The role of the partner and relationship satisfaction on treatment outcome in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome.

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：: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：BACKGROUND:A dysfunctional network of prefrontal and (para-)limbic brain region has been suggested to underlie emotional dysregulation in borderline personality disorder (BPD). Abnormal activity in this network may be due to structural alterations in white-matter tracts connecting prefrontal and (para-)limbic brain reg...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Lischke A,Domin M,Freyberger HJ,Grabe HJ,Mentel R,Bernheim D,Lotze M

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cannabis use is associated with an earlier age at onset of psychotic illness. The aim of the present study was to examine whether this association is confounded by gender or other substance use in a large cohort of patients with a non-affective psychotic disorder. METHOD:In 785 patients with a non-affective...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Dekker N,Meijer J,Koeter M,van den Brink W,van Beveren N,Kahn RS,Linszen DH,van Os J,Wiersma D,Bruggeman R,Cahn W,de Haan L,Krabbendam L,Myin-Germeys I,GROUP Investigators.

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The development of childhood anxiety disorders (CADs) is likely to depend on pathways that can be programmed by early-life risk factors. We test the hypothesis that early-life maternal factors can predict this programming effect on CAD. METHODS:Data were obtained from 198 women and children from the Mercy P...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Galbally M,Watson SJ,van Rossum EFC,Chen W,de Kloet ER,Lewis AJ

更新日期：2020-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Urban birth, a risk factor for schizophrenia, is more frequent among second-generation immigrants. The aim of the current study was to determine whether the increased risk for schizophrenia found in second-generation immigrants is explained by the degree of urbanization of birthplace and/or factors related t...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Cantor-Graae E,Pedersen CB

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypochondriasis is recognized as an important disorder in clinical populations, associated with increased health care utilization, disability and psychiatric co-morbidity. Few studies have investigated hypochondriasis in the community. We report on the broader concept of illness worry in a community populati...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Looper KJ,Kirmayer LJ

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：BACKGROUND:Excessive worry is a defining feature of generalized anxiety disorder and is present in a wide range of other psychiatric conditions. Therefore, individualized predictions of worry propensity could be highly relevant in clinical practice, with respect to the assessment of worry symptom severity at the indivi...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Feng C,Cui Z,Cheng D,Xu R,Gu R

更新日期：2019-09-01 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: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:Learning and memory impairments in older adults with depression are linked to hippocampal atrophy. However, other subcortical regions may also be contributing to these deficits. We aimed to examine whether anterior caudate nucleus volume is significantly reduced in older adults with depression compared to co...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Jayaweera HK,Hickie IB,Duffy SL,Mowszowski L,Norrie L,Lagopoulos J,Naismith SL

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We examined the relationship between childhood sexual abuse (CSA), and interviewees' recollections of pathogenic parenting, testing for possible retrospective biases in the recollections of those who have experienced CSA. METHODS:Information about CSA, parental divorce and interviewees' recollections of par...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： McLaughlin TL,Heath AC,Bucholz KK,Madden PA,Bierut LJ,Slutske WS,Dinwiddie S,Statham DJ,Dunne MP,Martin NG

更新日期：2000-11-01 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:Substantial variability in age at onset of illness and course of illness exists between patients with schizophrenia. Recent studies suggest that age at illness onset may be useful in defining biologically and clinically distinct subgroups of patients. METHODS:Two hundred and ten males with schizophrenia wer...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Smith GN,Kopala LC,Lapointe JS,MacEwan GW,Altman S,Flynn SW,Schneider T,Falkai P,Honer WG

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet MAO activity was found to be elevated in primary depressive illness, and the severity to correlate positively with MAO activity. The reactive depression subgroup's mean platelet MAO activity was not significantly different from that of the controls. The endogenous group's unipolar and bipolar subgroups had si...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Mann J

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:. A variety of factors are related to compliance with medication in schizophrenia, but little attention has been paid to the role of families. Carers' knowledge or expressed emotion (EE) may be related to compliance. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the relevance of these two factors, as well as ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sellwood W,Tarrier N,Quinn J,Barrowclough C

更新日期：2003-01-01 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:Previous studies suggest a link between parental separation or divorce and risk of depression in adolescence. There are, however, few studies that have prospectively examined the effects of timing of biological father absence on risk for depressive symptoms in adolescence while controlling for a range of con...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Culpin I,Heron J,Araya R,Melotti R,Joinson C

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neuroticism has been shown to increase the risk of depression whereas extraversion is associated with a reduction of risk. These personality traits play a central role in aetiological theories of affective disorder but their role in schizophrenia is unclear. In this study, the risk for schizophrenia associat...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Van Os J,Jones PB

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Individual variation in the clinical course of bipolar disorder may have prognostic and therapeutic implications but is poorly reflected in current classifications. We aimed to establish a typology of the individual clinical trajectories based on detailed prospective medium-term follow-up. Method Latent clas...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Uher R,Mantere O,Suominen K,Isometsä E

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several questions remain unanswered regarding the magnitude and time course of cognitive improvement in response to antipsychotic treatment. The purpose of this study was to assess changes in cognitive performance in antipsychotic-naive or minimally medicated patients with first-episode schizophrenia during ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Olivier MR,Killian S,Chiliza B,Asmal L,Schoeman R,Oosthuizen PP,Kidd M,Emsley R

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From a factor analysis of data from a learning experiment evidence is presented which appears to support the Blomfield-Marr thesis that in the learning of motor actions the cerebellum operates by the turning off of incorrect movements rather than by the turning on of correct ones. The factor model employed is that due...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Maxwell AE

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal experimental studies suggest that 5-HT4 receptor activation holds promise as a novel target for the treatment of depression and cognitive impairment. 5-HT4 receptors are post-synaptic receptors that are located in striatal and limbic areas known to be involved in cognition and mood. Consistent with this, 5-HT4 ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Murphy SE,de Cates AN,Gillespie AL,Godlewska BR,Scaife JC,Wright LC,Cowen PJ,Harmer CJ

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Increases in plasma noradrenaline were found in a group of 12 subjects smoking cigarettes. The associated rises in pulse rate, blood pressure and plasma free fatty acids could be prevented by beta-blockade with oxprenolol. This inhibition of the peripheral effects of catecholamines did not affect subjective satisfacti...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Carruthers M

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that a high level of agreement between informants' reports about events and happenings ('objective' data) is a sound basis for establishing (a) the validity of the measure which is based on the reports, and (b) the nature of objective reality. In this paper it is argued that such agreement may not...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Platt S

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A standardized pegboard task was used to investigate changes in manipulative skill as a function of age in 119 right-handed subjects. The typical pattern of cognitive impairment in old age indicates a relative preservation of functions which depend on the integrity of the left hemisphere. In accord with these observat...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Weller MP,Latimer-Sayer DT

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accumulating evidence links blood pressure variability (BPV) with white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and stroke. The longitudinal association between BPV with late onset depression (LOD) and cognitive decline remains unexplored. METHODS:Prospective cohort study of 2812 participant's age ⩾65 years (median a...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Tully PJ,Debette S,Tzourio C

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of computerized tests were used to study visual attention, memory and learning in elderly depressed patients. Impairment was found in approximately 70% of depressed patients and was seen particularly in memory and in measures of latency. Depressed patients showed equivalent impairment in short-term memory but...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Abas MA,Sahakian BJ,Levy R

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interpersonal stress generation is an important maintaining factor in major depression; however, little is known about the psychological mechanisms that undermine interpersonal functioning. This study investigated the role of deficits in person perception to this regard. METHOD:Depressed patients (n = 20) a...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Boecking B,Barnhofer T

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00