The capacity of a measure of disability (the LSP) to predict hospital readmission in those with schizophrenia.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The potential effects of antipsychotic drugs on brain structure represent a key factor in understanding neuroanatomical changes in psychosis. This review addresses two issues: (1) do antipsychotic medications induce changes in total or regional human brain volumes and (2) do such effects depend on antipsycho...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Navari S,Dazzan P

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A wealth of clinical studies have identified objective biomarkers, which separate schizophrenia patients from healthy controls on a group level, but current diagnostic systems solely include clinical symptoms. In this study, we investigate if machine learning algorithms on multimodal data can serve as a fram...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Ebdrup BH,Axelsen MC,Bak N,Fagerlund B,Oranje B,Raghava JM,Nielsen MØ,Rostrup E,Hansen LK,Glenthøj BY

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropometric and biochemical indices of nutritional status and weighed dietary intake have been studied in hospitalized patients with senile dementia, demented patients living in the community and age-matched control subjects who were not cognitively impaired. Demented patients were lighter than control subjects, an...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Burns A,Marsh A,Bender DA

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients diagnosed on the basis of structured interviews as having affective psychoses were less sensitive in detecting the presence of a transient auditory signal than were schizophrenic patients or non-patients. Patients with affective psychoses also benefited more (their reaction time was more reduced) than the oth...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bruder GE,Sutton S,Babkoff H,Gurland BJ,Yozawitz A,Fleiss JL

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:No studies have reported on how to relieve distress or relax in medical health workers while wearing medical protective equipment in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The study aimed to establish which relaxation technique, among six, is the most feasible in first-line medical health workers wear...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Zhang H,Li A,Zhu B,Niu Y,Ruan Z,Liu L,Gao X,Wang K,Yin L,Peng M,Xue Q,Leng H,Min B,Tian Q,Wang C,Yang Y,Zhu Z,Si T,Li W,Shangguan F,Hong X,Chang H,Song H,Li D,Jia L,Dong H,Wang Y,Cosci F,Wang H

更新日期：2020-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The diagnosis of certain psychiatric syndromes (e.g. panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder) is crucially dependent on the psychosocial context in which they arise. For other syndromes (e.g. schizophrenia), the context is generally irrelevant. Should the diagnosis of major depression (MD) be made depe...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kendler KS,Myers J,Halberstadt LJ

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Factor analysis has been employed to identify latent variables that are unifying constructs and that parsimoniously describe correlations among a related group of variables. Confirmatory factor analysis is used to test hypothesized factor structures for a set of variables; it can also, as in this paper be us...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Jacob KS,Everitt BS,Patel V,Weich S,Araya R,Lewis GH

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and sixteen working-class housewives, part-time and full-time employees were compared on a range of well-being measures in three different lifestages. A group of factory employees was contrasted with a 'mixed occupation' group for a comparison of type of employment. The general contention that the associat...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Haw CE

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cognitive models of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) posit dysfunctional appraisal of disorder-relevant stimuli in patients, suggesting disturbances in the processes relying on amygdala-prefrontal connectivity. Recent neuroanatomical models add to the traditional view of dysfunction in corticostriatal cir...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Paul S,Beucke JC,Kaufmann C,Mersov A,Heinzel S,Kathmann N,Simon D

更新日期：2019-01-01 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:The attenuated positive symptoms syndrome (APSS) is considered an at-risk indicator for psychosis. However, the characteristics and developmental aspects of the combined or enriched risk criteria of APSS and basic symptom (BS) criteria, including self-experienced cognitive disturbances (COGDIS) remain under-...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Gerstenberg M,Theodoridou A,Traber-Walker N,Franscini M,Wotruba D,Metzler S,Müller M,Dvorsky D,Correll CU,Walitza S,Rössler W,Heekeren K

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We report the prevalence, clinical characteristics, frequency of mental health treatment, demographic correlates, frequency of co-morbid psychiatric conditions, and general health ramifications of DSM-IV blood-injection-injury phobia in the general population. METHOD:The Diagnostic Interview Schedule (versi...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bienvenu OJ,Eaton WW

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Three cognitive constructs are risk factors for eating disorders: undue influence of weight and shape, concern about weight and shape, and body dissatisfaction (BD). Undue influence, a diagnostic criterion for eating disorders, is postulated to be closely associated with self-esteem whereas BD is postulated ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wade TD,Zhu G,Martin NG

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Approximately 25% of people with bulimia nervosa (BN) who undertake therapy are treated in groups. National guidelines do not discriminate between group and individual therapy, yet each has potential advantages and disadvantages and it is unclear how their effects compare. We therefore evaluated how group th...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Polnay A,James VA,Hodges L,Murray GD,Munro C,Lawrie SM

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression increases the risk of subsequent vascular events in both cardiac and non-cardiac patients. Atherosclerosis, the underlying process leading to vascular events, has been associated with depression. This association, however, may be confounded by the somatic-affective symptoms being a consequence of ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bus BA,Marijnissen RM,Holewijn S,Franke B,Purandare N,de Graaf J,den Heijer M,Buitelaar JK,Voshaar RC

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alcohol is commonly considered to be associated with persistence of common mental disorder (CMD; anxiety/depression). However no community-based longitudinal studies have investigated the direction of causality. METHOD:We examined the association between alcohol consumption and recovery from CMD using data ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Haynes JC,Farrell M,Singleton N,Meltzer H,Araya R,Lewis G,Wiles NJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 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

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：: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：:Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was studied in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. Among 2985 subjects, the lifetime and six month prevalence figures for PTSD were 1.30 and 0.44% respectively. In comparison to non-PTSD subjects, those with PTSD had significantly greater job instability, family history of psyc...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Davidson JR,Hughes D,Blazer DG,George LK

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A combined family study and recovered study design was utilized to examine several hypothesized relationships between personality and bulimia nervosa (BN). METHODS:We studied 47 women with a lifetime history of DSM-III-R BN (31 currently ill and 16 recovered), 44 matched control women (CW) with no history o...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Lilenfeld LR,Stein D,Bulik CM,Strober M,Plotnicov K,Pollice C,Rao R,Merikangas KR,Nagy L,Kaye WH

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effect of prenatal distress on the risk of a small for gestational age (SGA) infant is uncertain. We have addressed the influences of prenatal stress, anxiety and depression on the risk of SGA. We also examined the effects of infant sex and timing of distress during pregnancy on any observed associations...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Khashan AS,Everard C,McCowan LM,Dekker G,Moss-Morris R,Baker PN,Poston L,Walker JJ,Kenny LC

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：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:Hip fracture is common in the elderly. Previous studies suggest that psychiatric illness is common and predicts poor outcome, but have methodological weaknesses. Further studies are required to address this important issue. METHODS:We prospectively recruited 731 elderly participants with hip fracture in two...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Holmes J,House A

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Certain personality traits predispose to criminal behavior (CB). We further clarify this relationship in a Swedish national sample. METHOD:Psychological strength (PS) was assessed on a nine-point scale at personal interview in 1 653 721 Swedish men aged 18-20 years. We examined the association between PS an...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kendler KS,Lönn SL,Lichtenstein P,Sundquist J,Sundquist K

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pharmacological treatments targeting the neuroendocrine stress response may hold special promise in secondary prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, findings from clinical trials have been inconsistent and the efficacy of specific drugs, their temporal window of efficacy, effective dose...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kamboj SK,Gong AT,Sim Z,Rashid AA,Baba A,Iskandar G,Das RK,Curran HV

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:General practitioners using DSM-III criteria have studied the incidence and prevalence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa in a large (N = 151,781) representative sample of the Dutch population. The incidence rate for anorexia nervosa is 6.3 and for bulimia nervosa 9.9 per year per 100,000 population. The prevalen...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hoek HW

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psychiatric rehabilitation (PR) can improve functioning in people with severe mental illness (SMI), but outcomes are still suboptimal. Cognitive impairments have severe implications for functioning and might reduce the effects of PR. It has been demonstrated that performance in cognitive tests can be improve...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： van Duin D,de Winter L,Oud M,Kroon H,Veling W,van Weeghel J

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that a diagnosis of cancer and the subsequent treatment can cause a great deal of stress, and the need for psychosocial support is increasingly being advocated. The data for the efficacy of intervention programmes are reviewed. The evidence relating to the benefits gained by patients is equivoca...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Watson M

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00