Mental health problems in the Gomel region (Belarus): an analysis of risk factors in an area affected by the Chernobyl disaster.

abstract：:An attempt was made to identify background, sociodemographic and clinical variables which are associated with attempted suicide in depression. Within a sample of 308 depressed psychiatric inpatients, suicide attempters were younger than non-attempters and were identified by a pattern of chronic interpersonal maladjust...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Crook T,Raskin A,Davis D

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of psychiatric disorder, as assessed by both the GHQ-28 and the short PSE, is described for a random community sample of New Zealand women. In contrast to previous studies, married and widowed women and mothers showed lower rates than the never married and childless women. A plausible explanation is pro...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Romans-Clarkson SE,Walton VA,Herbison GP,Mullen PE

更新日期：1988-11-01 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:Maternal smoking has consistently been associated with multiple adverse childhood outcomes including externalizing disorders. In contrast the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy (MSDP) and internalizing (anxiety and depressive) disorders in offspring has received less investigation. METHOD...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Meier SM,Plessen KJ,Verhulst F,Mors O,Mortensen PB,Pedersen CB,Agerbo E

更新日期：2017-01-19 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：:The authors review the evidence that parental death in childhood predisposes to depressive disorders in later life. The findings in general are quite inconsistent; this is due in part to the methodological limitations of most studies, principally that of inadequate control of potentially confounding variables. Where e...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Tennant C,Bebbington P,Hurry J

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although symptoms such as fatigue, headache and pain in bones and muscles are common after disasters, risk factors for these symptoms among disaster survivors have rarely been studied. We examined predisposing, precipitating and perpetuating factors for these physical symptoms among survivors of a man-made d...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： van den Berg B,Grievink L,van der Velden PG,Yzermans CJ,Stellato RK,Lebret E,Brunekreef B

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is associated with reduced life expectancy in patients with affective disorders, however, whether MetS also plays a role before the onset of affective disorder is unknown. We aimed to investigate whether MetS, inflammatory markers or oxidative stress act as risk factors for affectiv...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Ottesen NM,Meluken I,Frikke-Schmidt R,Plomgaard P,Scheike T,Fernandes BS,Berk M,Poulsen HE,Kessing LV,Miskowiak K,Vinberg M

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A dysfunctional network of prefrontal and (para-)limbic brain region has been suggested to underlie emotional dysregulation in borderline personality disorder (BPD). Abnormal activity in this network may be due to structural alterations in white-matter tracts connecting prefrontal and (para-)limbic brain reg...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Lischke A,Domin M,Freyberger HJ,Grabe HJ,Mentel R,Bernheim D,Lotze M

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Restrictive food intake in anorexia nervosa (AN) has been related to an overactive cognitive control network inhibiting intuitive motivational responses to food stimuli. However, the influence of short-term homeostatic signaling on the neural regulation of cue-induced food craving in AN is still unclear. ME...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Stopyra MA,Friederich HC,Mönning E,Lavandier N,Bendszus M,Herzog W,Simon JJ

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aberrant functional connectivity within the default network is generally assumed to be involved in the pathophysiology of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD); however, the genetic risk of default network connectivity in OCD remains largely unknown. METHOD:Here, we systematically investigated default network...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Peng ZW,Xu T,He QH,Shi CZ,Wei Z,Miao GD,Jing J,Lim KO,Zuo XN,Chan RC

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypochondriasis is recognized as an important disorder in clinical populations, associated with increased health care utilization, disability and psychiatric co-morbidity. Few studies have investigated hypochondriasis in the community. We report on the broader concept of illness worry in a community populati...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Looper KJ,Kirmayer LJ

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic influences contribute significantly to co-morbidity between conduct disorder and substance use disorders. Estimating the extent of overlap can assist in the development of phenotypes for genomic analyses. METHOD:Multivariate quantitative genetic analyses were conducted using data from 9577 individua...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Grant JD,Lynskey MT,Madden PA,Nelson EC,Few LR,Bucholz KK,Statham DJ,Martin NG,Heath AC,Agrawal A

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The importance of genetic factors in the aetiology of manic-depressive illness (MDI) has been repeatedly confirmed and indicators of vulnerability to the illness in families with affective disorders are needed. Abnormal event-related potentials (ERP) may be markers of genetic vulnerability to mental illness....

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Pierson A,Jouvent R,Quintin P,Perez-Diaz F,Leboyer M

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Individual variation in the clinical course of bipolar disorder may have prognostic and therapeutic implications but is poorly reflected in current classifications. We aimed to establish a typology of the individual clinical trajectories based on detailed prospective medium-term follow-up. Method Latent clas...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Uher R,Mantere O,Suominen K,Isometsä E

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study integrated an experimental medicine approach and a randomized cross-over clinical trial design following CONSORT recommendations to evaluate a cognitive training (CT) intervention for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The experimental medicine approach was adopted because of documen...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wexler BE,Vitulano LA,Moore C,Katsovich L,Smith SD,Rush C,Grantz H,Dong J,Leckman JF

更新日期：2020-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:. A variety of factors are related to compliance with medication in schizophrenia, but little attention has been paid to the role of families. Carers' knowledge or expressed emotion (EE) may be related to compliance. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the relevance of these two factors, as well as ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sellwood W,Tarrier N,Quinn J,Barrowclough C

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:A two-stage psychiatric survey of a random samples of adults aged 18-64 from Camberwell is described. Agency interviewers carried out the first stage (N = 800), using the shorter form of the Present State Examination (PSE). MRC interviewers, using the full PSE, saw a stratified sample of these (N = 310) in the second ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bebbington P,Hurry J,Tennant C,Sturt E,Wing JK

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropsychological tests of frontal lobe functions were undertaken in 46 chronic schizophrenic patients who were also rated for movement disorders. Tardive dyskinesia was found to have significant associations with most of these psychological tests. The possible mechanisms are discussed within the context of known neo...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Brown KW,White T,Palmer D

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Personality characteristics of 87 parents of autistic probands and 38 parents of Down's syndrome probands were examined using a standardized personality interview. Using best-estimate ratings derived from subject and informant interviews, parents of autistic individuals were rated significantly higher than controls on...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Piven J,Wzorek M,Landa R,Lainhart J,Bolton P,Chase GA,Folstein S

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The experience of childhood trauma is linked to more severe symptoms and poorer functioning in severe mental disorders; however, the mechanisms behind this are poorly understood. We investigate the relationship between childhood trauma and sleep disturbances in severe mental disorders including the role of s...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Laskemoen JF,Aas M,Vaskinn A,Berg AO,Lunding SH,Barrett EA,Melle I,Simonsen C

更新日期：2020-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To estimate the lifetime prevalence and potential determinants of psychotic experience(s) (PEs) in the general population of Qatar - a small non-war afflicted, conservative, high-income, middle-eastern country with recent rapid urbanization including an influx of migrants. METHODS:A probability-based sample...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Khaled SM,Wilkins SS,Woodruff P

更新日期：2020-05-01 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:Aggressive behaviour is increased among those with schizophrenia but less is known about those with affective psychoses. Similarly, little is known about aggressive behaviour occurring at the onset of illness. METHOD:The main reasons for presentation to services were examined among those recruited to a UK-b...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Dean K,Walsh E,Morgan C,Demjaha A,Dazzan P,Morgan K,Lloyd T,Fearon P,Jones PB,Murray RM

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Advanced paternal age is associated with increased risk of schizophrenia. This study aimed to explore whether older paternal age is associated with earlier onset among co-affected schizophrenia sib-pairs with the same familial predisposition. METHOD:A total of 1297 patients with schizophrenia from 630 famil...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wang SH,Liu CM,Hwu HG,Hsiao CK,Chen WJ

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the United States, cannabis accessibility has continued to rise as the perception of its harmfulness has decreased. Only about 30% of regular cannabis users develop cannabis use disorder (CUD), but it is unclear if individuals who use cannabis regularly without ever developing CUD experience notable psych...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Foster KT,Arterberry BJ,Iacono WG,McGue M,Hicks BM

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary data from the National Institute of Mental Health-Clinical Research Branch Collaborative Program on the Psychobiology of Depression dealing with the human growth hormone (hGH) response to the Insulin Tolerance Test (ITT) during the pre-treatment (drug-free) period of the study are presented in this paper. ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Koslow SH,Stokes PE,Mendels J,Ramsey A,Casper R

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In previous studies an association between deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan and an overall increased risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in UK armed forces has not been found. The lack of a deployment effect might be explained by including, in the comparison group, personnel deployed on other ope...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Jones M,Sundin J,Goodwin L,Hull L,Fear NT,Wessely S,Rona RJ

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Geriatric Mental State and a new computerized diagnostic system, AGECAT, are briefly described. A nomenclature for designating cases for epidemiological work is introduced. Concordance between AGECAT and psychiatrists' diagnoses for these studies, hospital and community based (total of 541 subjects), achieved over...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Copeland JR,Dewey ME,Griffiths-Jones HM

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00