How is affective instability defined and measured? A systematic review.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can be delivered efficaciously through various modalities, including telephone (T-CBT) and face-to-face (FtF-CBT). The purpose of this study was to explore predictors of outcome in T-CBT and FtF-CBT for depression. METHOD:A total of 325 depressed participants were randomiz...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Stiles-Shields C,Corden ME,Kwasny MJ,Schueller SM,Mohr DC

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Schizophrenia patients have a higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) than normals. We examined the relationship between IGT and clinical phenotypes or cognitive deficits in first-episode, drug-naïve (FEDN) Han Chinese patients with schizophrenia. METHOD:A total o...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Chen DC,Du XD,Yin GZ,Yang KB,Nie Y,Wang N,Li YL,Xiu MH,He SC,Yang FD,Cho RY,Kosten TR,Soares JC,Zhao JP,Zhang XY

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To provide an overview of epidemiological studies of dementia among migrant groups in Europe and to estimate their pooled odds ratio (OR) v. the reference population. METHODS:Search for articles reporting on incidence or prevalence of dementia among ethnic minorities and migrants in Europe, published before...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Selten JP,Termorshuizen F,van Sonsbeek M,Bogers J,Schmand B

更新日期：2020-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The Social Behaviour Schedule (SBS) was examined as a measure of disability in a series of 66 chronic psychiatric patients, who were also assessed using the Social Role Performance Schedule (SRP) and the ninth edition of the Present State Examination (PSE). All three schedules have been used in previous studies in the...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sturt E,Wykes T

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age and sex-adjusted first admission rates for operationally-defined schizophrenia and other non-affective psychosis in different ethnic groups were calculated over the period 1988-1992 in a defined catchment area in South London. Standardized rates for schizophrenia, corrected for age- and gender-related under-report...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Van OS J,Castle DJ,Takei N,Der G,Murray RM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate the psychological characteristics of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS: Holmes et al. 1988). A battery of psychometric instruments comprising the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and the Lazarus W...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Blakely AA,Howard RC,Sosich RM,Murdoch JC,Menkes DB,Spears GF

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The neurocognitive deficits and other correlates of problem gambling are also observable in individuals with lower cognitive abilities, suggesting that a low IQ may be a determinant of problem gambling. There has been very little research into this possibility. This study aimed to investigate the characteris...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Rai D,Hall W,Bebbington P,Skapinakis P,Hassiotis A,Weich S,Meltzer H,Moran P,Brugha T,Strydom A,Farrell M

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to determine whether depression in patients with long-term conditions is associated with the number of morbidities or the type of co-morbidity. Method A cohort study of 299 912 participants aged 30-100 years. The prevalence of depression, rates of health-care utilization and costs were evalu...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bhattarai N,Charlton J,Rudisill C,Gulliford MC

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Instruments designed to assess psychiatric disorders in people with learning difficulties (mental handicap) were critically reviewed from a psychometric perspective. Major trends were found in the assessment of psychopathology related to DSM-III and depressive disorders although research in other areas was patchy. Alt...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sturmey P,Reed J,Corbett J

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been suggested that individual differences in temperament could be involved in the (non-)response to antidepressant (AD) treatment. However, how neurobiological processes such as brain glucose metabolism may relate to personality features in the treatment-resistant depressed (TRD) state remains largel...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wu GR,Baeken C

更新日期：2021-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical intuition suggests that personality disorders hinder the treatment of depression, but research findings are mixed. One reason for this might be the way in which current assessment measures conflate general aspects of personality disorders, such as overall severity, with specific aspects, such as sty...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Constantinou MP,Frueh BC,Fowler JC,Allen JG,Madan A,Oldham JM,Fonagy P

更新日期：2020-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We investigated whether schizophrenic subjects are impaired in non-routine behaviour because of the dysfunction of a general executive component labelled, in neuropsychological terms, the supervisory system. METHODS:A specific verbal sequencing test was designed for this purpose. Subjects had to perform seq...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Robert PH,Migneco V,Chaix I,Berthet L,Kazes M,Danion JM,Baudu C,Darcourt G

更新日期：1997-11-01 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

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：BACKGROUND:Studies have shown that specific cognitions and behaviours play a role in maintaining chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). However, little research has investigated illness-specific cognitive processing in CFS. This study investigated whether CFS participants had an attentional bias for CFS-related stimuli and a ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hughes AM,Chalder T,Hirsch CR,Moss-Morris R

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physical symptoms are commonly presented for treatment in the absence of physical pathology. This study tests predictions arising from the theory that childhood sexual abuse leads to emotional distress, illness orientation and social dysfunction as adults and that one or more of these effects, in turn, leads...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Reilly J,Baker GA,Rhodes J,Salmon P

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To our knowledge, there are no universal screening tools for substance dependence that (1) were developed using a population-based sample, (2) estimate total risk briefly and inexpensively by incorporating a relatively small number of well-established risk factors, and (3) aggregate risk factors using a simp...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Meier MH,Hall W,Caspi A,Belsky DW,Cerdá M,Harrington HL,Houts R,Poulton R,Moffitt TE

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：:In constructing a new self-report questionnaire for measuring self esteem, the aim has been to satisfy psychometric requirements without sacrificing the intuitive meaning of the concept. Self esteem is seen as a composite, and examination of its components may have more analytic or predictive value than 'global' score...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Robson P

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the present paper, sex differences in the association between adult depression and childhood experiences were examined. METHODS:The study series of the Finnish UKKI Study consisted of a population sample of 501 men and 499 women. Information concerning childhood experiences was gathered retrospectively i...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Veijola J,Puukka P,Lehtinen V,Moring J,Lindholm T,Väisänen E

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The common mental disorders (CMDs) of anxiety and depression are the most common form of poor mental health in the general population. Evidence from the small number of previous cohort studies on the role of neighbourhood factors in mental health is inconclusive. We tested the hypothesis that high levels of ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Fone D,White J,Farewell D,Kelly M,John G,Lloyd K,Williams G,Dunstan F

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Breathlessness in asthma often cannot be explained with objective variables indicating airways obstruction. The hypothesis that unrealistic breathlessness results from false interpretation of sensations was tested. METHODS:Sixty-four children and adolescents with asthma, aged 9-18 years, were randomly assig...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Rietveld S,Everaerd W,Vanbeest I

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In other branches of epidemiology, stratum specific likelihood ratios (SSLRs) have been found to be preferable to fixed best threshold approaches to screening instruments. This paper presents SSLRs of GHQ-12 and GHQ-28 and compares the SSLR method with the traditional optimal threshold approach. METHODS:Ran...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Furukawa TA,Goldberg DP,Rabe-Hesketh S,Ustün TB

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Self-harm among young adults is a common and increasing phenomenon in many parts of the world. The long-term prognosis after self-harm at young age is inadequately known. We aimed to estimate the risk of mental illness and suicide in adult life after self-harm in young adulthood and to identify prognostic fa...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Beckman K,Mittendorfer-Rutz E,Lichtenstein P,Larsson H,Almqvist C,Runeson B,Dahlin M

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:Social anxiety disorder is one of the most common comorbid conditions in eating disorders (EDs). The aim of the current review and meta-analysis is to provide a qualitative summary of what is known about social anxiety (SA) in EDs, as well as to compare levels of SA in those with EDs and healthy controls. Electronic d...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kerr-Gaffney J,Harrison A,Tchanturia K

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study integrated an experimental medicine approach and a randomized cross-over clinical trial design following CONSORT recommendations to evaluate a cognitive training (CT) intervention for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The experimental medicine approach was adopted because of documen...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wexler BE,Vitulano LA,Moore C,Katsovich L,Smith SD,Rush C,Grantz H,Dong J,Leckman JF

更新日期：2020-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The medial forebrain bundle (MFB) is an important pathway of the reward system. Two branches have been described using diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based tractography: the infero-medial MFB (imMFB) and the supero-lateral MFB (slMFB). Previous studies point to white-matter microstructural altera...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bracht T,Doidge AN,Keedwell PA,Jones DK

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attentional difficulties reported in individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) may be due to preferential processing of disease-salient stimuli at a pre-attentive or at a conscious level or to a general problem in attention. Attentional difficulties may be associated with duration of illness. METHOD:Female par...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Dickson H,Brooks S,Uher R,Tchanturia K,Treasure J,Campbell IC

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With regard to current neurobiological theories, the aim of our study was to examine possible alterations of temporal and frontal lobe volume in panic disorder (PD). METHOD:Seventeen in-patients with PD and a group of healthy control subjects (HC) matched for age and gender were investigated by quantitative...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sobanski T,Wagner G,Peikert G,Gruhn U,Schluttig K,Sauer H,Schlösser R

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00