Serum creatine phosphokinase levels and assaultive behaviour of psychotic patients.

abstract：:Depression is one of the most prevalent mental illnesses worldwide and a leading cause of disability, especially in the setting of treatment resistance. In recent years, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has emerged as a promising alternative strategy for treatment-resistant depression and its clinic...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Noda Y,Silverstein WK,Barr MS,Vila-Rodriguez F,Downar J,Rajji TK,Fitzgerald PB,Mulsant BH,Vigod SN,Daskalakis ZJ,Blumberger DM

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Empirical data on the impact of personality pathology on acute treatment outcome for depression are mixed, in part because of challenges posed by assessing trait-like personality patterns while patients are in an active mood episode. To our knowledge, no previous study has examined the effect of personality ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Cyranowski JM,Frank E,Winter E,Rucci P,Novick D,Pilkonis P,Fagiolini A,Swartz HA,Houck P,Kupfer DJ

更新日期：2004-05-01 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:Childhood abuse is a risk factor for poorer illness course in bipolar disorder, but the reasons why are unclear. Trait-like features such as affective instability and impulsivity could be part of the explanation. We aimed to examine whether childhood abuse was associated with clinical features of bipolar dis...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Marwaha S,Briley PM,Perry A,Rankin P,DiFlorio A,Craddock N,Jones I,Broome M,Gordon-Smith K,Jones L

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent evidence suggests that postpartum psychiatric episodes may share similar etiological mechanisms with immune-related disorders. Pre-eclampsia is one of the most prevalent immune-related disorders of pregnancy. Multiple clinical features are shared between pre-eclampsia and postpartum psychiatric disord...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bergink V,Laursen TM,Johannsen BM,Kushner SA,Meltzer-Brody S,Munk-Olsen T

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High expressed emotion (EE) in families reliably predicts relapse in schizophrenia leading to the assumption that high EE stresses patients and is the cause of relapse. Attempts at validating the stressful properties of high EE using autonomic skin conductance measures have been inconclusive. Since memory lo...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Dixon MJ,King S,Stip E,Cormier H

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Childhood trauma is a risk factor for psychosis. Deficits in response inhibition are common to psychosis and trauma-exposed populations, and associated brain functions may be affected by trauma exposure in psychotic disorders. We aimed to identify the influence of trauma-exposure on brain activation and func...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Quidé Y,O'Reilly N,Watkeys OJ,Carr VJ,Green MJ

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the background of the recent discussion about the appropriateness of linear difference and ratio models for testing interaction effects of social support and stress, it is argued that interaction effects are basically unstable when dichotomized continuous variables are analysed. A data set with known interrelations...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Veiel HO

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is an effective treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) but access to CBT is limited. Internet-based CBT (ICBT) with therapist support is potentially a more accessible treatment. There are no randomized controlled trials testing ICBT for OCD. The aim of this study ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Andersson E,Enander J,Andrén P,Hedman E,Ljótsson B,Hursti T,Bergström J,Kaldo V,Lindefors N,Andersson G,Rück C

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies have found associations between psychological distress (PD) and increased risk of myocardial infarction (MI). However, it is not clear whether the relationship reflects the subtle influence of pre-existing illness on both PD and MI. This study examines the association between PD and MI in a prospecti...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Rasul F,Stansfeld SA,Smith GD,Shlomo YB,Gallacher J

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and eighteen subjects with an admission diagnosis of schizophrenia were reassessed after 12 months to establish whether hospital readmission had occurred. All subjects were rated at baseline and after 12 months on the Life Skills Profile (LSP), a 39-item measure of disability, with scores demonstrating mod...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Parker G,Hadzi-Pavlovic D

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty patients attending a neurological outpatient clinic for Parkinson's disease were assessed by standardized methods for both physical and psychiatric symptoms. The patients then received treatment with L-dopa with carbidopa or anticholinergic drugs and/or amantadine. During the following six-month period the subje...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Mindham RH,Marsden CD,Parkes JD

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison between general practice attenders and community subjects with emotional distress (as measured by GHQ-12) showed that women from a general practice sample reported more social problems than those from the community. In both men and women, problems with their spouse or partner were far more likely among gene...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Pini S,Piccinelli M,Zimmermann-Tansella C

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Older adults have the lowest prevalence and incidence of major depressive disorder, although it has been hypothesized that this finding is due in part to differences in expression of psychopathology in later life. The aim of this study was to examine variation in depressive symptomatology in the general popu...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Mezuk B,Kendler KS

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cigarette smoking is associated with worse cognition and decreased cortical volume and thickness in healthy cohorts. Chronic cigarette smoking is prevalent in schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD), but the effects of smoking status on the brain and cognition in SSD are not clear. This study aimed to underst...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Ringin E,Cropley V,Zalesky A,Bruggemann J,Sundram S,Weickert CS,Weickert TW,Bousman CA,Pantelis C,Van Rheenen TE

更新日期：2021-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposure to stressful life events increases the risk of developing a psychotic disorder. Moreover, increased reactivity to stress seems to represent part of the vulnerability for psychosis. This study aimed to investigate whether a functional polymorphism in the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT Val(158)Met...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Stefanis NC,Henquet C,Avramopoulos D,Smyrnis N,Evdokimidis I,Myin-Germeys I,Stefanis CN,Van Os J

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the relationships between cardiovascular variables (SBP, DBP, and HR) and circulating natural killer (NK) cell numbers, 70 male volunteers were subjected to a rest condition (N = 30) or a stressful laboratory task (N = 40). At baseline, no significant relationships could be demonstrated between the numb...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Benschop RJ,Godaert GL,Geenen R,Brosschot JF,De Smet MB,Olff M,Heijnen CJ,Ballieux RE

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed analysis of the results of a multi-centre clinical trial shows that, while the relapse rate following recovery from an operationally defined depressive illness was smaller among patients subsequently treated with either amitryptiline or lithium than with a placebo, there was no clinically significant differ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Glen AI,Johnson AL,Shepherd M

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rumination is an important cognitive risk factor for onset and relapse of depression. However, no studies have employed a dimensional approach in investigating the neural correlates of rumination and the relationship with depression. METHOD:Non-clinical healthy subjects (n = 306), who completed the classica...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wang K,Wei D,Yang J,Xie P,Hao X,Qiu J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The categorical classification system for personality disorder (PD) has been frequently criticized and several alternative dimensional models have been proposed. METHOD:Antecedent, concurrent and predictive markers of construct validity were examined for three models of PDs: the Five-Factor Model (FFM), the...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Morey LC,Hopwood CJ,Gunderson JG,Skodol AE,Shea MT,Yen S,Stout RL,Zanarini MC,Grilo CM,Sanislow CA,McGlashan TH

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Victims of war captivity sometimes suffer from complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a unique form of PTSD that entails various alterations in personality. These alterations may involve changes in attachment orientation. METHOD:The sample comprised two groups of veterans from the 1973 Yom Kippur Wa...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Solomon Z,Dekel R,Mikulincer M

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We examined the prevalence of self-perceived respiratory symptoms (SRS) in the absence of any objective findings of respiratory pathology, and the association of such prevalence with psychological factors and healthcare use in the general population. METHODS:The study was conducted among a nationally repres...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Selinheimo S,Vasankari T,Jokela M,Kanervisto M,Pirkola S,Suvisaari J,Paunio T

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Empirical data regarding prevalence of sexual and physical abuse histories in Japanese patients with eating disorders is lacking, in contrast to Western countries. This study investigated the prevalence of traumatic events in Japanese patients with eating disorders, and examined the relationship between such...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Nagata T,Kiriike N,Iketani T,Kawarada Y,Tanaka H

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fatigue syndromes and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) often occur together. Explanations include being different manifestations of the same condition and simply sharing some symptoms. METHOD:A matched case-control study in UK primary care, using data collected prospectively in the General Practice Research D...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hamilton WT,Gallagher AM,Thomas JM,White PD

更新日期：2009-11-01 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 methodology for measuring the needs of patients with severe mental illness is now well established through the MRC Needs for Care Assessment Schedule and its modification in the form of the Cardinal Needs Assessment. This paper reports the rationale and construction of a relatives' version of the Cardina...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Barrowclough C,Marshall M,Lockwood A,Quinn J,Sellwood W

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic fatigue is a common symptom of multiple sclerosis (MS). A randomized controlled trial (RCT) showed that cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) was more effective in reducing MS fatigue than relaxation training (RT). The aim of the current study was to analyse additional data from this trial to determine...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Knoop H,van Kessel K,Moss-Morris R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Consciousness has evolved and is a feature of all animals with sufficiently complex nervous systems. It is, therefore, primarily a problem for biology, rather than physics. In this review, I will consider three aspects of consciousness: level of consciousness, whether we are awake or in a coma; the contents of conscio...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Frith CD

更新日期：2019-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies suggest that alcohol consumption and alcohol use disorders have distinct genetic backgrounds. METHODS:We examined whether polygenic risk scores (PRS) for consumption and problem subscales of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT-C, AUDIT-P) in the UK Biobank (UKB; N = 121 630) correla...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Johnson EC,Sanchez-Roige S,Acion L,Adams MJ,Bucholz KK,Chan G,Chao MJ,Chorlian DB,Dick DM,Edenberg HJ,Foroud T,Hayward C,Heron J,Hesselbrock V,Hickman M,Kendler KS,Kinreich S,Kramer J,Kuo SI,Kuperman S,Lai D,McI

更新日期：2020-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity, an enzyme potentially involved in the major depressive episodes (MDE), could be indirectly measured by the L-Citrulline/L-Arginine ratio (L-Cit/L-Arg). The aim of this study was: (1) to compare the NOS activity of patients with a MDE to that of healthy controls (HC); (2)...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Loeb E,El Asmar K,Trabado S,Gressier F,Colle R,Rigal A,Martin S,Verstuyft C,Fève B,Chanson P,Becquemont L,Corruble E

更新日期：2020-06-11 00:00:00