Health beliefs and health care behaviour in pregnancy.

abstract：:Instruments designed to assess psychiatric disorders in people with learning difficulties (mental handicap) were critically reviewed from a psychometric perspective. Major trends were found in the assessment of psychopathology related to DSM-III and depressive disorders although research in other areas was patchy. Alt...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sturmey P,Reed J,Corbett J

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The medial forebrain bundle (MFB) is an important pathway of the reward system. Two branches have been described using diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based tractography: the infero-medial MFB (imMFB) and the supero-lateral MFB (slMFB). Previous studies point to white-matter microstructural altera...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bracht T,Doidge AN,Keedwell PA,Jones DK

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Executive impairments have been reported in affective illness, but the influence of attention on executive performance has not been fully considered. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether executive impairments in affective illness were independent of attention impairments, and whether independ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Stoddart SD,Craddock NJ,Jones LA

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question addressed to in this paper is whether severely mentally ill patients are treated differently in a community mental health service without the back-up of a mental hospital (south-Verona, Italy) compared with an institution-based system in which mental hospitals, although highly modernized, are still predom...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sytema S,Micciolo R,Tansella M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There have been conflicting reports on time trends in urban-rural differences in the incidence of schizophrenia. This study explored the potential time trends in these differences with regard to birth cohort and age at onset. METHOD:Linking data from the Danish Civil Registration system with data from the D...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Pedersen CB

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the results of a survey of the burdens and needs for items of care of 45 supporters of long-term users of psychiatric day care facilities in Camberwell. The supporters reported high levels of disturbed behaviour and low levels of self-care skills in the attenders. They were also subject to high levels of soc...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： MacCarthy B,Lesage A,Brewin CR,Brugha TS,Mangen S,Wing JK

更新日期：1989-08-01 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：:Results are reported from a large population study (of working people) comparing Holocaust survivors and a control group in regard to emotional distress, satisfaction in life and psychosomatic symptoms. It was found that, even 40 years after the traumatic experience, this group of survivors exhibited a slightly higher...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Carmil D,Carel RS

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psychosocial and inflammatory factors have been associated with fatigue in breast cancer survivors. Nevertheless, the relative contribution and/or interaction of these factors with cancer-related fatigue have not been well documented. METHOD:This cross-sectional study enrolled 111 stage 0-III breast cancer ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Xiao C,Miller AH,Felger J,Mister D,Liu T,Torres MA

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Schizophrenia (SZ) is a complex disorder characterized by a range of behavioral and cognitive symptoms as well as structural and functional alterations in multiple cortical and subcortical structures. SZ is associated with reduced functional network connectivity involving core regions such as the anterior ci...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Csukly G,Szabó Á,Polgár P,Farkas K,Gyebnár G,Kozák LR,Stefanics G

更新日期：2020-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Monthly hospital admission rates (HA) for mania were classified by sex, type of admission (first, or re-admission) and by country (England and Wales or Scotland). Of the 8 classes thus created, all but one showed a statistically significant annual cycle with a peak in Summer and trough in Winter. There was no signific...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Myers DH,Davies P

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A structured assessment instrument, the Quality of Life Interview, was used to explain the quality of life of seventy patients with chronic psychiatric illness attending a day treatment programme. The interview was found to have acceptable psychometric properties. Factors that best predicted the quality of life of the...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Levitt AJ,Hogan TP,Bucosky CM

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression is a challenge to diagnose reliably and the current gold standard for trials of DSM-5 has been in agreement between two or more medical specialists. Research studies aiming to objectively predict depression have typically used brain scanning. Less expensive methods from cognitive neuroscience may ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Stolicyn A,Steele JD,Seriès P

更新日期：2020-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression is associated with alterations of emotional and cognitive processing, and executive control in particular. Previous research has shown that depressed patients are impaired in their ability to shift attention from one emotional category to another, but whether this shifting deficit is more evident ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Murphy FC,Michael A,Sahakian BJ

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the traditional view of bipolar affective disorder is that the majority of patients have full remission between episodes, recent evidence suggests that residual cognitive deficits are present. The aim of this study was to determine whether memory and executive deficits were present in a well-defined...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Rubinsztein JS,Michael A,Paykel ES,Sahakian BJ

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increase in plasma prolactin which follows intravenous administration of L-tryptophan (LTP) was used to assess changes in brain 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) function in normal male and female subjects, following a three week period of dieting. In women, but not men, there was a marked increase in the prolactin respo...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Goodwin GM,Fairburn CG,Cowen PJ

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder which frequently persists into adulthood. The primary goal of the current study was to (a) investigate attentional functions of stimulant medication-naïve adults with ADHD, and (b) investigate the effects of 6 weeks of methylphe...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Low AM,Vangkilde S,le Sommer J,Fagerlund B,Glenthøj B,Jepsen JRM,Bundesen C,Petersen A,Habekost T

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite methodological differences between studies, it has been suggested that psychopathy may be associated with a ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) deficit and antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), as classified in the DSM-IV, with a broader range of deficits in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Dolan M

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cognitive models propose that auditory verbal hallucinations arise through defective self-monitoring and external attribution of inner speech. We used a paradigm that engages verbal self-monitoring to examine how deficits in this process are related to symptoms and diagnosis in patients with psychosis. METH...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Johns LC,Gregg L,Allen P,McGuire PK

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Delusion is the most characteristic symptom of psychosis. While researchers suggested an association between changes of the cortical salience network (CSN) and delusion, whether these CSN findings are a cause or a consequence of delusion remains unknown. METHOD:To assess the effect of CSN functioning to for...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Raij TT,Mäntylä T,Mantere O,Kieseppä T,Suvisaari J

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Overall findings of our first direct interview family study of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) indicated that OCD is familial. In this replication study, we carefully examined the role of informant data in ascertaining OCD in relatives. METHOD:We interviewed 112 relatives of 57 OCD patients and 115 rela...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Lipsitz JD,Mannuzza S,Chapman TF,Foa EB,Franklin ME,Goodwin RD,Fyer AJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is not yet consensus on the best diagnostic definition of mixed bipolar episodes. Many have suggested the DSM-III-R/-IV definition is too rigid. We propose alternative criteria using data from a large patient cohort. METHODS:We evaluated 237 manic in-patients using DSM-III-R criteria and the Scale for...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Cassidy F,Ahearn E,Murry E,Forest K,Carroll BJ

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study examined two competing hypotheses concerning the association between diabetes and treatment for depression: (1) the detection/ascertainment bias hypothesis suggesting that those with diabetes are more likely to be diagnosed with and treated for depression because of increased medical attention and...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Manderbacka K,Jokela M,Sund R,Elovainio M

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The output of many healthy physiological systems displays fractal fluctuations with self-similar temporal structures. Altered fractal patterns are associated with pathological conditions. There is evidence that patients with bipolar disorder have altered daily behaviors. METHODS:To test whether fractal patt...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Knapen SE,Li P,Riemersma-van der Lek RF,Verkooijen S,Boks MPM,Schoevers RA,Scheer FAJL,Hu K

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships among symptoms, cognitive functioning and social functioning were investigated in 60 patients with recent-onset schizophrenia. Positive symptoms were unrelated to cognitive measures. Disorganization and depressive symptoms were correlated significantly with Card Sorting performance. Furthermore, only...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Van der Does AJ,Dingemans PM,Linszen DH,Nugter MA,Scholte WF

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Controlled prospective studies of the simultaneous long-term outcome of several mental disorders are rare. This study sought to determine if there were important differences between the outcome of anxiety and depressive disorders after 12 years and to examine their main predictors. METHOD:A cohort of 210 pe...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Tyrer P,Seivewright H,Johnson T

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:Multiple studies have found Conscientiousness to be protective against dementia. The purpose of this study is to identify which specific aspects, or facets, of Conscientiousness are most protective against cognitive impairment and whether these associations are moderated by demographic factors and/or genetic...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sutin AR,Stephan Y,Terracciano A

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A number of studies have suggested that indirect semantic priming is enhanced in thought-disordered schizophrenics. However, research on direct semantic priming has produced conflicting results. The aim of the present study was to resolve some of the ambiguities of previous findings. METHODS:For the present...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Moritz S,Mersmann K,Kloss M,Jacobsen D,Wilke U,Andresen B,Naber D,Pawlik K

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interest in the mental health of women deployed to modern military campaigns is increasing, although research examining gender differences is limited. Little is known about experiences women have had on these deployments, or whether men and women respond differently to combat exposure. METHOD:The current st...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Woodhead C,Wessely S,Jones N,Fear NT,Hatch SL

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00