Mortality in first-contact psychosis patients in the U.K.: a cohort study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research has established the relationship between cannabis use and psychotic disorders. Whether cannabis use is related to transition to psychosis in patients at ultra-high risk (UHR) for psychosis remains unclear. The present study aimed to review the existing evidence on the association between ca...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kraan T,Velthorst E,Koenders L,Zwaart K,Ising HK,van den Berg D,de Haan L,van der Gaag M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spontaneous movement disorders (SMDs), such as spontaneous dyskinesia and parkinsonism, have been described in patients with schizophrenia who have never been treated with antipsychotic medication. Their presence has been documented extensively in chronic schizophrenia but not at the time of illness onset. ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Pappa S,Dazzan P

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potential cases of presenile dementia of the Alzheimer type (PDAT) in the Northern Health Region (estimated population aged 45-64, 655,800) were ascertained for the years 1979-86 from in-patient ICD-9 codes and other sources. An algorithm was applied to the casenote information to distinguish between Alzheimer-type an...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Newens AJ,Forster DP,Kay DW,Kirkup W,Bates D,Edwardson J

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In a recent placebo-controlled, double-blind crossover trial (n = 52), significant beneficial effects on memory (d = 0.30) and negative symptoms (d = 0.29) were found after 12 weeks of memantine augmentation in patients with clozapine-refractory schizophrenia. In this open-label 1-year extension study we rep...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Veerman SR,Schulte PF,Deijen JB,de Haan L

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies investigating neurocognitive impairment in subjects with eating disorders (EDs) have reported heterogeneous patterns of impairment and, in some instances, no dysfunction. The present study aimed to define the pattern of neurocognitive impairment in a large sample of bulimia nervosa (BN) patients and ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Galderisi S,Bucci P,Mucci A,Bellodi L,Cassano GB,Santonastaso P,Erzegovesi S,Favaro A,Mauri M,Monteleone P,Maj M

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many preschool-age children meet criteria for psychiatric disorders, and rates approach those observed in later childhood and adolescence. However, there is a paucity of longitudinal research examining the outcomes of preschool diagnoses. METHODS:Families with a 3-year-old child (N = 559) were recruited fro...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Finsaas MC,Bufferd SJ,Dougherty LR,Carlson GA,Klein DN

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of computerized tests were used to study visual attention, memory and learning in elderly depressed patients. Impairment was found in approximately 70% of depressed patients and was seen particularly in memory and in measures of latency. Depressed patients showed equivalent impairment in short-term memory but...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Abas MA,Sahakian BJ,Levy R

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although depression and mania are often assumed to be polar opposites, studies have shown that, in patients with bipolar disorder, they are weakly positively correlated and vary somewhat independently over time. Thus, when investigating relationships between specific psychological processes and specific symp...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Pavlickova H,Varese F,Turnbull O,Scott J,Morriss R,Kinderman P,Paykel E,Bentall RP

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brown and his colleagues have presented evidence for the social origins of depression from results of 2 community surveys in Camberwell. This paper examines critically their methodology, conceptualization of variables, mode of argument and statistical techniques. Log-linear analysis of their published data fails to su...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Tennant C,Bebbington P

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships among symptoms, cognitive functioning and social functioning were investigated in 60 patients with recent-onset schizophrenia. Positive symptoms were unrelated to cognitive measures. Disorganization and depressive symptoms were correlated significantly with Card Sorting performance. Furthermore, only...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Van der Does AJ,Dingemans PM,Linszen DH,Nugter MA,Scholte WF

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although many studies have addressed the topic of stability versus change in depressive symptoms, few have further decomposed the change to continuous accumulation versus non-systematic state fluctuations or measurement errors. This further step requires a longitudinal follow-up and an appropriate stochastic...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Rosenström T,Jokela M,Hintsanen M,Pulkki-Råback L,Hutri-Kähönen N,Keltikangas-Järvinen L

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data are presented from a study of acculturation and psychiatric disorder in 291 Greek Cypriot immigrants from the general population of Camberwell, south London. We hypothesized that 'pre-acculturation' would protect against mental disorder, that difficulties in the period immediately after migration would increase t...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Mavreas V,Bebbington P

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with high and low susceptibility to hypnosis were compared in a baseline condition and after instructions of hypnosis on tests of anterior left and right hemispheric functions--word fluency to letter categories, word fluency to semantic categories, design fluency and bilateral finger tapping dexterity. Wit...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Gruzelier J,Warren K

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies during recent years have reported an increased occurrence of schizophrenia in selected immigrant groups. However, difficulties in establishing the population denominator for immigrant rates of mental disorder, selective referral for treatment, and other problems may have influenced such resul...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Mortensen PB,Cantor-Graae E,McNeil TF

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) shows a strong phenotypic and genetic association with reaction time (RT) variability, considered to reflect lapses in attention. Yet we know little about whether this aetiological pathway is shared with other affected cognitive processes in ADHD, such as lower...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wood AC,Asherson P,van der Meere JJ,Kuntsi J

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The usefulness of any diagnostic scheme is directly related to its ability to provide clinically useful information on need for care. In this study, the clinical usefulness of dimensional and categorical representations of psychotic psychopathology were compared. METHOD:A total of 706 patients aged 16-65 ye...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Van Os J,Gilvarry C,Bale R,Van Horn E,Tattan T,White I,Murray R

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A consecutive series of 45 female bulimic patients treated by one of us was followed four to six years after termination of treatment. Thirty-five (78%) were successfully followed, six refused to participate in the study and four were untraced. At least seven (16%) had diagnosable bulimia nervosa at follow-up, and at ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hsu LK,Sobkiewicz TA

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-stage psychiatric survey of a random samples of adults aged 18-64 from Camberwell is described. Agency interviewers carried out the first stage (N = 800), using the shorter form of the Present State Examination (PSE). MRC interviewers, using the full PSE, saw a stratified sample of these (N = 310) in the second ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bebbington P,Hurry J,Tennant C,Sturt E,Wing JK

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cigarette smoking is associated with worse cognition and decreased cortical volume and thickness in healthy cohorts. Chronic cigarette smoking is prevalent in schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD), but the effects of smoking status on the brain and cognition in SSD are not clear. This study aimed to underst...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Ringin E,Cropley V,Zalesky A,Bruggemann J,Sundram S,Weickert CS,Weickert TW,Bousman CA,Pantelis C,Van Rheenen TE

更新日期：2021-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maternal depression during pregnancy increases the risk for adverse developmental outcomes in children. However, the underpinning biological mechanisms remain unknown. We tested whether depression was associated with levels of and change in the inflammatory state during pregnancy, if early pregnancy overweig...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Lahti-Pulkkinen M,Girchenko P,Robinson R,Lehto SM,Toffol E,Heinonen K,Reynolds RM,Kajantie E,Laivuori H,Villa PM,Hämäläinen E,Lahti J,Räikkönen K

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While there is a growing body of research on borderline personality disorder (BPD) in children and adolescents, controversy remains regarding the validity and diagnosis of the disorder prior to adulthood. METHOD:MEDLINE, EMBASE, Psych INFO and PubMed databases were systematically searched for articles perta...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Winsper C,Marwaha S,Lereya ST,Thompson A,Eyden J,Singh SP

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epidemiological evidence suggests a link between cannabis use and psychosis. A variety of factors have been proposed to mediate an individual's vulnerability to the harmful effects of the drug, one of which is their psychosis proneness. We hypothesized that highly psychosis-prone individuals would report mor...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Mason O,Morgan CJ,Dhiman SK,Patel A,Parti N,Patel A,Curran HV

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of central dopamine functions appears to be a common basic property of antipsychotic drugs. The mesolimbic and nigrostriatal portions of the dopaminergic system are probably the main targets of these drugs for the mental and the extrapyramidal actions respectively. Dopaminergic hyperfunction, induced by amp...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Carlsson A

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To estimate the lifetime prevalence and potential determinants of psychotic experience(s) (PEs) in the general population of Qatar - a small non-war afflicted, conservative, high-income, middle-eastern country with recent rapid urbanization including an influx of migrants. METHODS:A probability-based sample...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Khaled SM,Wilkins SS,Woodruff P

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Geriatric Mental State and a new computerized diagnostic system, AGECAT, are briefly described. A nomenclature for designating cases for epidemiological work is introduced. Concordance between AGECAT and psychiatrists' diagnoses for these studies, hospital and community based (total of 541 subjects), achieved over...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Copeland JR,Dewey ME,Griffiths-Jones HM

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An entire population of 32 patients on regular dialysis treatment (RDT) in their own homes were ranked according to their present mental state as assessed by a standardized semi-structured interview. The point-prevalence of psychiatric morbidity was 31% which compares closely with that of patients attending a general ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Farmer CJ,Snowden SA,Parsons V

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Geographic variations in the incidence of deliberate self-harm (DSH) and suicide have been shown to be associated with area-based measures of socio-economic deprivation and social fragmentation. Previous studies have been subject to methodological limitations. None has investigated whether ecological associa...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hawton K,Harriss L,Hodder K,Simkin S,Gunnell D

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aims of the present study were to examine serum activities of peptidases, i.e. prolyl endopeptidase (PEP) and dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP IV), in patients with fibromyalgia and to examine the effects of subchronic treatment with sertraline on these variables. METHOD:Serum PEP and DPP IV activity were m...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Maes M,Libbrecht I,Van Hunsel F,Lin AH,Bonaccorso S,Goossens F,De Meester I,De Clerck L,Biondi M,Scharpe S,Janca A

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bullying victimization is a topic of concern for youths, parents, school staff and mental health practitioners. Children and adolescents who are victimized by bullies show signs of distress and adjustment problems. However, it is not clear whether bullying is the source of these difficulties. This paper reviews empiri...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Arseneault L,Bowes L,Shakoor S

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic studies of single gene variants have been criticized as providing a simplistic characterization of the genetic basis of illness risk that ignores the effects of other variants within the same biological pathways. Of candidate biological pathways for schizophrenia (SZ), the cell adhesion molecule (CAM...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hargreaves A,Anney R,O'Dushlaine C,Nicodemus KK,Schizophrenia Psychiatric Genome-Wide Association Study Consortium (PGC-SCZ).,Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2.,Gill M,Corvin A,Morris D,Donohoe G

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00