Obsessive-compulsive disorder and rheumatic chorea: is there a connection?

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of this descriptive review is to summarize the current scientific evidence on the effect of prenatal exposure to maternal infection and immune response on the offspring's risk for mental disorders (schizophrenia spectrum disorders, autism spectrum disorders, attention-deficit hyperactivity diso...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Flinkkilä E,Keski-Rahkonen A,Marttunen M,Raevuori A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The published prevalence rates of depressive disorders have steadily increased during the last 20 years. Despite many methodological and social cultural influences, the increase seems to be real and reasons for this trend are given. Among them, the increase of life expectancy, the urbanization, and the possibility for...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Gastpar M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delusional repetitiveness as a peculiar form of delusional remembrance is very rare in the literature and has not been considered in detail. the author presents a schizophrenic case with delusional repetitiveness and considers its features and meaning in treatment. The patient's feelings about a deadlock in treatment ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Nakaya M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify core vulnerability features capable of discriminating subjects who are more prone to develop eating disorders. SAMPLING AND METHODS:A nonclinical group composed of 253 university students was studied by means of the Identity and Eating Disorders questionnaire (IDEA), exploring abnormal attitudes ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Stanghellini G,Trisolini F,Castellini G,Ambrosini A,Faravelli C,Ricca V

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychological aspects of classification broadly refer to mental functions and dysfunctions and are important to consider both in terms of clinical use and the elucidation of pertinent theories. There are a number of concepts crucial to consider for psychologically informed classification, including personality structu...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Mundt C

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:187 patients were investigated by a structured interview for DSM-III-R and various clinicians' and patients' ratings. A high frequency of comorbidity between different anxiety disorders and between anxiety and depression was found. According to sociodemographic data, various anxiety disorders showed more similarities ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Scheibe G,Albus M

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 'nonunderstandability' that traditional psychopathology attributes to 'true' delusion does not have a clear demarcation line, but, rather, it is a continuum of various delusional experiences. The attention paid to emotional situations and, specifically, to dysphoria, often contributes to making the delusional phen...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Ballerini A,Ballerini AC

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the significant need for coordinated approaches to the treatment of substance misuse worldwide, there are still major gaps in both the provision of services and in the development of a theoretically unified approach to care. We suggest that a phenomenological approach to care can provide comprehensive, theoret...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Messas GP,Fukuda L,Pienkos E

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The following case report describes a pregnant woman who was convinced that her pregnancy was non-existent despite being in an advanced stage of clinically obvious pregnancy. The nosologically unspecific syndrome of denial of pregnancy is discussed by reviewing the literature. Based on the existing literature it will ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Walloch JE,Klauwer C,Lanczik M,Brockington IF,Kornhuber J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Using a cognitive framework, this paper examined self-perceptions as a vulnerability to phenomena in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Specifically, Guidano and Liotti's model of self-ambivalence (from 1983) and the notion of self-worth contingent upon moral standards were investigated as possible mechanis...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Ahern C,Kyrios M,Moulding R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical follow-up lasting from 1 to 6 years on 25 outpatients affected by endogenous psychoses and manifesting ego disorders demonstrates the presence of both activity and passivity experiences in schizophrenias and affective psychoses. No differential diagnosis between the two nosographical groups can be based on ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Stanghellini G,Rossi Monti M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reliability of suicide reporting remains a concern. Problems include procedural deficiencies, ambiguous evidence and the determination of intent. In this study, Queensland Suicide Register (QSR) data were compared to the usual official source - the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). QSR deaths were coded as be...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Cantor C,McTaggart P,De Leo D

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is evidence that anxiety is common, perhaps even more prevalent than depression, in the post-partum period. In this review we propose adopting a transdiagnostic approach to perinatal mental health: to delineate psychopathology and identify potential underlying cognitive mechanisms such as repetitive ne...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Moulds ML,Black MJ,Newby JM,Hirsch CR

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author describes the 12-year history of a functional (endogenous) psychosis in a 25-year-old woman and the subsequent full social remission. The central symptom in the case history is the delusion that the patient has already lived through this life once. This delusion appears as the experience of reduplication, d...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Pethö B

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The current debate on the continuity or discontinuity of psychotic symptoms and common psychic experiences has mainly dealt with methodological, epidemiological and clinical issues, but it has neglected epistemological research on the main concepts of the field. METHODS:The implicit epistemic structure of c...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Rejón Altable C,Múzquiz Jiménez Á

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cannabis is a possible risk factor for the onset of schizophrenia and can induce neurocognitive, behavioural and motor co-ordination alterations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of cannabis in the occurrence of neurological soft signs (NSS) and, considering that this drug has been related to p...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Bersani G,Orlandi V,Gherardelli S,Pancheri P

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A considerable number of schizophrenic patients develop delusions of technical alien control. In such cases, patients experience their thoughts, movements and feelings to be controlled by mysterious machines and contemporary technologies such as computers, the internet, X-rays and lasers. METHODS:In this pa...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Hirjak D,Fuchs T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we discuss the philosophical and psychopathological background of Domain 3, Other persons, of the Examination of Anomalous World Experiences (EAWE). The EAWE interview aims to describe the manifold phenomena of the schizophrenic lifeworld in all of their concrete and distinctive features, thus complemen...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Stanghellini G,Ballerini M,Mancini M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People having intimate relationships with persons suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD) - for instance, members of their family - are likely to be involved in stormy, roller coaster relationships. Thus, they may feel overwhelmed by extreme, unpredictable feelings and situations, even when they do not su...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Fossati A,Somma A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Misidentification phenomena, including the delusion of 'imposters' named after Joseph Capgras, occur in various major psychiatric and neurological disorders but have rarely been studied systematically in broad samples of modern patients. This study investigated the prevalence and correlated clinical factors ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Salvatore P,Bhuvaneswar C,Tohen M,Khalsa HM,Maggini C,Baldessarini RJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is regarded as a unitary nosological entity, it encompasses a rich variety of heterogeneous mental and behavioural phenomena. The identification of clinical subtypes within this broad concept has been a focus of attention in recent years. In the present study, we administer...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Denys D,de Geus F,van Megen HJ,Westenberg HG

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogenetic and ontogenetic developments of social cognition have been a major research focus of evolutionary and developmental psychology. Theory of mind or so-called Machiavellian intelligence, that is the capacity to infer mental states of other individuals and to manipulate them in order to maximise social su...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Brüne M

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) had several episodes of catatonia in the past 44 years. These episodes were characterized by a sudden onset of intense excitement, mild pyrexia, often moderate elevation of serum creatinine phosphokinase and the development of a full catatonic state. We could not rel...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Shiloh R,Schwartz B,Weizman A,Radwan M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The domains of the 26-item World Health Organization Quality of Life Instrument (WHOQOL-Bref) contain heterogeneous items and do not encompass the logical constructs of subjective quality of life (QOL). We compared the WHO 4-domain and 6-domain models of the WHOQOL-Bref with the 8-domain model that we obtained from fa...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Ohaeri JU,Olusina AK,Al-Abassi AH

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Consecutively referred out-patients (n = 102) with non-psychotic functional psychiatric disorders were examined. Nine syndrome scores (panic attack, phobic anxiety, generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, dissociative, conversion, somatoform, depersonalization, and depressive) showed patterns corresponding to ICD-1...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Kitamura T,Nakamura M,Miura I,Fujinawa A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alexithymia as a disorder of affect regulation entails a patient's reduced ability to process emotional information. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of alexithymia [as measured by the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS)-26, German version] on affective correlates in a dyadic therapeutic interaction (a...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Rasting M,Brosig B,Beutel ME

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study's aim was to empirically derive the psychopathological constellation associated with self-centrality (i.e. non-delusional self-referential attitude) by seeking an interpretation in the light of the 'Basic Symptoms Model' of schizophrenic psychopathology. Eighty-four patients with an established schizophrenic...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Maggini C,Raballo A

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty schizophrenics and 40 depressives in remission from the floridly psychotic phase were given a semi-structured interview concerning their abnormal perceptual experiences at the onset of their illness. About 50% of each set of subjects had experienced an alteration in the quality of their perception. However, ther...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Cutting J,Dunne F

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Personality traits are significant factors in the development and course of depression. Apart from the classical five-factor model of personality, other personality constellations, such as Tellenbach's Typus melancholicus, have been described in association with depressive disorder. Several instruments have been devel...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Kronmüller KT,Backenstrass M,Kocherscheidt K,Hunt A,Unger J,Fiedler P,Mundt C

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 3-year prospective follow-up investigation and a family study were carried out in patients fulfilling the diagnostic criteria for cycloid psychotic disorder proposed by Perris and Brockington in 1981. The results show that cycloid psychosis differs in several respects from schizoaffective disorders as defined by cur...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Maj M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00