Assortative mating for major psychiatric diagnoses in two population-based samples.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The common mental disorders (CMDs) of anxiety and depression are the most common form of poor mental health in the general population. Evidence from the small number of previous cohort studies on the role of neighbourhood factors in mental health is inconclusive. We tested the hypothesis that high levels of ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Fone D,White J,Farewell D,Kelly M,John G,Lloyd K,Williams G,Dunstan F

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the results of a survey of the burdens and needs for items of care of 45 supporters of long-term users of psychiatric day care facilities in Camberwell. The supporters reported high levels of disturbed behaviour and low levels of self-care skills in the attenders. They were also subject to high levels of soc...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： MacCarthy B,Lesage A,Brewin CR,Brugha TS,Mangen S,Wing JK

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although numerous studies have examined the latent structure of major depression, less attention has focused on mania. This paper presents the first investigation outside the USA to evaluate the psychometric properties of the DSM-IV criterion B mania symptoms using item response theory (IRT). METHOD:Data we...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Carragher N,Weinstock LM,Strong D

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical intuition suggests that personality disorders hinder the treatment of depression, but research findings are mixed. One reason for this might be the way in which current assessment measures conflate general aspects of personality disorders, such as overall severity, with specific aspects, such as sty...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Constantinou MP,Frueh BC,Fowler JC,Allen JG,Madan A,Oldham JM,Fonagy P

更新日期：2020-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current mental health legislation in the UK makes provision for the use of certain treatments in severely ill patients who are unable, or unwilling, to give informed consent. Under the terms of this legislation, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) may be used, usually to treat severely depressed patients. A numb...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wheeldon TJ,Robertson C,Eagles JM,Reid IC

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The examination of moment-to-moment, 'micro-level' patterns of experience and behaviour using experience sampling methodology has contributed to our understanding of the 'macro-level' development of full-blown symptoms and disorders. This paper argues that the micro-level perspective can be used to identify the smalle...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wichers M

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) run a high risk of becoming chronically ill and of dying. In the acute phase of their illness they present with numerous physical and laboratory abnormalities. However, little is known about the long-term prognostic value of these findings or about the medical morbidity in...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Herzog W,Deter HC,Fiehn W,Petzold E

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) have been validated in an unselected population of 15-year-old South London schoolgirls. Scores on the questionnaires were compared with the results of standard interview. The EAT was found to be an efficient screening instrument for abnormal eatin...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Mann AH,Wakeling A,Wood K,Monck E,Dobbs R,Szmukler G

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research has shown that adults with intellectual disability (ID) may be more at risk of developing dementia in old age than expected. However, the effect of age and ID severity on dementia prevalence rates has never been reported. We investigated the predictions that older adults with ID should have...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Strydom A,Hassiotis A,King M,Livingston G

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The significant proportion of schizophrenia patients refractory to treatment, primarily directed at the dopamine system, suggests that multiple mechanisms may underlie psychotic symptoms. Reinforcement learning tasks have been employed in schizophrenia to assess dopaminergic functioning and reward processing...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Vanes LD,Mouchlianitis E,Collier T,Averbeck BB,Shergill SS

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gulf War veterans have a number of health complaints. We therefore decided to carry out a systematic review to identify and summarize the findings from studies that have assessed multi-symptom conditions in Gulf War veterans and in an unexposed comparison group. METHOD:Studies published between January 1990...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Thomas HV,Stimpson NJ,Weightman AL,Dunstan F,Lewis G

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As part of a collaborative linkage study, the authors obtained clinical and demographic data on 160 families in which more than one sibling was affected with a bipolar illness. The aim of the study was to identify clinical characteristics that had a high degree of familiality. METHOD:Data on age at onset, g...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： O'Mahony E,Corvin A,O'Connell R,Comerford C,Larsen B,Jones R,McCandless F,Kirov G,Cardno AG,Craddock N,Gill M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is associated with reduced life expectancy in patients with affective disorders, however, whether MetS also plays a role before the onset of affective disorder is unknown. We aimed to investigate whether MetS, inflammatory markers or oxidative stress act as risk factors for affectiv...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Ottesen NM,Meluken I,Frikke-Schmidt R,Plomgaard P,Scheike T,Fernandes BS,Berk M,Poulsen HE,Kessing LV,Miskowiak K,Vinberg M

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive dysfunction in depression is associated with poorer clinical outcomes and impaired psychosocial functioning. However, most treatments for depression do not specifically target cognition. Neurocognitive deficits such as memory and concentration problems tend to persist after mood symptoms recover. Improving c...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kaser M,Zaman R,Sahakian BJ

更新日期：2017-04-01 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:Several lines of evidence indicate a role of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the modulation of eating behaviour. Therefore, alterations in the physiology of this neurotrophin may be involved in the pathogenesis of eating disorders. In the present study, we investigated serum levels of BDNF in...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Monteleone P,Fabrazzo M,Martiadis V,Serritella C,Pannuto M,Maj M

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To isolate determinants of any female preponderance in depressive disorder, we earlier selected a sample of young adults, then similar in terms of several potential social determinants of depression and with equivalent rates of lifetime depression. We now report a 10-year review, which initially suggested a female pre...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wilhelm K,Parker G

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maladaptive learning linking environmental food cues to high-palatability food reward plays a central role in overconsumption in obesity and binge eating disorders. The process of memory reconsolidation offers a mechanism to weaken such learning, potentially ameliorating over-eating behaviour. Here we invest...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Walsh K,Iskandar G,Kamboj SK,Das RK

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effectiveness of therapeutic interventions in psychosis is increasingly reported in terms of reductions in different symptom dimensions. It remains unclear, however, to what degree such symptomatic changes are accompanied by improvement in other measures such as service use, quality of life, and needs fo...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： van Os J,Gilvarry C,Bale R,van Horn E,Tattan T,White I,Murray R

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is little evidence of a curvilinear relationship between pre-operative emotionality and post-operative adjustment, as predicted by a model which supposes that moderate preoperative anxiety assists adjustment. This paper suggests that the negative affect, or stress, associated with the work of worry should be dis...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Ray C,Fitzgibbon G

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-traumatic stress disorder was first recognized as a diagnostic category embracing reactions in response to overwhelming environmental stress 'outside the range of usual human experience' in DSM-III (APA, 1980). Such abnormal stressors are by no means a product of the twentieth century but have featured, sporadica...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Parry-Jones B,Parry-Jones WL

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alterations in self-monitoring have been reported in patients with psychotic disorders, but it remains unclear to what degree they represent true indicators of familial vulnerability for psychosis. METHOD:An error-correction action-monitoring task was used to examine self-monitoring in 42 patients with schi...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hommes J,Krabbendam L,Versmissen D,Kircher T,van Os J,van Winkel R

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potential cases of presenile dementia of the Alzheimer type (PDAT) in the Northern Health Region (estimated population aged 45-64, 655,800) were ascertained for the years 1979-86 from in-patient ICD-9 codes and other sources. An algorithm was applied to the casenote information to distinguish between Alzheimer-type an...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Newens AJ,Forster DP,Kay DW,Kirkup W,Bates D,Edwardson J

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the background of the recent discussion about the appropriateness of linear difference and ratio models for testing interaction effects of social support and stress, it is argued that interaction effects are basically unstable when dichotomized continuous variables are analysed. A data set with known interrelations...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Veiel HO

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies suggest that purging disorder (PD) may be a common eating disorder that is associated with clinically significant levels of distress and high levels of psychiatric co-morbidity. However, no study has established evidence of disorder-related impairment or whether distress is specifically relate...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Keel PK,Wolfe BE,Gravener JA,Jimerson DC

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropometric and biochemical indices of nutritional status and weighed dietary intake have been studied in hospitalized patients with senile dementia, demented patients living in the community and age-matched control subjects who were not cognitively impaired. Demented patients were lighter than control subjects, an...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Burns A,Marsh A,Bender DA

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient satisfaction is a key indicator of inpatient care quality and is associated with clinical outcomes following admission. Different patient characteristics have been inconsistently linked with satisfaction. This study aims to overcome previous limitations by assessing which patient characteristics are ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bird V,Miglietta E,Giacco D,Bauer M,Greenberg L,Lorant V,Moskalewicz J,Nicaise P,Pfennig A,Ruggeri M,Welbel M,Priebe S

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neuroticism has been shown to increase the risk of depression whereas extraversion is associated with a reduction of risk. These personality traits play a central role in aetiological theories of affective disorder but their role in schizophrenia is unclear. In this study, the risk for schizophrenia associat...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Van Os J,Jones PB

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and nineteen primiparae, who were routinely attending ante-natal clinics, were interviewed repeatedly between the 12th and 36th weeks of their pregnancies. The incidence of depression was highest in the first trimester and, overall, about a fifth of the sample was found to be suffering from clinically sign...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kumar R,Robson K

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effect of prenatal distress on the risk of a small for gestational age (SGA) infant is uncertain. We have addressed the influences of prenatal stress, anxiety and depression on the risk of SGA. We also examined the effects of infant sex and timing of distress during pregnancy on any observed associations...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Khashan AS,Everard C,McCowan LM,Dekker G,Moss-Morris R,Baker PN,Poston L,Walker JJ,Kenny LC

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00