The comparison of latent variable models of non-psychotic psychiatric morbidity in four culturally diverse populations.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prevalence of childhood anxiety disorders at specific ages and genetic etiological influences on anxiety disorders in young children have been little studied. The present study reports prevalence estimates in a community sample of 6-year-old twins, and patterns of genetic and environmental influences on thes...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bolton D,Eley TC,O'Connor TG,Perrin S,Rabe-Hesketh S,Rijsdijk F,Smith P

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suicides and suicide attempts in cancer patients were analysed by following all patients treated for cancer in Stockholm County from 1975 to 1985. Among 59,845 patients we identified 144 suicides and 196 suicide attempts during the follow-up, which represents a more than two-fold excess mortality from suicide and a mo...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Allebeck P,Bolund C

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity, an enzyme potentially involved in the major depressive episodes (MDE), could be indirectly measured by the L-Citrulline/L-Arginine ratio (L-Cit/L-Arg). The aim of this study was: (1) to compare the NOS activity of patients with a MDE to that of healthy controls (HC); (2)...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Loeb E,El Asmar K,Trabado S,Gressier F,Colle R,Rigal A,Martin S,Verstuyft C,Fève B,Chanson P,Becquemont L,Corruble E

更新日期：2020-06-11 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:Despite the demonstrable influence of both genes and the family environment on children's behavioural and emotional development, the mechanisms by which these factors are transmitted from parents to their children are not known. Numerous aspects of the family have long been associated with behavioural and em...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Silberg JL,Eaves LJ

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mental and physical health of individuals with a psychotic illness are typically poor. Access to psychosocial interventions is important but currently limited. Telephone-delivered interventions may assist. In the current systematic review, we aim to summarise and critically analyse evidence for telephone...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Baker AL,Turner A,Beck A,Berry K,Haddock G,Kelly PJ,Bucci S

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Empirical data on the impact of personality pathology on acute treatment outcome for depression are mixed, in part because of challenges posed by assessing trait-like personality patterns while patients are in an active mood episode. To our knowledge, no previous study has examined the effect of personality ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Cyranowski JM,Frank E,Winter E,Rucci P,Novick D,Pilkonis P,Fagiolini A,Swartz HA,Houck P,Kupfer DJ

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neuropsychological impairment is a common finding in schizophrenia. However, a significant proportion of patients are not impaired in conventional neuropsychological tests. In this study, we investigated whether remitted patients with schizophreniform disorder exhibited dysfunctions in specific cognitive tas...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kéri S,Kelemen O,Benedek G,Janka Z

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depressed individuals demonstrate a poorer ability to recognize the emotions of others, which could contribute to difficulties in interpersonal behaviour. This emotion recognition deficit appears related to the depressive state and is particularly pronounced when emotions are labelled semantically. Here, we ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： van Wingen GA,van Eijndhoven P,Tendolkar I,Buitelaar J,Verkes RJ,Fernández G

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The relationship between recurrent major depression (MD) in women and suicidality is complex. We investigated the extent to which patients who suffered with various forms of suicidal symptomatology can be distinguished from those subjects without such symptoms. METHOD:We examined the clinical features of th...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bi B,Xiao X,Zhang H,Gao J,Tao M,Niu H,Wang Y,Wang Q,Chen C,Sun N,Li K,Fu J,Gan Z,Sang W,Zhang G,Yang L,Tian T,Li Q,Yang Q,Sun L,Li Y,Rong H,Guan C,Zhao X,Ye D,Zhang Y,Ma Z,Li H,He K,Chen J,Cai

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is reported in which platelet monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity fluctuated in the course of a schizophreniform psychosis in a way which suggests a direct relationship between low levels of MAO activity and the psychosis. ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Cookson IB,Owen F,Ridges AP

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently released prisoners are at markedly higher risk of suicide than the general population. The aim of this study was to identify key risk factors for suicide by offenders released from prisons in England and Wales. METHOD:All suicides committed by offenders within 12 months of their release from prison...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Pratt D,Appleby L,Piper M,Webb R,Shaw J

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The factor structure of the 60-item version of the General Health Questionnaire was explored, using data collected in a community study in a rural area of northern Spain. Six principal components, similar to those previously reported with this instrument, were found to provide a good description of the data structure....

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Vázquez-Barquero JL,Williams P,Díez-Manrique JF,Lequerica J,Arenal A

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Suicide is a leading cause of death and has been strongly associated with affective disorders. The influence of affective disorder polarity on subsequent suicide attempts or completions and any differential effect of suicide risk factors by polarity were assessed in a prospective cohort. METHOD:Participants...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Fiedorowicz JG,Leon AC,Keller MB,Solomon DA,Rice JP,Coryell WH

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Wenchuan earthquake was a catastrophic earthquake in China. The aim of this study is to explore longitudinally the rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression in adolescents after the Wenchuan earthquake, and to identify independent predictors of PTSD. METHOD:PTSD and depression sympto...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Zhang Z,Ran MS,Li YH,Ou GJ,Gong RR,Li RH,Fan M,Jiang Z,Fang DZ

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although impaired recognition of affective facial expressions has been conclusively linked to antisocial behavior, little is known about the modifiability of this deficit. This study investigated whether and under which circumstances the proposed perceptual insensitivity can be addressed with a brief implici...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Schönenberg M,Christian S,Gaußer AK,Mayer SV,Hautzinger M,Jusyte A

更新日期：2014-04-01 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:Spontaneous movement disorders (SMDs), such as spontaneous dyskinesia and parkinsonism, have been described in patients with schizophrenia who have never been treated with antipsychotic medication. Their presence has been documented extensively in chronic schizophrenia but not at the time of illness onset. ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Pappa S,Dazzan P

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Improving the quality of mental health care requires integrating successful research interventions into 'real-world' practice settings. Coordinated Anxiety Learning and Management (CALM) is a treatment-delivery model for anxiety disorders encountered in primary care. CALM offers cognitive behavioral therapy ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Joesch JM,Sherbourne CD,Sullivan G,Stein MB,Craske MG,Roy-Byrne P

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Continuity of care is considered by patients and clinicians an essential feature of good quality care in long-term disorders, yet there is general agreement that it is a complex concept. Most policies emphasize it and encourage systems to promote it. Despite this, there is no accepted definition or measure a...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Burns T,Catty J,White S,Clement S,Ellis G,Jones IR,Lissouba P,McLaren S,Rose D,Wykes T

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few population studies have investigated the functional disabilities that accompany specific psychiatric diagnoses. This study assesses the nature and strength of current and residual impairments in various functional domains of life. METHODS:Data were derived from the Netherlands Mental Health Survey and I...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bijl RV,Ravelli A

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the literature on dementia the presence or absence of language deficits has come to occupy a pivotal position with respect to certain nosological and nosographical issues. These are reviewed critically, together with the results of experimental investigations which have sought to elucidate the nature of the languag...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hart S

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depressive syndromes not fulfilling the criteria for specified disorders (subthreshold depression, SD) may be clinically important. We aimed to study SD in old and very old age, in comparison with subjects with no depressive symptoms (NDS) and subjects with major depression (MD). METHODS:A community-based r...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Geiselmann B,Linden M,Helmchen H

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neurocognitive functioning may be impaired in the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle due to associated changes in hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis function. This study examines the relationship between changes in neurocognition and HPA axis function in different phases of the menstrual cycle. METH...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Symonds CS,Gallagher P,Thompson JM,Young AH

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Meta-analyses link childhood trauma to depression, mania, anxiety disorders, and psychosis. It is unclear, however, whether these outcomes truly represent distinct disorders following childhood trauma, or that childhood trauma is associated with admixtures of affective, psychotic, anxiety and manic psychopat...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： van Nierop M,Viechtbauer W,Gunther N,van Zelst C,de Graaf R,Ten Have M,van Dorsselaer S,Bak M,Genetic Risk and OUtcome of Psychosis investigators.,van Winkel R

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Outcome studies of chronic fatigue, neurasthenia and other unexplained fatigue syndromes are few and have been carried out in developed Western countries. This paper aimed to study the outcome of unexplained fatigue syndromes in an international primary care sample and to identify risk factors for persistenc...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Skapinakis P,Lewis G,Mavreas V

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite methodological differences between studies, it has been suggested that psychopathy may be associated with a ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) deficit and antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), as classified in the DSM-IV, with a broader range of deficits in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Dolan M

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey over 2 years of all Police Referrals (Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983) in an inner-city health district identified 163 cases, with a core group of repeat referrals. Previous psychiatric admissions, a diagnosis of schizophrenia, social deprivation, and a bias towards young men of Afro-Caribbean ethni...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Turner TH,Ness MN,Imison CT

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CANTAB battery of neuropsychological tests was used to compare the performance of 28 patients with unipolar depression with that of 22 age and IQ matched controls. The patients were impaired on almost all tests studied with deficits in pattern and spatial recognition memory, matching to sample, spatial span, spati...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Elliott R,Sahakian BJ,McKay AP,Herrod JJ,Robbins TW,Paykel ES

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The variations in suicide mortality in England and Wales over a 100-year period (1876-1975) are explained by the development of a descriptive model. The model used in a stepwise linear regression using 5 variables including toxic gas production. The variables give a good description of the observed changes in suicide ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Low AA,Farmer RD,Jones DR,Rohde JR

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00