Psychosocial effects on immune function: neuroendocrine pathways.

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to identify the proximate causes through which dementia and delirium extend length of stay (LOS) in elderly general hospital patients. Among 93 patients age >/=65 years admitted to a tertiary-care teaching hospital through the emergency department, admission ratings of cognitive impairmen...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Saravay SM,Kaplowitz M,Kurek J,Zeman D,Pollack S,Novik S,Knowlton S,Brendel M,Hoffman L

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study is to describe past traumatic experiences in medically-admitted pediatric and young adult patients diagnosed with somatoform disorders and to explore the demographic, diagnostic, and psychosocial differences between those with and without trauma histories. METHODS:Retrospective medi...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Thomson K,Randall E,Ibeziako P,Bujoreanu IS

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression in patients with diabetes is associated with poorer adherence and worse health outcomes, however treating depression may help improve these outcomes. OBJECTIVE:The present systematic review identified published papers to evaluate treatments for depression in patients with diabetes. RESULTS:Seven...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Markowitz SM,Gonzalez JS,Wilkinson JL,Safren SA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various studies suggest that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may be useful in treating pathologic skin-picking. The authors investigated the effectiveness of fluoxetine in treating this behavior. Fifteen subjects with clinically significant skin-picking were recruited by newspaper advertisement. They r...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Bloch MR,Elliott M,Thompson H,Koran LM

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article characterizes the academic, administrative, clinical service, and fiscal characteristics of departments of psychiatry in traditional children's hospitals to determine the characteristics of fiscally successful programs. A survey of chairs of psychiatry from short-term general children's hospitals was cond...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Campo JV,Kingsley RS,Bridge J,Mrazek D

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conducted a study to examine the association between neuropsychological markers of central nervous system impairment and systemic human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease progression in a sample of 64 HIV-positive asymptomatic patients who were followed for a median of 45.6 months. Patients with poorer b...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Silberstein CH,O'Dowd MA,Schoenbaum EE,Friedland GH,Chartock P,Feiner C,McKegney FP

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary tract symptoms and, particularly, urinary incontinence are often chronic and complex conditions that cause diagnosis, treatment, and management problems. In many cases, psychosocial factors contribute to the development of a chronic condition. The authors investigated whether INTERMED, an instrument for assess...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Di Gangi Herms AM,Pinggera GM,De Jonge P,Strasser H,Söllner W

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has been found to be comorbid with various medical conditions in clinical samples, but little research has investigated CFS comorbidity in population-based samples. OBJECTIVE:This study investigated conditions concurrent with a CFS-like illness among twins in the population-ba...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Dansie EJ,Furberg H,Afari N,Buchwald D,Edwards K,Goldberg J,Schur E,Sullivan PF

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS) is a rare systemic disease caused by presumably contaminated L-tryptophan. Thirteen outpatients with EMS were found to have a high degree of depression, anxiety, and difficulty adjusting to illness. Pre-EMS history of major depression but not EMS severity predicted poor adjustme...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Epstein SA,Krahn L,Clauw DJ,Gomes AP,Weigert S,Goldberg RL

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Factitious disorder (FD) is the deliberate production or simulation of symptoms in order to adopt the sick role. OBJECTIVE:The authors look at FD in the neurology setting. METHOD:The authors examined documented, published cases. RESULTS:FD cases in neurology are strikingly different from those in other sp...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Kanaan RA,Wessely SC

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bell's mania (mania with delirium) is an acute neurobehavioral syndrome of unknown etiology that is characterized by the rapid onset of grandiosity, psychomotor excitement, emotional lability, psychosis, and sleep disruption consistent with mania, coupled with alterations in sensorium, and disorientation cha...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Bobo WV,Murphy MJ,Heckers SH

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a 12-week placebo-controlled study of fluoxetine in the treatment of body dysmorphic disorder, the authors investigated change in psychosocial functioning and mental health-related quality of life in 60 subjects. The subjects were assessed with the LIFE-RIFT (a measure of impaired functioning), Social and Occupatio...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Phillips KA,Rasmussen SA

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eating disorders anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa have been reported to occur in Type I diabetes mellitus. Although prevalence estimates vary, the most rigorous studies yield rates similar to the population at large. Intentional insulin omission is more common, especially in young diabetic women, and at times ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Crow SJ,Keel PK,Kendall D

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medical directors need management skills; yet, few studies describe the specific tasks that directors consider most important, their confidence for these tasks, and how their confidence develops. We studied these questions among directors in the subspecialty of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. METHODS:A nee...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Bronson B,Perlman G

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the hepatitis C virus (HCV) alone increases the risk of cirrhosis, alcohol use is thought to act synergistically with HCV to significantly hasten the development of fibrosis. OBJECTIVE:The authors assessed the impact of brief medical counseling or integrated-care approaches to lessen or eliminate a...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Dieperink E,Ho SB,Heit S,Durfee JM,Thuras P,Willenbring ML

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation compared how perceived memory ability or level of worry about memory related to performance on objective tests of memory and cognition. Data from 1,488 participants from the Baltimore cohort of the Epidemiologic Catchment Area study were analyzed. Significant associations were found between self-rat...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Podewils LJ,McLay RN,Rebok GW,Lyketsos CG

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of diabetes in Canada is increasing. Multiple factors have been identified in the development of disability in diabetic patients, but the interaction of those risk factors is not clear. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this paper was to assess the association between diabetes severity, health behavio...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Schmitz N,Messier L,Nitka D,Ivanova A,Gariepy G,Wang J,Malla A,Boyer R,Lesage A,Strychar I

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The course of depression and the economic consequences in the 6-month period after hospitalization for congestive heart failure were examined in a prospective observational cohort study involving 203 older adults (mean age=76.8 years, SD=7.8). At discharge, 73 of 203 subjects (36%) were depressed according to the scre...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Fulop G,Strain JJ,Stettin G

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression is commonly reported in patients after cardiac surgery and increases the risk of postoperative cardiac morbidity or mortality or both. Although preoperative depression has been implicated as the strongest predictor of depression after surgery, the characteristics thought to influence reactive or p...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Patron E,Messerotti Benvenuti S,Palomba D

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with serious medical illnesses, such as cancer, are at increased risk of suicide but are also often facing death. The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is widely used to screen patients for depression. It includes an item that asks about thoughts of death and hurting yourself (Item-9). OBJECTI...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Walker J,Hansen CH,Butcher I,Sharma N,Wall L,Murray G,Sharpe M

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression and anxiety are common in heart failure, but the prevalence, incidence, and relationship of these conditions to health service use and mortality remains uncertain. OBJECTIVE:The authors sought to delineate these parameters and identify patient factors predicting hospitalizations for heart failure...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Cully JA,Johnson M,Moffett ML,Khan M,Deswal A

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scurvy is a disease with well-known peripheral symptoms, such as bleeding and pain. METHODS:The clinical and historical evidence for a distinct form of scurvy affecting the central nervous system, called neuropsychiatric scurvy, is reviewed. Pathophysiologic factors are described, as well as its diagnosis a...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Brown TM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antihistamines and their drug-drug interactions are reviewed in depth. The metabolism of "classic" or sedating antihistamines is coming to light through in vivo and in vitro studies. The polymorphic CYP 2D6 metabolic enzyme appears to be potently inhibited by many of these over-the-counter medications. The history of ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Armstrong SC,Cozza KL

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of 294 consecutive medical inpatients, the authors assessed a subsample of 157 patients for psychiatric diagnoses using an extensive semistructured interview, Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN). Patients rated their health and physical functioning, and medical consultants assessed t...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Hansen MS,Fink P,Frydenberg M,Oxhøj ML,Søndergaard L,Eriksen M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven-hundred and three patients from a general medical outpatient clinic at a Veterans Affairs hospital completed the SCREENER, a brief self-report questionnaire that screens for psychiatric disorders. The authors found that 7.3% of the patients had suicidal ideation. The younger and white patients were at increased ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Lish JD,Zimmerman M,Farber NJ,Lush DT,Kuzma MA,Plescia G

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Job descriptions for psychiatrists will change significantly over the next decade, as psychiatrists will be called on to work as caseload consultants to the primary care team. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this pilot study was to examine the effects of an American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residenc...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Huang H,Barkil-Oteo A

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatizing patients present a history of vague, unexplained medical symptoms. This study compared somatizing patients with pulmonary control subjects by using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS-III-R), the Illness Attitude Scales (IAS), and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2). The groups diffe...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Labott SM,Preisman RC,Torosian T,Popovich J Jr,Iannuzzi MC

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examines the use of substance abuse and mental health services among older adults with substance use disorders. METHODS:Participants were members of Humana Cares, a subsidiary of Humana, Inc., a care management program for chronically ill Medicare Advantage members, between 2008 and 2010. All adul...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Huang H,Chan YF,Bauer AM,Suzuki J,Katon W,Russo J,Hogan D,Unützer J

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:First-episode secondary mania in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has been described among samples of predominantly Caucasian, HIV-positive male patients in developed countries. OBJECTIVE:The goal of this study was to compare the demographic and clinical characteristics of HIV-positive patients ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Nakimuli-Mpungu E,Musisi S,Kiwuwa Mpungu S,Katabira E

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatry clerkship rotations may improve medical students' understanding of psychiatric principles relevant to the settings in which they will ultimately practice. This study aimed to characterize students' experiences on C-L rotations. METHODS:This cross-sectional survey study,...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Meyer F,Abbasi O,Kasick D,Lee K,Pelic C,Zinser J,Harris T,Funk M,Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine’s Medical Student Education Subcommittee.

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00