Increased plasma concentrations of the 5-HT precursor amino acid tryptophan and other large neutral amino acids in violent criminals.

abstract：:The effects of physostigmine on test performance of a patient with multiple cognitive deficits were observed in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Scores on tests of learning and memory and tests of visuo-spatial and constructional ability were both improved by physostigmine, while lecithin improved scores only...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sahakian B,Joyce E,Lishman WA

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One week after Sir William Gull read his seminal report on anorexia nervosa to the Clinical Society of London, a brief account was published (Anonymous, 1873). In Paris, Charles Lasègue, editor of Archives Générales de Médecine read the report and printed an immediate editorial riposte, parts of which will be quoted i...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Silverman JA

更新日期：1992-05-01 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：BACKGROUND:Two types of mentalization-based treatment (MBT), day hospital MBT (MBT-DH) and intensive outpatient MBT (MBT-IOP), have been shown to be effective in treating patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). This study evaluated trajectories of change in a multi-site trial of MBT-DH and MBT-IOP at 36 mo...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Smits ML,Feenstra DJ,Bales DL,Blankers M,Dekker JJM,Lucas Z,Kamphuis JH,Busschbach JJV,Verheul R,Luyten P

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The psychiatric status of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (N = 34) and muscle disease (N = 24) attending a general medical clinic was studied. Among fatigue patients 14 (41.2%) were cases and a further 9 (26.5%) were subcases of psychiatric disorder as defined by CATEGO. A variety of diagnoses was found. Signif...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wood GC,Bentall RP,Göpfert M,Edwards RH

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depressive symptoms above screening thresholds have been shown to predict functional decline in older adults. Less is known about the impact of subthreshold depression, and whether more symptoms confer significantly greater risk compared to fewer symptoms. METHOD:Using data from the Duke Established Populat...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hybels CF,Pieper CF,Blazer DG

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:Five idiots savants whose artistic output was judged to be at art school entrance standard were matched for performance and verbal IQ with control subjects who had no special artistic talent. Each subject was given tests of reproductive skill with both concrete pictures and unfamiliar and unnameable geometric designs....

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： O'Connor N,Hermelin B

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Emotional Stroop tasks have shown attention biases of clinical populations towards stimuli related to their condition. Asperger Syndrome (AS) is a neuropsychiatric condition with social and communication deficits, repetitive behaviours and narrow interests. Social deficits are particularly striking, includin...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Ashwin C,Wheelwright S,Baron-Cohen S

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:National statistics for railway fatalities in England and Wales show a reduction of train crashes and a fluctuating level of deaths, of which an increasing proportion is from suicide. A closer examination of a two-year sample from the South of England revealed a large proportion of probable suicides and a small propor...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Symonds RL

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Principal component analysis was applied to data relating to depressive experiences collected from a general population sample. The structure of depression found in the general population showed strong similarities to that found in the psychiatric population. There were, however, important differences. Four substantia...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Cooke DJ

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have attempted to clarify clinical differentiating features of psychotic depression. Forty-six depressed subjects meeting DSM-III-R criteria for major depression with psychotic features were compared with (i) DSM-defined melancholic, (ii) Newcastle-defined endogenous, and (iii) a residual DSM-defined major depressi...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Parker G,Hadzi-Pavlovic D,Brodaty H,Austin MP,Mitchell P,Wilhelm K,Hickie I

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of domiciliary and out-patient treatment of self-poisoning patients, using a brief problem-orientated approach, it was found that domiciliary treatment resulted in much higher attendance rates but no difference in outcome. Patients who completed out-patient treatment had a better outcome than those who fail...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hawton K,Bancroft J,Catalan J,Kingston B,Stedeford A,Welch N

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic fatigue is a common symptom of multiple sclerosis (MS). A randomized controlled trial (RCT) showed that cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) was more effective in reducing MS fatigue than relaxation training (RT). The aim of the current study was to analyse additional data from this trial to determine...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Knoop H,van Kessel K,Moss-Morris R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parental characteristics and practices predict borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms in children. However, it is difficult to disentangle whether these effects are genetically or environmentally mediated. The present study examines the contributions of genetic and environmental influences by compari...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Fatimah H,Wiernik BM,Gorey C,McGue M,Iacono WG,Bornovalova MA

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psychological traumatic events, such as war or road traffic accidents, are widespread. A small but significant proportion of survivors develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Distressing, sensory-based involuntary memories of trauma (henceforth 'flashbacks') are the hallmark symptom of PTSD. Understan...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bourne C,Mackay CE,Holmes EA

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies investigating early developmental factors in relation to psychopathology have mainly focused on schizophrenia. The personality dimension of neuroticism seems to be a general risk factor for psychopathology, but evidence on associations between early developmental precursors and personality traits is ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Flensborg-Madsen T,Sørensen HJ,Revsbech R,Mortensen EL

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-three chronic obstructive bronchitic patients were psychologically assessed before being randomly allocated to 1 of 3 management regimes. The following measures were taken: psychiatric disturbance, personality, social-desirability response set, vocabulary, expectations about treatment, attitudes and beliefs abo...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Rutter BM

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A meta-analysis was carried out on 53 cases of dementia praecox (DP) and 134 cases of manic-depressive insanity (MDI) originally diagnosed by Kraepelin or his collaborators in Munich in 1908. The original case material was coded in terms of Present State Examination syndromes and analysed statistically for internal co...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Jablensky A,Hugler H,Von Cranach M,Kalinov K

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taxometric procedures have been used extensively to investigate whether individual differences in personality and psychopathology are latently dimensional or categorical ('taxonic'). We report the first meta-analysis of taxometric research, examining 317 findings drawn from 183 articles that employed an index of the c...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Haslam N,McGrath MJ,Viechtbauer W,Kuppens P

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The atypical processing of eye contact is a characteristic hallmark of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The severity of these symptoms, however, is thought to lie on a continuum that extends into the typical population. While behavioural evidence shows that differences in social cognitive tasks in typically d...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Madipakkam AR,Rothkirch M,Dziobek I,Sterzer P

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are no evidence-based treatments for severe and enduring anorexia nervosa (SE-AN). This study evaluated the relative efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT-AN) and specialist supportive clinical management (SSCM) for adults with SE-AN. METHOD:Sixty-three participants with a diagnosis of AN, who...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Touyz S,Le Grange D,Lacey H,Hay P,Smith R,Maguire S,Bamford B,Pike KM,Crosby RD

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with poorer cognitive functioning. We used a developmental, genetically-sensitive approach to examine intelligence quotient (IQ) from early childhood to young adulthood among those with different ADHD courses to investigate whether changes in ADHD...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Agnew-Blais JC,Polanczyk GV,Danese A,Wertz J,Moffitt TE,Arseneault L

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Causal attributions about bodily sensations may determine help-seeking and influence patients' demands for medical treatment. The present study aimed to differentiate the causal attributions associated with health-related and non-health-related anxiety. METHODS:Anxious hypochondriacal, generally anxious, an...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： MacLeod AK,Haynes C,Sensky T

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Expressed emotion (EE) measured from relatives and informal carers has been consistently demonstrated to be associated with clinical outcome in schizophrenic patients. There have also been published studies that have investigated EE in professional carers that have suggested that the quality of the relations...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Tattan T,Tarrier N

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research in resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) has shown a mixed pattern of disrupted thalamocortical connectivity in psychosis. The clinical meaning of these findings and their stability over time remains unclear. We aimed to study thalamocortical connectivity longitudina...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bergé D,Lesh TA,Smucny J,Carter CS

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The histological basis of schizophrenia is unknown, but it appears to affect the hippocampal and neocortical cytoarchitecture. Some cytoarchitectural parameters normally differ between the two cerebral hemispheres. Moreover, schizophrenia is associated with altered structural cerebral asymmetry. However, few...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Zaidel DW,Esiri MM,Harrison PJ

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A non-recursive structural equation model designed to examine the reciprocal relationship between life event reports and depressive symptoms in women is presented. The model was fitted to data from a 2-year longitudinal study of life events and depression in a sample of women with 5-year-old children. The findings sug...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Fergusson DM,Horwood LJ

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from a general population survey of psychiatric disorder in Camberwell were used to calculate the risk of a CATEGO-defined depressive episode before the age of 65, using a modification of Strömgren's method. Current depression was defined as cases within the relevant categories of the CATEGO program and at thresh...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bebbington P,Katz R,McGuffin P,Tennant C,Hurry J

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Empirical data regarding prevalence of sexual and physical abuse histories in Japanese patients with eating disorders is lacking, in contrast to Western countries. This study investigated the prevalence of traumatic events in Japanese patients with eating disorders, and examined the relationship between such...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Nagata T,Kiriike N,Iketani T,Kawarada Y,Tanaka H

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00