Continuity of care in mental health: understanding and measuring a complex phenomenon.

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is still a relative paucity of information about the long-term course of depression. METHODS:Consecutive patients admitted to a teaching hospital psychiatry unit with symptoms of depression, previously assessed at 6 months and 2, 5 and 15 years after index admission, were reviewed at 25 years (N = 49,...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Brodaty H,Luscombe G,Peisah C,Anstey K,Andrews G

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical studies of manic-depressive psychosis usually correlates biochemical findings with current affective state and hence any significant findings could be secondary to mood change. The present study attempts to correlate measures of the erythrocyte membrane cation carrier with clinical events, remote in time f...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Naylor GJ,Dick DA,Dick EG

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Social capital has been considered aetiologically important in schizophrenia but the empirical evidence to support this hypothesis is absent. We tested whether social capital, measured at the neighbourhood level, was associated with the incidence of schizophrenia (ICD-10 F20). MethodWe administered a cross-s...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kirkbride JB,Boydell J,Ploubidis GB,Morgan C,Dazzan P,McKenzie K,Murray RM,Jones PB

更新日期：2008-08-01 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:Structural models of emotional disorders propose that anxiety disorders can be classified into fear and distress disorders. Sources of evidence for this distinction come from genetic, self-report and neurophysiological data from adults. The present study examined whether this distinction relates to cognitive...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Waters AM,Bradley BP,Mogg K

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies evaluating depression's role in lung cancer risk revealed contradictory findings, partly because of the small number of cases, short follow-up periods, and failure to account for key covariates including smoking exposure. We investigated the association of depressive symptoms with lung cancer risk in...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Trudel-Fitzgerald C,Zevon ES,Kawachi I,Tucker-Seeley RD,Kubzansky LD

更新日期：2020-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Certain personality traits predispose to criminal behavior (CB). We further clarify this relationship in a Swedish national sample. METHOD:Psychological strength (PS) was assessed on a nine-point scale at personal interview in 1 653 721 Swedish men aged 18-20 years. We examined the association between PS an...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kendler KS,Lönn SL,Lichtenstein P,Sundquist J,Sundquist K

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attentional difficulties reported in individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) may be due to preferential processing of disease-salient stimuli at a pre-attentive or at a conscious level or to a general problem in attention. Attentional difficulties may be associated with duration of illness. METHOD:Female par...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Dickson H,Brooks S,Uher R,Tchanturia K,Treasure J,Campbell IC

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：BACKGROUND:We studied whether heterogeneous profiles of cognitive function are relevant to survival in patients with early Alzheimer's disease. METHODS:CAMCOG subscales of cognitive function were used as predictors of survival, together with gender in 157 consecutively referred patients with early Alzheimer's disease....

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Claus JJ,Walstra GJ,Bossuyt PM,Teunisse S,Van Gool WA

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Expressed emotion (EE) measured from relatives and informal carers has been consistently demonstrated to be associated with clinical outcome in schizophrenic patients. There have also been published studies that have investigated EE in professional carers that have suggested that the quality of the relations...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Tattan T,Tarrier N

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abnormalities in the anterior inter-hemispheric connectivity have previously been implicated in major depressive disorder. Disruptions in fractional anisotropy in the callosum and fornix have been reported in schizophrenia and major depressive disorder. Oligodendrocyte density and overall size of the callosu...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Williams MR,Sharma P,Fung KL,Pearce RK,Hirsch SR,Maier M

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adverse effects of antidepressants are most common at the beginning of the treatment, but possible also later. We examined the association between antidepressant use and work-related injuries taking into account the duration of antidepressant use. METHOD:Antidepressant use and work-related injuries between ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kouvonen A,Vahtera J,Pentti J,Korhonen MJ,Oksanen T,Salo P,Virtanen M,Kivimäki M

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An uneven neurocognitive profile is a hallmark of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Studies focusing on the visual memory performance in ASD have shown controversial results. We investigated visual memory and sustained attention in youths with ASD and typically developing (TD) youths. METHOD:We recruited 143 ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Chien YL,Gau SS,Shang CY,Chiu YN,Tsai WC,Wu YY

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a 5-week study of 22 depressed patients treated with nortriptyline, significant changes in plasma levels, both elevated and reduced, were deliberately produced in the third and fourth weeks of each patient's treatment. Correlation of plasma nortriptyline levels and changes in the severity of depression, as measured...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Burrows GD,Maguire KP,Scoggins BA,Stevenson J,Davies B

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As part of a collaborative linkage study, the authors obtained clinical and demographic data on 160 families in which more than one sibling was affected with a bipolar illness. The aim of the study was to identify clinical characteristics that had a high degree of familiality. METHOD:Data on age at onset, g...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： O'Mahony E,Corvin A,O'Connell R,Comerford C,Larsen B,Jones R,McCandless F,Kirov G,Cardno AG,Craddock N,Gill M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intrusive memories of traumatic events are a core feature of post-traumatic stress disorder but little is known about the neurobiological formation of intrusions. The aim of this study was to determine whether the activity of the noradrenergic system during an intrusion-inducing stressor would influence subs...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Rombold F,Wingenfeld K,Renneberg B,Hellmann-Regen J,Otte C,Roepke S

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A review of studies of cognition in the euthymic phase of unipolar and bipolar affective disorder reveals diverging results. METHODS:The study was designed as a controlled cohort study, with the Danish psychiatric case register of admissions used to identify patients and the Danish civil register to identif...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kessing LV

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A few previous studies suggest that a large number of individuals do not present at hospital following a suicide attempt, complicating recurrence prevention and prevalence estimation. METHODS:Data were extracted from a regular phone survey in representative samples of the French population aged 18-75 years ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Jollant F,Hawton K,Vaiva G,Chan-Chee C,du Roscoat E,Leon C

更新日期：2020-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is substantial variability in the degree of cognitive impairment among older depressed persons. Inconsistencies in previous findings may be due to differences in clinical and demographic characteristics across study samples. We assessed the influence of unipolar depression and severity of depression on...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Pantzar A,Laukka EJ,Atti AR,Fastbom J,Fratiglioni L,Bäckman L

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In other branches of epidemiology, stratum specific likelihood ratios (SSLRs) have been found to be preferable to fixed best threshold approaches to screening instruments. This paper presents SSLRs of GHQ-12 and GHQ-28 and compares the SSLR method with the traditional optimal threshold approach. METHODS:Ran...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Furukawa TA,Goldberg DP,Rabe-Hesketh S,Ustün TB

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study integrated an experimental medicine approach and a randomized cross-over clinical trial design following CONSORT recommendations to evaluate a cognitive training (CT) intervention for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The experimental medicine approach was adopted because of documen...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wexler BE,Vitulano LA,Moore C,Katsovich L,Smith SD,Rush C,Grantz H,Dong J,Leckman JF

更新日期：2020-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study it was possible to prove the Werther effect in suicides after watching fictional models for the first time. A twice-broadcast (1981, 1982) six-episode weekly serial showing the railway suicide of a 19-year-old male student provided a quasi-experimental ABABA design to investigate differential effects of ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Schmidtke A,Häfner H

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galvanized with the availability of sophisticated statistical techniques and large datasets, network medicine has emerged as an active area of investigation. Following this trend, network methods have been utilized to understand the interplay between symptoms of mental disorders. This realistic approach that may provi...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Guloksuz S,Pries LK,van Os J

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most evidence in the UK on the effectiveness of brief therapy for depression concerns cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT). In a trial published in 2000, we showed that non-directive counselling and CBT were equally effective in general practice for patients with depression and mixed anxiety and depression. Our...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： King M,Marston L,Bower P

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum total androgens were estimated by radioimmunoassay on blood samples of treatment-seeking homosexuals and heterosexual controls. There was no significant difference in androgen levels between the homosexual and control group, nor was there any relationship between androgen levels and response to treatment. These ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： James S,Carter RA,Orwin A

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research on unemployment and health has depended heavily on macro-social and ecological data analyses. In order to redress this imbalance, the report summarizes the methods and results of a prospective study of a permanent factory shutdown, thereby illustrating and dissecting some of the strengths and weaknesse...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kasl SV

更新日期：1982-08-01 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：BACKGROUND:The relationship between recurrent major depression (MD) in women and suicidality is complex. We investigated the extent to which patients who suffered with various forms of suicidal symptomatology can be distinguished from those subjects without such symptoms. METHOD:We examined the clinical features of th...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bi B,Xiao X,Zhang H,Gao J,Tao M,Niu H,Wang Y,Wang Q,Chen C,Sun N,Li K,Fu J,Gan Z,Sang W,Zhang G,Yang L,Tian T,Li Q,Yang Q,Sun L,Li Y,Rong H,Guan C,Zhao X,Ye D,Zhang Y,Ma Z,Li H,He K,Chen J,Cai

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Risk factors that are associated with depression in the mother also negatively affect the child. This research sought to extend current knowledge by examining the duration and timing of maternal depression as a moderator of: (1) the impact of dependent interpersonal stress (DIS), such as partner conflict or ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Barker ED

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00