Personality disorder as a contraindication for liver transplantation in alcoholic cirrhosis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:In spite of its global importance, the interaction between depression and chronic comorbid diseases remains incompletely understood with regard to prevalence, severity of disease, and potential causative factors mediating this interaction. OBJECTIVE:The authors sought to compare overall medical costs in non...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Welch CA,Czerwinski D,Ghimire B,Bertsimas D

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors assessed, in an adolescent population sample, the internal consistency, test-retest stability, and factor structure of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) and established the frequency of alexithymia in this age-group. Pupils (N=882; age-groups: 14-, 15-, and 16-year-olds) from two secondary schools com...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Säkkinen P,Kaltiala-Heino R,Ranta K,Haataja R,Joukamaa M

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews diagnostic issues about body dysmorphic disorder and discusses its relationship to other disorders. Diagnostic and symptomatic overlap with obsessive-compulsive disorder is explored; associated features, course of illness, presumed etiology, and treatment outcome are compared; and similarities and...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Hollander E,Neville D,Frenkel M,Josephson S,Liebowitz MR

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was conducted on a group of chronically hospitalized, brain-damaged male patients to assess the effectiveness of treatment with pindolol on behavioral problems. The study was conducted in two parts. The first was a double-blind, placebo-controlled analysis of the effect of pindolol on assaultive behavior, both...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Greendyke RM,Berkner JP,Webster JC,Gulya A

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and risk factors for recurrent ischemia were evaluated in 65 survivors of a myocardial infarction (MI) at baseline and 6 months afterward. PTSD patients had more uncontrolled cardiovascular risk factors at baseline. Patients with PTSD (N=14) were offered trauma-focused ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Shemesh E,Koren-Michowitz M,Yehuda R,Milo-Cotter O,Murdock E,Vered Z,Shneider BL,Gorman JM,Cotter G

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eating disorders anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa have been reported to occur in Type I diabetes mellitus. Although prevalence estimates vary, the most rigorous studies yield rates similar to the population at large. Intentional insulin omission is more common, especially in young diabetic women, and at times ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Crow SJ,Keel PK,Kendall D

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Only a few published accounts describe atypical anorexia nervosa. To provide more information about this eating-disorder subtype, 15 patients (12 females, 3 males) with atypical anorexia nervosa were studied. In general, the 12 female patients were characterized by 1) older age at onset and presentation, 2) recurring ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Shisslak CM,Crago M,Yates A

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychotropic drugs are frequently used in both psychiatric and general medical practice. Familiarity with common side effects and their management may assist psychiatrists in the selection of agents to suit individual patient needs. The authors describe the morphologic features and pathologic basis of cutaneous reacti...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： MacMorran WS,Krahn LE

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have documented the extent and nature of sexual abuse among women who later come to treatment for anorexia nervosa or bulimia. This comparison study reports on a sample of 158 patients admitted to an eating-disorder unit, of whom 60 gave a history of sexual abuse, compared to 98 with no history of abuse. F...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Hall RC,Tice L,Beresford TP,Wooley B,Hall AK

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors determined whether diagnoses of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and CVD-related conditions differed by psychiatric diagnosis among male Veterans Administration patients from the mid-Atlantic region. Among 7,529 patients (mean age: 54.5 years), the prevalence of diagnoses ranged from 3.6% (stroke) to 35.4% (hy...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Kilbourne AM,Brar JS,Drayer RA,Xu X,Post EP

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Delusional parasitosis is an uncommon psychiatric condition in which patients have the immutable conviction that small, living organisms, such as worms, insects, or larvae infest their skin or other organs. OBJECTIVE/METHOD:The authors describe a case of an unusual association of delusional parasitosis and ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Hanihara T,Takahashi T,Washizuka S,Ogihara T,Kobayashi M

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mental illness is associated with an increased risk for medical hospitalizations. OBJECTIVE:This study investigates the degree to which nonpsychiatric factors account for these hospitalizations. METHODS:Using National Veterans Health Administration (VHA) fiscal year 2012 data for 2 million veterans under t...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Moore DT,Rosenheck RA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medical directors need management skills; yet, few studies describe the specific tasks that directors consider most important, their confidence for these tasks, and how their confidence develops. We studied these questions among directors in the subspecialty of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. METHODS:A nee...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Bronson B,Perlman G

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of an experimental training program in sexologic interviewing for a multidisciplinary arthritis patient care team are reported. The program included didactic instruction, observation and practice of interviewing skills, a seminar, and a case presentation. Trainees had gained more knowledge than control sub...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Blake DJ,Weaver W,Maisiak R,Alarcon GS,Brown S

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Delirium is a serious postoperative condition for which few pharmacologic prevention trials have been conducted. OBJECTIVE:The authors tested the efficacy of perioperative olanzapine administration to prevent postoperative delirium in elderly patients after joint-replacement surgery. METHOD:The authors con...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Larsen KA,Kelly SE,Stern TA,Bode RH Jr,Price LL,Hunter DJ,Gulczynski D,Bierbaum BE,Sweeney GA,Hoikala KA,Cotter JJ,Potter AW

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the correlation of subjective body complaints (measured by the Giessen Subjective Complaints List) with sociodemographic data, objective health measures, measures of subjective well-being, and clinicians' ratings of somatization and psychological impairment in 251 cognitively unimpaired general ho...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Schneider G,Wachter M,Driesch G,Kruse A,Nehen HG,Heuft G

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to identify the proximate causes through which dementia and delirium extend length of stay (LOS) in elderly general hospital patients. Among 93 patients age >/=65 years admitted to a tertiary-care teaching hospital through the emergency department, admission ratings of cognitive impairmen...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Saravay SM,Kaplowitz M,Kurek J,Zeman D,Pollack S,Novik S,Knowlton S,Brendel M,Hoffman L

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropsychiatric complications are common in patients with chronic hepatitis C undergoing treatment with interferon alpha. These side effects include alterations of mood, cognition, and neuroendocrine function and are unpredictable. In a number of neurological disorders characterized by neuropsychiatric symptoms and c...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Gochee PA,Powell EE,Purdie DM,Pandeya N,Kelemen L,Shorthouse C,Jonsson JR,Kelly B

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the utilization of medical specialists by anxiety disorder patients. The setting was a university's clinical outpatient drug trails for anxiety disorders. The participants were subjects identified by advertisement and diagnosed by psychiatric interviews and, in some instances...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Kennedy BL,Schwab JJ

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depressive disorders are far more serious than most people realize, and depressive disorders are disabling affected persons progressively earlier in life. Heavy utilization of medical services, extensive disability and morbidity, and high suicide risk exact a staggering economic toll in the United States annually. Dep...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Cassem EH

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although it is widely believed that women with heart disease have poorer adjustment than men, the term 'adjustment' has typically been narrowly defined as depression. Gender differences in adjustment more broadly defined to encompass functional limitations in addition to depression have seldom been investiga...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Scott KM,Collings SC

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cerebral white matter lesions (WMLs) are more common in individuals with late-onset or late-life depression. It has been proposed that carotid atherosclerosis may predispose to WMLs by inducing cerebral hypoperfusion. This hemodynamic effect of carotid atherosclerosis could be important for the formation of ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Devantier TA,Nørgaard BL,Poulsen MK,Garde E,Øvrehus KA,Marwan M,Achenbach S,Dey D,Sørensen LH,Videbech P

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with hepatitis C who are treated with interferon may develop neuropsychiatric symptoms, including fatigue and depression. The authors discuss the potential use of functional neuroimaging in the identification and treatment of these patients. The authors provide an overview of functional neuroimaging studies o...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Matthews SC,Paulus MP,Dimsdale JE

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fibromyalgia, as defined by the American College of Rheumatology, is characterized by widespread pain lasting for at least 3 months, with pain in at least 11 out of 18 tender points when palpated with digital pressure. OBJECTIVE:The authors investigated the relationship between changes in pain and symptoms ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Arnold LM,Leon T,Whalen E,Barrett J

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined data collected from a randomly selected, representative sample of 755 women (ages 23-97 years) from southeastern Australia. Self-report questionnaires were utilized to determine lifetime rates of depression and cardiovascular risk factors within the study sample. A lifetime history of depression (...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Jacka FN,Pasco JA,McConnell S,Williams LJ,Kotowicz MA,Nicholson GC,Berk M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psychosocial assessment is an essential component of the pretransplant evaluation. Many individuals have significant psychosocial problems, and they are either denied for transplantation or deferred from listing and transplant until the psychosocial issues are addressed. OBJECTIVE:The primary aim of this st...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Schneekloth TD,Hitschfeld MJ,Jowsey-Gregoire SG,Petterson TM,Dunlay SM,Niazi SK,Vasquez AR,Rummans TA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pediatric catatonia is believed to be a rare condition, but challenges in recognition and variability in presentation may lead to underdiagnosis. Early identification and effective treatment of pediatric catatonia is critical given the significant morbidity and mortality associated with the condition. Given ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Sorg EM,Chaney-Catchpole M,Hazen EP

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression and anxiety disorders are common clinical problems in organ transplant recipients, but there is a paucity of clinical data to inform the selection of psychopharmacologic treatment. The authors retrospectively compared 13 depressed organ transplant recipients treated with fluoxetine with 13 nondepressed matc...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Strouse TB,Fairbanks LA,Skotzko CE,Fawzy FI

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between life satisfaction and alexithymia was studied in a sample of 229 patients as a part of a naturalistic follow-up study of depression in Finnish primary health care. The measures were the abbreviated Life Satisfaction Scale and the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale. Depression was assessed by te...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Mattila AK,Poutanen O,Koivisto AM,Salokangas RK,Joukamaa M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neurodegenerative diseases cause progressive irreversible neuronal loss that has broad downstream effects. The neuroendocrine system regulates homeostasis of circuits that control critical functions such as the stress response, metabolism, reproduction, fluid balance, and glucose control. These systems are f...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Newhouse A,Chemali Z

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00