abstract：:One hundred and eighteen subjects with an admission diagnosis of schizophrenia were reassessed after 12 months to establish whether hospital readmission had occurred. All subjects were rated at baseline and after 12 months on the Life Skills Profile (LSP), a 39-item measure of disability, with scores demonstrating mod...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Parker G,Hadzi-Pavlovic D

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured multiple dimensions of distress among spouses (N = 440) of patients hospitalized for serious illness or elective surgery and compared the course of distress over 2 years of follow-up among five groups according to whether and when spouses were bereaved. Distress was related to the severity of the patient's...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hays JC,Kasl SV,Jacobs SC

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Personality characteristics of 87 parents of autistic probands and 38 parents of Down's syndrome probands were examined using a standardized personality interview. Using best-estimate ratings derived from subject and informant interviews, parents of autistic individuals were rated significantly higher than controls on...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Piven J,Wzorek M,Landa R,Lainhart J,Bolton P,Chase GA,Folstein S

更新日期：1994-08-01 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：:The validity of the twin method depends on the equal environment assumption (EEA)--that monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins are equally correlated in their exposure to environmental factors of aetiological importance for the trait under study. Parents may treat MZ twins more similarly than DZ twins thereby poten...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kendler KS,Neale MC,Kessler RC,Heath AC,Eaves LJ

更新日期：1994-08-01 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：:This paper presents the results of a study of unemployment among British Asians living in the north of England. The sample comprises 139 employed and unemployed men. Using standardized psychological questionnaires with a semi-structured interview schedule, the psychological consequences of unemployment are examined in...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Shams M,Jackson PR

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To isolate determinants of any female preponderance in depressive disorder, we earlier selected a sample of young adults, then similar in terms of several potential social determinants of depression and with equivalent rates of lifetime depression. We now report a 10-year review, which initially suggested a female pre...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wilhelm K,Parker G

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-traumatic stress disorder was first recognized as a diagnostic category embracing reactions in response to overwhelming environmental stress 'outside the range of usual human experience' in DSM-III (APA, 1980). Such abnormal stressors are by no means a product of the twentieth century but have featured, sporadica...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Parry-Jones B,Parry-Jones WL

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and twenty women recruited from attenders at the antenatal clinic of the Obstetrics Department of a general hospital were asked to complete ad hoc questionnaires during pregnancy; they were then interviewed by psychiatrists using a structured diagnostic interview, the Schedule for Affective Disorders and S...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kitamura T,Shima S,Sugawara M,Toda MA

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A meta-analysis was carried out on 53 cases of dementia praecox (DP) and 134 cases of manic-depressive insanity (MDI) originally diagnosed by Kraepelin or his collaborators in Munich in 1908. The original case material was coded in terms of Present State Examination syndromes and analysed statistically for internal co...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Jablensky A,Hugler H,Von Cranach M,Kalinov K

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships among symptoms, cognitive functioning and social functioning were investigated in 60 patients with recent-onset schizophrenia. Positive symptoms were unrelated to cognitive measures. Disorganization and depressive symptoms were correlated significantly with Card Sorting performance. Furthermore, only...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Van der Does AJ,Dingemans PM,Linszen DH,Nugter MA,Scholte WF

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potential cases of presenile dementia of the Alzheimer type (PDAT) in the Northern Health Region (estimated population aged 45-64, 655,800) were ascertained for the years 1979-86 from in-patient ICD-9 codes and other sources. An algorithm was applied to the casenote information to distinguish between Alzheimer-type an...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Newens AJ,Forster DP,Kay DW,Kirkup W,Bates D,Edwardson J

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the 40-item Eating Attitudes Test and other self-report questions, a two-stage screening survey of 1020 (F 646, M 374) Chinese bilingual university students in Hong Kong showed that although female students were 'underweight' by Western standard, the majority of them and nearly all female students above a body m...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Lee S

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parental representation was assessed with the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) in 12 monozygotic (MZ) and 19 dizygotic (DZ) same-sexed twin pairs discordant for DSM-III-R schizophrenia. The schizophrenic twins reported less care and more overprotection from both parents than the non-schizophrenic co-twins. Multiple r...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Onstad S,Skre I,Torgersen S,Kringlen E

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with high and low susceptibility to hypnosis were compared in a baseline condition and after instructions of hypnosis on tests of anterior left and right hemispheric functions--word fluency to letter categories, word fluency to semantic categories, design fluency and bilateral finger tapping dexterity. Wit...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Gruzelier J,Warren K

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CAMCOG, the cognitive section of the Cambridge Examination for Mental Disorders of the Elderly (CAMDEX), was administered twice to 53 patients with a clinical diagnosis ranging from no dementia to severe dementia. The stability of the total CAMCOG score was high (0.97). Patients with less than moderate dementia we...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Lindeboom J,Ter Horst R,Hooyer C,Dinkgreve M,Jonker C

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) remains a controversial issue. As a clinical concept it is surrounded by confusion. Attempts to establish a consensus definition have resulted in the majority of women seeking help for such problems excluded from the diagnosis. Furthermore, there is no consensus about how such problems ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bancroft J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty patients with bulimia nervosa were followed up for a minimum length of 5 years. Standardized interviews, observer-rated instruments and self-rated questionnaires were employed both at entry and at completion of the follow-up period. After tracing, the positive response rate was 72%; one patient had died. At the ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Johnson-Sabine E,Reiss D,Dayson D

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey over 2 years of all Police Referrals (Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983) in an inner-city health district identified 163 cases, with a core group of repeat referrals. Previous psychiatric admissions, a diagnosis of schizophrenia, social deprivation, and a bias towards young men of Afro-Caribbean ethni...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Turner TH,Ness MN,Imison CT

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have suggested that 'anomalous parenting', as measured by the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI), may be a differential risk factor to subsequent depression in adulthood--being irrelevant to melancholia but over-represented in non-melancholic depressive disorders. Such a 'specificity' effect is confirme...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Parker G,Hadzi-Pavlovic D

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from a case-control study of Alzheimer's disease (AD) were analysed in relation to age of onset and familial/sporadic status. The analyses were restricted to environmental exposures which might injure the brain. Later-onset AD was found to be positively associated with starvation/malnutrition and with nose-pickin...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Henderson AS,Jorm AF,Korten AE,Creasey H,McCusker E,Broe GA,Longley W,Anthony JC

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One week after Sir William Gull read his seminal report on anorexia nervosa to the Clinical Society of London, a brief account was published (Anonymous, 1873). In Paris, Charles Lasègue, editor of Archives Générales de Médecine read the report and printed an immediate editorial riposte, parts of which will be quoted i...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Silverman JA

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional and phenotypic immunological parameters were examined immediately before, after, and 30 minutes after experimentally-induced short-term positive (happiness) and negative (anxiety, depression) affective states and a neutral state, in five healthy subjects. Results indicated that all affective states induced ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Futterman AD,Kemeny ME,Shapiro D,Polonsky W,Fahey JL

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnostic communication between doctors and patients is thought to differ radically between Japan and Western countries. To understand diagnostic disclosure to psychiatric patients, a questionnaire with six case vignettes was sent to practising psychiatrists in Japan (N = 166) and North America (N = 112). While over ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： McDonald-Scott P,Machizawa S,Satoh H

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropsychological tests of frontal lobe functions were undertaken in 46 chronic schizophrenic patients who were also rated for movement disorders. Tardive dyskinesia was found to have significant associations with most of these psychological tests. The possible mechanisms are discussed within the context of known neo...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Brown KW,White T,Palmer D

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suicides and suicide attempts in cancer patients were analysed by following all patients treated for cancer in Stockholm County from 1975 to 1985. Among 59,845 patients we identified 144 suicides and 196 suicide attempts during the follow-up, which represents a more than two-fold excess mortality from suicide and a mo...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Allebeck P,Bolund C

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to distil major findings about the nature of human ageing, seven propositions are presented as a guiding frame of reference. This propositional framework is then used to specify some conditions for a positive culture of old age and to advance one possible model of good psychological ageing. This model foc...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Baltes PB

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Messenger RNA (mRNA) is the key intermediate in the gene expression pathway. The amount of mRNA in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains has been determined using in situ hybridization histochemistry (ISHH) to detect the poly(A) tails of polyadenylated mRNA (poly(A) + mRNA). On a regional basis, AD cases had significantly l...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Harrison PJ,Barton AJ,Najlerahim A,McDonald B,Pearson RC

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was studied in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. Among 2985 subjects, the lifetime and six month prevalence figures for PTSD were 1.30 and 0.44% respectively. In comparison to non-PTSD subjects, those with PTSD had significantly greater job instability, family history of psyc...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Davidson JR,Hughes D,Blazer DG,George LK

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The psychiatric status of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (N = 34) and muscle disease (N = 24) attending a general medical clinic was studied. Among fatigue patients 14 (41.2%) were cases and a further 9 (26.5%) were subcases of psychiatric disorder as defined by CATEGO. A variety of diagnoses was found. Signif...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wood GC,Bentall RP,Göpfert M,Edwards RH

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:General practitioners using DSM-III criteria have studied the incidence and prevalence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa in a large (N = 151,781) representative sample of the Dutch population. The incidence rate for anorexia nervosa is 6.3 and for bulimia nervosa 9.9 per year per 100,000 population. The prevalen...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hoek HW

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate the psychological characteristics of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS: Holmes et al. 1988). A battery of psychometric instruments comprising the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and the Lazarus W...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Blakely AA,Howard RC,Sosich RM,Murdoch JC,Menkes DB,Spears GF

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of research on kleptomania--the syndrome of compulsive stealing--suggests that kleptomania may be a common disorder, especially among women, and that it may frequently be associated with other forms of psychopathology, such as mood, anxiety, and eating disorders. There appears to be a range of abnormal or non...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： McElroy SL,Hudson JI,Pope HG,Keck PE

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SIDAM--a new instrument for the symptomatic diagnosis and measurement of dementia according to DSM-III-R and ICD-10--is described. It comprises a brief structured clinical interview, a range of cognitive tests (e.g. including the Mini-Mental State (Folstein et al. 1975)) which constitute a short neuropsychological...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Zaudig M,Mittelhammer J,Hiller W,Pauls A,Thora C,Morinigo A,Mombour W

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Instruments designed to assess psychiatric disorders in people with learning difficulties (mental handicap) were critically reviewed from a psychometric perspective. Major trends were found in the assessment of psychopathology related to DSM-III and depressive disorders although research in other areas was patchy. Alt...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sturmey P,Reed J,Corbett J

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper four principal topics are addressed: (a) the policy and political contexts in which demands arise for cost information; (b) the nature and phasing of those demands; (c) the basic rules of empirical costs research for meeting those demands; and (d) concomitant implications for the design, execution and in...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Knapp M,Beecham J

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data are presented from a study of acculturation and psychiatric disorder in 291 Greek Cypriot immigrants from the general population of Camberwell, south London. We hypothesized that 'pre-acculturation' would protect against mental disorder, that difficulties in the period immediately after migration would increase t...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Mavreas V,Bebbington P

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty surviving patients from a community-based stroke register who had CT scan evidence of a single brain lesion and neurological signs appropriate to it were interviewed three to five years following their first-ever stroke. Mood disorder (anxiety and depression), physical disability, and intellectual impairment wer...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sharpe M,Hawton K,House A,Molyneux A,Sandercock P,Bamford J,Warlow C

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A structured assessment instrument, the Quality of Life Interview, was used to explain the quality of life of seventy patients with chronic psychiatric illness attending a day treatment programme. The interview was found to have acceptable psychometric properties. Factors that best predicted the quality of life of the...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Levitt AJ,Hogan TP,Bucosky CM

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00