Post-traumatic stress disorder: supportive evidence from an eighteenth century natural disaster.

abstract：:The prevalence of culture-bound syndromes such as eating disorders in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe is unclear and comparative epidemiological studies are lacking. Before the political changes in 1989 we therefore investigated eating disorders, eating attitudes and psychological health in two Eastern Eur...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Rathner G,Túry F,Szabó P,Geyer M,Rumpold G,Forgács A,Söllner W,Plöttner G

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research has shown that adults with intellectual disability (ID) may be more at risk of developing dementia in old age than expected. However, the effect of age and ID severity on dementia prevalence rates has never been reported. We investigated the predictions that older adults with ID should have...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Strydom A,Hassiotis A,King M,Livingston G

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To date, there has been no large-scale survey of geriatric depression (GD) involving both rural and urban areas in China using standardized assessment tools and diagnostic criteria. This study aimed to determine the 12-month and lifetime prevalence rates of GD and sociodemographic correlates in urban and rur...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Ma X,Xiang YT,Li SR,Xiang YQ,Guo HL,Hou YZ,Cai ZJ,Li ZB,Li ZJ,Tao YF,Dang WM,Wu XM,Deng J,Ungvari GS,Chiu HF

更新日期：2008-12-01 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: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:Delusional disorder (DD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have been investigated in previous studies using probabilistic reasoning paradigms and abnormalities in each group have been reported. No study to date has compared results between these groups. This study compares patients with these disorders...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Fear CF,Healy D

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oral contraceptive use has been previously associated with an increased risk of suicidal behavior in some, but not all, samples. The use of large, representative, longitudinally-assessed samples may clarify the nature of this potential association. METHODS:We used Swedish national registries to identify wom...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Edwards AC,Lönn SL,Crump C,Mościcki EK,Sundquist J,Kendler KS,Sundquist K

更新日期：2020-10-21 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attentional difficulties reported in individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) may be due to preferential processing of disease-salient stimuli at a pre-attentive or at a conscious level or to a general problem in attention. Attentional difficulties may be associated with duration of illness. METHOD:Female par...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Dickson H,Brooks S,Uher R,Tchanturia K,Treasure J,Campbell IC

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：:Forty-eight couples with a presenting problem of female sexual unresponsiveness were treated in a controlled study using a balanced factorial design. The factors varied in this design were medication (testosterone or placebo), treatment frequency (weekly or monthly sessions), and the number of therapists involved (one...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Mathews A,Whitehead A,Kellett J

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interpersonal stress generation is an important maintaining factor in major depression; however, little is known about the psychological mechanisms that undermine interpersonal functioning. This study investigated the role of deficits in person perception to this regard. METHOD:Depressed patients (n = 20) a...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Boecking B,Barnhofer T

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a 5-week study of 22 depressed patients treated with nortriptyline, significant changes in plasma levels, both elevated and reduced, were deliberately produced in the third and fourth weeks of each patient's treatment. Correlation of plasma nortriptyline levels and changes in the severity of depression, as measured...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Burrows GD,Maguire KP,Scoggins BA,Stevenson J,Davies B

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychiatric disorders are studied at multiple levels, but there is no agreement on how these levels are related to each other, or how they should be understood in the first place. In this paper, I provide an account of levels and their relationships that is suited for psychopathology, drawing from recent debates in ph...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Eronen MI

更新日期：2019-09-24 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:Psychiatric history, familial history of suicide attempts, and certain traumatic life events are important predictors of suicidal thoughts and behaviour. We examined the epidemiology and genetics of suicidality (i.e. reporting persistent suicidal thoughts or a plan or suicide attempt) in a large community-ba...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

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

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expressed emotion (EE) measure is a robust predictor of relapse in schizophrenia. At least twelve studies from a range of cultures have now shown this, although the authors of one maintain their findings are the result of confounding factors. A thirteenth study which failed to demonstrate a predictive effect was s...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kuipers L,Bebbington P

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies suggest that offspring of mothers with psychotic disorders have an almost two-fold higher mortality risk from birth until early adulthood. We investigated predictors of mortality from late adolescence until middle age in offspring of mothers with psychotic disorders. METHOD:The Helsinki Hig...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Suvisaari J,Häkkinen L,Haukka J,Lönnqvist J

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Agitated patients constitute 10% of all emergency psychiatric treatment. Management guidelines, the preferred treatment of clinicians differ in opinion and practice. In Lebanon, the use of the triple therapy haloperidol plus promethazine plus chlorpromazine (HPC) is frequently used but no studies involving t...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Dib JE,Yaacoub HE,Ikdais WH,Atallah E,Merheb TJ,Ajaltouni J,Akkari M,Mourad M,Nasr ME,Hachem D,Kazour F,Tahan F,Haddad G,Azar J,Zoghbi M,Haddad C,Hallit S,Adams CE

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psychotic symptoms occur more frequently in the general population than psychotic disorder and index risk for psychopathology. Multiple studies have reported on the prevalence of these symptoms using self-report questionnaires or clinical interviews but there is a lack of consensus about the prevalence of ps...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kelleher I,Connor D,Clarke MC,Devlin N,Harley M,Cannon M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of allusive thinking is briefly reviewed and a Pavlovian model of thinking advanced. It is hypothesized that allusive, as compared with non-allusive thinkers, have a broader but less intense attention process associated with weaker inhibition. From this model it was predicted that on word tests which requi...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Armstrong MS,McConaghy N

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of central dopamine functions appears to be a common basic property of antipsychotic drugs. The mesolimbic and nigrostriatal portions of the dopaminergic system are probably the main targets of these drugs for the mental and the extrapyramidal actions respectively. Dopaminergic hyperfunction, induced by amp...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Carlsson A

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scientific interest in the therapeutic effects of classical psychedelics has increased in the past two decades. The psychological effects of these substances outside the period of acute intoxication have not been fully characterized. This study aimed to: (1) quantify the effects of psilocybin, ayahuasca, and...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Goldberg SB,Shechet B,Nicholas CR,Ng CW,Deole G,Chen Z,Raison CL

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As part of a collaborative linkage study, the authors obtained clinical and demographic data on 160 families in which more than one sibling was affected with a bipolar illness. The aim of the study was to identify clinical characteristics that had a high degree of familiality. METHOD:Data on age at onset, g...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： O'Mahony E,Corvin A,O'Connell R,Comerford C,Larsen B,Jones R,McCandless F,Kirov G,Cardno AG,Craddock N,Gill M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cannabis use is associated with altered neurocognitive functioning in severe mental disorders, but data are still inconclusive and there are no studies of bipolar disorder. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between cannabis use and neurocognition in bipolar disorder compared with schiz...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Ringen PA,Vaskinn A,Sundet K,Engh JA,Jónsdóttir H,Simonsen C,Friis S,Opjordsmoen S,Melle I,Andreassen OA

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to evaluate a programme of lesion surgery carried out on patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD). METHOD:This was a retrospective study looking at clinical and psychometric data from 45 patients with TRD who had undergone bilateral stereotactic anterior capsulotomy s...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Subramanian L,Bracht T,Jenkins P,Choppin S,Linden DE,Phillips G,Simpson BA

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Men sexually interested in children of a specific combination of maturity and sex tend to show some lesser interest in other categories of persons. Patterns of men's sexual interest across erotic targets' categories of maturity and sex have both clinical and basic scientific implications. METHOD:We examined...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bailey JM,Blanchard R,Hsu KJ,Revelle W

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To assess the prevalence and clinical impact of co-morbid social anxiety disorder (SAD) and alcohol use disorders (AUD, i.e. alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence) in a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States. METHOD:Data came from a large representative sample of the US population. F...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Schneier FR,Foose TE,Hasin DS,Heimberg RG,Liu SM,Grant BF,Blanco C

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:Dissociative reactions in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been regarded as strategic responses that limit arousal. Neuroimaging studies suggest distinct prefrontal responses in individuals displaying dissociative and hyperarousal responses to threat in PTSD. Increased prefrontal activity may refle...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Felmingham K,Kemp AH,Williams L,Falconer E,Olivieri G,Peduto A,Bryant R

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00