Early mental changes in patients with astrocytomas with special reference to anxiety and epilepsy.

abstract：:Two instruments for the assessment of the DSM-III-R personality disorders were compared: The Personality Disorders Questionnaire--Revised (PDQ-R) and the Munich Diagnostic Checklist for the assessment of DSM-III-R Personality Disorders (MDCL-P). Using kappa value as a measure of agreement, the diagnostic agreement was...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Bronisch T,Flett S,Garcia-Borreguero D,Wolf R

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The DSM criteria for a delusion indicate that it should not include any beliefs held by a person's 'culture or subculture'. The internet has many examples of people reporting 'mind control experiences' (MCEs) on self-published web pages, many of which suggest a community based around such beliefs and experie...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Bell V,Maiden C,Muñoz-Solomando A,Reddy V

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reliability and usefulness of the Scale for Assessment of Thought, Language and Communication was evaluated in a group of psychotic in-patients. A very high interrater reliability (0.75-1.0) and an optimum rate-rerate reliability (0.50-1.0) were found on the individual items of the scale as well as the global rati...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Mazumdar PK,Chaturvedi SK,Sinha V,Gopinath PS

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:38 patients with late paraphrenia and 38 with endogenous depression of late onset were examined and various premorbid characteristics and biographical data compared. The main objective of the study was to look for differential risk factors and for biographical experiences that suggested a specific premorbid vulnerabil...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Fuchs T

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the relationships between social and cultural factors and African psychopathology have largely been considered from a theoretical point of view, empirical studies are still few and far between. This paper reports the results of a mental health survey conducted in the village of Namwera (Malawi, Sout...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Carta MG,Carpiniello B,Dazzan P,Reda MA

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although difficulties in emotion regulation (ER) are considered a core feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD), the specific strategies that individuals with BPD most commonly use, their diagnostic specificity, and their associations with harmful behaviors have not been firmly established. SAMPLING...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Daros AR,Guevara MA,Uliaszek AA,McMain SF,Ruocco AC

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：: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：:The present paper describes a patient who exhibited 'Alice in Wonderland' (AIW) syndrome as well as Lilliputian hallucinations. The patient regularly consumed a cough syrup that contained dihydrocodein phosphate and dl-methylephedrine hydrochloride over 3 years. At the age of 46, he developed AIW syndrome. The patient...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Takaoka K,Takata T

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Many studies on the autobiographical memory and the explanation of reasons for success and failure proved that persons suffering from major depression tend to overgeneralize. This study examines the hypothesis that changes of reactions caused by a depressive disorder can be described by the affected persons ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Leibetseder M,Kamolz T

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of our study was to identify if defense mechanisms are associated with impulsivity and lifetime suicide attempts in depressed patients. SAMPLING AND METHODS:The Defense Style Questionnaire, the Impulsivity Rating Scale and the Impulse Control Scale were used in 77 depressed inpatients. RESULTS:Impu...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Corruble E,Hatem N,Damy C,Falissard B,Guelfi JD,Reynaud M,Hardy P

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mental disorders can be associated with suicidal or aggressive ideation and behavior, especially in the context of embitterment. The aim of this study is to investigate the types, prevalence, and dangerousness of aggressive and suicidal ideations associated with embitterment. METHODS:When therapists from th...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Linden M,Noack I

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delinquency among depressed patients plays a minor role in criminal behavior. Among the most tragic associations between depression and criminality are cases of extended suicide or suicide attempt. We studied psychopathology, personality, and psychosocial stressors of 9 Austrian females who committed a serious extende...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Meszaros K,Fischer-Danzinger D

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In psychiatry and psychotherapy, dealing with aggressiveness and autoaggressiveness is of great importance. Our aim was to find a link between overt aggressive and autoaggressive behaviour, which could be readily observed. SAMPLING AND METHODS:We investigated the frequency, type and intensity of aggressive,...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Grube M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the cardinal somatic symptoms associated with anxiety states are produced by the sympathoadrenal medullary discharge of catecholamines (CA) described over 50 years ago as 'fight or flight' responses. During the last decade, development of sensitive convenient assays for CA and their metabolites in tissues, cer...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Kopin IJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:'Lack of insight' into one's own illness is a frequent symptom in schizophrenic disorders. 'Health beliefs' are psychological explanations of one's own health status and are held by all individuals. The question is how they relate to each other. METHODS:Lack of insight (according to the definition of the AM...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Linden M,Godemann F

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selected results from the section psychotherapy/psychosomatics of the ICD-10 research criteria study are discussed. One hundred thirty diagnosticians from 11 psychosomatics centers took part in this section, assessing 16 video-documented patients in case conferences. The results of the study, which were based on 633 d...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Schneider W,Freyberger HJ,Muhs A,Schüssler G

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:Starting from a neurobiological standpoint, I will propose that our capacity to understand others as intentional agents, far from being exclusively dependent upon mentalistic/linguistic abilities, be deeply grounded in the relational nature of our interactions with the world. According to this hypothesis, an implicit,...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Gallese V

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little interest has been taken in the characteristics of depression in medical and surgical patients and its correlations with syndromes which may be subsumed under the rubric of abnormal illness behaviour. Depressive symptoms and abnormal illness behaviour as measured by self-rating scales were studied among 325 inpa...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Fava GA,Zielezny M,Pilowsky I,Trombini G

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The present investigation aimed to study attribution styles and somatosensory amplification among patients suffering from somatoform and depressive disorders. METHODS:Two groups of 30 patients with diagnoses of somatoform disorder and depressive disorder, respectively (ICD-10 DCR), and one group of 30 normal...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Duddu V,Chaturvedi SK,Isaac MK

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of the study was to reveal the background dimensions of suicidal behaviour (SB) and to identify clusters of Hungarian adolescent outpatients suffering from suicidality by means of the following correlates of SB: depression, inadequate conflict-solving methods, dysfunctional attitudes, maladaptive cop...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Dinya E,Csorba J,Sorfozo Z,Steiner P,Ficsor B,Horvath A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A decrease in central serotonergic activity following plasma tryptophan depletion has been shown to provoke a deterioration of mood. We studied the impact of sex and aggressive traits on mood changes following tryptophan depletion in healthy volunteers. Twelve healthy subjects (6 males, 6 females, 24-31 years), who we...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Schmeck K,Sadigorsky S,Englert E,Demisch L,Dierks T,Barta S,Poustka F

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:According to Karl Jaspers, psychopathology requires a comprehensive method, understood as a systematic exploration of the first-person perspective of the patient's experience. At the same time, however, schizophrenia for Jaspers is characterized by its radical incomprehensibility. In addition, Rümke's so-cal...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Gozé T,Grohmann T,Naudin J,Cermolacce M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychiatric symptoms are heterogeneous and differ in origin, structure and clinical expression. These differences are frequently ignored both clinically and in research. Thus, patients may be described as being anxious or as having delusions, with little realisation that different aspects of the structure of symptoms ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Marková IS,Berrios GE

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is often suggested in the literature that alexithymic patients are less responsive to psychotherapy than nonalexithymic patients. However, few empirical studies have examined this issue. Furthermore, it is unclear whether or not alexithymia itself may improve during psychotherapy. METHODS:Fifty-five cons...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Rufer M,Albrecht R,Zaum J,Schnyder U,Mueller-Pfeiffer C,Hand I,Schmidt O

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Until now, no brief self-report instrument for the assessment of dissociative states comprising somatoform and psychological items has been available. Thus, we developed a brief instrument for repeated assessment of dissociation during single neuropsychological experiments and neuroimaging. METHODS:Bas...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Stiglmayr C,Schmahl C,Bremner JD,Bohus M,Ebner-Priemer U

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:In this paper, emotion is dealt with as a complex theoretical term, whose empirical referents derive from physiological, behavioral and subjective discourses (psychophysiological triad). It is argued that the meaning of emotion terms is not exhausted by any of these discourses (or 'texts'), but by the complementary co...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Lolas F

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00