Use of the dexamethasone suppression test on a combined medicine-psychiatry inpatient unit.

abstract：:Patients who have both medical and psychiatric illnesses often present very difficult diagnostic and treatment problems. Cross referrals by the two or more specialties necessarily involved in their management are often perceived by these patients as rejection and not only may induce in them feelings of frustration, he...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Hossenlopp CM,Holland J

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES AND METHODS:Perimenstrual psychosis is an uncommon disorder, not included under the accepted classifications of functional psychoses. Our aim was to describe two Israeli female adolescents who fit this diagnosis. RESULTS:Both youngsters developed an acute psychosis a few days before menstruation, which subs...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Stein D,Blumensohn R,Witztum E

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Although generalized social anxiety disorder (gSAD) is more prevalent in women, the role of female reproductive hormones in gSAD has never been investigated. Therefore, our aim was to make a first inventory of the influence of female reproductive hormones on gSAD symptoms. METHOD:Female patients with gSAD wh...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： van Veen JF,Jonker BW,van Vliet IM,Zitman FG

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one individuals underwent extensive psychological evaluation before, and four months after, coronary bypass surgery, that examined: defensive mechanisms; fantasies and distortions; subjective meaning of the procedure; and transference and projections. Patients showed a significant improvement in their physical ...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Thurer S,Levine F,Thurer R

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty years of scholarship by behavioral science faculty shaped the training and practice of family physicians. One can trace behavioral science influence from the philosophical underpinnings of family medicine (whole-person, patient-centered, biopsychosocial care), to the translation of psychotherapy skills into tool...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Burge SK

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This article examines the cognitive and psychiatric features of multiple sclerosis. MS can manifest as a neuropsychiatric disturbance even in the absence of physical disabilities. METHOD:Two MS patients with predominant behavioral symptoms are described, and the literature is reviewed. RESULTS:The first pat...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Mendez MF

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:George Engel's biopsychosocial vision was simultaneously scientific and humanistic. He passionately presented an approach to clinical care to correct the progressive distancing of clinical care and research from the lived experience of the patient. Yet, while science provides ever greater evidence for the linkages bet...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Epstein RM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To propose an answer to Medicine's confusion about what Type A Behavior is. METHOD:To critically review early writings about Type A as well as current literature with a focus on five key articles which are frequently mentioned in medical and lay literature as containing relevant data undermining the Type A h...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Larson JA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is possible that Jack the Ripper can be understood in terms of doctor-identification borne of one or more terrifying experiences he may have had with doctors during his childhood. The fantasies acted out by this primitive murderer are similar to the fantasies experienced by people who have been surgically traumatiz...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Shuster S

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Depression and co-morbid substance abuse disorders are a major public health problem. Information is limited for patients attending Polish primary care clinics. This article addresses 30-day and lifetime prevalence of major depression in a heavy drinking population from 12 Polish primary care clinics. METHOD...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Manwell LB,Czabala JC,Ignaczak M,Mundt MP

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Japan experienced a nationwide outbreak of hydrogen sulfide suicides (HSS) between April and May 2008. The annual number of HSS skyrocketed from 19 in 2007 to 1,056 in 2008. However, the factors affecting this enormous increase remain unknown. The present study aimed to examine the effect of media coverage of...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Nakamura M,Yasunaga H,Toda AA,Sugihara T,Imamura T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Philosophical and theological notions regarding food and eating are briefly reviewed, as is the history of anorexia nervosa. Modern studies of social, psychological, and biological aspects of anorexia nervosa have failed, as yet, to provide an organized coherent understanding of the etiology of this disorder. ...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Giannini AJ

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The development of instruments to measure emotional maladjustment in diabetic Hispanic populations has received little attention. We present the development and validation of the Diabetes Emotional Adjustment Scale in Spanish. METHOD:An eighteen-item self-administered scale was construed to assess emotional ...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： De León OA

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dialysis encephalopathy (DE) is a distinct neuropsychiatric syndrome typically occurring in patients undergoing longterm hemodialysis. It is characterized by electroencephalographic abnormalities in association with disturbances of speech, cognition, movement, affect, or behavior. Previously thought to be relentlessly...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Jack R,Rabin PL,McKinney TD

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the impact of psychiatric illness, aggression, and other covarying variables on the compliance and coping potential of cancer patients treated in liaison-consultation psychiatry. METHODS:The study involves 270 cancer patients who were admitted to the oncology ward for diagnosis and treatment. ...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Grube M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases from an adolescent dialysis group are presented to illustrate the limitations of the generally used models of patient compliance and noncompliance with medical treatment. Understanding the noncompliance of these two young men required awareness of their psychological development and of the interpersonal matr...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Armstrong SH,Weiner MF

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of accident/error rates was carried out on thirty-one nursing students. Recent life changes and stresses, social support available to cope with this stress, depression, illness rate, and coping skills were measured at baseline. Five weeks later students recorded accidents suffered and errors made o...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Sheehan DV,O'Donnell J,Fitzgerald A,Hervig L,Ward H

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Previous studies have demonstrated the effects of the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks on anxiety and anxiety-related conditions in Americans. However, data regarding associations between the attacks and patients' health perceptions are lacking. The objective of this study was to explore associations bet...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Haidet P,O'Malley KJ,Sharf BF,Gladney AP,Tran AN,Greisinger AJ,Ashton CM,Street RL Jr

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is a review of some of the sparse investigation of EEG concomitants of verbally induced stress. The difficulties encountered in good experimental design in this formidable area, which may account for the paucity of work, are discussed. A recent experiment in which spectral analysis of EEG played a promine...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Hanley J

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to examine the course and clinical correlates of depression during the first year after myocardial infarction. METHOD:A group of seventy patients hospitalized for the treatment of myocardial infarction (MI) were assessed for the presence of mood disorders during their hospital a...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Travella JI,Forrester AW,Schultz SK,Robinson RG

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been consistent reports in the psychosomatic literature indicating that a patient's perception of tinnitus as well as differential response to various treatment modalities may be affected by personality variables. The present study examined several personality correlates of subjective tinnitus in forty-five...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Gerber KE,Nehemkis AM,Charter RA,Jones HC

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents several case studies which illustrate the way in which a terminal patient's attention may be diverted from the primary disease process, cancer, to secondary somatic symptomatology such as pain and nausea. This phenomenon has important consequences for the patient, family, physician, and the patie...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Wright MH,Nehemkis AM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 2 million adults in the United States are incarcerated and over 650,000 return to the community each year. This disparate population is known to have an elevated burden of chronic disease and lower socioeconomic status. Medical residency training about care of incarcerated or previously incarcerated patients is s...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Hofmeister S,Soprych A

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify descriptors of Antipsychotic (AP) prescription, focusing on second generation antipsychotics (SGAs), polypharmacy, and long-acting injections (LAIs). METHODS:Outpatients of the Bologna-Community-Mental-Health-Centres with at least one AP prescription were selected. Patients' characteristics, serv...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Piccinni C,Piazza A,Poluzzi E,Tarricone I,Koci A,Berardi D,Fioritti A,de Ponti F

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in German men and associated with various physical and psychosocial problems. This study investigated the association between mental distress and the subjective need for psychosocial support comparing subgroups of patients with different treatments and disease stages....

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Baba N,Schrage T,Hartmann A,Baba K,Wuensch A,Schultze-Seemann W,Weis J,Joos A

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the range of behaviors documented by inpatient rehabilitation staff and the association of these behaviors with functional outcome, in elderly persons undergoing rehabilitation after hip fracture. METHOD:Subjects were 137 patients, aged 60 and older, admitted to a rehabilitation hospital after a h...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Dorra HH,Lenze EJ,Kim Y,Mulsant BH,Munin MC,Dew MA,Reynolds CF 3rd

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:State and trait anxiety correlates of eight dimensions of illness behavior in response to myocardial infarction, were examined for 120 survivors of myocardial infarction. Six of eight illness behavior dimensions were found to be significantly associated with measures of state anxiety or trait anxiety or both. Trait an...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Byrne DG,Whyte HM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To gain more understanding about the relationship between human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection and new-onset psychosis, we compared clinical and immunological findings, psychiatric symptoms, global cognitive performance and, when available, computerized tomography (CT) findings between HIV-1-...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： de Ronchi D,Faranca I,Forti P,Ravaglia G,Borderi M,Manfredi R,Volterra V

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During three and a half years of psychiatric liaison with a cardiac transplantation program, the authors evaluated and followed 101 transplantation candidates. Ten exhibited pronounced ambivalence toward cardiac transplantation. Ambivalence appears to be associated with three factors: difficulties facing the seriousne...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Kuhn WF,Myers B,Davis MH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Few studies have addressed informed consent in Chinese psychiatric practice. We wished to explore psychiatrists' attitudes toward informed consent in Shanghai after promulgation of the first national law for mental health care in China: the National Mental Health Law. METHOD:A total of 398 psychiatrists were...

journal_title：International journal of psychiatry in medicine

authors： Huang J,Shao Y,Ma H,Yang W,Li H

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00