Why we need more debate on whether psychotic symptoms lie on a continuum with normality.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sertraline has a proved efficacy in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but it is unknown which symptoms respond or in what sequence this occurs. Such information might be useful clinically and heuristically. METHOD:The study examined the effects of sertraline on the individual symptoms of PTSD. It also ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Davidson JR,Landerman LR,Farfel GM,Clary CM

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：:We recently completed a case-control study of 100 literally homeless and 100 never homeless indigent schizophrenic men in New York City, in which concurrent substance abuse and antisocial personality disorder were widespread. In this paper we probe the correlates of 'pure' schizophrenia (single disorder, N = 60), schi...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Caton CL,Shrout PE,Eagle PF,Opler LA,Felix A

更新日期：1994-08-01 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：:The term 'pseudohallucination' is currently used to name imaginal experiences whose relationship to one another and to hallucinations 'proper' remains obscure. Clinicians, including specialists in psychopathology, disagree on how pseudohallucination must be defined and on its diagnostic role. Empirical research is unl...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Berrios GE,Dening TR

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several case reports and reviews have suggested an increased incidence of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder among persons with sex chromosome aneuploidies, but this observation may have been caused by biased sampling. METHODS:The 1122 individuals with sex chromosome aneuploidies registered in the Danish Cyt...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Mors O,Mortensen PB,Ewald H

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:To provide an overview of epidemiological studies of dementia among migrant groups in Europe and to estimate their pooled odds ratio (OR) v. the reference population. METHODS:Search for articles reporting on incidence or prevalence of dementia among ethnic minorities and migrants in Europe, published before...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Selten JP,Termorshuizen F,van Sonsbeek M,Bogers J,Schmand B

更新日期：2020-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent evidence suggests that postpartum psychiatric episodes may share similar etiological mechanisms with immune-related disorders. Pre-eclampsia is one of the most prevalent immune-related disorders of pregnancy. Multiple clinical features are shared between pre-eclampsia and postpartum psychiatric disord...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bergink V,Laursen TM,Johannsen BM,Kushner SA,Meltzer-Brody S,Munk-Olsen T

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age and sex-adjusted first admission rates for operationally-defined schizophrenia and other non-affective psychosis in different ethnic groups were calculated over the period 1988-1992 in a defined catchment area in South London. Standardized rates for schizophrenia, corrected for age- and gender-related under-report...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Van OS J,Castle DJ,Takei N,Der G,Murray RM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is an emerging consensus in developmental psychopathology that irritable youth are at risk for developing internalizing problems later in life. The current study explored if irritability in youth is multifactorial and the impact of irritability dimensions on psychopathology outcomes in adulthood. METH...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hawes MT,Carlson GA,Finsaas MC,Olino TM,Seely JR,Klein DN

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Temperament and personality traits, including negative emotionality/neuroticism, may represent risk factors for eating disorders. Further, risk factors may differ by sex. We examined longitudinal temperament/personality pathways of risk for purging and binge eating in youth stratified by sex using data from ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Brown M,Hochman A,Micali N

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is considerable debate surrounding the effective measurement of DSM-IV symptoms used to assess manic disorders in epidemiological samples. METHOD:Using two nationally representative datasets, the National Epidemiological Survey of Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC, n=43,093 at wave 1, n=34,653 at...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Agrawal A,Nurnberger JI Jr,Lynskey MT

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Impaired emotion regulation may underlie exaggerated emotional reactivity in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), yet instructed emotion regulation has never been studied in the disorder. METHOD:This study aimed to assess the neural correlates of emotion processing and regulation in 43 medicat...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： de Wit SJ,van der Werf YD,Mataix-Cols D,Trujillo JP,van Oppen P,Veltman DJ,van den Heuvel OA

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Childhood early life stress (ELS) increases risk of adulthood major depressive disorder (MDD) and is associated with altered brain structure and function. It is unclear whether specific ELSs affect depression risk, cognitive function and brain structure. METHOD:This cross-sectional study included 64 antidep...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Saleh A,Potter GG,McQuoid DR,Boyd B,Turner R,MacFall JR,Taylor WD

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:Sixty-four children taken to court for failure to attend school were reliably classified into 4 groups, according to whether they exhibited the features of 'school refusal' and/or 'truancy'. About a fifth of them were found to exhibit 'school refusal'; a third showed 'truancy'; less than a sixth exhibited both 'school...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Berg I,Casswell G,Goodwin A,Hullin R,McGuire R,Tagg G

更新日期：1985-02-01 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stress questionnaires are included in many epidemiological cohort studies but the psychometric characteristics of these questionnaires are largely unknown. The aim of this study was to describe these characteristics for two short questionnaires measuring the lifetime and past year occurrence of stress: the L...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Rosmalen JG,Bos EH,de Jonge P

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-six bulimia nervosa patients were treated by means of a behavioural approach and followed for at least one year after completion or dropping out of treatment. Outcome was encouraging in about half of the patients and several psychiatric indicators, such as duration of illness and response to treatment, were iden...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hsu LK,Holder D

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A community survey of psychiatric disorder carried out in South London enabled the authors to investigate the 'vulnerability model' proposed by Brown & Harris (1978). In the current study none of the 'vulnerability factors' proposed by Brown & Harris fulfilled the requirements of the model. It was, however, found that...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bebbington PE,Sturt E,Tennant C,Hurry J

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interest in the mental health of women deployed to modern military campaigns is increasing, although research examining gender differences is limited. Little is known about experiences women have had on these deployments, or whether men and women respond differently to combat exposure. METHOD:The current st...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Woodhead C,Wessely S,Jones N,Fear NT,Hatch SL

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：:Seventy-six women, with a mean age of 35.7 years, who reported premenstrual craving for sweet foods in a retrospective questionnaire, were assessed prospectively with a pre- and post-menstrual eating questionnaire and daily ratings of craving, mood, irritability and breast tenderness over two menstrual cycles. In 72% ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bancroft J,Cook A,Williamson L

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been numerous exhortations for more 'translational research'. A selective review of historical examples of research leading to health benefits is used to consider the various forms of successful interplay between basic science and clinical applications. This is followed by a consideration of key neuroscienc...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Rutter M,Plomin R

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transdiagnostic group cognitive-behavioral therapy (tCBT) is a delivery model that could help overcome barriers to large-scale implementation of evidence-based psychotherapy for anxiety disorders. The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of combining group tCBT with treatment-as-usual (TAU), com...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Roberge P,Provencher MD,Gaboury I,Gosselin P,Vasiliadis HM,Benoît A,Carrier N,Antony MM,Chaillet N,Houle J,Hudon C,Norton PJ

更新日期：2020-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Working memory (WM) deficits in schizophrenia (SCZ) have been linked to impairments in the encoding phase that are associated with aberrant neuronal functioning. Similar abnormalities have been observed in unaffected first-degree relatives (REL) and are thus discussed as candidate endophenotypes. The process...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Stäblein M,Storchak H,Ghinea D,Kraft D,Knöchel C,Prvulovic D,Bittner RA,Reif A,Oertel-Knöchel V

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prior research on work-related factors in the aetiology of psychiatric disorders has been concentrated on job control, job demands and social support. To broaden the view to managerial procedures, we examined whether the extent to which employees are treated with equity in the workplace predicts their mental...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kivimäki M,Elovainio M,Vahtera J,Virtanen M,Stansfeld SA

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sample of 77 women of high and low noise sensitivity in 1977, living in areas of high and low exposure to aircraft noise, were interviewed in the community in 1980. High, intermediate and low noise sensitive women were compared, using measures of blood pressure, heart rate, skin conductance, hearing threshold, uncom...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Stansfeld SA,Clark CR,Turpin G,Jenkins LM,Tarnopolsky A

更新日期：1985-05-01 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