What explains post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in UK service personnel: deployment or something else?

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is evidence that patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) have mild hypocortisolism. The clinical significance of this is unclear. We aimed to determine whether hypocortisolism exerted any effect on the response of CFS to cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). METHOD:We measured 24-h urinary free co...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Roberts AD,Charler ML,Papadopoulos A,Wessely S,Chalder T,Cleare AJ

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-clinical psychosis-like symptoms (PLIKS) occur in about 15% of the population. It is not clear whether adverse events during early development alter the risk of developing PLIKS. We aimed to examine whether maternal infection, diabetes or pre-eclampsia during pregnancy, gestational age, perinatal cardiop...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Zammit S,Odd D,Horwood J,Thompson A,Thomas K,Menezes P,Gunnell D,Hollis C,Wolke D,Lewis G,Harrison G

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mental stress is associated with higher mortality, but it remains controversial whether the association is causal or a consequence of a higher physical disease burden in those with a high mental stress load. Understanding causality is important when developing targeted interventions. We aimed to estimate the...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Prior A,Fenger-Grøn M,Davydow DS,Olsen J,Li J,Guldin MB,Vestergaard M

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Fijian community affected by a cyclone was compared with an unaffected but similar community. Two months after the cyclone both psychological and physical morbidity was 2-3 times greater in the affected community than in controls. By the third month morbidity had resolved to levels similar to those in the unaffected...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Fairley M,Langeluddecke P,Tennant C

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unnatural causes of death due to traffic accidents (TA) and suicide attempts (SA) constitute a major burden on global health, which remained stable in the last decade despite widespread efforts of prevention. Recently, latent infection with Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) has been suggested to be a biological risk facto...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sutterland AL,Kuin A,Kuiper B,van Gool T,Leboyer M,Fond G,de Haan L

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neuroanatomical abnormalities in first-episode psychosis (FEP) tend to be subtle and widespread. The vast majority of previous studies have used small samples, and therefore may have been underpowered. In addition, most studies have examined participants at a single research site, and therefore the results m...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Vieira S,Gong Q,Scarpazza C,Lui S,Huang X,Crespo-Facorro B,Tordesillas-Gutierrez D,de la Foz VO,Setien-Suero E,Scheepers F,van Haren NEM,Kahn R,Reis Marques T,Ciufolini S,Di Forti M,Murray RM,David A,Dazzan P,McGuire

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A few previous studies suggest that a large number of individuals do not present at hospital following a suicide attempt, complicating recurrence prevention and prevalence estimation. METHODS:Data were extracted from a regular phone survey in representative samples of the French population aged 18-75 years ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Jollant F,Hawton K,Vaiva G,Chan-Chee C,du Roscoat E,Leon C

更新日期：2020-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Frequency and quantity of alcohol consumption are metrics commonly used to measure alcohol consumption behaviors. Epidemiological studies indicate that these alcohol consumption measures are differentially associated with (mental) health outcomes and socioeconomic status (SES). The current study aims to eluc...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Marees AT,Smit DJA,Ong JS,MacGregor S,An J,Denys D,Vorspan F,van den Brink W,Derks EM

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：:The examination of moment-to-moment, 'micro-level' patterns of experience and behaviour using experience sampling methodology has contributed to our understanding of the 'macro-level' development of full-blown symptoms and disorders. This paper argues that the micro-level perspective can be used to identify the smalle...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wichers M

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The diagnosis of certain psychiatric syndromes (e.g. panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder) is crucially dependent on the psychosocial context in which they arise. For other syndromes (e.g. schizophrenia), the context is generally irrelevant. Should the diagnosis of major depression (MD) be made depe...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kendler KS,Myers J,Halberstadt LJ

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:No studies have reported on how to relieve distress or relax in medical health workers while wearing medical protective equipment in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The study aimed to establish which relaxation technique, among six, is the most feasible in first-line medical health workers wear...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Zhang H,Li A,Zhu B,Niu Y,Ruan Z,Liu L,Gao X,Wang K,Yin L,Peng M,Xue Q,Leng H,Min B,Tian Q,Wang C,Yang Y,Zhu Z,Si T,Li W,Shangguan F,Hong X,Chang H,Song H,Li D,Jia L,Dong H,Wang Y,Cosci F,Wang H

更新日期：2020-08-24 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：:Tryptophan and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (precursor and metabolite respectively of 5-hydroxytryptamine) were determined in ventricular CSF of psychiatric patients undergoing stereotactic subcaudate tractotomy. Tyrosine and homovanillic acid (precursor and metabolite respectively of dopamine) were also determined. Res...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bridges PK,Bartlett JR,Sepping P,Kantamaneni BD,Curzon G

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Slow-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to the frontal cortex has been suggested as a safer and better tolerable alternative to fast-frequency rTMS in the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). The aim of the present study was to examine the efficacy of slow-frequency rTMS t...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Schutter DJ

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-traumatic stress disorder was first recognized as a diagnostic category embracing reactions in response to overwhelming environmental stress 'outside the range of usual human experience' in DSM-III (APA, 1980). Such abnormal stressors are by no means a product of the twentieth century but have featured, sporadica...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Parry-Jones B,Parry-Jones WL

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are no evidence-based treatments for severe and enduring anorexia nervosa (SE-AN). This study evaluated the relative efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT-AN) and specialist supportive clinical management (SSCM) for adults with SE-AN. METHOD:Sixty-three participants with a diagnosis of AN, who...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Touyz S,Le Grange D,Lacey H,Hay P,Smith R,Maguire S,Bamford B,Pike KM,Crosby RD

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levinger & Clarke (1961) found that subjects tended to forget more word associations to emotional rather than neutral words. Kline (1981) regarded this study as providing 'irrefutable evidence for the Freudian concept of repression'. On the other hand, results from Kleinsmith & Kaplan (1964) suggested that this effect...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bradley BP,Baddeley AD

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stress and vulnerability likely interact to play a major role in psychosis. While much has been written about the neural diathesis-stress model in psychosis and its clinical risk states, little is known about HPA axis biomarkers in non-help-seeking individuals at familial high risk (FHR). We sought to prospe...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Shah JL,Tandon N,Howard ER,Mermon D,Miewald JM,Montrose DM,Keshavan MS

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper four principal topics are addressed: (a) the policy and political contexts in which demands arise for cost information; (b) the nature and phasing of those demands; (c) the basic rules of empirical costs research for meeting those demands; and (d) concomitant implications for the design, execution and in...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Knapp M,Beecham J

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The role of antidepressant medications in bipolar depression remains controversial, mainly due to a lack of research in this area. In this study the authors examined the episode length in bipolar depression and the relationship between antidepressant therapy and episode length. METHOD:A retrospective chart ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Frankle WG,Perlis RH,Deckersbach T,Grandin LD,Gray SM,Sachs GS,Nierenberg AA

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depressive syndromes not fulfilling the criteria for specified disorders (subthreshold depression, SD) may be clinically important. We aimed to study SD in old and very old age, in comparison with subjects with no depressive symptoms (NDS) and subjects with major depression (MD). METHODS:A community-based r...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Geiselmann B,Linden M,Helmchen H

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is evidence of executive function impairment in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) that potentially contributes to symptom development and maintenance. Nevertheless, the precise nature of these executive impairments and their neural basis remains to be defined. METHOD:We compared stopping and shiftin...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Morein-Zamir S,Voon V,Dodds CM,Sule A,van Niekerk J,Sahakian BJ,Robbins TW

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five idiots savants whose artistic output was judged to be at art school entrance standard were matched for performance and verbal IQ with control subjects who had no special artistic talent. Each subject was given tests of reproductive skill with both concrete pictures and unfamiliar and unnameable geometric designs....

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： O'Connor N,Hermelin B

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although positive effects of physical activity on mental health indicators have been reported, the relationship between physical activity and the development of specific mental disorders is unclear. METHOD:A cross-sectional (12-month) and prospective-longitudinal epidemiological study over 4 years in a comm...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Ströhle A,Höfler M,Pfister H,Müller AG,Hoyer J,Wittchen HU,Lieb R

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-stay patients who were discharged from Friern and Claybury hospitals during the 6-year period between September 1985 and August 1991 were followed up for at least 1 year and the details of all readmissions were recorded. Of the 615 hospital leavers, some 178 (29%) were readmitted at some time during the follow-up...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Gooch C,Leff J

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is widely applied to treat severe depression resistant to standard treatment. Results from previous studies comparing the cost-effectiveness of this technique with treatment alternatives such as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) are conflicting. METHOD:We co...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Vallejo-Torres L,Castilla I,González N,Hunter R,Serrano-Pérez P,Perestelo-Pérez L

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:Recent literature on insight has paid little attention to patients' social backgrounds and cultures. Discharge summaries from 357 patients with a psychotic illness were examined to investigate factors associated with insight. A highly significant association was found between British white ethnic origin and being thou...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Johnson S,Orrell M

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Item 9 of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) queries about thoughts of death and self-harm, but not suicidality. Although it is sometimes used to assess suicide risk, most positive responses are not associated with suicidality. The PHQ-8, which omits Item 9, is thus increasingly used in research. We ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wu Y,Levis B,Riehm KE,Saadat N,Levis AW,Azar M,Rice DB,Boruff J,Cuijpers P,Gilbody S,Ioannidis JPA,Kloda LA,McMillan D,Patten SB,Shrier I,Ziegelstein RC,Akena DH,Arroll B,Ayalon L,Baradaran HR,Baron M,Bombardier

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00