Possession states in Northern Sri Lanka.

abstract：:Buspirone is a clinically effective anxiolytic with a unique structure and pharmacology which distinguishes it from the benzodiazepines. It has been termed anxioselective because it lacks anticonvulsant, sedative, or muscle-relaxant properties. Preclinical evidence suggests it lacks potential for abuse or physical dep...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Riblet LA,Eison AS,Eison MS,Taylor DP,Temple DL,VanderMaelen CP

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Using a cognitive framework, this paper examined self-perceptions as a vulnerability to phenomena in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Specifically, Guidano and Liotti's model of self-ambivalence (from 1983) and the notion of self-worth contingent upon moral standards were investigated as possible mechanis...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Ahern C,Kyrios M,Moulding R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selected results from the section psychotherapy/psychosomatics of the ICD-10 research criteria study are discussed. One hundred thirty diagnosticians from 11 psychosomatics centers took part in this section, assessing 16 video-documented patients in case conferences. The results of the study, which were based on 633 d...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Schneider W,Freyberger HJ,Muhs A,Schüssler G

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：: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：:In this study we have attempted to objectify the diagnosis of the borderline syndrome by the use of formal Rorschach testing criteria. The randomly selected protocols of 140 subjects between the ages of 17 and 25 were subjected to cluster analysis of currently accepted scoring criteria for such phenomena as prevalence...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Fischnaller M,Opgenoorth E,Schuster P

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Until now, no brief self-report instrument for the assessment of dissociative states comprising somatoform and psychological items has been available. Thus, we developed a brief instrument for repeated assessment of dissociation during single neuropsychological experiments and neuroimaging. METHODS:Bas...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Stiglmayr C,Schmahl C,Bremner JD,Bohus M,Ebner-Priemer U

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In many severely mentally disordered children, the clinical presentation is complicated by comorbid affective and behavioral dysregulation. Recently, a highly heritable behavioral phenotype of simultaneous deviance on the anxious/depressed, attention problems, and aggressive behavior syndrome scales has been...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Holtmann M,Becker A,Banaschewski T,Rothenberger A,Roessner V

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent decades, there has been a growing interest in the field of delusions, and different aspects of delusional disorder (DD) have been investigated. However, DD is still one of the most underresearched psychiatric disorders. In this paper, we review the literature on DD and most of the theoretical approaches prop...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Ibanez-Casas I,Cervilla JA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is often suggested in the literature that alexithymic patients are less responsive to psychotherapy than nonalexithymic patients. However, few empirical studies have examined this issue. Furthermore, it is unclear whether or not alexithymia itself may improve during psychotherapy. METHODS:Fifty-five cons...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Rufer M,Albrecht R,Zaum J,Schnyder U,Mueller-Pfeiffer C,Hand I,Schmidt O

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The following case report describes a pregnant woman who was convinced that her pregnancy was non-existent despite being in an advanced stage of clinically obvious pregnancy. The nosologically unspecific syndrome of denial of pregnancy is discussed by reviewing the literature. Based on the existing literature it will ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Walloch JE,Klauwer C,Lanczik M,Brockington IF,Kornhuber J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The various episodes of life significant for outbursts of different psychic disorders may give some facilitations of a better understanding of the underlying basic processes. Two of them are considered in several appearances: genetic predisposition and conditioning processes. A psychology of age may be interpreted in ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Zapotoczky HG,Hofmann P

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease is frequently associated with depressive symptoms. When depression occurs at early stages and before the onset of characteristic motor symptoms of the disease, differential diagnosis of major depression may be difficult. Differences in psychopathological features of depression in Parkinson's diseas...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Merschdorf U,Berg D,Csoti I,Fornadi F,Merz B,Naumann M,Becker G,Supprian T

更新日期：2003-09-01 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：:Twenty-three patients with one or more delusional misidentification syndromes were studied. The majority of the subjects were females and the Capgras syndrome was the most common delusional misidentification syndrome in our sample. The Capgras syndrome cases were significant older than the Fregoli syndrome cases. Schi...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Oyebode F,Sargeant R

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:The phylogenetic and ontogenetic developments of social cognition have been a major research focus of evolutionary and developmental psychology. Theory of mind or so-called Machiavellian intelligence, that is the capacity to infer mental states of other individuals and to manipulate them in order to maximise social su...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Brüne M

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of our study was to identify if defense mechanisms are associated with impulsivity and lifetime suicide attempts in depressed patients. SAMPLING AND METHODS:The Defense Style Questionnaire, the Impulsivity Rating Scale and the Impulse Control Scale were used in 77 depressed inpatients. RESULTS:Impu...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Corruble E,Hatem N,Damy C,Falissard B,Guelfi JD,Reynaud M,Hardy P

更新日期：2003-11-01 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：:Functional psychosis has only rarely been described in context with extreme stressors, most studies focusing singularly on posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. We report for the first time the case histories of 2 patients suffering from Capgras syndrome along with schizoaffective disorder and posttraumatic stress d...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Wenzel T,Sibitz I,Kieffer W,Strobl R

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A variety of conduct disorder (CD) symptoms are seen together as a symptom cluster. Among CD symptoms there are serious and stubborn antisocial behaviors: lying, swindling, running away from home/school, destructiveness, arson, kidnapping women, sexual abuse, and armed robbery. The objective of this study wa...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Doğan O,Onder Z,Doğan S,Akyüz G

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of the German-Scandinavian concept of cycloid psychosis and of the French concept of 'bouffée délirante' is analyzed. It is stressed that they probably correspond to the same clinical entity, not overlapping with any of the American nosological categories, although sharing a number of features with the o...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Maj M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recognition and treatment of depressive states, as well as their prevention, call for special knowledge and experience. Therefore it was considered desirable that practising physicians with no specialised knowledge of psychiatry should be given more extensive opportunity for post-graduate instruction in the diagno...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Adams C

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frith has proposed that symptoms of alien control in schizophrenia result from a defect in a metarepresentational process leading to a failure to properly monitor self-willed intentions and actions. To examine this hypothesis, a group of 40 schizophrenic patients, all meeting DSM-III-R criteria, and rated for current ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Stirling JD,Hellewell JS,Ndlovu D

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The current debate on the continuity or discontinuity of psychotic symptoms and common psychic experiences has mainly dealt with methodological, epidemiological and clinical issues, but it has neglected epistemological research on the main concepts of the field. METHODS:The implicit epistemic structure of c...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Rejón Altable C,Múzquiz Jiménez Á

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is regarded as a unitary nosological entity, it encompasses a rich variety of heterogeneous mental and behavioural phenomena. The identification of clinical subtypes within this broad concept has been a focus of attention in recent years. In the present study, we administer...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Denys D,de Geus F,van Megen HJ,Westenberg HG

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In psychiatry and psychotherapy, dealing with aggressiveness and autoaggressiveness is of great importance. Our aim was to find a link between overt aggressive and autoaggressive behaviour, which could be readily observed. SAMPLING AND METHODS:We investigated the frequency, type and intensity of aggressive,...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Grube M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Bonn Schizophrenia Study (Huber et al., Monogr. Gesamtgebiete Psychiat., vol. 21, Springer, Berlin 1979) 113 cases fulfilled the criteria for four types of schizo-affective and/or cycloid psychoses. Each of these subgroups had a significantly more favorable long-term prognosis than that of the Bonn sample as a ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Gross G,Huber G

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:77 patients with delusional psychoses, regardless of their nosological attribution (except severe organicity), and their first-degree relatives were diagnosed with the Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) and the Vienna Research Criteria (VRC). The diagnostic procedure was performed blindly in the relatives. Both criter...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Schanda H,Lieber A,Küfferle B,Gabriel E,Berner P

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alexithymia as a disorder of affect regulation entails a patient's reduced ability to process emotional information. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of alexithymia [as measured by the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS)-26, German version] on affective correlates in a dyadic therapeutic interaction (a...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Rasting M,Brosig B,Beutel ME

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00