Effects of psychoeducation on helpful support for complicated grief: a preliminary randomized controlled single-blind study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous imaging studies have revealed that acute major depression is characterized by altered neural responses to negative emotional stimuli. Typically, responses in limbic regions such as the amygdala are increased while activity in cortical regulatory regions such as the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DL...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Norbury R,Selvaraj S,Taylor MJ,Harmer C,Cowen PJ

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic, relapsing mental illness. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors block serotonin transporters (SERTs) and are the mainstay of treatment for OCD. SERT abnormalities are reported in drug-free patients with OCD, but it is not known what happens to SERT levels d...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kim E,Howes OD,Park JW,Kim SN,Shin SA,Kim BH,Turkheimer FE,Lee YS,Kwon JS

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary data from the National Institute of Mental Health-Clinical Research Branch Collaborative Program on the Psychobiology of Depression dealing with the human growth hormone (hGH) response to the Insulin Tolerance Test (ITT) during the pre-treatment (drug-free) period of the study are presented in this paper. ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Koslow SH,Stokes PE,Mendels J,Ramsey A,Casper R

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence suggests some overlap between the pathological use of food and drugs, yet how impulsivity compares across these different clinical disorders remains unclear. Substance use disorders are commonly characterized by elevated impulsivity, and impulsivity subtypes may show commonalities and differences in...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Mole TB,Irvine MA,Worbe Y,Collins P,Mitchell SP,Bolton S,Harrison NA,Robbins TW,Voon V

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Quetiapine (ICI 204,636, 'Seroquel') is a new atypical antipsychotic agent with a similar binding profile to the original atypical antipsychotic, clozapine. Its clinical efficacy has already been demonstrated at multiple fixed doses (150-750 mg/day) and has been suggested to be comparable with haloperidol (1...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Copolov DL,Link CG,Kowalcyk B

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Suicide is a leading cause of death and has been strongly associated with affective disorders. The influence of affective disorder polarity on subsequent suicide attempts or completions and any differential effect of suicide risk factors by polarity were assessed in a prospective cohort. METHOD:Participants...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Fiedorowicz JG,Leon AC,Keller MB,Solomon DA,Rice JP,Coryell WH

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although positive effects of physical activity on mental health indicators have been reported, the relationship between physical activity and the development of specific mental disorders is unclear. METHOD:A cross-sectional (12-month) and prospective-longitudinal epidemiological study over 4 years in a comm...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Ströhle A,Höfler M,Pfister H,Müller AG,Hoyer J,Wittchen HU,Lieb R

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are many reports which suggest that patients with effective illness (mania and/or depression) have abnormalities in the functioning of one or more neurobiological systems. At a conference convened by the Clinical Research Branch, Division of Extramural Research Programs, National Institute of Mental Health, thes...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Maas JW,Koslow SH,Davis JM,Katz MM,Mendels J,Robins E,Stokes PE,Bowden CL

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the demonstrable influence of both genes and the family environment on children's behavioural and emotional development, the mechanisms by which these factors are transmitted from parents to their children are not known. Numerous aspects of the family have long been associated with behavioural and em...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Silberg JL,Eaves LJ

更新日期：2004-02-01 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

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:Negative associations between religion and suicide, in individuals and countries, may be mediated by the degree to which suicide is tolerated. METHODS:Linear regression was used to examine ecological associations between suicide tolerance, religion and suicide rates in 19 Western countries in 1989/90. Logis...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Neeleman J,Halpern D,Leon D,Lewis G

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epidemiological evidence suggests a link between cannabis use and psychosis. A variety of factors have been proposed to mediate an individual's vulnerability to the harmful effects of the drug, one of which is their psychosis proneness. We hypothesized that highly psychosis-prone individuals would report mor...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Mason O,Morgan CJ,Dhiman SK,Patel A,Parti N,Patel A,Curran HV

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies have suggested that patients with schizophrenia are impaired at recognizing emotions. Recently, it has been shown that the neuropeptide oxytocin can have beneficial effects on social behaviors. METHOD:To examine emotion recognition deficits in patients and see whether oxytocin could improve these de...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Averbeck BB,Bobin T,Evans S,Shergill SS

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

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: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：:Diffuse loss of cortical volume and ventricular enlargement have been demonstrated in schizophrenia using imaging. In addition, histological studies have provided evidence that the number of neurons in the medial temporal lobe structures is reduced and that the cytoarchitecture is abnormal. In an attempt to correlate ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Maier M,Ron MA,Barker GJ,Tofts PS

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Three prior population-based twin studies, none of which was nationally representative, suggested that both genetic and familial-environmental factors contribute to family resemblance for lifetime cannabis use. We seek to replicate these results in a US national probability sample of twin and sibling pairs e...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kendler KS,Neale MC,Thornton LM,Aggen SH,Gilman SE,Kessler RC

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the pathways to psychiatric care and recognition of delay points are crucial for the development of interventions that aim to improve access to mental health-care services. METHOD:Over a 2-month period in 2003, a total of 1044 patients at the commencement of new episodes of care at Amanuel Spe...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bekele YY,Flisher AJ,Alem A,Baheretebeb Y

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:A retrospective study of alcoholic psychoses is reported. The phenomena of the illnesses corresponded poorly with classical descriptions of alcoholic hallucinosis, delirium tremens and alcoholic paranoia. Alternative diagnostic approaches were tried (Catego, restrictive definition of alcoholic hallucinosis). The probl...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Cutting J

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is evidence of executive function impairment in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) that potentially contributes to symptom development and maintenance. Nevertheless, the precise nature of these executive impairments and their neural basis remains to be defined. METHOD:We compared stopping and shiftin...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Morein-Zamir S,Voon V,Dodds CM,Sule A,van Niekerk J,Sahakian BJ,Robbins TW

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The atypical processing of eye contact is a characteristic hallmark of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The severity of these symptoms, however, is thought to lie on a continuum that extends into the typical population. While behavioural evidence shows that differences in social cognitive tasks in typically d...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Madipakkam AR,Rothkirch M,Dziobek I,Sterzer P

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mental and physical health of individuals with a psychotic illness are typically poor. Access to psychosocial interventions is important but currently limited. Telephone-delivered interventions may assist. In the current systematic review, we aim to summarise and critically analyse evidence for telephone...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Baker AL,Turner A,Beck A,Berry K,Haddock G,Kelly PJ,Bucci S

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genetic component of Cannabis Use Disorder may overlap with influences acting more generally on early stages of cannabis use. This paper aims to determine the extent to which genetic influences on the development of cannabis abuse/dependence are correlated with those acting on the opportunity to use cann...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hines LA,Morley KI,Rijsdijk F,Strang J,Agrawal A,Nelson EC,Statham D,Martin NG,Lynskey MT

更新日期：2018-12-01 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：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：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：:There is little evidence of a curvilinear relationship between pre-operative emotionality and post-operative adjustment, as predicted by a model which supposes that moderate preoperative anxiety assists adjustment. This paper suggests that the negative affect, or stress, associated with the work of worry should be dis...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Ray C,Fitzgibbon G

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neuropsychological studies have suggested that memory systems reliant on medial temporal lobe structures are impaired in patients with depression. There is less data regarding whether this impairment is specific to recollection memory systems, and whether clinical features predict impairment. This study soug...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： MacQueen GM,Galway TM,Hay J,Young LT,Joffe RT

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00