Obsessional Inventory. Four subjects had OCD. The study group had markedly higher scores ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Abbas S,Khanna S,Taly AB

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In reviewing recent findings on affective conditions in the interface of unipolar and bipolar disorders, we find evidence favoring a partial return to Kraepelin's broad concept of manic-depressive illness, which included many recurrent depressives and temperamental variants. This review addresses methodologic, clinica...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Akiskal HS,Cassano GB,Musetti L,Perugi G,Tundo A,Mignani V

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have described co-occurrence between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and dissociation. We intended to evaluate the phenomenological association between different obsessive-compulsive and dissociative symptoms more precisely. Seventy patients with OCD (DSM-IV) were evaluated with the Hamburg Obsess...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Grabe HJ,Goldschmidt F,Lehmkuhl L,Gänsicke M,Spitzer C,Freyberger HJ

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Increased migration into Spain requires the development of preventive strategies that help both immigrants and the host society to deal with the associated risk factors and thus avoid the emergence of psychopathology. OBJECTIVE:To determine the level of psychopathology in Latin-American immigrants who res...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Patiño C,Kirchner T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attenuated psychosis syndrome (APS) was introduced in DSM-5 as a condition for further study. A number of concerns have been raised regarding APS, including its validity as a clinical entity, issues relating to stigma, the potential that it is an unnecessary diagnosis of what might be a self-limiting phase of attenuat...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Nelson B

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an investigation of 70 chronically mentally ill patients in a district psychiatric hospital, 11 cases were discovered which had been diagnosed up to now as schizophrenia, but could now be diagnosed as being of organic origin. In group 1 (cases 1-6) there are dementive states after toxic, inflammatory or early child...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Albert E

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High rates of mental disorders have been reported for prison populations. Understanding patterns of comorbidity may be essential for the development of adequate treatment interventions. The present study aimed to assess the underlying structure of comorbidity between mental health and substance use disorders...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Ignatyev Y,Baggio S,Mundt AP

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coexistence of the delusions of infestation and of body smell is reported. In the analysis of a schizophrenic patient, the authors suppose a connection between object loss and the formation of secondary symptoms. Delusions of infestation and/or body smell can be an indication for a careful psychological analysis i...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Tényi T,Trixler M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People having intimate relationships with persons suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD) - for instance, members of their family - are likely to be involved in stormy, roller coaster relationships. Thus, they may feel overwhelmed by extreme, unpredictable feelings and situations, even when they do not su...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Fossati A,Somma A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This exploratory study is the first to examine the neural correlates of attachment status in adults. The study examined the feasibility of assessing attachment narratives in the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) environment by challenging subjects to tell attachment stories to specific attachment pictures f...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Buchheim A,Erk S,George C,Kachele H,Ruchsow M,Spitzer M,Kircher T,Walter H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To measure the impact of the clinical course, the residual mood symptoms and the cognitive variables on the psychosocial and occupational functioning in bipolar disorder patients in remission. METHOD:Forty-four euthymic DSM-IV-TR bipolar lithium-treated outpatients were assessed with a clinical interview and...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Mur M,Portella MJ,Martinez-Aran A,Pifarre J,Vieta E

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors summarize the international clinical research performed on trazodone, underlying some pharmacodynamic and therapeutic features of the activity of the drug, the originality of its pharmacodynamic profile and the possibility of using trazodone in a wide range of primary or secondary depression subtypes. Avai...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Agnoli A,De Gregorio M,Dionisio A

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

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 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

abstract：:In this paper, emotion is dealt with as a complex theoretical term, whose empirical referents derive from physiological, behavioral and subjective discourses (psychophysiological triad). It is argued that the meaning of emotion terms is not exhausted by any of these discourses (or 'texts'), but by the complementary co...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Lolas F

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We prospectively investigated a sample of 42 patients with acute and transient psychotic disorder (ATPD) as defined by the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10; F23) to determine the clinical and demographic features of this entity and its relationship to cycloid psychoses. M...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Pillmann F,Haring A,Balzuweit S,Blöink R,Marneros A

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Basic symptoms are early subtle changes in thinking, feeling and perception that are subjectively experienced and precede the onset of a psychotic illness. In adult samples, high basic symptom scores are regarded as specific risk factors for the development of schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to explo...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Poustka L,Parzer P,Brunner R,Resch F

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of delusional misidentification syndromes (DMS) in a consecutive sample of 195 inpatient admissions with functional psychosis was found to be 4.1%. It is argued that DMS symptoms are more common than previously supposed. ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Kirov G,Jones P,Lewis SW

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to reassess former child and adolescent psychiatric patients as adults with regard to their further development. METHODS:We used a 'catch-up' design. A former child and adolescent psychiatric patient cohort and controls (matched for sex and age) were assessed as adults with sta...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Brieger P,Blöink R,Sommer S,Marneros A

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The diagnostic stability of the ICD-10 diagnosis of depressive disorder has not been investigated in clinical practice. SAMPLING AND METHODS:All patients who were diagnosed with depressive disorder at least once in a period from 1994 to 2002 in psychiatric out- or inpatient settings in Denmark were identifi...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Kessing LV

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：: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