Eating disorders: lessons from a cross-cultural study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been called one of the signature injuries of the Iraq War. In this review prevalence estimates of PTSD are summarized and discrepancies are discussed in relation to methodological differences between studies. METHOD:We searched for population-based studies with a mi...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sundin J,Fear NT,Iversen A,Rona RJ,Wessely S

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：BACKGROUND:Factor analysis has been employed to identify latent variables that are unifying constructs and that parsimoniously describe correlations among a related group of variables. Confirmatory factor analysis is used to test hypothesized factor structures for a set of variables; it can also, as in this paper be us...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Jacob KS,Everitt BS,Patel V,Weich S,Araya R,Lewis GH

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Three cognitive constructs are risk factors for eating disorders: undue influence of weight and shape, concern about weight and shape, and body dissatisfaction (BD). Undue influence, a diagnostic criterion for eating disorders, is postulated to be closely associated with self-esteem whereas BD is postulated ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wade TD,Zhu G,Martin NG

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Death by suicide is often preceded by attempted suicide, suicidal ideation and non-suicidal self-injury. These extreme thoughts and behaviours have been considered in terms of a continuum of suicidality. Little known research, however, has considered a suicide continuum that extends beyond these extreme thou...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Butter S,Shevlin M,Murphy J

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

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:Neuroimaging studies have shown variance in brain response to emotional faces predicts cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) outcome. An important next step is to determine if individual differences in neural predictors of CBT response represent distinct patient groups. METHODS:In total, 90 patients with inter...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Klumpp H,Jimmy J,Burkhouse KL,Bhaumik R,Francis J,Craske MG,Phan KL,Ajilore O

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Brown and his colleagues have presented evidence for the social origins of depression from results of 2 community surveys in Camberwell. This paper examines critically their methodology, conceptualization of variables, mode of argument and statistical techniques. Log-linear analysis of their published data fails to su...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Tennant C,Bebbington P

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-six bulimia nervosa patients were treated by means of a behavioural approach and followed for at least one year after completion or dropping out of treatment. Outcome was encouraging in about half of the patients and several psychiatric indicators, such as duration of illness and response to treatment, were iden...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hsu LK,Holder D

更新日期：1986-02-01 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：:Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a mental illness with high socio-economic burden, but its pathophysiology has not been fully elucidated. Recently, the cortical excitatory and inhibitory imbalance hypothesis and neuroplasticity hypothesis have been proposed for MDD. Although several studies have examined the neuroph...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kinjo M,Wada M,Nakajima S,Tsugawa S,Nakahara T,Blumberger DM,Mimura M,Noda Y

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Differences between verbal and non-verbal cognitive development from childhood to adulthood may differentiate between those with and without psychotic symptoms and affective symptoms in later life. However, there has been no study exploring this in a population-based cohort. METHOD:The sample was drawn from...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Koike S,Barnett J,Jones PB,Richards M

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Expressed emotion (EE) measured from relatives and informal carers has been consistently demonstrated to be associated with clinical outcome in schizophrenic patients. There have also been published studies that have investigated EE in professional carers that have suggested that the quality of the relations...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Tattan T,Tarrier N

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intrusive memories of traumatic events are a core feature of post-traumatic stress disorder but little is known about the neurobiological formation of intrusions. The aim of this study was to determine whether the activity of the noradrenergic system during an intrusion-inducing stressor would influence subs...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Rombold F,Wingenfeld K,Renneberg B,Hellmann-Regen J,Otte C,Roepke S

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Puberty moderates genetic influences on disordered eating attitudes and behaviors, with little genetic influence before puberty but large (50%) genetic effects during and after puberty. To date, however, nothing is known about the mechanisms that underlie these effects. Estradiol is a particularly promising ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Klump KL,Keel PK,Sisk C,Burt SA

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The value of services for those with the 'At Risk Mental State for Psychosis' (ARMS) continues to be disputed. ARMS services have provided a valuable stimulus to academic research into the transition into psychosis. Furthermore, there is currently a welcome trend to transform such clinics into youth mental health serv...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Murray RM,David AS,Ajnakina O

更新日期：2020-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Patients with unipolar depression show impaired performance on the Tower of London planning task. Positron emission tomography, which has previously identified resting state blood flow abnormalities in depression, was used to investigate neural activity associated with performance of this task in depressed...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Elliott R,Baker SC,Rogers RD,O'Leary DA,Paykel ES,Frith CD,Dolan RJ,Sahakian BJ

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research has established the relationship between cannabis use and psychotic disorders. Whether cannabis use is related to transition to psychosis in patients at ultra-high risk (UHR) for psychosis remains unclear. The present study aimed to review the existing evidence on the association between ca...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kraan T,Velthorst E,Koenders L,Zwaart K,Ising HK,van den Berg D,de Haan L,van der Gaag M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A previous study of women 9 months after discharge from in-patient treatment for depression found that low self-esteem as measured by a self-report questionnaire at admission was associated with a worse prognosis. This study investigates the womens' outcome more than 4 years after discharge and the continued...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sherrington JM,Hawton K,Fagg J,Andrew B,Smith D

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：: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: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:Converging evidence implicates basal ganglia alterations in impulsivity and suicidal behavior. For example, D2/D3 agonists and subthalamic nucleus stimulation in Parkinson's disease (PD) trigger impulse control disorders and possibly suicidal behavior. Furthermore, suicidal behavior has been associated with ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Dombrovski AY,Siegle GJ,Szanto K,Clark L,Reynolds CF,Aizenstein H

更新日期：2012-06-01 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 is considerable debate surrounding the effective measurement of DSM-IV symptoms used to assess manic disorders in epidemiological samples. METHOD:Using two nationally representative datasets, the National Epidemiological Survey of Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC, n=43,093 at wave 1, n=34,653 at...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Agrawal A,Nurnberger JI Jr,Lynskey MT

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Generalized anxiety disorder is a common condition of excessive worry and tension which tends to run a chronic course associated with significant psychiatric and medical problems. Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) has been shown to be of clinical value in about 50% of cases with treatment gains maintained ov...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Durham RC,Chambers JA,MacDonald RR,Power KG,Major K

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies exploring gene-environment interplay in affective disorders now include very large numbers of participants. Methods for evaluating the role of adversity in such studies need to be developed that do not rely on lengthy and labour-intensive interviews. In the present study, a brief questionnaire method...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hosang GM,Korszun A,Jones L,Jones I,Gray JM,Gunasinghe CM,McGuffin P,Farmer AE

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Within Beck's cognitive model of depression, little is known about the mechanism(s) by which activated self-schemas result in the production of negative thoughts. Recent research has demonstrated that inhibitory dysfunction is present in depression, and this deficit is likely valence-specific. However, wheth...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Lau MA,Christensen BK,Hawley LL,Gemar MS,Segal ZV

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00