Circulating brain-derived neurotrophic factor is decreased in women with anorexia and bulimia nervosa but not in women with binge-eating disorder: relationships to co-morbid depression, psychopathology and hormonal variables.

abstract：:This paper describes a modified version of the MRC Needs for Care Schedule (the Cardinal Needs Schedule), for measuring needs for psychiatric and social care amongst patients with severe psychiatric disorders. The modified schedule has three new features: (i) it is quick and easy to use; (ii) it takes systematic accou...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Marshall M,Hogg LI,Gath DH,Lockwood A

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To our knowledge, there are no universal screening tools for substance dependence that (1) were developed using a population-based sample, (2) estimate total risk briefly and inexpensively by incorporating a relatively small number of well-established risk factors, and (3) aggregate risk factors using a simp...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Meier MH,Hall W,Caspi A,Belsky DW,Cerdá M,Harrington HL,Houts R,Poulton R,Moffitt TE

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ability to appreciate humour is essential to successful human interactions. In this study, we hypothesized that individuals with schizophrenia would have diminished ability to recognize and appreciate humour. The relationship between humour experience and clinical symptoms, cognitive and social functioni...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Tsoi DT,Lee KH,Gee KA,Holden KL,Parks RW,Woodruff PW

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depressive disorders are known to often be chronic and recurrent both in the general population and in psychiatric settings. However, despite its importance for public health and services, the outcome of depression in primary care is not well known. METHOD:In The Vantaa Primary Care Depression Study (PC-VDS...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Vuorilehto MS,Melartin TK,Isometsä ET

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet MAO activity was found to be elevated in primary depressive illness, and the severity to correlate positively with MAO activity. The reactive depression subgroup's mean platelet MAO activity was not significantly different from that of the controls. The endogenous group's unipolar and bipolar subgroups had si...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Mann J

更新日期：1979-11-01 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:Retrospective studies have consistently indicated an association between maladaptive parenting and borderline personality disorder (BPD). This requires corroboration with prospective, longitudinal designs. We investigated the association between suboptimal parenting and parent conflict in childhood and BPD s...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Winsper C,Zanarini M,Wolke D

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Overall findings of our first direct interview family study of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) indicated that OCD is familial. In this replication study, we carefully examined the role of informant data in ascertaining OCD in relatives. METHOD:We interviewed 112 relatives of 57 OCD patients and 115 rela...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Lipsitz JD,Mannuzza S,Chapman TF,Foa EB,Franklin ME,Goodwin RD,Fyer AJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In schizophrenia, affective disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) dysfunction of frontal neuronal circuits has been suggested. Such impairments imply corresponding oculomotor deficits. METHOD:Eye movement response to foveofugal and foveopetal step-ramp stimuli was recorded within the same study...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Lencer R,Trillenberg P,Trillenberg-Krecker K,Junghanns K,Kordon A,Broocks A,Hohagen F,Heide W,Arolt V

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A previous study of women 9 months after discharge from in-patient treatment for depression found that low self-esteem as measured by a self-report questionnaire at admission was associated with a worse prognosis. This study investigates the womens' outcome more than 4 years after discharge and the continued...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sherrington JM,Hawton K,Fagg J,Andrew B,Smith D

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression has been associated with abnormalities in neural underpinnings of Reward Learning (RL). However, inconsistencies have emerged, possibly owing to medication effects. Additionally, it remains unclear how neural RL signals relate to real-life behaviour. The current study, therefore, examined neural R...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bakker JM,Goossens L,Kumar P,Lange IMJ,Michielse S,Schruers K,Bastiaansen JA,Lieverse R,Marcelis M,van Amelsvoort T,van Os J,Myin-Germeys I,Pizzagalli DA,Wichers M

更新日期：2019-10-01 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:Minor stresses measured in daily life have repeatedly been associated with increased momentary psychotic experiences, both in individuals with psychotic disorders and in persons who are genetically at an increased risk for these disorders. Severe hearing impairment (SHI) is an environmental risk factor for p...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Gevonden MJ,Myin-Germeys I,van den Brink W,van Os J,Selten JP,Booij J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Puberty moderates genetic influences on disordered eating attitudes and behaviors, with little genetic influence before puberty but large (50%) genetic effects during and after puberty. To date, however, nothing is known about the mechanisms that underlie these effects. Estradiol is a particularly promising ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Klump KL,Keel PK,Sisk C,Burt SA

更新日期：2010-10-01 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: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：:This study aimed to investigate the psychological characteristics of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS: Holmes et al. 1988). A battery of psychometric instruments comprising the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and the Lazarus W...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Blakely AA,Howard RC,Sosich RM,Murdoch JC,Menkes DB,Spears GF

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aggressive behaviour is increased among those with schizophrenia but less is known about those with affective psychoses. Similarly, little is known about aggressive behaviour occurring at the onset of illness. METHOD:The main reasons for presentation to services were examined among those recruited to a UK-b...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Dean K,Walsh E,Morgan C,Demjaha A,Dazzan P,Morgan K,Lloyd T,Fearon P,Jones PB,Murray RM

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and sixteen working-class housewives, part-time and full-time employees were compared on a range of well-being measures in three different lifestages. A group of factory employees was contrasted with a 'mixed occupation' group for a comparison of type of employment. The general contention that the associat...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Haw CE

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We sought to clarify the etiological contribution of genetic and environmental factors to total criminal behavior (CB) measured as criminal convictions in men and women, and to violent (VCB), white-collar (WCCB) and property criminal behavior (PCB) in men only. METHOD:In 21 603 twin pairs from the Swedish T...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kendler KS,Maes HH,Lönn SL,Morris NA,Lichtenstein P,Sundquist J,Sundquist K

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) prospectively predicts suicidal thoughts and behaviors in civilian populations. Despite high rates of suicide among US military members, little is known about the prevalence and course of NSSI, or how NSSI relates to suicidal thoughts and behaviors, in military personnel. MET...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Turner BJ,Kleiman EM,Nock MK

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposure to stressful life events increases the risk of developing a psychotic disorder. Moreover, increased reactivity to stress seems to represent part of the vulnerability for psychosis. This study aimed to investigate whether a functional polymorphism in the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT Val(158)Met...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Stefanis NC,Henquet C,Avramopoulos D,Smyrnis N,Evdokimidis I,Myin-Germeys I,Stefanis CN,Van Os J

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The potential effects of antipsychotic drugs on brain structure represent a key factor in understanding neuroanatomical changes in psychosis. This review addresses two issues: (1) do antipsychotic medications induce changes in total or regional human brain volumes and (2) do such effects depend on antipsycho...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Navari S,Dazzan P

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research suggests that the personality factor of self-critical or maladaptive perfectionism may be implicated in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). However, it is not clear whether self-critical perfectionism (SCP) also predicts daily symptoms in CFS. Method In the present study we investigated whether SCP pred...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kempke S,Luyten P,Claes S,Goossens L,Bekaert P,Van Wambeke P,Van Houdenhove B

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the conditioned fear paradigm, repeated pairing of an aversive unconditioned stimulus (US) (e.g. electric shock) with a neutral conditioned stimulus (CS) (e.g. bright light) results in a conditioned fear response to the light alone. Animal studies have shown that the amygdala plays a critical role in acqu...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bremner JD,Vermetten E,Schmahl C,Vaccarino V,Vythilingam M,Afzal N,Grillon C,Charney DS

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychiatric epidemiology has advanced considerably since early studies of hospital populations. The direction of this advance has been away from the study of populations of hospital psychiatric patients towards the study of psychiatric disorder in general practice and the community as a whole. Just as the populations ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Williams P,Tarnopolsky A,Hand D

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research into violence among military personnel has not differentiated between stranger- and family-directed violence. While military factors (combat exposure and post-deployment mental health problems) are risk factors for general violence, there has been limited research on their impact on violence within ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kwan J,Jones M,Somaini G,Hull L,Wessely S,Fear NT,MacManus D

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The neurodevelopmental model of psychosis was established over 30 years ago; however, the developmental influence on psychotic symptom expression - how age affects clinical presentation in first-episode psychosis - has not been thoroughly investigated. METHODS:Using generalized additive modeling, which allo...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bridgwater M,Bachman P,Tervo-Clemmens B,Haas G,Hayes R,Luna B,Salisbury DF,Jalbrzikowski M

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Urban birth, a risk factor for schizophrenia, is more frequent among second-generation immigrants. The aim of the current study was to determine whether the increased risk for schizophrenia found in second-generation immigrants is explained by the degree of urbanization of birthplace and/or factors related t...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Cantor-Graae E,Pedersen CB

更新日期：2007-04-01 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