Personality profiles in patients referred for chest pain. Investigation with emphasis on panic disorder patients.

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: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:Although the hepatitis C virus (HCV) alone increases the risk of cirrhosis, alcohol use is thought to act synergistically with HCV to significantly hasten the development of fibrosis. OBJECTIVE:The authors assessed the impact of brief medical counseling or integrated-care approaches to lessen or eliminate a...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Dieperink E,Ho SB,Heit S,Durfee JM,Thuras P,Willenbring ML

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropsychiatric complications are common in patients with chronic hepatitis C undergoing treatment with interferon alpha. These side effects include alterations of mood, cognition, and neuroendocrine function and are unpredictable. In a number of neurological disorders characterized by neuropsychiatric symptoms and c...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Gochee PA,Powell EE,Purdie DM,Pandeya N,Kelemen L,Shorthouse C,Jonsson JR,Kelly B

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：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：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：:Dizziness is a common patient symptom and often remains medically unexplained even after an extensive work-up. The otologic disorders, psychiatric disorders, and functional disability of 75 patients presenting with dizziness to a community otolaryngology practice were assessed in 1991. The patients were classified acc...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Clark MR,Sullivan MD,Katon WJ,Russo JE,Fischl M,Dobie RA,Voorhees R

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses the published interim report of the DSM-V Workgroup onSomatic Symptom Disorders (SSDs). "SSD" is the term proposed by the Workgroup to replace "somatoform disorder." ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Sykes R

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In spite of its global importance, the interaction between depression and chronic comorbid diseases remains incompletely understood with regard to prevalence, severity of disease, and potential causative factors mediating this interaction. OBJECTIVE:The authors sought to compare overall medical costs in non...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Welch CA,Czerwinski D,Ghimire B,Bertsimas D

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the Millon Behavioral Health Inventory Life Threat Reactivity Scale (LTRS) as a predictor of mortality in patients awaiting heart transplantation. The one-year mortality while awaiting cardiac transplantation was more than double for the high-risk group based on the LTRS scores. The high-risk group...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Coffman KL,Brandwin M

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:Adolescent cancer survivors were compared with nondiseased control subjects on measures of adaptation, coping, body image, sexual adjustment, psychopathology, and family functioning. Cancer survivors reported no major difficulties in social competence, overall coping, and family communication. Although their school te...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Madan-Swain A,Brown RT,Sexson SB,Baldwin K,Pais R,Ragab A

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can be life-saving in treating depression, even for high-risk cardiac patients. A 56-year-old man with type 2 diabetes and dilated cardiomyopathy, using both a defibrillator and an experimental cardiac contractility modulator, had had episodes of severe depression superimposed...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Lynch AM,Pandurangi AK,Levenson JL

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：:The impact of a community-based consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatry service on family physicians' levels of psychiatric knowledge, diagnostic and treatment confidence, and patterns of referral to mental health care agencies was evaluated over a 12-month period. The physicians with long-term access to the C-L service...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Carr VJ,Faehrmann C,Lewin TJ,Walton JM,Reid AA

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although physical restraint is still used in psychiatric inpatient settings, it sometimes causes serious side effects, including deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and resulting pulmonary embolism. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence of the DVT in restrained patients who were receiving ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Ishida T,Katagiri T,Uchida H,Takeuchi H,Sakurai H,Watanabe K,Mimura M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conducted a study to examine the association between neuropsychological markers of central nervous system impairment and systemic human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease progression in a sample of 64 HIV-positive asymptomatic patients who were followed for a median of 45.6 months. Patients with poorer b...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Silberstein CH,O'Dowd MA,Schoenbaum EE,Friedland GH,Chartock P,Feiner C,McKegney FP

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen videotaped family interviews of patients with diagnosed pseudoseizures were studied to determine the relationship of the symptoms to unspeakable dilemmas as forced choices imposed by family or social circumstances under conditions that also require the ensuing distress to be hidden. An unspeakable dilemma was...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Griffith JL,Polles A,Griffith ME

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The psychological status and quality of life of 70 stable patients with asthma age > or =60 years and 40 age-matched comparison subjects were examined. The patients with long-standing asthma (duration > or = 8 years) had lower quality-of-life scores than those with recent-onset asthma (duration < 8 years). In multivar...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Oğuztürk O,Ekici A,Kara M,Ekici M,Arslan M,Iteginli A,Kara T,Kurtipek E

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the correlation of subjective body complaints (measured by the Giessen Subjective Complaints List) with sociodemographic data, objective health measures, measures of subjective well-being, and clinicians' ratings of somatization and psychological impairment in 251 cognitively unimpaired general ho...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Schneider G,Wachter M,Driesch G,Kruse A,Nehen HG,Heuft G

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a leading cause of hepatocellular carcinoma and cirrhosis in the United States and is known to be transmitted via pathways associated with substance use (e.g., injection drug use and intranasal drug use). OBJECTIVE:Although individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) have a high...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Himelhoch S,McCarthy JF,Ganoczy D,Medoff D,Kilbourne A,Goldberg R,Dixon L,Blow FC

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Delirium commonly occurs in hospitalized elderly patients, resulting in increased morbidity and mortality. Although evidence for treatment of delirium exists, evidence supporting pharmacologic prevention of delirium in high risk patients is limited. OBJECTIVE:This review examined whether delirium in at-risk...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Teslyar P,Stock VM,Wilk CM,Camsari U,Ehrenreich MJ,Himelhoch S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychosocial assessments of candidates for organ transplant surgery are conducted to ascertain that potential patients are likely to benefit from the surgery through adequate coping, good compliance, and commitment to rehabilitation. Such assessments must be based on a realistic analysis of the behavioral demands of t...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Olbrisch ME,Levenson JL

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Delirium is a common complication of myeloablative hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT), yet no studies have explored the later effects of an episode of delirium in this setting on patients' decision-making capacity after the acute symptoms of delirium have resolved. OBJECTIVE:The authors assessed...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Zaubler T,Fann JR,Roth-Roemer S,Katon WJ,Bustami R,Syrjala KL

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pediatric catatonia is believed to be a rare condition, but challenges in recognition and variability in presentation may lead to underdiagnosis. Early identification and effective treatment of pediatric catatonia is critical given the significant morbidity and mortality associated with the condition. Given ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Sorg EM,Chaney-Catchpole M,Hazen EP

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the psychological factors associated with self-excoriative behavior among 56 women (mean +/- SE age: 24.0 +/- 1.0 years) with mild-to-moderate facial acne vulgaris. Ratings associated with poor self-concept, such as perfectionistic and compulsive personality traits, correlated more strongly with s...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Gupta MA,Gupta AK,Schork NJ

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examines the use of substance abuse and mental health services among older adults with substance use disorders. METHODS:Participants were members of Humana Cares, a subsidiary of Humana, Inc., a care management program for chronically ill Medicare Advantage members, between 2008 and 2010. All adul...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Huang H,Chan YF,Bauer AM,Suzuki J,Katon W,Russo J,Hogan D,Unützer J

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable data have demonstrated that psychological states can influence the immune system in animals. Whether human immune function can be intentionally modulated by the central nervous system is unknown. This article presents data from two studies that sought to demonstrate intentional modulation of the immune sy...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Smith GR,Conger C,O'Rourke DF,Steele RW,Charlton RK,Smith SS

更新日期：1992-10-01 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