Pathways to psychiatric care in Ethiopia.

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：: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:A dysfunctional network of prefrontal and (para-)limbic brain region has been suggested to underlie emotional dysregulation in borderline personality disorder (BPD). Abnormal activity in this network may be due to structural alterations in white-matter tracts connecting prefrontal and (para-)limbic brain reg...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Lischke A,Domin M,Freyberger HJ,Grabe HJ,Mentel R,Bernheim D,Lotze M

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：: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:Decreased white matter (WM) integrity in patients with psychotic disorder has been a consistent finding in diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies. However, the contribution of environmental risk factors to these WM alterations is rarely investigated. The current study examines whether individuals with (incre...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Domen P,Michielse S,Peeters S,Viechtbauer W,van Os J,Marcelis M,for Genetic Risk and Outcome of Psychosis (G.R.O.U.P.).

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:Major depressive disorder (MDD) is accompanied by alterations in grey matter volume. However, the biological processes associated with regional structural perturbations remain elusive. METHODS:We applied integrative omics analysis to investigate specialized transcriptome signatures and translational determi...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sha Z,Banihashemi L

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health anxiety (HA) is associated with increased risk of disability, increased health care utilization and reduced quality of life. However, there is no consensus on which factors are important for the level of HA. The aim of this study was to explore the distribution of HA in a general adult population and ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Norbye AD,Abelsen B,Førde OH,Ringberg U

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors review the evidence that parental death in childhood predisposes to depressive disorders in later life. The findings in general are quite inconsistent; this is due in part to the methodological limitations of most studies, principally that of inadequate control of potentially confounding variables. Where e...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Tennant C,Bebbington P,Hurry J

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maternal depressive symptoms (MDSs) are negatively associated with children's academic performance, with stronger effects sometimes reported in boys. However, few studies have tested the mechanisms of this association. We examined the mediating role of school engagement and peer victimization in this associa...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Ahun MN,Psychogiou L,Guay F,Boivin M,Tremblay RE,Côté SM

更新日期：2020-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Different versions of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), including the GHQ-12 and GHQ-28 have been subjected to factor analysis in a variety of countries. The World Health Organization study of psychological disorders in general health care offered the opportunity to investigate the factor structure of ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Werneke U,Goldberg DP,Yalcin I,Ustün BT

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The medial forebrain bundle (MFB) is an important pathway of the reward system. Two branches have been described using diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based tractography: the infero-medial MFB (imMFB) and the supero-lateral MFB (slMFB). Previous studies point to white-matter microstructural altera...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bracht T,Doidge AN,Keedwell PA,Jones DK

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty patients attending a neurological outpatient clinic for Parkinson's disease were assessed by standardized methods for both physical and psychiatric symptoms. The patients then received treatment with L-dopa with carbidopa or anticholinergic drugs and/or amantadine. During the following six-month period the subje...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Mindham RH,Marsden CD,Parkes JD

更新日期：1976-02-01 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：:The diversity of research methods applied to psychiatric disorders results in a confusing plethora of causal claims. To help make sense of these claims, the interventionist model (IM) of causality has several attractive features. First, it connects causation with the practical interests of psychiatry, defining causati...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kendler KS,Campbell J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We examined the prevalence of self-perceived respiratory symptoms (SRS) in the absence of any objective findings of respiratory pathology, and the association of such prevalence with psychological factors and healthcare use in the general population. METHODS:The study was conducted among a nationally repres...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Selinheimo S,Vasankari T,Jokela M,Kanervisto M,Pirkola S,Suvisaari J,Paunio T

更新日期：2019-01-01 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:Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with poorer cognitive functioning. We used a developmental, genetically-sensitive approach to examine intelligence quotient (IQ) from early childhood to young adulthood among those with different ADHD courses to investigate whether changes in ADHD...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Agnew-Blais JC,Polanczyk GV,Danese A,Wertz J,Moffitt TE,Arseneault L

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Personality characteristics of 87 parents of autistic probands and 38 parents of Down's syndrome probands were examined using a standardized personality interview. Using best-estimate ratings derived from subject and informant interviews, parents of autistic individuals were rated significantly higher than controls on...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Piven J,Wzorek M,Landa R,Lainhart J,Bolton P,Chase GA,Folstein S

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Suicide is a leading cause of death and has been strongly associated with affective disorders. The influence of affective disorder polarity on subsequent suicide attempts or completions and any differential effect of suicide risk factors by polarity were assessed in a prospective cohort. METHOD:Participants...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Fiedorowicz JG,Leon AC,Keller MB,Solomon DA,Rice JP,Coryell WH

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We studied to what extent internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) programs for symptoms of depression and anxiety are effective. METHOD:A meta-analysis of 12 randomized controlled trials. RESULTS:The effects of internet-based CBT were compared to control conditions in 13 contrast groups with a tot...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Spek V,Cuijpers P,Nyklícek I,Riper H,Keyzer J,Pop V

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The variations in suicide mortality in England and Wales over a 100-year period (1876-1975) are explained by the development of a descriptive model. The model used in a stepwise linear regression using 5 variables including toxic gas production. The variables give a good description of the observed changes in suicide ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Low AA,Farmer RD,Jones DR,Rohde JR

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Meta-analyses support the efficacy of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) for schizophrenia in western cultures. This study aimed to compare the efficacy of CBT and supportive therapy (ST) for patients with schizophrenia in China. METHOD:A multicentre randomized controlled, single-blinded, parallel-group tr...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Li ZJ,Guo ZH,Wang N,Xu ZY,Qu Y,Wang XQ,Sun J,Yan LQ,Ng RM,Turkington D,Kingdon D

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A growing body of neuropsychological and neurobiological research shows a relationship between functioning of the prefrontal cortex and criminal and violent behaviour. The prefrontal cortex is crucial for executive functions such as inhibition, attention, working memory, set-shifting and planning. A deficit ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Meijers J,Harte JM,Meynen G,Cuijpers P

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and nineteen primiparae, who were routinely attending ante-natal clinics, were interviewed repeatedly between the 12th and 36th weeks of their pregnancies. The incidence of depression was highest in the first trimester and, overall, about a fifth of the sample was found to be suffering from clinically sign...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kumar R,Robson K

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Empirical data on the impact of personality pathology on acute treatment outcome for depression are mixed, in part because of challenges posed by assessing trait-like personality patterns while patients are in an active mood episode. To our knowledge, no previous study has examined the effect of personality ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Cyranowski JM,Frank E,Winter E,Rucci P,Novick D,Pilkonis P,Fagiolini A,Swartz HA,Houck P,Kupfer DJ

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Schizophrenia patients have a higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) than normals. We examined the relationship between IGT and clinical phenotypes or cognitive deficits in first-episode, drug-naïve (FEDN) Han Chinese patients with schizophrenia. METHOD:A total o...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Chen DC,Du XD,Yin GZ,Yang KB,Nie Y,Wang N,Li YL,Xiu MH,He SC,Yang FD,Cho RY,Kosten TR,Soares JC,Zhao JP,Zhang XY

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the association of eating disorder subtypes across multiple categories of substance use in population-based samples. We examined the association between eating disorders and substance use in a large population-based sample. METHOD:Female participants (n=13 297) were from the Swedish Tw...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Root TL,Pisetsky EM,Thornton L,Lichtenstein P,Pedersen NL,Bulik CM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Excessive worry is a defining feature of generalized anxiety disorder and is present in a wide range of other psychiatric conditions. Therefore, individualized predictions of worry propensity could be highly relevant in clinical practice, with respect to the assessment of worry symptom severity at the indivi...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Feng C,Cui Z,Cheng D,Xu R,Gu R

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00