Beyond capacity: identifying ethical dilemmas underlying capacity evaluation requests.

abstract：:The authors assessed, in an adolescent population sample, the internal consistency, test-retest stability, and factor structure of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) and established the frequency of alexithymia in this age-group. Pupils (N=882; age-groups: 14-, 15-, and 16-year-olds) from two secondary schools com...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Säkkinen P,Kaltiala-Heino R,Ranta K,Haataja R,Joukamaa M

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Falls and delirium in general-hospital inpatients are related to increases in morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. Patients fall despite safeguards and programs to reduce falling. OBJECTIVE:The authors sought to determine the prevalence of diagnosed and undiagnosed delirium in patients who fell durin...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Lakatos BE,Capasso V,Mitchell MT,Kilroy SM,Lussier-Cushing M,Sumner L,Repper-Delisi J,Kelleher EP,Delisle LA,Cruz C,Stern TA

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research has shown that Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) can effectively decrease pain intensity and improve quality of life in patients with medically unexplained pain. OBJECTIVE:Understanding that not all patients with medically unexplained pain have access to in-person ISTDP, this study...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Chavooshi B,Mohammadkhani P,Dolatshahi B

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Late-life somatic symptom disorder (SSD) is characterized by various aging-associated factors, such as a functional decline, psychosocial problems, and cognitive dysfunction. However, the details of the cognitive dysfunction that occur in late-life SSD are still unknown. OBJECTIVE:The aims of this study wer...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Inamura K,Shinagawa S,Nagata T,Tagai K,Nukariya K,Nakayama K

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the treatment of psychiatric patients with complicating medical illness, clinicians may encounter patients who cannot take oral medications. This review will acquaint the practicing clinical psychiatrist with psychotropic medications available by nonenteral routes of administration. A computerized MEDLINE search wa...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Thompson D,DiMartini A

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Authors evaluated the sensitivity and specificity of DSM-IV and ICD-10 criteria and the cutoff value of the Memorial Delirium Assessment Scale (MDAS) in diagnosing postoperative delirium in 260 cardiac surgery patients. Incidence of delirium diagnosed on the basis of DSM-IV and ICD-10 criteria, and with the use of the...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Kazmierski J,Kowman M,Banach M,Fendler W,Okonski P,Banys A,Jaszewski R,Sobow T,Kloszewska I

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the effects of psychotropic medications on the eye. Although some of these effects have been known for years, they have been largely ignored by psychiatrists. The ophthalmologic effects of antidepressants, neuroleptics, benzodiazepines, carbamazepine, and lithium in therapeutic doses and overdose ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Malone DA Jr,Camara EG,Krug JH Jr

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichophagia secondary to trichotillomania can be a potentially life-threatening condition if left untreated. This report documents the unique case of a 16-year-old girl whose untreated trichotillomania led to a trichobezoar requiring surgical intervention and follow-up psychiatric treatment. Challenges in the identif...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Salaam K,Carr J,Grewal H,Sholevar E,Baron D

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Comorbidity between vestibular and psychiatric disorders in predisposed individuals is underestimated, untreated, and may result in chronicization and poor quality of life. There are few studies concerning the type and the prevalence of psychiatric-psychosomatic distress in patients with benign paroxysmal po...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Ferrari S,Monzani D,Baraldi S,Simoni E,Prati G,Forghieri M,Rigatelli M,Genovese E,Pingani L

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the utilization of medical specialists by anxiety disorder patients. The setting was a university's clinical outpatient drug trails for anxiety disorders. The participants were subjects identified by advertisement and diagnosed by psychiatric interviews and, in some instances...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Kennedy BL,Schwab JJ

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can be life-saving in treating depression, even for high-risk cardiac patients. A 56-year-old man with type 2 diabetes and dilated cardiomyopathy, using both a defibrillator and an experimental cardiac contractility modulator, had had episodes of severe depression superimposed...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Lynch AM,Pandurangi AK,Levenson JL

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：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：BACKGROUND:Olfactory reference syndrome (ORS) is an underrecognized, understudied, and often severe psychiatric disorder characterized by a prominent and distressing or impairing preoccupation with a false belief of emitting an offensive body odor. As this condition has only recently been recognized in the Internationa...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Sofko C,Tremont G,Tan JE,Westervelt H,Ahern DC,Menard W,Phillips KA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although anesthetics have been used for more than a century, their mechanisms of action remain poorly understood. Given that a number of intraoperative and postoperative neuropsychiatric syndromes have been linked to the use of anesthetics, practitioners should familiarize themselves with these conditions. ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Gross AF,Stern TA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the psychological factors associated with self-excoriative behavior among 56 women (mean +/- SE age: 24.0 +/- 1.0 years) with mild-to-moderate facial acne vulgaris. Ratings associated with poor self-concept, such as perfectionistic and compulsive personality traits, correlated more strongly with s...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Gupta MA,Gupta AK,Schork NJ

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Injuries from blows to the head often are manifested only as subjective complaints. Postconcussional syndrome thus can be feigned for financial or psychological gain. The authors review the pathology of brain trauma, symptoms of postconcussional syndrome, and criteria for diagnosis. In addition to somatic deficits, ps...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Hall RC,Hall RC,Chapman MJ

更新日期：2005-05-01 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：:Conflicts among consultants are frequent in general hospitals. Unfortunately, such disputes are rarely resolved to the satisfaction of all concerned. The authors discuss the conflicts that may arise among consultants and review techniques that can lead to more effective collaboration. Authors review the literature on ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Caplan JP,Epstein LA,Stern TA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Part 1 of this 2-part series, the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders in primary care settings was reviewed as well as evidence that indicates that these conditions often go underrecognized and undertreated by primary care physicians. Educational studies to improve the psychiatric skills of primary care physician...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Stoudemire A

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:Severe personality disorder has been proposed as a contraindication for liver transplantation. Seventy-three subjects with alcoholic-related liver disease were evaluated for personality disorder and followed for 6 months. The subjects with severe personality disorder had higher rates of divorce, higher rates of comorb...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Yates WR,LaBrecque DR,Pfab D

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adolf Meyer, the first Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, and Chief of the Phipps Clinic, brought a bevy of new ideas to clinical practice and to medical education. He used the word "psychobiology," which helped to establish psychosomatic medicine and formed the basis for Engel's "biopsychosocial" con...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Karl SR,Holland JC

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The loss of a baby causes severe short- and long-term distress to parents and their marital relationship, but little is known about how this distress is shared between spouses. The authors hypothesized that the grief-related concordance within a couple 2 to 6 years after the loss of a premature baby could be...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Büchi S,Mörgeli H,Schnyder U,Jenewein J,Glaser A,Fauchère JC,Ulrich Bucher H,Sensky T

更新日期：2009-03-01 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:Mental illness is associated with an increased risk for medical hospitalizations. OBJECTIVE:This study investigates the degree to which nonpsychiatric factors account for these hospitalizations. METHODS:Using National Veterans Health Administration (VHA) fiscal year 2012 data for 2 million veterans under t...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Moore DT,Rosenheck RA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Some studies suggest intensive psychiatric consultation services facilitate medical care and reduce length of stay (LOS) in general hospitals. OBJECTIVE:To compare LOS between a consultation-as-usual model and a proactive consultation model involving review of all admissions, rapid consultation, and close f...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Desan PH,Zimbrean PC,Weinstein AJ,Bozzo JE,Sledge WH

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychotropic drugs are frequently used in both psychiatric and general medical practice. Familiarity with common side effects and their management may assist psychiatrists in the selection of agents to suit individual patient needs. The authors describe the morphologic features and pathologic basis of cutaneous reacti...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： MacMorran WS,Krahn LE

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examine the relationship of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS) to sociodemographic characteristics, medical history, symptomatology, and illness cognition in a sample of 244 family medicine patients. The TAS had moderate internal reliability. In multiple regression analysis, the TAS was related to age, ed...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Kirmayer LJ,Robbins JM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psychosocial assessment is an essential component of the pretransplant evaluation. Many individuals have significant psychosocial problems, and they are either denied for transplantation or deferred from listing and transplant until the psychosocial issues are addressed. OBJECTIVE:The primary aim of this st...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Schneekloth TD,Hitschfeld MJ,Jowsey-Gregoire SG,Petterson TM,Dunlay SM,Niazi SK,Vasquez AR,Rummans TA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00