Body dysmorphic disorder. Diagnostic issues and related disorders.

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the utilization of medical specialists by anxiety disorder patients. The setting was a university's clinical outpatient drug trails for anxiety disorders. The participants were subjects identified by advertisement and diagnosed by psychiatric interviews and, in some instances...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Kennedy BL,Schwab JJ

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with severe mental illness have elevated rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes compared with the general population, but little is known about the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome that predisposes patients with severe mental illness to both medical conditions. The purpose of this study was to...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Bermudes RA,Keck PE Jr,Welge JA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression and anxiety disorders are common clinical problems in organ transplant recipients, but there is a paucity of clinical data to inform the selection of psychopharmacologic treatment. The authors retrospectively compared 13 depressed organ transplant recipients treated with fluoxetine with 13 nondepressed matc...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Strouse TB,Fairbanks LA,Skotzko CE,Fawzy FI

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Although required by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, training of general psychiatry residents in Psychosomatic Medicine (PM) varies significantly between programs. In 1996, the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (APM) developed guidelines for residency training in PM. Since then, the...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Heinrich TW,Schwartz AC,Zimbrean PC,Wright MT,Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine's Residency Education Subcommittee.

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:Mental illness is associated with an increased risk for medical hospitalizations. OBJECTIVE:This study investigates the degree to which nonpsychiatric factors account for these hospitalizations. METHODS:Using National Veterans Health Administration (VHA) fiscal year 2012 data for 2 million veterans under t...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Moore DT,Rosenheck RA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The second in a series reviewing the HIV/AIDS antiretroviral drugs. This review summarizes the non-protease inhibitor antiretrovirals: nucleoside and nucleotide analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), the nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs), and cell membrane fusion inhibitors. In an ove...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Zapor MJ,Cozza KL,Wynn GH,Wortmann GW,Armstrong SC

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study identifies characteristics associated with problem substance use among 1,187 patients with either depressive symptoms (44%) or depressive disorders (56%) in primary care clinics of six managed care organizations. Sedative misuse (reported by 14% of all patients) was associated with greater wealth, social ph...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Roeloffs CA,Wells KB,Ziedonis D,Tang L,Unützer J

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors compared the severity and clinical profiles of patients with two etiologically different apathy syndromes: apathy after traumatic brain injury (TBI) and deficit schizophrenia (DSS). Patients from both groups were equally apathetic, but those with DSS had more severe anhedonia, blunted affect, and alogia, a...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Rao V,Spiro JR,Schretlen DJ,Cascella NG

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of 294 consecutive medical inpatients, the authors assessed a subsample of 157 patients for psychiatric diagnoses using an extensive semistructured interview, Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN). Patients rated their health and physical functioning, and medical consultants assessed t...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Hansen MS,Fink P,Frydenberg M,Oxhøj ML,Søndergaard L,Eriksen M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The future of organ transplant psychiatry depends less on immunologic and surgical advances than on 1) an increased supply of donor organs, 2) more sophisticated multicenter outcome studies, and 3) understanding of the subjective as well as objective aspects of compliance and quality of life for transplant recipients....

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Freeman AM 3rd,Westphal JR,Davis LL,Libb JW

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although anesthetics have been used for more than a century, their mechanisms of action remain poorly understood. Given that a number of intraoperative and postoperative neuropsychiatric syndromes have been linked to the use of anesthetics, practitioners should familiarize themselves with these conditions. ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Gross AF,Stern TA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined ways of determining a useful measure of the timing of referral to a consultation-liaison psychiatry unit. Seven hundred and twelve consecutive inpatient referrals between February 1990 and January 1995 were studied prospectively. Usage of a simple mathematical ratio of the time elapsed between admi...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Handrinos D,McKenzie D,Smith GC

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-seven of 100 women with recurrent abortion completed questionnaires designed to assess demographic and reproductive variables, depression, anxiety, social desirability, self-esteem, locus of control, and marital adjustment. The results indicated that 32% of the women could be classified as depressed. The subject...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Klock SC,Chang G,Hiley A,Hill J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The loss of a baby causes severe short- and long-term distress to parents and their marital relationship, but little is known about how this distress is shared between spouses. The authors hypothesized that the grief-related concordance within a couple 2 to 6 years after the loss of a premature baby could be...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Büchi S,Mörgeli H,Schnyder U,Jenewein J,Glaser A,Fauchère JC,Ulrich Bucher H,Sensky T

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors developed a screening instrument to detect patients in need of complex care coordination at admission to a general hospital. On the basis of a series of risk factors for care complexity, the authors constructed a short, care complexity prediction instrument (COMPRI) and assessed its qualities. The COMPRI i...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Huyse FJ,de Jonge P,Slaets JP,Herzog T,Lobo A,Lyons JS,Opmeer BC,Stein B,Arolt V,Balogh N,Cardoso G,Fink P,Rigatelli M

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Of the 34 million adult Americans (17%) using mind-body medicine therapies, 8 million (24%) have anxiety/depression. The evidence for using mind-body therapies to address varying depressive symptoms in populations with and without other chronic comorbidities is reviewed. METHODS:Systematic literature searche...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： D'Silva S,Poscablo C,Habousha R,Kogan M,Kligler B

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depressive disorders are far more serious than most people realize, and depressive disorders are disabling affected persons progressively earlier in life. Heavy utilization of medical services, extensive disability and morbidity, and high suicide risk exact a staggering economic toll in the United States annually. Dep...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Cassem EH

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is the major psychiatric complication of Parkinson's disease, and it occurs in approximately one-third of all cases. Diagnosis of depression is complicated by the overlap of depressive and parkinsonian symptoms. Its etiology is not fully understood but involves changes in dopamine and serotonin. Depression ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Guze BH,Barrio JC

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:People with serious mental illness (SMI) are at elevated risk of HIV infection, but do not receive HIV tests regularly. Inpatient psychiatric admissions provide opportunities for HIV testing. OBJECTIVE:This study retrospectively examined the impact of three sequential interventions designed to increase HIV ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Shumway M,Mangurian C,Carraher N,Momenzadeh A,Leary M,Lee EK,Dilley JW

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:Medical records were reviewed for 94 consecutive inpatients diagnosed with nonepileptic seizures. A 122-item follow-up questionnaire was returned by 71 patients (76%). The majority of the subjects reported fewer seizures (73%), their general health as "very good" (20%) or "good" (37), and "improved" quality of life (5...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Krahn LE,Reese MM,Rummans TA,Peterson GC,Suman VJ,Sharbrough FW,Cascino GD

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biofeedback-assisted relaxation training (BART) can treat several common pediatric presentations, including chronic pain and anxiety. Its effectiveness, applicability to a variety of conditions, and equipment portability make it an ideal treatment approach for use in an inpatient pediatric consultation-liais...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： McKenna K,Gallagher KA,Forbes PW,Ibeziako P

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：:Various studies suggest that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may be useful in treating pathologic skin-picking. The authors investigated the effectiveness of fluoxetine in treating this behavior. Fifteen subjects with clinically significant skin-picking were recruited by newspaper advertisement. They r...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Bloch MR,Elliott M,Thompson H,Koran LM

更新日期：2001-07-01 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：:Delirium is presumed to be the same syndrome in all ages. Comparing pediatric and adult studies, the authors found many of the same symptoms reported, but often at significantly different rates. Sleep-wake disturbance, fluctuating symptoms, impaired attention, irritability, agitation, affective lability, and confusion...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Turkel SB,Trzepacz PT,Tavaré CJ

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:First-episode secondary mania in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has been described among samples of predominantly Caucasian, HIV-positive male patients in developed countries. OBJECTIVE:The goal of this study was to compare the demographic and clinical characteristics of HIV-positive patients ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Nakimuli-Mpungu E,Musisi S,Kiwuwa Mpungu S,Katabira E

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined data collected from a randomly selected, representative sample of 755 women (ages 23-97 years) from southeastern Australia. Self-report questionnaires were utilized to determine lifetime rates of depression and cardiovascular risk factors within the study sample. A lifetime history of depression (...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Jacka FN,Pasco JA,McConnell S,Williams LJ,Kotowicz MA,Nicholson GC,Berk M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00