The general practitioner as the first contacted health professional by patients with psychosocial problems: a European study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Both low intelligence and low emotional control have previously been linked to a higher risk of suicide, but it is unknown whether the associations apply consistently over the life course. METHODS:The study was based on data on intelligence and emotional control, collected from 48 738 Swedish men conscripte...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hansson Bittár N,Falkstedt D,Sörberg Wallin A

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cognitive impairment and negative symptoms are two of the primary features of schizophrenia associated with poor social functioning. We examined the relationships between clinical characteristics, specific cognitive abilities and social skills performance in middle-aged and older out-patients with schizophre...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sitzer DI,Twamley EW,Patterson TL,Jeste DV

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information regarding the physical and mental health of clients referred to social workers in a local authority intake team and to a general practice attachment scheme was collected over a 3-month period. Although returns to the Department of Health and Social Security during this period indicated that a very low prop...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Corney RH

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the literature on dementia the presence or absence of language deficits has come to occupy a pivotal position with respect to certain nosological and nosographical issues. These are reviewed critically, together with the results of experimental investigations which have sought to elucidate the nature of the languag...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hart S

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is evidence that cannabis use might be relevant to the aetiology of schizophrenia. We aimed to measure any change in cannabis use over time in those first presenting with schizophrenia in South-East London from 1965 to 1999, and compare this with change in use in those presenting with non-psychotic psy...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Boydell J,van Os J,Caspi A,Kennedy N,Giouroukou E,Fearon P,Farrell M,Murray RM

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study examined healthcare services used by adults diagnosed with an eating disorder (ED) in a large health maintenance organization in the Pacific Northwest. METHOD:Electronic medical records were used to collect information on all out-patient and in-patient visits and medication dispenses, from 2002 t...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Striegel-Moore RH,DeBar L,Wilson GT,Dickerson J,Rosselli F,Perrin N,Lynch F,Kraemer HC

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two groups of 16 subjects, 8 of each gender, were examined on two occasions, one group before and after restricted environmental stimulation with floatation, and the other group without floatation was the control group. They were examined with a tactile object discrimination task carried out with each hand separately ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Raab J,Gruzelier J

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychiatric disorders are studied at multiple levels, but there is no agreement on how these levels are related to each other, or how they should be understood in the first place. In this paper, I provide an account of levels and their relationships that is suited for psychopathology, drawing from recent debates in ph...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Eronen MI

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A sample of over 6000 women was recruited in the last trimester of pregnancy and administered a 40-item self-report questionnaire designed to detect the presence of factors that were likely to increase the risk of postpartum depression. The mental state of almost 5000 of these women was determined at around 6 to 8 wee...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Cooper PJ,Murray L,Hooper R,West A

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A long-standing issue in the health anxiety literature is the extent to which health anxiety is a dimensional or a categorical construct. This study explores this question directly using taxometric procedures. METHOD:Seven hundred and eleven working adults completed an index of health anxiety [the Whiteley ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Ferguson E

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty schizophrenic patients with tardive dyskinesia and an equal number of matched controls were tested on a novel cognitive task. The task had two components: cued response and spatial memory. Relative to controls, the dyskinetic subjects showed a superior cued response performance but an equal spatial memory abili...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Collerton D,Fairbairn A,Britton P

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cognitive remediation (CR) is an effective treatment for several psychiatric disorders. To date, there have been no published studies examining solely first-episode psychiatric cohorts, despite the merits demonstrated by early intervention CR studies. The current study aimed to assess the effectiveness of CR...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Lee RS,Redoblado-Hodge MA,Naismith SL,Hermens DF,Porter MA,Hickie IB

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The role of antidepressant medications in bipolar depression remains controversial, mainly due to a lack of research in this area. In this study the authors examined the episode length in bipolar depression and the relationship between antidepressant therapy and episode length. METHOD:A retrospective chart ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Frankle WG,Perlis RH,Deckersbach T,Grandin LD,Gray SM,Sachs GS,Nierenberg AA

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The USA is currently enduring an opioid crisis. Identifying cost-effective, easy-to-implement behavioral measures that predict treatment outcomes in opioid misusers is a crucial scientific, therapeutic, and epidemiological goal. METHODS:The current study used a mixed cross-sectional and longitudinal design ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Moeller SJ,Hanley AW,Garland EL

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Improving the quality of mental health care requires integrating successful research interventions into 'real-world' practice settings. Coordinated Anxiety Learning and Management (CALM) is a treatment-delivery model for anxiety disorders encountered in primary care. CALM offers cognitive behavioral therapy ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Joesch JM,Sherbourne CD,Sullivan G,Stein MB,Craske MG,Roy-Byrne P

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently completed a case-control study of 100 literally homeless and 100 never homeless indigent schizophrenic men in New York City, in which concurrent substance abuse and antisocial personality disorder were widespread. In this paper we probe the correlates of 'pure' schizophrenia (single disorder, N = 60), schi...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Caton CL,Shrout PE,Eagle PF,Opler LA,Felix A

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Both past depressive episodes and the personality trait of depressive rumination are strong risk factors for future depression. Depression is associated with abnormal emotional processing, which may be a neurobiological marker for vulnerability to depression. A consistent picture has yet to emerge as to how ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Thomas EJ,Elliott R,McKie S,Arnone D,Downey D,Juhasz G,Deakin JF,Anderson IM

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Wenchuan earthquake was a catastrophic earthquake in China. The aim of this study is to explore longitudinally the rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression in adolescents after the Wenchuan earthquake, and to identify independent predictors of PTSD. METHOD:PTSD and depression sympto...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Zhang Z,Ran MS,Li YH,Ou GJ,Gong RR,Li RH,Fan M,Jiang Z,Fang DZ

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to explore the impacts of COVID-19 outbreak on mental health status in general population in different affected areas in China. METHODS:This was a comparative study including two groups of participants: (1) general population in an online survey in Ya'an and Jingzhou cities during the COVID...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Ran MS,Gao R,Lin JX,Zhang TM,Chan SKW,Deng XP,Zhang BZ,Zhang XF,Huang GP,Pu DS,Bai JZ,Xu LX,Liu B

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is clearly established that emotional events tend to be remembered particularly vividly. The neurobiological substrates of this phenomenon are poorly understood. Recently, the noradrenergic system has been implicated in that beta blockade has been shown to reduce significantly the delayed recall of emotio...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： O'Carroll RE,Drysdale E,Cahill L,Shajahan P,Ebmeier KP

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The value of services for those with the 'At Risk Mental State for Psychosis' (ARMS) continues to be disputed. ARMS services have provided a valuable stimulus to academic research into the transition into psychosis. Furthermore, there is currently a welcome trend to transform such clinics into youth mental health serv...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Murray RM,David AS,Ajnakina O

更新日期：2020-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Slow-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to the frontal cortex has been suggested as a safer and better tolerable alternative to fast-frequency rTMS in the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). The aim of the present study was to examine the efficacy of slow-frequency rTMS t...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Schutter DJ

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Somatoform disorders are costly for society in terms of increased healthcare expenditure. Patients' illness perceptions have been found to play a role in somatoform disorders. However, it is unclear whether illness perceptions predict higher health costs in these patients. METHOD:A total of 1785 primary car...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Frostholm L,Petrie KJ,Ornbøl E,Fink P

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preparing for potentially threatening events in the future is essential for survival. Anticipating the future to be unpleasant is also a cognitive key feature of depression. We hypothesized that 'pessimism'-related emotion processing would characterize brain activity in major depression.MethodDuring function...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Herwig U,Brühl AB,Kaffenberger T,Baumgartner T,Boeker H,Jäncke L

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients suffering from manic-depressive psychosis, manic type (ICD 296.0), were treated with lithium carbonate and randomly allocated to two groups, one received digoxin and the other matching placebo for 7 days. Severity of mania was rated by psychiatrists on the Manic Rating Scale and Analogue Line on days 0 and 7 ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Chambers CA,Smith AH,Naylor GJ

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:. A variety of factors are related to compliance with medication in schizophrenia, but little attention has been paid to the role of families. Carers' knowledge or expressed emotion (EE) may be related to compliance. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the relevance of these two factors, as well as ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sellwood W,Tarrier N,Quinn J,Barrowclough C

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients diagnosed on the basis of structured interviews as having affective psychoses were less sensitive in detecting the presence of a transient auditory signal than were schizophrenic patients or non-patients. Patients with affective psychoses also benefited more (their reaction time was more reduced) than the oth...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bruder GE,Sutton S,Babkoff H,Gurland BJ,Yozawitz A,Fleiss JL

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies suggest a link between parental separation or divorce and risk of depression in adolescence. There are, however, few studies that have prospectively examined the effects of timing of biological father absence on risk for depressive symptoms in adolescence while controlling for a range of con...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Culpin I,Heron J,Araya R,Melotti R,Joinson C

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Capturing service users' perspectives can highlight additional and different concerns to those of clinicians, but there are no up to date, self-report psychometrically sound measures of side effects of antipsychotic medications. Aim To develop a psychometrically sound measure to identify antipsychotic side e...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wykes T,Evans J,Paton C,Barnes TRE,Taylor D,Bentall R,Dalton B,Ruffell T,Rose D,Vitoratou S

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The significant proportion of schizophrenia patients refractory to treatment, primarily directed at the dopamine system, suggests that multiple mechanisms may underlie psychotic symptoms. Reinforcement learning tasks have been employed in schizophrenia to assess dopaminergic functioning and reward processing...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Vanes LD,Mouchlianitis E,Collier T,Averbeck BB,Shergill SS

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00