Increased rates of schizophrenia among immigrants: some methodological concerns raised by Danish findings.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The overlap between anxiety and major depressive disorder (MDD), the increased risk for depression and anxiety in offspring of depressed parents, the sequence of onset with anxiety preceding MDD, and anxiety as a predictor of depression are well established. The specificity of anxiety disorders in these rela...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Warner V,Wickramaratne P,Weissman MM

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are considerable differences between and within countries in the involvement of general practitioners (GPs) in psychosocial care. This study aimed to describe the self-perceived role of GPs in 30 European countries as the first contacted professional for patients with psychosocial problems. and to exam...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Boerma WG,Verhaak PF

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CAMCOG, the cognitive section of the Cambridge Examination for Mental Disorders of the Elderly (CAMDEX), was administered twice to 53 patients with a clinical diagnosis ranging from no dementia to severe dementia. The stability of the total CAMCOG score was high (0.97). Patients with less than moderate dementia we...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Lindeboom J,Ter Horst R,Hooyer C,Dinkgreve M,Jonker C

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anxiety disorders are very common and increase risk for suicide attempts. Little is known about predictors of increased risk specifically among individuals with anxiety disorders. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether specific anxiety disorders and other co-morbid psychiatric disorders, physic...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Uebelacker LA,Weisberg R,Millman M,Yen S,Keller M

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mental stress is associated with higher mortality, but it remains controversial whether the association is causal or a consequence of a higher physical disease burden in those with a high mental stress load. Understanding causality is important when developing targeted interventions. We aimed to estimate the...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Prior A,Fenger-Grøn M,Davydow DS,Olsen J,Li J,Guldin MB,Vestergaard M

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Social capital has been considered aetiologically important in schizophrenia but the empirical evidence to support this hypothesis is absent. We tested whether social capital, measured at the neighbourhood level, was associated with the incidence of schizophrenia (ICD-10 F20). MethodWe administered a cross-s...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kirkbride JB,Boydell J,Ploubidis GB,Morgan C,Dazzan P,McKenzie K,Murray RM,Jones PB

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic studies of single gene variants have been criticized as providing a simplistic characterization of the genetic basis of illness risk that ignores the effects of other variants within the same biological pathways. Of candidate biological pathways for schizophrenia (SZ), the cell adhesion molecule (CAM...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hargreaves A,Anney R,O'Dushlaine C,Nicodemus KK,Schizophrenia Psychiatric Genome-Wide Association Study Consortium (PGC-SCZ).,Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2.,Gill M,Corvin A,Morris D,Donohoe G

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood counts of 80 patients with depression were examined (50 unipolar, 30 bipolar). Many had reduced numbers of circulating lymphocytes. This abnormality was more common in the unipolar group (52%) than in the bipolar group (27%). When those patients with an abnormal dexamethasone suppression test response in bot...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Murphy D,Gardner R,Greden JF,Carroll BJ

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sample of over 6000 women was recruited in the last trimester of pregnancy and administered a 40-item self-report questionnaire designed to detect the presence of factors that were likely to increase the risk of postpartum depression. The mental state of almost 5000 of these women was determined at around 6 to 8 wee...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Cooper PJ,Murray L,Hooper R,West A

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age and sex-adjusted first admission rates for operationally-defined schizophrenia and other non-affective psychosis in different ethnic groups were calculated over the period 1988-1992 in a defined catchment area in South London. Standardized rates for schizophrenia, corrected for age- and gender-related under-report...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Van OS J,Castle DJ,Takei N,Der G,Murray RM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A consecutive series of 45 female bulimic patients treated by one of us was followed four to six years after termination of treatment. Thirty-five (78%) were successfully followed, six refused to participate in the study and four were untraced. At least seven (16%) had diagnosable bulimia nervosa at follow-up, and at ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hsu LK,Sobkiewicz TA

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from a case-control study of Alzheimer's disease (AD) were analysed in relation to age of onset and familial/sporadic status. The analyses were restricted to environmental exposures which might injure the brain. Later-onset AD was found to be positively associated with starvation/malnutrition and with nose-pickin...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Henderson AS,Jorm AF,Korten AE,Creasey H,McCusker E,Broe GA,Longley W,Anthony JC

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The COVID-19 pandemic has had a range of negative social and economic effects that may contribute to a rise in mental health problems. In this observational population-based study, we examined longitudinal changes in the prevalence of mental health problems from before to during the COVID-19 crisis and ident...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Daly M,Sutin AR,Robinson E

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is clearly established that emotional events tend to be remembered particularly vividly. The neurobiological substrates of this phenomenon are poorly understood. Recently, the noradrenergic system has been implicated in that beta blockade has been shown to reduce significantly the delayed recall of emotio...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： O'Carroll RE,Drysdale E,Cahill L,Shajahan P,Ebmeier KP

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Euthanasia and assisted suicide (EAS) based on a psychiatric disorder (psychiatric EAS) continue to pose ethical and policy challenges, even in countries where the practice has been allowed for years. We conducted a systematic review of reasons, a specific type of review for bioethical questions designed to ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Nicolini ME,Kim SYH,Churchill ME,Gastmans C

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pre- and perinatal adversities may increase the risk for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Hypoxia-related obstetric complications (OCs) are associated with brain anatomical abnormalities in schizophrenia, but their association with brain anatomy variation in bipolar disorder is unknown. METHOD:Magnetic r...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Haukvik UK,McNeil T,Lange EH,Melle I,Dale AM,Andreassen OA,Agartz I

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Objective binge eating (OBE) and self-induced vomiting (SIV) occur and co-occur across a range of eating disorders but the extent to which the risk factors for these two behaviours overlap is unclear. Examination of this overlap was the focus of the current report. METHOD:A population of female Australian t...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wade TD,Treloar S,Martin NG

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data are presented from a study of acculturation and psychiatric disorder in 291 Greek Cypriot immigrants from the general population of Camberwell, south London. We hypothesized that 'pre-acculturation' would protect against mental disorder, that difficulties in the period immediately after migration would increase t...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Mavreas V,Bebbington P

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic influences on alcoholism risk are well-documented in men, but uncertain in women. We tested for gender differences in genetic influences on, and risk-factors for, DSM-III-R alcohol dependence (AD). METHOD:Diagnostic follow-up interviews were conducted in 1992-3 by telephone with twins from an Austra...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Heath AC,Bucholz KK,Madden PA,Dinwiddie SH,Slutske WS,Bierut LJ,Statham DJ,Dunne MP,Whitfield JB,Martin NG

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet MAO activity was found to be elevated in primary depressive illness, and the severity to correlate positively with MAO activity. The reactive depression subgroup's mean platelet MAO activity was not significantly different from that of the controls. The endogenous group's unipolar and bipolar subgroups had si...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Mann J

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Subjects at 'ultra high risk' (UHR) for developing psychosis have differences in white matter (WM) compared with healthy controls. WM integrity has not yet been investigated in UHR subjects in relation to the development of subsequent psychosis. Hence, we investigated a prospective cohort of UHR subjects com...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bloemen OJ,de Koning MB,Schmitz N,Nieman DH,Becker HE,de Haan L,Dingemans P,Linszen DH,van Amelsvoort TA

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：:The theory that many diseases were produced by focal infection or chronic sepsis enjoyed a brief vogue in general medicine in the first quarter of the twentieth century. This paper explores its practical applications in psychiatry, which extended well into the 1930s. The analysis focuses particularly closely on the ac...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Scull A

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence suggests some overlap between the pathological use of food and drugs, yet how impulsivity compares across these different clinical disorders remains unclear. Substance use disorders are commonly characterized by elevated impulsivity, and impulsivity subtypes may show commonalities and differences in...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Mole TB,Irvine MA,Worbe Y,Collins P,Mitchell SP,Bolton S,Harrison NA,Robbins TW,Voon V

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Fijian community affected by a cyclone was compared with an unaffected but similar community. Two months after the cyclone both psychological and physical morbidity was 2-3 times greater in the affected community than in controls. By the third month morbidity had resolved to levels similar to those in the unaffected...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Fairley M,Langeluddecke P,Tennant C

更新日期：1986-08-01 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：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to determine whether depression in patients with long-term conditions is associated with the number of morbidities or the type of co-morbidity. Method A cohort study of 299 912 participants aged 30-100 years. The prevalence of depression, rates of health-care utilization and costs were evalu...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bhattarai N,Charlton J,Rudisill C,Gulliford MC

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Awareness of pulse rate was tested in 60 psychiatric out-patients with anxiety, phobic or hypochondriacal neuroses by asking them to record how fast their hearts were beating during exposure to short film sequences. Correlations between subjective and objective heart rate (ECG) were significantly higher in anxious and...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Tyrer P,Lee I,Alexander J

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have suggested that expanded CAG/CTG repeats contribute to the genetic aetiology of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. However, the nature of this contribution is uncertain and difficult to predict from other known trinucleotide repeat diseases that display much simpler patterns of inheritance. We have...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： O'Donovan MC,Guy C,Craddock N,Bowen T,McKeon P,Macedo A,Maier W,Wildenauer D,Aschauer HN,Sorbi S,Feldman E,Mynett-Johnson L,Claffey E,Nacmias B,Valente J,Dourado A,Grassi E,Lenzinger E,Heiden AM,Moorhead S,Harriso

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A standardized pegboard task was used to investigate changes in manipulative skill as a function of age in 119 right-handed subjects. The typical pattern of cognitive impairment in old age indicates a relative preservation of functions which depend on the integrity of the left hemisphere. In accord with these observat...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Weller MP,Latimer-Sayer DT

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00