Fatigue in psychiatric HIV patients: a pilot study of psychological correlates.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bell's mania (mania with delirium) is an acute neurobehavioral syndrome of unknown etiology that is characterized by the rapid onset of grandiosity, psychomotor excitement, emotional lability, psychosis, and sleep disruption consistent with mania, coupled with alterations in sensorium, and disorientation cha...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Bobo WV,Murphy MJ,Heckers SH

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can be life-saving in treating depression, even for high-risk cardiac patients. A 56-year-old man with type 2 diabetes and dilated cardiomyopathy, using both a defibrillator and an experimental cardiac contractility modulator, had had episodes of severe depression superimposed...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Lynch AM,Pandurangi AK,Levenson JL

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of an experimental training program in sexologic interviewing for a multidisciplinary arthritis patient care team are reported. The program included didactic instruction, observation and practice of interviewing skills, a seminar, and a case presentation. Trainees had gained more knowledge than control sub...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Blake DJ,Weaver W,Maisiak R,Alarcon GS,Brown S

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is the major psychiatric complication of Parkinson's disease, and it occurs in approximately one-third of all cases. Diagnosis of depression is complicated by the overlap of depressive and parkinsonian symptoms. Its etiology is not fully understood but involves changes in dopamine and serotonin. Depression ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Guze BH,Barrio JC

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychotropic drugs are frequently used in both psychiatric and general medical practice. Familiarity with common side effects and their management may assist psychiatrists in the selection of agents to suit individual patient needs. The authors describe the morphologic features and pathologic basis of cutaneous reacti...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： MacMorran WS,Krahn LE

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medical directors need management skills; yet, few studies describe the specific tasks that directors consider most important, their confidence for these tasks, and how their confidence develops. We studied these questions among directors in the subspecialty of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. METHODS:A nee...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Bronson B,Perlman G

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of 294 consecutive medical inpatients, the authors assessed a subsample of 157 patients for psychiatric diagnoses using an extensive semistructured interview, Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN). Patients rated their health and physical functioning, and medical consultants assessed t...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Hansen MS,Fink P,Frydenberg M,Oxhøj ML,Søndergaard L,Eriksen M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Olfactory reference syndrome (ORS) is an underrecognized, understudied, and often severe psychiatric disorder characterized by a prominent and distressing or impairing preoccupation with a false belief of emitting an offensive body odor. As this condition has only recently been recognized in the Internationa...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Sofko C,Tremont G,Tan JE,Westervelt H,Ahern DC,Menard W,Phillips KA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adolf Meyer, the first Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, and Chief of the Phipps Clinic, brought a bevy of new ideas to clinical practice and to medical education. He used the word "psychobiology," which helped to establish psychosomatic medicine and formed the basis for Engel's "biopsychosocial" con...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Karl SR,Holland JC

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with severe psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder (BPAD) have in the past been excluded from organ transplantation programs based on their psychiatric illness. However, there is little data on the outcomes of renal transplantation in these patients and little evi...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Butler MI,McCartan D,Cooney A,Kelly PO,Ahmed I,Little D,MacHale S,Conlon P

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichophagia secondary to trichotillomania can be a potentially life-threatening condition if left untreated. This report documents the unique case of a 16-year-old girl whose untreated trichotillomania led to a trichobezoar requiring surgical intervention and follow-up psychiatric treatment. Challenges in the identif...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Salaam K,Carr J,Grewal H,Sholevar E,Baron D

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors evaluated 50 Korean immigrants who had chronic viral hepatitis or who were healthy carriers for the hepatitis B virus in terms of the relationships between their depression scores, psychosocial stressors, social support, and biological markers of dysfunction. All participants completed a questionnaire, des...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Kunkel EJ,Kim JS,Hann HW,Oyesanmi O,Menefee LA,Field HL,Lartey PL,Myers RE

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although it is widely believed that women with heart disease have poorer adjustment than men, the term 'adjustment' has typically been narrowly defined as depression. Gender differences in adjustment more broadly defined to encompass functional limitations in addition to depression have seldom been investiga...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Scott KM,Collings SC

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined data collected from a randomly selected, representative sample of 755 women (ages 23-97 years) from southeastern Australia. Self-report questionnaires were utilized to determine lifetime rates of depression and cardiovascular risk factors within the study sample. A lifetime history of depression (...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Jacka FN,Pasco JA,McConnell S,Williams LJ,Kotowicz MA,Nicholson GC,Berk M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the Millon Behavioral Health Inventory Life Threat Reactivity Scale (LTRS) as a predictor of mortality in patients awaiting heart transplantation. The one-year mortality while awaiting cardiac transplantation was more than double for the high-risk group based on the LTRS scores. The high-risk group...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Coffman KL,Brandwin M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depressive disorders are far more serious than most people realize, and depressive disorders are disabling affected persons progressively earlier in life. Heavy utilization of medical services, extensive disability and morbidity, and high suicide risk exact a staggering economic toll in the United States annually. Dep...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Cassem EH

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scurvy is a disease with well-known peripheral symptoms, such as bleeding and pain. METHODS:The clinical and historical evidence for a distinct form of scurvy affecting the central nervous system, called neuropsychiatric scurvy, is reviewed. Pathophysiologic factors are described, as well as its diagnosis a...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Brown TM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of 260 patients was conducted in 1990 using a questionnaire that was designed to measure and assess their recall of symptom patterns, symptom distress levels, symptom interpretation, and physician-recommended treatment plans. The questionnaire was mailed 6-18 months after they had undergone a gastrointestinal ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Harper RG,Kane FJ,Stroehlein J

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined ways of determining a useful measure of the timing of referral to a consultation-liaison psychiatry unit. Seven hundred and twelve consecutive inpatient referrals between February 1990 and January 1995 were studied prospectively. Usage of a simple mathematical ratio of the time elapsed between admi...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Handrinos D,McKenzie D,Smith GC

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the hepatitis C virus (HCV) alone increases the risk of cirrhosis, alcohol use is thought to act synergistically with HCV to significantly hasten the development of fibrosis. OBJECTIVE:The authors assessed the impact of brief medical counseling or integrated-care approaches to lessen or eliminate a...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Dieperink E,Ho SB,Heit S,Durfee JM,Thuras P,Willenbring ML

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescent cancer survivors were compared with nondiseased control subjects on measures of adaptation, coping, body image, sexual adjustment, psychopathology, and family functioning. Cancer survivors reported no major difficulties in social competence, overall coping, and family communication. Although their school te...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Madan-Swain A,Brown RT,Sexson SB,Baldwin K,Pais R,Ragab A

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients (N = 199) referred to cardiac outpatient investigation because of chest pain were assessed with the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire (PDQ-4). Thirty-nine percent scored positive for any personality disorder. Borderline and avoidant personality disorders were found significantly more often in patients with...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Dammen T,Ekeberg O,Arnesen H,Friis S

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the effects of psychotropic medications on the eye. Although some of these effects have been known for years, they have been largely ignored by psychiatrists. The ophthalmologic effects of antidepressants, neuroleptics, benzodiazepines, carbamazepine, and lithium in therapeutic doses and overdose ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Malone DA Jr,Camara EG,Krug JH Jr

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a rare, heritable disorder that affects connective tissue. Men and women are equally affected. Clinical manifestations involve multiple sites, especially bones and ligaments and heart and blood vessels. OBJECTIVE:Authors sought to investigate quality of life (QoL) in MFS patients, a...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Fusar-Poli P,Klersy C,Stramesi F,Callegari A,Arbustini E,Politi P

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews diagnostic issues about body dysmorphic disorder and discusses its relationship to other disorders. Diagnostic and symptomatic overlap with obsessive-compulsive disorder is explored; associated features, course of illness, presumed etiology, and treatment outcome are compared; and similarities and...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Hollander E,Neville D,Frenkel M,Josephson S,Liebowitz MR

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen videotaped family interviews of patients with diagnosed pseudoseizures were studied to determine the relationship of the symptoms to unspeakable dilemmas as forced choices imposed by family or social circumstances under conditions that also require the ensuing distress to be hidden. An unspeakable dilemma was...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Griffith JL,Polles A,Griffith ME

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical records were reviewed for 94 consecutive inpatients diagnosed with nonepileptic seizures. A 122-item follow-up questionnaire was returned by 71 patients (76%). The majority of the subjects reported fewer seizures (73%), their general health as "very good" (20%) or "good" (37), and "improved" quality of life (5...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Krahn LE,Reese MM,Rummans TA,Peterson GC,Suman VJ,Sharbrough FW,Cascino GD

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The second in a series reviewing the HIV/AIDS antiretroviral drugs. This review summarizes the non-protease inhibitor antiretrovirals: nucleoside and nucleotide analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), the nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs), and cell membrane fusion inhibitors. In an ove...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Zapor MJ,Cozza KL,Wynn GH,Wortmann GW,Armstrong SC

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study is to describe past traumatic experiences in medically-admitted pediatric and young adult patients diagnosed with somatoform disorders and to explore the demographic, diagnostic, and psychosocial differences between those with and without trauma histories. METHODS:Retrospective medi...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Thomson K,Randall E,Ibeziako P,Bujoreanu IS

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In patients with Parkinson disease (PD), motor symptoms coexist with several nonmotor neuropsychiatric symptoms. Various anxiety subtypes (generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and social anxiety disorder [SAD]) are more prevalent in patients with PD than in the general population. OBJECTIVE:We esti...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Moguel-Cobos G,Saldivar C,Goslar PW,Shill HA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00