Humour experience in schizophrenia: relationship with executive dysfunction and psychosocial impairment.

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:Quetiapine (ICI 204,636, 'Seroquel') is a new atypical antipsychotic agent with a similar binding profile to the original atypical antipsychotic, clozapine. Its clinical efficacy has already been demonstrated at multiple fixed doses (150-750 mg/day) and has been suggested to be comparable with haloperidol (1...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Copolov DL,Link CG,Kowalcyk B

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Post-traumatic symptomatology is one of the signature effects of the pernicious exposures endured by responders to the World Trade Center (WTC) disaster of 11 September 2001 (9/11), but the long-term extent of diagnosed Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (DSM-IV) post-traumati...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bromet EJ,Hobbs MJ,Clouston SA,Gonzalez A,Kotov R,Luft BJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined sensitivity to noise in subjects with Type A and Type B behaviour patterns as a function of the type of task being performed. Twenty Type A and 20 Type B subjects, selected by means of Bortner's scale (French version), were exposed to steadily increasing noise levels (68-110 dBA) while perfo...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Moch A

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence from high-income countries suggests that childhood trauma is associated with schizophrenia. Studies of childhood trauma and schizophrenia in low and middle income (LMIC) countries are limited. This study examined the prevalence of childhood traumatic experiences among cases and controls and the rela...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Mall S,Platt JM,Temmingh H,Musenge E,Campbell M,Susser E,Stein DJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Women's vulnerability for a first lifetime-onset of major depressive disorder (MDD) during midlife is substantial. It is unclear whether risk factors differ for first lifetime-onset and recurrent MDD. Identifying these risk factors can provide more focused depression screening and earlier intervention. This ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bromberger JT,Schott L,Kravitz HM,Joffe H

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We investigated whether schizophrenic subjects are impaired in non-routine behaviour because of the dysfunction of a general executive component labelled, in neuropsychological terms, the supervisory system. METHODS:A specific verbal sequencing test was designed for this purpose. Subjects had to perform seq...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Robert PH,Migneco V,Chaix I,Berthet L,Kazes M,Danion JM,Baudu C,Darcourt G

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The past two decades have seen a great improvement in the care of people with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), particularly with regard to control of diet and behaviour management. Has this affected mortality rates or thrown up new issues regarding premature ageing or dementia? We investigated two aspects of age...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Whittington JE,Holland AJ,Webb T

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cognitive remediation (CR) is an effective treatment for several psychiatric disorders. To date, there have been no published studies examining solely first-episode psychiatric cohorts, despite the merits demonstrated by early intervention CR studies. The current study aimed to assess the effectiveness of CR...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Lee RS,Redoblado-Hodge MA,Naismith SL,Hermens DF,Porter MA,Hickie IB

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dissociative reactions in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been regarded as strategic responses that limit arousal. Neuroimaging studies suggest distinct prefrontal responses in individuals displaying dissociative and hyperarousal responses to threat in PTSD. Increased prefrontal activity may refle...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Felmingham K,Kemp AH,Williams L,Falconer E,Olivieri G,Peduto A,Bryant R

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between psychological and biological processes is examined. Criteria for the distinction between reasons and causes are described. These provide a basis for a separation of those mental states and behaviour that can be explained in a reductionist fashion, and those that are not reducible. The proposed...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hill J

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Cognitive therapy (CT) for bipolar disorder emphasizes the monitoring and regulation of mood, thoughts and behaviour. The Sense of Hyper-Positive Self Scale (SHPSS) measures the extent to which bipolar patients value themselves and perceive themselves to possess personal attributes (e.g. dynamism, persuasi...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Lam D,Wright K,Sham P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cognitive models of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) posit dysfunctional appraisal of disorder-relevant stimuli in patients, suggesting disturbances in the processes relying on amygdala-prefrontal connectivity. Recent neuroanatomical models add to the traditional view of dysfunction in corticostriatal cir...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Paul S,Beucke JC,Kaufmann C,Mersov A,Heinzel S,Kathmann N,Simon D

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most research on the prevalence, distribution, and psychiatric comorbidity of intellectual disability (ID) relies on clinical samples, limiting the generalizability and utility of ID assessment in a legal context. This study assessed ID prevalence in a population-representative sample of US adolescents and e...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Platt JM,Keyes KM,McLaughlin KA,Kaufman AS

更新日期：2019-04-01 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:The salience of a visual stimulus is often reduced by nearby stimuli, an effect known as surround suppression of perceived contrast, which may help in locating the borders of an object. Weaker surround suppression has been observed in schizophrenia but it is unclear whether this abnormality is present in oth...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Schallmo MP,Sponheim SR,Olman CA

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:Thirty-eight boys, referred for psychiatric treatment because of serious problems of behaviour, underwent a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial of methylphenidate and placebo. Methylphenidate was an effective treatment over a 3-week period. A good response to methylphenidate was predicted by higher level...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Taylor E,Schachar R,Thorley G,Wieselberg HM,Everitt B,Rutter M

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pharmaceutical industry funding of psychiatric research has increased significantly in recent decades, raising the question of a relationship between pharmaceutical company funding of clinical psychiatric studies and the outcomes of those studies. This study examines this relationship. METHOD:Abstracts of a...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kelly RE Jr,Cohen LJ,Semple RJ,Bialer P,Lau A,Bodenheimer A,Neustadter E,Barenboim A,Galynker II

更新日期：2006-11-01 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:Discontinuation of antipsychotics predisposes patients with remitted/stable first-episode psychosis (FEP) to a higher risk of relapse, but it remains unclear how long discontinuation increases the relapse rate in these patients compared with maintenance. METHODS:This meta-analysis of randomized controlled t...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kishi T,Ikuta T,Matsui Y,Inada K,Matsuda Y,Mishima K,Iwata N

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The age of onset in bipolar affective disorder was determined in 200 hospitalized patients. The mean age of their first affective syndrome was 28.3 years, and the mean age of first hospitalization was 30.8 years. However, the median age for first affective syndrome was 23 years (26 years for first hospitalization), an...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Joyce PR

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Men sexually interested in children of a specific combination of maturity and sex tend to show some lesser interest in other categories of persons. Patterns of men's sexual interest across erotic targets' categories of maturity and sex have both clinical and basic scientific implications. METHOD:We examined...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bailey JM,Blanchard R,Hsu KJ,Revelle W

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:Although impaired recognition of affective facial expressions has been conclusively linked to antisocial behavior, little is known about the modifiability of this deficit. This study investigated whether and under which circumstances the proposed perceptual insensitivity can be addressed with a brief implici...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Schönenberg M,Christian S,Gaußer AK,Mayer SV,Hautzinger M,Jusyte A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mechanisms that contribute to emotion dysregulation in anxiety disorders are not well understood. Two common disorders, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and panic disorder (PD), were examined to test the hypothesis that both disorders are characterized by hypo-activation in prefrontal cortex (PFC) duri...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Ball TM,Ramsawh HJ,Campbell-Sills L,Paulus MP,Stein MB

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taxometric procedures have been used extensively to investigate whether individual differences in personality and psychopathology are latently dimensional or categorical ('taxonic'). We report the first meta-analysis of taxometric research, examining 317 findings drawn from 183 articles that employed an index of the c...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Haslam N,McGrath MJ,Viechtbauer W,Kuppens P

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The phenotypic stability of avoidant personality disorder (AVPD) and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) has previously been found to be moderate. However, little is known about the longitudinal structure of genetic and environmental factors for these disorders separately and jointly, and to wha...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Gjerde LC,Czajkowski N,Røysamb E,Ystrom E,Tambs K,Aggen SH,Ørstavik RE,Kendler KS,Reichborn-Kjennerud T,Knudsen GP

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research has yielded conflicting evidence regarding the long-term cognitive outcome of depression. Some studies have found evidence for a higher incidence of subsequent cognitive impairment or dementia, while others have refuted this. METHOD:Depression, neuropsychological performance, functional ab...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Brodaty H,Luscombe G,Anstey KJ,Cramsie J,Andrews G,Peisah C

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although specific phobia is highly prevalent, associated with impairment, and an important risk factor for the development of other mental disorders, cross-national epidemiological data are scarce, especially from low- and middle-income countries. This paper presents epidemiological data from 22 low-, lower-...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wardenaar KJ,Lim CCW,Al-Hamzawi AO,Alonso J,Andrade LH,Benjet C,Bunting B,de Girolamo G,Demyttenaere K,Florescu SE,Gureje O,Hisateru T,Hu C,Huang Y,Karam E,Kiejna A,Lepine JP,Navarro-Mateu F,Oakley Browne M,Piazza M

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00