Positive relationship between the catecholaminergic turnover and the DST results in depression.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Continuity of care is considered by patients and clinicians an essential feature of good quality care in long-term disorders, yet there is general agreement that it is a complex concept. Most policies emphasize it and encourage systems to promote it. Despite this, there is no accepted definition or measure a...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Burns T,Catty J,White S,Clement S,Ellis G,Jones IR,Lissouba P,McLaren S,Rose D,Wykes T

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Learning and memory impairments in older adults with depression are linked to hippocampal atrophy. However, other subcortical regions may also be contributing to these deficits. We aimed to examine whether anterior caudate nucleus volume is significantly reduced in older adults with depression compared to co...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Jayaweera HK,Hickie IB,Duffy SL,Mowszowski L,Norrie L,Lagopoulos J,Naismith SL

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The validity of the twin method depends on the equal environment assumption (EEA)--that monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins are equally correlated in their exposure to environmental factors of aetiological importance for the trait under study. Parents may treat MZ twins more similarly than DZ twins thereby poten...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kendler KS,Neale MC,Kessler RC,Heath AC,Eaves LJ

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite markedly different clinical presentations, few studies have reported differences in neuropsychological functioning between mania and depression. Recent work has suggested that differences may emerge on cognitive tasks requiring affective processing, such as decision-making. The present study sought t...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Murphy FC,Rubinsztein JS,Michael A,Rogers RD,Robbins TW,Paykel ES,Sahakian BJ

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the results of a study of unemployment among British Asians living in the north of England. The sample comprises 139 employed and unemployed men. Using standardized psychological questionnaires with a semi-structured interview schedule, the psychological consequences of unemployment are examined in...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Shams M,Jackson PR

更新日期：1994-05-01 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:In resource-poor countries, there remains an alarming treatment gap for people with schizophrenia, particularly those living in rural areas. Decentralization of mental health services, including community-based outreach programmes, represents one obvious strategy for bringing appropriate care to these commun...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Srinivasa Murthy R,Kishore Kumar KV,Chisholm D,Thomas T,Sekar K,Chandrashekari CR

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prevalence of childhood anxiety disorders at specific ages and genetic etiological influences on anxiety disorders in young children have been little studied. The present study reports prevalence estimates in a community sample of 6-year-old twins, and patterns of genetic and environmental influences on thes...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bolton D,Eley TC,O'Connor TG,Perrin S,Rabe-Hesketh S,Rijsdijk F,Smith P

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-three chronic obstructive bronchitic patients were psychologically assessed before being randomly allocated to 1 of 3 management regimes. The following measures were taken: psychiatric disturbance, personality, social-desirability response set, vocabulary, expectations about treatment, attitudes and beliefs abo...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Rutter BM

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The attenuated positive symptoms syndrome (APSS) is considered an at-risk indicator for psychosis. However, the characteristics and developmental aspects of the combined or enriched risk criteria of APSS and basic symptom (BS) criteria, including self-experienced cognitive disturbances (COGDIS) remain under-...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Gerstenberg M,Theodoridou A,Traber-Walker N,Franscini M,Wotruba D,Metzler S,Müller M,Dvorsky D,Correll CU,Walitza S,Rössler W,Heekeren K

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current literature provides insufficient information on the degree of cognitive impairment during and after electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), mostly due to the fact that applied tests lacked sensitivity and flexibility. Our goal was to evaluate cognitive functioning in adult depressed patients treated with bi...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Maric NP,Stojanovic Z,Andric S,Soldatovic I,Dolic M,Spiric Z

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of psychiatric disorder, as assessed by both the GHQ-28 and the short PSE, is described for a random community sample of New Zealand women. In contrast to previous studies, married and widowed women and mothers showed lower rates than the never married and childless women. A plausible explanation is pro...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Romans-Clarkson SE,Walton VA,Herbison GP,Mullen PE

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This two-stage prevalence survey involved geographically delimited areas, four urban (Liverpool, Newcastle, Nottingham and Oxford) and two rural (Cambridgeshire and Gwynedd), including institutions. METHODS:Stratified random population samples of people in their 65th year and above, from Family Health Servi...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors：

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is not yet consensus on the best diagnostic definition of mixed bipolar episodes. Many have suggested the DSM-III-R/-IV definition is too rigid. We propose alternative criteria using data from a large patient cohort. METHODS:We evaluated 237 manic in-patients using DSM-III-R criteria and the Scale for...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Cassidy F,Ahearn E,Murry E,Forest K,Carroll BJ

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The importance of genetic factors in the aetiology of manic-depressive illness (MDI) has been repeatedly confirmed and indicators of vulnerability to the illness in families with affective disorders are needed. Abnormal event-related potentials (ERP) may be markers of genetic vulnerability to mental illness....

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Pierson A,Jouvent R,Quintin P,Perez-Diaz F,Leboyer M

更新日期：2000-05-01 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：: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:It is clearly established that emotional events tend to be remembered particularly vividly. The neurobiological substrates of this phenomenon are poorly understood. Recently, the noradrenergic system has been implicated in that beta blockade has been shown to reduce significantly the delayed recall of emotio...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： O'Carroll RE,Drysdale E,Cahill L,Shajahan P,Ebmeier KP

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The treatment of deliberate self-harm (parasuicide) remains limited in efficacy. Despite a range of psychosocial, educational and pharmacological interventions only one approach, dialectical behaviour therapy, a form of cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT), has been shown to reduce repeat episodes, but this is ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Evans K,Tyrer P,Catalan J,Schmidt U,Davidson K,Dent J,Tata P,Thornton S,Barber J,Thompson S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently released prisoners are at markedly higher risk of suicide than the general population. The aim of this study was to identify key risk factors for suicide by offenders released from prisons in England and Wales. METHOD:All suicides committed by offenders within 12 months of their release from prison...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Pratt D,Appleby L,Piper M,Webb R,Shaw J

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The reasons for high use of primary care, and in particular the role of psychosocial factors, remain unclear. METHODS:We identified and interviewed 236 frequent attenders and 420 normal users, matched by age and sex, of a public Health Centre in Granada, Spain. Users were questioned about mental health (GHQ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bellón JA,Delgado A,Luna JD,Lardelli P

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Counselling is frequently used in the management of common mental disorders (such as anxiety and depression) in primary care. However, there are concerns over the clinical effectiveness of counselling, both in comparison with usual general practitioner care, and with other treatments such as alternative psyc...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bower P,Rowland N,Hardy R

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have suggested that expanded CAG/CTG repeats contribute to the genetic aetiology of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. However, the nature of this contribution is uncertain and difficult to predict from other known trinucleotide repeat diseases that display much simpler patterns of inheritance. We have...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： O'Donovan MC,Guy C,Craddock N,Bowen T,McKeon P,Macedo A,Maier W,Wildenauer D,Aschauer HN,Sorbi S,Feldman E,Mynett-Johnson L,Claffey E,Nacmias B,Valente J,Dourado A,Grassi E,Lenzinger E,Heiden AM,Moorhead S,Harriso

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neurocognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia (SZ), bipolar (BD) and related disorders represents a core feature of these illnesses, possibly a marker of underlying pathophysiology. Substantial overlap in domains of neuropsychological deficits has been reported among these disorders after illness onset. Howeve...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Lewandowski KE,Cohen BM,Ongur D

更新日期：2011-02-01 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:Sternberg's Memory Scanning Test (MST) is a useful paradigm for evaluating the speed and efficiency of information processing in working memory. Unfortunately, the classical MST has major drawbacks for use in applied settings such as the clinic. For example, its administration time is long and the test is to...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Van Der Elst W,Van Boxtel MP,Van Breukelen GJ,Jolles J

更新日期：2007-09-01 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:The Wenchuan earthquake was a catastrophic earthquake in China. The aim of this study is to explore longitudinally the rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression in adolescents after the Wenchuan earthquake, and to identify independent predictors of PTSD. METHOD:PTSD and depression sympto...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Zhang Z,Ran MS,Li YH,Ou GJ,Gong RR,Li RH,Fan M,Jiang Z,Fang DZ

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Based on the developing clinical and legal literature, and using the framework adopted in draft legislation, capacity to make a valid decision about a clinically required blood test was investigated in three groups of people with a 'mental disability' (i.e. mental illness (chronic schizophrenia), 'learning d...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wong JG,Clare CH,Holland AJ,Watson PC,Gunn M

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00