Does dopamine play a role in schizophrenia?

abstract：:The SIDAM--a new instrument for the symptomatic diagnosis and measurement of dementia according to DSM-III-R and ICD-10--is described. It comprises a brief structured clinical interview, a range of cognitive tests (e.g. including the Mini-Mental State (Folstein et al. 1975)) which constitute a short neuropsychological...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Zaudig M,Mittelhammer J,Hiller W,Pauls A,Thora C,Morinigo A,Mombour W

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cognitive theory points to the importance of negative self-schemas in the onset and maintenance of depression and anxiety disorders. Hereby, it is important to distinguish between automatic and explicit self-schemas, reflecting different cognitive-motivational systems. This study tested whether patients with...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Glashouwer KA,de Jong PJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taxometric procedures have been used extensively to investigate whether individual differences in personality and psychopathology are latently dimensional or categorical ('taxonic'). We report the first meta-analysis of taxometric research, examining 317 findings drawn from 183 articles that employed an index of the c...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Haslam N,McGrath MJ,Viechtbauer W,Kuppens P

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psychiatric rehabilitation (PR) can improve functioning in people with severe mental illness (SMI), but outcomes are still suboptimal. Cognitive impairments have severe implications for functioning and might reduce the effects of PR. It has been demonstrated that performance in cognitive tests can be improve...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： van Duin D,de Winter L,Oud M,Kroon H,Veling W,van Weeghel J

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) develops in a minority of traumatized individuals. Attention biases to threat and abnormalities in fear learning and extinction are processes likely to play a critical role in the creation and/or maintenance of PTSD symptomatology. However, the relationship between these...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Fani N,Tone EB,Phifer J,Norrholm SD,Bradley B,Ressler KJ,Kamkwalala A,Jovanovic T

更新日期：2012-03-01 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:Civilian suicide rates vary by occupation in ways related to occupational stress exposure. Comparable military research finds suicide rates elevated in combat arms occupations. However, no research has evaluated variation in this pattern by deployment history, the indicator of occupation stress widely consid...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kessler RC,Stein MB,Bliese PD,Bromet EJ,Chiu WT,Cox KL,Colpe LJ,Fullerton CS,Gilman SE,Gruber MJ,Heeringa SG,Lewandowski-Romps L,Millikan-Bell A,Naifeh JA,Nock MK,Petukhova MV,Rosellini AJ,Sampson NA,Schoenbaum M,Za

更新日期：2015-11-01 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:Executive functions have been proposed as endophenotypes for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); however, data regarding visual memory are lacking. We therefore assessed visual memory in adolescents with ADHD and their unaffected siblings compared with controls. METHOD:The participants included...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Shang CY,Gau SS

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Schizophrenia (SZ) is a complex disorder characterized by a range of behavioral and cognitive symptoms as well as structural and functional alterations in multiple cortical and subcortical structures. SZ is associated with reduced functional network connectivity involving core regions such as the anterior ci...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Csukly G,Szabó Á,Polgár P,Farkas K,Gyebnár G,Kozák LR,Stefanics G

更新日期：2020-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:There is little evidence of a curvilinear relationship between pre-operative emotionality and post-operative adjustment, as predicted by a model which supposes that moderate preoperative anxiety assists adjustment. This paper suggests that the negative affect, or stress, associated with the work of worry should be dis...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Ray C,Fitzgibbon G

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Refugees commonly experience difficulties with emotional processing, such as alexithymia, due to stressful or traumatic experiences. However, the functional connectivity of the amygdala, which is central to emotional processing, has yet to be assessed in refugees. Thus, the present study investigated the res...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kim N,Park I,Lee YJ,Jeon S,Kim S,Lee KH,Park J,Kim HK,Gwaq AR,Jun JY,Yoo SY,Lee SH,Kim SJ

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have suggested that major depressive disorders are associated with a breakdown in the organization of ultradian rhythm in sleep EEG. The present study used cross-spectral analysis of sleep EEG to confirm this finding, in a larger-scale study, evaluating the influence of gender and age on ultra...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Armitage R,Hoffmann RF,Rush AJ

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A non-recursive structural equation model designed to examine the reciprocal relationship between life event reports and depressive symptoms in women is presented. The model was fitted to data from a 2-year longitudinal study of life events and depression in a sample of women with 5-year-old children. The findings sug...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Fergusson DM,Horwood LJ

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research suggests that the personality factor of self-critical or maladaptive perfectionism may be implicated in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). However, it is not clear whether self-critical perfectionism (SCP) also predicts daily symptoms in CFS. Method In the present study we investigated whether SCP pred...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kempke S,Luyten P,Claes S,Goossens L,Bekaert P,Van Wambeke P,Van Houdenhove B

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oral contraceptive use has been previously associated with an increased risk of suicidal behavior in some, but not all, samples. The use of large, representative, longitudinally-assessed samples may clarify the nature of this potential association. METHODS:We used Swedish national registries to identify wom...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Edwards AC,Lönn SL,Crump C,Mościcki EK,Sundquist J,Kendler KS,Sundquist K

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Couples in whom the main complaint was of a lack of female sexual response were treated using a practical counselling approach. A number of pre-treatment measures were studied to determine which factors were predictive of treatment outcome. While age and chronicity were not predictive, the quality of the general relat...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Whitehead A,Mathews A

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder which frequently persists into adulthood. The primary goal of the current study was to (a) investigate attentional functions of stimulant medication-naïve adults with ADHD, and (b) investigate the effects of 6 weeks of methylphe...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Low AM,Vangkilde S,le Sommer J,Fagerlund B,Glenthøj B,Jepsen JRM,Bundesen C,Petersen A,Habekost T

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic fatigue is a common symptom of multiple sclerosis (MS). A randomized controlled trial (RCT) showed that cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) was more effective in reducing MS fatigue than relaxation training (RT). The aim of the current study was to analyse additional data from this trial to determine...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Knoop H,van Kessel K,Moss-Morris R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Converging evidence implicates basal ganglia alterations in impulsivity and suicidal behavior. For example, D2/D3 agonists and subthalamic nucleus stimulation in Parkinson's disease (PD) trigger impulse control disorders and possibly suicidal behavior. Furthermore, suicidal behavior has been associated with ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Dombrovski AY,Siegle GJ,Szanto K,Clark L,Reynolds CF,Aizenstein H

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Retrospective studies have consistently indicated an association between maladaptive parenting and borderline personality disorder (BPD). This requires corroboration with prospective, longitudinal designs. We investigated the association between suboptimal parenting and parent conflict in childhood and BPD s...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Winsper C,Zanarini M,Wolke D

更新日期：2012-11-01 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:The outcome of schizophrenia appears to be more favourable than once thought. However, methodological issues, including the reliance on diagnosis at first presentation have limited the validity of outcome studies to date. METHOD:We conducted a first-episode follow-up study of 97 patients with DSM-IV schizop...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Whitty P,Clarke M,McTigue O,Browne S,Kamali M,Kinsella A,Larkin C,O'Callaghan E

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The assessment of inter-regional functional connectivity (FC) has allowed for the description of the putative mechanism of action of treatments such as deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the nucleus accumbens in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Nevertheless, the possible FC alterations of othe...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Cano M,Alonso P,Martínez-Zalacaín I,Subirà M,Real E,Segalàs C,Pujol J,Cardoner N,Menchón JM,Soriano-Mas C

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospective case note study, 73 young females with anorexia nervosa were compared with 88 young females with affective psychosis. These groups of patients did not differ in terms of place of residence, birth order or social class. They differed very significantly, however, in terms of age at onset of symptoms, ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Eagles JM,Wilson AM,Hunter D,Callender JS

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies of the dimensional structure of panic attack symptoms have mostly identified a respiratory and a vestibular/mixed somatic dimension. Evidence for additional dimensions such as a cardiac dimension and the allocation of several of the panic attack symptom criteria is less consistent. Clarifyin...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Drenckhan I,Glöckner-Rist A,Rist F,Richter J,Gloster AT,Fehm L,Lang T,Alpers GW,Hamm AO,Fydrich T,Kircher T,Arolt V,Deckert J,Ströhle A,Wittchen HU,Gerlach AL

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although alcohol use disorder (AUD) is associated with future risk for psychosocial dysfunction, the degree to which this arises from a direct causal effect of AUD on functioning v. from correlated risk factors (also known as confounders) is less clearly established. METHOD:AUD was assessed from Swedish med...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kendler KS,Ohlsson H,Karriker-Jaffe KJ,Sundquist J,Sundquist K

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic fatigue is a common condition, frequently presenting in primary care. The aim of this study was to compare the cost-effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET), and to compare therapy with usual care plus a self-help booklet (BUC). METHOD:Patients drawn fro...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： McCrone P,Ridsdale L,Darbishire L,Seed P

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several lines of evidence indicate a role of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the modulation of eating behaviour. Therefore, alterations in the physiology of this neurotrophin may be involved in the pathogenesis of eating disorders. In the present study, we investigated serum levels of BDNF in...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Monteleone P,Fabrazzo M,Martiadis V,Serritella C,Pannuto M,Maj M

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies on assortment for psychiatric disorders have reported discrepant findings. We aimed to test whether there is a significant association for psychiatric diagnoses, including alcoholism, generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, panic disorder and phobias between husbands and wiv...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Maes HH,Neale MC,Kendler KS,Hewitt JK,Silberg JL,Foley DL,Meyer JM,Rutter M,Simonoff E,Pickles A,Eaves LJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00