Levels of depressive symptoms in spouses of people with lung cancer: effects of personality, social support, and caregiving burden.

abstract：:The authors describe 12 patients with antipsychotic-induced hyperprolactinemia. Six patients had erroneous ideas of being pregnant (four delusional and two non-delusional) temporally associated with hyperprolactinemia and resolving as prolactin levels returned to normal. The remaining six patients did not develop such...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Ahuja N,Moorhead S,Lloyd AJ,Cole AJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated long-term outcome and treatment strategy of corticosteroid-induced psychotic and mood disorders as defined by DSM-IV. Review of medical records of 2,069 referral patients revealed 18 applicable patients. Their clinical characteristics, longitudinal courses, and treatments were studied. The aut...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Wada K,Yamada N,Sato T,Suzuki H,Miki M,Lee Y,Akiyama K,Kuroda S

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the treatment of psychiatric patients with complicating medical illness, clinicians may encounter patients who cannot take oral medications. This review will acquaint the practicing clinical psychiatrist with psychotropic medications available by nonenteral routes of administration. A computerized MEDLINE search wa...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Thompson D,DiMartini A

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychoneuroimmunology represents the newest interdisciplinary endeavor relevant to psychosomatic medicine. Work in this area is particularly exciting because it promises to reveal a more unified view of the individual and the complex interactions between social, psychological, neural, endocrinological, immunological, ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Daruna JH,Morgan JE

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eating disorders anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa have been reported to occur in Type I diabetes mellitus. Although prevalence estimates vary, the most rigorous studies yield rates similar to the population at large. Intentional insulin omission is more common, especially in young diabetic women, and at times ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Crow SJ,Keel PK,Kendall D

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of diabetes in Canada is increasing. Multiple factors have been identified in the development of disability in diabetic patients, but the interaction of those risk factors is not clear. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this paper was to assess the association between diabetes severity, health behavio...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Schmitz N,Messier L,Nitka D,Ivanova A,Gariepy G,Wang J,Malla A,Boyer R,Lesage A,Strychar I

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to control the costs of mental health care, many medical care systems have emphasized the management of psychiatric illness by primary care physicians and curtailed specialty mental health referrals. While this trend mandates that primary care physicians have expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of ps...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Stoudemire A

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contributions of consultation-liaison psychiatrists have significantly influenced the practice of medicine. The author reviews the pertinent literature that substantiates this observation as well as suggests areas that hold promise for such contributions in the future. ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Kornfeld DS

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research has shown that Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) can effectively decrease pain intensity and improve quality of life in patients with medically unexplained pain. OBJECTIVE:Understanding that not all patients with medically unexplained pain have access to in-person ISTDP, this study...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Chavooshi B,Mohammadkhani P,Dolatshahi B

更新日期：2016-05-01 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: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：BACKGROUND:The implementation of emergency codes has become standard practice in hospitals to provide system-wide preparedness for the early detection and prevention of crises. Psychiatric emergencies in medical/surgical locations, however, are not typically regarded as distinct entities from general security threats. ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Parker CB

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research in the area of medical decision-making capacity has demonstrated relatively poor agreement between experienced evaluators in "gray area" cases. We performed a survey to determine the level of agreement about gray area decision-making capacity case scenarios within and between individuals of...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Armontrout J,Gitlin D,Gutheil T

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven-hundred and three patients from a general medical outpatient clinic at a Veterans Affairs hospital completed the SCREENER, a brief self-report questionnaire that screens for psychiatric disorders. The authors found that 7.3% of the patients had suicidal ideation. The younger and white patients were at increased ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Lish JD,Zimmerman M,Farber NJ,Lush DT,Kuzma MA,Plescia G

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has been found to be comorbid with various medical conditions in clinical samples, but little research has investigated CFS comorbidity in population-based samples. OBJECTIVE:This study investigated conditions concurrent with a CFS-like illness among twins in the population-ba...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Dansie EJ,Furberg H,Afari N,Buchwald D,Edwards K,Goldberg J,Schur E,Sullivan PF

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:The eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS) is a rare systemic disease caused by presumably contaminated L-tryptophan. Thirteen outpatients with EMS were found to have a high degree of depression, anxiety, and difficulty adjusting to illness. Pre-EMS history of major depression but not EMS severity predicted poor adjustme...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Epstein SA,Krahn L,Clauw DJ,Gomes AP,Weigert S,Goldberg RL

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antipsychotic drugs have many side effects, including elevation of prolactin levels through tuberoinfundibular dopamine-receptor blockade. Although a number of studies claim that aripiprazole is a prolactin-sparing antipsychotic drug that may even lower prolactin levels, there has not been an exhaustive eval...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Hoffer ZS,Roth RL,Mathews M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish the role of psychiatrists and mental disorder in assisted dying practices in countries and states where such practices are legal. METHODS:The authors reviewed the Assisted Dying Acts and official statistical reports from Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, and the states of Washington and Oreg...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： McCormack R,Fléchais R

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 4 million people in the United States are chronically infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), and, if untreated, over 20% of these will progress to more serious disease. Persons with severe mental illness (SMI) have markedly elevated rates of HCV infection, but treatment of persons with SMI and HCV has been contro...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Mistler LA,Brunette MF,Marsh BJ,Vidaver RM,Luckoor R,Rosenberg SD

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors assessed, in an adolescent population sample, the internal consistency, test-retest stability, and factor structure of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) and established the frequency of alexithymia in this age-group. Pupils (N=882; age-groups: 14-, 15-, and 16-year-olds) from two secondary schools com...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Säkkinen P,Kaltiala-Heino R,Ranta K,Haataja R,Joukamaa M

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

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：:The relationship between life satisfaction and alexithymia was studied in a sample of 229 patients as a part of a naturalistic follow-up study of depression in Finnish primary health care. The measures were the abbreviated Life Satisfaction Scale and the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale. Depression was assessed by te...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Mattila AK,Poutanen O,Koivisto AM,Salokangas RK,Joukamaa M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have documented the extent and nature of sexual abuse among women who later come to treatment for anorexia nervosa or bulimia. This comparison study reports on a sample of 158 patients admitted to an eating-disorder unit, of whom 60 gave a history of sexual abuse, compared to 98 with no history of abuse. F...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Hall RC,Tice L,Beresford TP,Wooley B,Hall AK

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Physical activity is strongly associated with lower risk of recurrent cardiac events in patients who experience an acute coronary syndrome (ACS), yet most patients do not meet recommended levels of physical activity. Psychological well-being is associated with higher levels of physical activity, but midlife ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Feig EH,Celano CM,Massey CN,Chung WJ,Romero P,Harnedy LE,Huffman JC

更新日期：2020-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychiatric admissions of patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) over a 5-year period (1986-1991) are reviewed. Ninety-one patients were studied. Suicidal thoughts/attempt was the most common reason for hospital admission. The two most common diagnostic categories were 1) organic mental syndrome...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Wiener PK,Schwartz MA,O'Connell RA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Constant observation (CO) is a technique in which continuous one-to-one monitoring is used to assure the safety and well-being of an individual patient or others. This study reviewed 115 patient charts in a tertiary-care hospital to determine the correlates and predictors of the financial cost of CO. The mean duration...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Blumenfield M,Milazzo J,Orlowski B

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression and anxiety are common in heart failure, but the prevalence, incidence, and relationship of these conditions to health service use and mortality remains uncertain. OBJECTIVE:The authors sought to delineate these parameters and identify patient factors predicting hospitalizations for heart failure...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Cully JA,Johnson M,Moffett ML,Khan M,Deswal A

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Factitious disorder (FD) is the deliberate production or simulation of symptoms in order to adopt the sick role. OBJECTIVE:The authors look at FD in the neurology setting. METHOD:The authors examined documented, published cases. RESULTS:FD cases in neurology are strikingly different from those in other sp...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Kanaan RA,Wessely SC

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00