Koro-like syndrome in a Bedouin man.

abstract：:Functional psychosis has only rarely been described in context with extreme stressors, most studies focusing singularly on posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. We report for the first time the case histories of 2 patients suffering from Capgras syndrome along with schizoaffective disorder and posttraumatic stress d...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Wenzel T,Sibitz I,Kieffer W,Strobl R

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely accepted that depressives focus on negative memories, and forget or repress positive memories (showing a mood-congruent affective tendency). Normals have an opposite positive bias in memory ('Pollyanna tendency'). Research evidence for depressives' negative bias in memory comes mainly from studies of retr...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Calev A

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:High rates of mental disorders have been reported for prison populations. Understanding patterns of comorbidity may be essential for the development of adequate treatment interventions. The present study aimed to assess the underlying structure of comorbidity between mental health and substance use disorders...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Ignatyev Y,Baggio S,Mundt AP

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The assessment of personality functioning has recently become a focus of psychiatric diagnostics. The interview-based Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis (OPD-2) provides a 'structure axis' for the assessment of personality functioning. METHODS:One hundred twenty-four psychiatric patients were diagnosed...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Doering S,Burgmer M,Heuft G,Menke D,Bäumer B,Lübking M,Feldmann M,Schneider G

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:We report the case of a patient who presented with catatonic features and delusion of test-tube pregnancy in the background of previous sexual abuse. The reported case illustrates the importance of contemporary themes in the evolution of psychopathology. ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Manoj PN,John JP,Gandhi A,Kewalramani M,Murthy P,Chaturvedi SK,Isaac MK

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The various episodes of life significant for outbursts of different psychic disorders may give some facilitations of a better understanding of the underlying basic processes. Two of them are considered in several appearances: genetic predisposition and conditioning processes. A psychology of age may be interpreted in ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Zapotoczky HG,Hofmann P

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent decades, there has been a growing interest in the field of delusions, and different aspects of delusional disorder (DD) have been investigated. However, DD is still one of the most underresearched psychiatric disorders. In this paper, we review the literature on DD and most of the theoretical approaches prop...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Ibanez-Casas I,Cervilla JA

更新日期：2012-01-01 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 purpose of this study is to verify whether an increasing degree of alexithymia correlates with a prevalence of negative over positive symptoms. The framework of the research is phenomenologically oriented conception of the illness-coping vulnerability paradigm. Schizophrenic basic symptoms as markers of schizotrop...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Stanghellini G,Ricca V

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While considerable research attention has been devoted to the causal relationship between substance use and psychosis, the phenomenology of the association between the two has largely been ignored. This is a significant shortcoming, because it blinds researchers to the possibility that there may be elements ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Nelson B,Sass LA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of long-term memories is a function necessary for an adaptive survival. In the last two decades, great progress has been made in the understanding of the biological bases of memory formation. The identification of mechanisms necessary for memory consolidation and reconsolidation, the processes by which t...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Bisaz R,Travaglia A,Alberini CM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The recent literature frequently represents schizophrenia as a deteriorating neurocognitive process similar to organic degenerative dementia. METHODS:This study addresses the following questions: (1) Did the classic authors equate degenerative dementia with schizophrenia? (2) Is there empirical evidence poi...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Urfer-Parnas A,Mortensen EL,Parnas J

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Beyond the language of medicine and psychology, the essence of many psychopathological experiences remains something that cannot be explained, even if it is possible to perceive it. Phenomenological language in this case must adapt itself to the heart of the lived experience. The phenomenological attitude, in particul...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Di Petta G,Tittarelli D

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:The diagnosis of reactive psychosis is more commonly used in Denmark and Norway, where 50 and 40%, respectively, of first-admitted patients with functional psychoses will be diagnosed as having a reactive psychosis. The predictive validity of the concept is discussed. The concept has to be better operationalized and l...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Retterstøl N

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dangerousness in the delusional misidentification syndromes is studied by reviewing a sample of 82 cases defined by either verbal threats or physical violence caused by misidentification delusion. Eighty cases were obtained from a review of the anglophone psychiatric literature in which the patients exhibited some deg...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Silva JA,Leong GB,Weinstock R,Sharma KK,Klein RL

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A variety of conduct disorder (CD) symptoms are seen together as a symptom cluster. Among CD symptoms there are serious and stubborn antisocial behaviors: lying, swindling, running away from home/school, destructiveness, arson, kidnapping women, sexual abuse, and armed robbery. The objective of this study wa...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Doğan O,Onder Z,Doğan S,Akyüz G

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to the clinical psychopathological approach to emotion, we used aspects of the cognitive emotion theories formulated by Lazarus [1966] and Folkman and Lazarus [1985]. According to these theories, emotion is a product of cognitive appraisal and coping a mechanism regulating emotion. We put into operation fo...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Baldaszti E,Naske R,Opgenoorth E

更新日期：1988-01-01 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:Patients with panic disorder have higher rates of suicide than the general population. Among panic disorder subjects, early onset, female gender, alcohol abuse, and mood disorder increase the risk of suicidality. However, less is known about the unique relationships between discrete DSM-IV panic symptoms and...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Lim SW,Ko EM,Shin DW,Shin YC,Oh KS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Up to 60% of bipolar disorder (BD) patients develop alcohol use disorders (AUD) at some point in their lives. The causes of this highly prevalent comorbidity are unknown. High trait impulsivity characterizes both isolated BD and AUD and may be a link to explain the association between BD and AUD. In this stu...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Nery FG,Hatch JP,Monkul ES,Matsuo K,Zunta-Soares GB,Bowden CL,Soares JC

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the categorical position of formal diagnostic approaches (i.e. ICD-10 and DSM-IV) to mood disorders, atypical depression (AD) occupies an ambiguous position between major depressive (MDD) and bipolar II (BP-II) disorders. METHODS:Three hundred and eighty-nine and 261 consecutive BP-II and MDD patien...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Akiskal HS,Benazzi F

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ICD-8 diagnosis applicable to borderline psychosis in children is psychosis limitaris infantilis (299.02). Results from a register-based study referring to all Danish children admitted between 1970 and 1992 and diagnosed borderline psychosis are presented here. A total of 415 children (332 boys and 83 girls) were ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Thomsen PH

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Symptoms as in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are frequent among individuals with pervasive developmental disorders (PDD). The aim of the present study was to examine the impact of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity on the clinical phenotype of children and adolescents with PDD. SAM...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Holtmann M,Bolte S,Poustka F

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:A clinical survey indicates a similar incidence of depression in old age and Parkinson's disease. Divergences, therefore, are apparent, when the biochemical basis of depression is related to the pathobiology of Parkinson's disease (PD) and endogenous depression. However, a common biological concept for endogenous depr...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Birkmayer W,Riederer P

更新日期：1986-01-01 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