Are remitted affective disorders and familial risk of affective disorders associated with metabolic syndrome, inflammation and oxidative stress? - a monozygotic twin study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:In previous studies an association between deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan and an overall increased risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in UK armed forces has not been found. The lack of a deployment effect might be explained by including, in the comparison group, personnel deployed on other ope...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Jones M,Sundin J,Goodwin L,Hull L,Fear NT,Wessely S,Rona RJ

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prior studies have suggested that major depressive disorder (MDD) with pre-adult onset represents a distinct subtype with greater symptom severity and higher rates of suicidal ideation. Whether these patients have poorer response to various types of antidepressant treatment than those with adult-onset MDD is...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sung SC,Wisniewski SR,Balasubramani GK,Zisook S,Kurian B,Warden D,Trivedi MH,Rush AJ,CO-MED Study Team.

更新日期：2013-05-01 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:Life events and social problems are common in primary-care attenders and contribute to the high rate of emotional distress observed in this setting but are often not disclosed during the consultation. Physicians' characteristics associated with patients' disclosure of psychosocial problems are well documente...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Del Piccolo L,Saltini A,Zimmermann C

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of domiciliary and out-patient treatment of self-poisoning patients, using a brief problem-orientated approach, it was found that domiciliary treatment resulted in much higher attendance rates but no difference in outcome. Patients who completed out-patient treatment had a better outcome than those who fail...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hawton K,Bancroft J,Catalan J,Kingston B,Stedeford A,Welch N

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients often complain that they are more susceptible to acute mental fatigue. It is important to determine whether this is observed using objective tests of sustained attention and responding. METHODS:Sixty-seven patients who fulfilled the criteria for CFS proposed by Sharpe...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Smith AP,Borysiewicz L,Pollock J,Thomas M,Perry K,Llewelyn M

更新日期：1999-03-01 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: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：:Principal component analysis was applied to data relating to depressive experiences collected from a general population sample. The structure of depression found in the general population showed strong similarities to that found in the psychiatric population. There were, however, important differences. Four substantia...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Cooke DJ

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spousal concordance for common mental disorders provides evidence of the relevance of social contextual factors. There are, however, limitations within the existing literature examining spousal similarity in mental health and little consensus as to the causes of spousal similarity. This study considers a lar...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Butterworth P,Rodgers B

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sertraline has a proved efficacy in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but it is unknown which symptoms respond or in what sequence this occurs. Such information might be useful clinically and heuristically. METHOD:The study examined the effects of sertraline on the individual symptoms of PTSD. It also ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Davidson JR,Landerman LR,Farfel GM,Clary CM

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Assaultive violence events are associated with increased risk for adverse psychiatric outcomes, including post-traumatic stress (PTS), depression, and generalized anxiety. Prior research has indicated that economic, legal, and social stressors that could follow assaultive events may explain the increased ris...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Lowe SR,Joshi S,Galea S,Aiello AE,Uddin M,Koenen KC,Cerdá M

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cognitive impairment and negative symptoms are two of the primary features of schizophrenia associated with poor social functioning. We examined the relationships between clinical characteristics, specific cognitive abilities and social skills performance in middle-aged and older out-patients with schizophre...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sitzer DI,Twamley EW,Patterson TL,Jeste DV

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aberrant functional connectivity within the default network is generally assumed to be involved in the pathophysiology of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD); however, the genetic risk of default network connectivity in OCD remains largely unknown. METHOD:Here, we systematically investigated default network...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Peng ZW,Xu T,He QH,Shi CZ,Wei Z,Miao GD,Jing J,Lim KO,Zuo XN,Chan RC

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally recognized that social relationships occupy a central position in psychiatry. To examine the role of social relationships in the onset of minor psychiatric morbidity it is necessary to construct an instrument which will meet the need for a valid, reliable and comprehensive index of social relationships...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Henderson S,Duncan-Jones P,Byrne DG,Scott R

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective was to describe patients presenting themselves at emergency-care settings following a suicide attempt in eight culturally different sites [Campinas (Brazil), Chennai (India), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Durban (South Africa), Hanoi (Viet Nam), Karaj (Iran), Tallinn (Estonia), and Yuncheng, (China)]. ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Fleischmann A,Bertolote JM,De Leo D,Botega N,Phillips M,Sisask M,Vijayakumar L,Malakouti K,Schlebusch L,De Silva D,Nguyen VT,Wasserman D

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of cavum septum pellucidum (CSP), which has been widely regarded as a developmental anomaly of little clinical importance in neuropathology, was examined in 113 patients with affective disorders (69 with bipolar disorder and 44 with major depression), 40 schizophrenic patients, and 92 control subjects by...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Shioiri T,Oshitani Y,Kato T,Murashita J,Hamakawa H,Inubushi T,Nagata T,Takahashi S

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One week after Sir William Gull read his seminal report on anorexia nervosa to the Clinical Society of London, a brief account was published (Anonymous, 1873). In Paris, Charles Lasègue, editor of Archives Générales de Médecine read the report and printed an immediate editorial riposte, parts of which will be quoted i...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Silverman JA

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

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:The outcome of schizophrenia appears to be more favourable than once thought. However, methodological issues, including the reliance on diagnosis at first presentation have limited the validity of outcome studies to date. METHOD:We conducted a first-episode follow-up study of 97 patients with DSM-IV schizop...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Whitty P,Clarke M,McTigue O,Browne S,Kamali M,Kinsella A,Larkin C,O'Callaghan E

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is being claimed as the 'signature' injury of the Iraq war, and is believed to be the cause of long-term symptomatic ill health (post-concussional syndrome; PCS) in an unknown proportion of military personnel. METHOD:We analysed cross-sectional data from a large, randomly ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Fear NT,Jones E,Groom M,Greenberg N,Hull L,Hodgetts TJ,Wessely S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Meta-analyses support the efficacy of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) for schizophrenia in western cultures. This study aimed to compare the efficacy of CBT and supportive therapy (ST) for patients with schizophrenia in China. METHOD:A multicentre randomized controlled, single-blinded, parallel-group tr...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Li ZJ,Guo ZH,Wang N,Xu ZY,Qu Y,Wang XQ,Sun J,Yan LQ,Ng RM,Turkington D,Kingdon D

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aggressive behaviour is increased among those with schizophrenia but less is known about those with affective psychoses. Similarly, little is known about aggressive behaviour occurring at the onset of illness. METHOD:The main reasons for presentation to services were examined among those recruited to a UK-b...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Dean K,Walsh E,Morgan C,Demjaha A,Dazzan P,Morgan K,Lloyd T,Fearon P,Jones PB,Murray RM

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug in the United States, few recent American studies have examined the attributes of long-term heavy cannabis users. METHOD:Using a case-control design, we obtained psychological and demographic measures on 108 individuals, age 30-55, who had smoked cannab...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Gruber AJ,Pope HG,Hudson JI,Yurgelun-Todd D

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monotonous voice is produced by schizophrenic patients whose expression of emotion is damped down and by patients with a severe degree of depression. Clinically, the distinction between these two diagnostic entities is virtually impossible to establish auditorily on the basis of voice quality alone. The laryngograph...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Leff J,Abberton E

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are no risk models for the prediction of anxiety that may help in prevention. We aimed to develop a risk algorithm for the onset of generalized anxiety and panic syndromes. METHOD:Family practice attendees were recruited between April 2003 and February 2005 and followed over 24 months in the UK, Spain...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： King M,Bottomley C,Bellón-Saameño JA,Torres-Gonzalez F,Švab I,Rifel J,Maaroos HI,Aluoja A,Geerlings MI,Xavier M,Carraça I,Vicente B,Saldivia S,Nazareth I

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive dysfunction in depression is associated with poorer clinical outcomes and impaired psychosocial functioning. However, most treatments for depression do not specifically target cognition. Neurocognitive deficits such as memory and concentration problems tend to persist after mood symptoms recover. Improving c...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kaser M,Zaman R,Sahakian BJ

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although numerous studies have examined the latent structure of major depression, less attention has focused on mania. This paper presents the first investigation outside the USA to evaluate the psychometric properties of the DSM-IV criterion B mania symptoms using item response theory (IRT). METHOD:Data we...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Carragher N,Weinstock LM,Strong D

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：BACKGROUND:Depressive disorders are known to often be chronic and recurrent both in the general population and in psychiatric settings. However, despite its importance for public health and services, the outcome of depression in primary care is not well known. METHOD:In The Vantaa Primary Care Depression Study (PC-VDS...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Vuorilehto MS,Melartin TK,Isometsä ET

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00