A comparative study of insight scales and their relationship to psychopathological and clinical variables.

abstract：:Five hundred and eighty schoolgirls living in a small North Indian industrial town were screened using the EAT-26. Although twenty-nine per cent scored above the threshold for the questionnaire (greater than or equal to 20), closer scrutiny of the pattern of responses revealed misinterpretations of a large number of q...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： King MB,Bhugra D

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the erythrocyte membrane cation carrier following lithium ingestion in normal human subjects were studied; ouabain sensitive potassium influx fell significantly during the lithium treated phase. Lithium was fed to rats and no change in erythrocyte Na-K ATPase was shown. These findings contrast with studies ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Naylor GJ,Smith A,Boardman LJ,Dick DA,Dick EG,Dick P

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnostic communication between doctors and patients is thought to differ radically between Japan and Western countries. To understand diagnostic disclosure to psychiatric patients, a questionnaire with six case vignettes was sent to practising psychiatrists in Japan (N = 166) and North America (N = 112). While over ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： McDonald-Scott P,Machizawa S,Satoh H

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sternberg's Memory Scanning Test (MST) is a useful paradigm for evaluating the speed and efficiency of information processing in working memory. Unfortunately, the classical MST has major drawbacks for use in applied settings such as the clinic. For example, its administration time is long and the test is to...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Van Der Elst W,Van Boxtel MP,Van Breukelen GJ,Jolles J

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the pathways to psychiatric care and recognition of delay points are crucial for the development of interventions that aim to improve access to mental health-care services. METHOD:Over a 2-month period in 2003, a total of 1044 patients at the commencement of new episodes of care at Amanuel Spe...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bekele YY,Flisher AJ,Alem A,Baheretebeb Y

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The frequency and clinical, neuropsychological and neuroimaging correlates of apathy in patients who have had a stroke are inadequately defined. METHOD:A total of 167 consecutive patients admitted to the stroke units of two university hospitals after an ischaemic stroke and 109 controls received extensive m...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Brodaty H,Sachdev PS,Withall A,Altendorf A,Valenzuela MJ,Lorentz L

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined sensitivity to noise in subjects with Type A and Type B behaviour patterns as a function of the type of task being performed. Twenty Type A and 20 Type B subjects, selected by means of Bortner's scale (French version), were exposed to steadily increasing noise levels (68-110 dBA) while perfo...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Moch A

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The assessment of inter-regional functional connectivity (FC) has allowed for the description of the putative mechanism of action of treatments such as deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the nucleus accumbens in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Nevertheless, the possible FC alterations of othe...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Cano M,Alonso P,Martínez-Zalacaín I,Subirà M,Real E,Segalàs C,Pujol J,Cardoner N,Menchón JM,Soriano-Mas C

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantified magnetic resonance measurements were made of superior temporal gyrus, parahippocampal gyrus, hippocampal, frontal and temporal lobe volumes and of the planar area of the thalamus and basal ganglia structures in 47 late paraphrenic patients and 33 healthy elderly controls. The late paraphrenics were divided ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Howard R,Mellers J,Petty R,Bonner D,Menon R,Almeida O,Graves M,Renshaw C,Levy R

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is an emerging consensus in developmental psychopathology that irritable youth are at risk for developing internalizing problems later in life. The current study explored if irritability in youth is multifactorial and the impact of irritability dimensions on psychopathology outcomes in adulthood. METH...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hawes MT,Carlson GA,Finsaas MC,Olino TM,Seely JR,Klein DN

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The development of childhood anxiety disorders (CADs) is likely to depend on pathways that can be programmed by early-life risk factors. We test the hypothesis that early-life maternal factors can predict this programming effect on CAD. METHODS:Data were obtained from 198 women and children from the Mercy P...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Galbally M,Watson SJ,van Rossum EFC,Chen W,de Kloet ER,Lewis AJ

更新日期：2020-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Schizophrenia patients have a higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) than normals. We examined the relationship between IGT and clinical phenotypes or cognitive deficits in first-episode, drug-naïve (FEDN) Han Chinese patients with schizophrenia. METHOD:A total o...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Chen DC,Du XD,Yin GZ,Yang KB,Nie Y,Wang N,Li YL,Xiu MH,He SC,Yang FD,Cho RY,Kosten TR,Soares JC,Zhao JP,Zhang XY

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The usefulness of any diagnostic scheme is directly related to its ability to provide clinically useful information on need for care. In this study, the clinical usefulness of dimensional and categorical representations of psychotic psychopathology were compared. METHOD:A total of 706 patients aged 16-65 ye...

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：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psychiatric disorders and related intermediate phenotypes are highly heritable and have a complex, overlapping polygenic architecture. A large-scale genome-wide association study (GWAS) of anxiety disorders identified genetic variants that are significant on a genome-wide. The current study investigated the ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Ohi K,Otowa T,Shimada M,Sasaki T,Tanii H

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Capturing service users' perspectives can highlight additional and different concerns to those of clinicians, but there are no up to date, self-report psychometrically sound measures of side effects of antipsychotic medications. Aim To develop a psychometrically sound measure to identify antipsychotic side e...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wykes T,Evans J,Paton C,Barnes TRE,Taylor D,Bentall R,Dalton B,Ruffell T,Rose D,Vitoratou S

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:UK veterans suffering from a psychological or psychiatric illness as a consequence of service in the Second World War were entitled to a war pension. Their case files, which include regular medical assessments, are a valuable resource to investigate the nature, distribution and duration of symptoms. METHODS...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Engelbrecht A,Burdett H,Silva MJ,Bhui K,Jones E

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sleep disruption is a common precursor to deterioration and relapse in people living with psychotic disorders. Understanding the temporal relationship between sleep and psychopathology is important for identifying and developing interventions which target key variables that contribute to relapse. METHODS:We...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Meyer N,Joyce DW,Karr C,de Vos M,Dijk DJ,Jacobson NC,MacCabe JH

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A structured assessment instrument, the Quality of Life Interview, was used to explain the quality of life of seventy patients with chronic psychiatric illness attending a day treatment programme. The interview was found to have acceptable psychometric properties. Factors that best predicted the quality of life of the...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Levitt AJ,Hogan TP,Bucosky CM

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

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：BACKGROUND:Generalized anxiety disorder is a common condition of excessive worry and tension which tends to run a chronic course associated with significant psychiatric and medical problems. Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) has been shown to be of clinical value in about 50% of cases with treatment gains maintained ov...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Durham RC,Chambers JA,MacDonald RR,Power KG,Major K

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Suicide is expressly condemned in the Qu'ran, and traditionally few Islamic countries have reported suicide. Undetermined deaths are classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as Other Violent Deaths (OVD) in ICD-9, or Other External Causes (OEC) in ICD-10. It has been suggested that to avoid under-re...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Pritchard C,Amanullah S

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The incidence of schizophrenia in the African-Caribbean population in England is reported to be raised. We sought to clarify whether (a) the rates of other psychotic disorders are increased, (b) whether psychosis is increased in other ethnic minority groups, and (c) whether particular age or gender groups ar...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Fearon P,Kirkbride JB,Morgan C,Dazzan P,Morgan K,Lloyd T,Hutchinson G,Tarrant J,Fung WL,Holloway J,Mallett R,Harrison G,Leff J,Jones PB,Murray RM,AESOP Study Group.

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies support Beck's cognitive model of vulnerability to depression. However, the relationship between his cognitive triad and other clinical features and risk factors among those with major depression (MD) has rarely been systematically studied. METHOD:The three key cognitive symptoms of worthle...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wang L,Liu L,Shi S,Gao J,Liu Y,Li Y,Zhang Z,Wang G,Zhang K,Tao M,Gao C,Li K,Wang X,Lv L,Jiang G,Wang X,Jia H,Zhang J,Lu C,Li Y,Li K,Hu C,Ning Y,Li Y,Sun J,Liu T,Zhang Y,Ha B,Tian H,Meng H,Hu J

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tryptophan and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (precursor and metabolite respectively of 5-hydroxytryptamine) were determined in ventricular CSF of psychiatric patients undergoing stereotactic subcaudate tractotomy. Tyrosine and homovanillic acid (precursor and metabolite respectively of dopamine) were also determined. Res...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bridges PK,Bartlett JR,Sepping P,Kantamaneni BD,Curzon G

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many preschool-age children meet criteria for psychiatric disorders, and rates approach those observed in later childhood and adolescence. However, there is a paucity of longitudinal research examining the outcomes of preschool diagnoses. METHODS:Families with a 3-year-old child (N = 559) were recruited fro...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Finsaas MC,Bufferd SJ,Dougherty LR,Carlson GA,Klein DN

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Based on the developing clinical and legal literature, and using the framework adopted in draft legislation, capacity to make a valid decision about a clinically required blood test was investigated in three groups of people with a 'mental disability' (i.e. mental illness (chronic schizophrenia), 'learning d...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wong JG,Clare CH,Holland AJ,Watson PC,Gunn M

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the substantial heritability of the psychoses and their genuine public health burden, the applicability of the genomic approach in psychiatry has been strongly questioned or prematurely dismissed. METHODS:selective review of the recent literature on molecular genetic and genomic approaches to the ps...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Gill M,Donohoe G,Corvin A

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The goal of this study is to determine the association between panic attacks in adolescence and the risk of personality disorders during young adulthood. METHOD:Data were drawn from the Children in the Community Study, a longitudinal epidemiological study of psychopathology across the life-course in 717 indi...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Goodwin RD,Brook JS,Cohen P

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little research has examined genetic and environmental contributions to psychopathic personality traits. Additionally, no studies have examined etiological connections between psychopathic traits and the broad psychopathological domains of internalizing (mood and anxiety) and externalizing (antisocial behavi...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Blonigen DM,Hicks BM,Krueger RF,Patrick CJ,Iacono WG

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients suffering from manic-depressive psychosis, manic type (ICD 296.0), were treated with lithium carbonate and randomly allocated to two groups, one received digoxin and the other matching placebo for 7 days. Severity of mania was rated by psychiatrists on the Manic Rating Scale and Analogue Line on days 0 and 7 ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Chambers CA,Smith AH,Naylor GJ

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00