abstract：:Results are reported from a large population study (of working people) comparing Holocaust survivors and a control group in regard to emotional distress, satisfaction in life and psychosomatic symptoms. It was found that, even 40 years after the traumatic experience, this group of survivors exhibited a slightly higher...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Carmil D,Carel RS

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A standardized pegboard task was used to investigate changes in manipulative skill as a function of age in 119 right-handed subjects. The typical pattern of cognitive impairment in old age indicates a relative preservation of functions which depend on the integrity of the left hemisphere. In accord with these observat...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Weller MP,Latimer-Sayer DT

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cognitive theories of depression put forward by Beck and his colleagues (1980), Brown & Harris (1978) and Abramson and her colleagues (1978) are described and compared. Although each theory has its strengths, it is argued that an adequate cognitive account of depression is awaited. Such a theory must link specific...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bebbington P

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:National statistics for railway fatalities in England and Wales show a reduction of train crashes and a fluctuating level of deaths, of which an increasing proportion is from suicide. A closer examination of a two-year sample from the South of England revealed a large proportion of probable suicides and a small propor...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Symonds RL

更新日期：1985-08-01 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：:The tests that have been used to assess glomerular and tubular function in patients receiving treatment with lithium have been reviewed. The advantages and disadvantages of these are discussed. The most useful tests are the creatinine clearance, which may be predicted from the serum creatinine using a formula or nomog...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Waller DG,Edwards JG

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sample of 77 women of high and low noise sensitivity in 1977, living in areas of high and low exposure to aircraft noise, were interviewed in the community in 1980. High, intermediate and low noise sensitive women were compared, using measures of blood pressure, heart rate, skin conductance, hearing threshold, uncom...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Stansfeld SA,Clark CR,Turpin G,Jenkins LM,Tarnopolsky A

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-four children taken to court for failure to attend school were reliably classified into 4 groups, according to whether they exhibited the features of 'school refusal' and/or 'truancy'. About a fifth of them were found to exhibit 'school refusal'; a third showed 'truancy'; less than a sixth exhibited both 'school...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Berg I,Casswell G,Goodwin A,Hullin R,McGuire R,Tagg G

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A non-recursive structural equation model designed to examine the reciprocal relationship between life event reports and depressive symptoms in women is presented. The model was fitted to data from a 2-year longitudinal study of life events and depression in a sample of women with 5-year-old children. The findings sug...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Fergusson DM,Horwood LJ

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function was investigated in 72 patients with primary depression. Forty-four per cent of the patients demonstrated abnormal suppression of their cortisol levels after a 1 mg overnight dexamethasone suppression test. Patients with abnormal suppression ('non-suppressors') were not cle...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Calloway SP,Dolan RJ,Fonagy P,De Souza VF,Wakeling A

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined sensitivity to noise in subjects with Type A and Type B behaviour patterns as a function of the type of task being performed. Twenty Type A and 20 Type B subjects, selected by means of Bortner's scale (French version), were exposed to steadily increasing noise levels (68-110 dBA) while perfo...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Moch A

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously employed techniques for the measurement of body image are briefly described, with a short consideration of methodological or procedural limitations associated with each technique. A new procedure is described which employs a simple modification to a standard video camera to produce an image which appears fr...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Freeman RJ,Thomas CD,Solyom L,Hunter MA

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A community survey of psychiatric disorder carried out in South London enabled the authors to investigate the 'vulnerability model' proposed by Brown & Harris (1978). In the current study none of the 'vulnerability factors' proposed by Brown & Harris fulfilled the requirements of the model. It was, however, found that...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bebbington PE,Sturt E,Tennant C,Hurry J

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum creatine phosphokinase (CPK) levels were compared with assaultive behaviour by 46 psychiatric patients. Significant relationships were found between CPK level and violent behaviour prior to admission and CPK level and seclusion as a danger to others while in hospital. No relationship was found between CPK level ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Isaacs JS,Yesavage JA

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The age of onset in bipolar affective disorder was determined in 200 hospitalized patients. The mean age of their first affective syndrome was 28.3 years, and the mean age of first hospitalization was 30.8 years. However, the median age for first affective syndrome was 23 years (26 years for first hospitalization), an...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Joyce PR

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed analysis of the results of a multi-centre clinical trial shows that, while the relapse rate following recovery from an operationally defined depressive illness was smaller among patients subsequently treated with either amitryptiline or lithium than with a placebo, there was no clinically significant differ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Glen AI,Johnson AL,Shepherd M

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper analyses patterns of episodes of anxiety and depression as recorded by 22 general practices which took part in the Second National Morbidity Survey (RCGP, 1980). The data comprise 6 years' records. Simple Markov chains are fitted to each age-group of men and women, and the inter-practice variation in the re...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Dunn G

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that a diagnosis of cancer and the subsequent treatment can cause a great deal of stress, and the need for psychosocial support is increasingly being advocated. The data for the efficacy of intervention programmes are reviewed. The evidence relating to the benefits gained by patients is equivoca...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Watson M

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) have been validated in an unselected population of 15-year-old South London schoolgirls. Scores on the questionnaires were compared with the results of standard interview. The EAT was found to be an efficient screening instrument for abnormal eatin...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Mann AH,Wakeling A,Wood K,Monck E,Dobbs R,Szmukler G

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort of 181 users of community psychiatric services in Camberwell with at least one year's history of contact was traced for two years following a census day. Four of the eight patients who had been given a primary diagnosis of an organic condition died during this period. For the others the population-standardize...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sturt E

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although most chronically impaired psychiatric patients now reside in community-based residential homes, a substantial number show little progress in their social rehabilitation. To establish the rehabilitative needs of this population, the current study sought to examine the social behaviour of residents of a large r...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Falloon IR,Marshall GN

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-eight couples with a presenting problem of female sexual unresponsiveness were treated in a controlled study using a balanced factorial design. The factors varied in this design were medication (testosterone or placebo), treatment frequency (weekly or monthly sessions), and the number of therapists involved (one...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Mathews A,Whitehead A,Kellett J

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research on unemployment and health has depended heavily on macro-social and ecological data analyses. In order to redress this imbalance, the report summarizes the methods and results of a prospective study of a permanent factory shutdown, thereby illustrating and dissecting some of the strengths and weaknesse...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kasl SV

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between psychological and biological processes is examined. Criteria for the distinction between reasons and causes are described. These provide a basis for a separation of those mental states and behaviour that can be explained in a reductionist fashion, and those that are not reducible. The proposed...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hill J

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primiparae were randomly assigned to two conditions of routine ultrasound examination at their first antenatal clinic visit: (a) high feedback ultrasound where the monitor screen was visible and the patient was shown the foetal size, shape and movement (N = 67); (b) low feedback ultrasound where the screen was not see...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Reading AE,Campbell S,Cox DN,Sledmere CM

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary data from the National Institute of Mental Health-Clinical Research Branch Collaborative Program on the Psychobiology of Depression dealing with the human growth hormone (hGH) response to the Insulin Tolerance Test (ITT) during the pre-treatment (drug-free) period of the study are presented in this paper. ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Koslow SH,Stokes PE,Mendels J,Ramsey A,Casper R

更新日期：1982-02-01 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：:A monotonous voice is produced by schizophrenic patients whose expression of emotion is damped down and by patients with a severe degree of depression. Clinically, the distinction between these two diagnostic entities is virtually impossible to establish auditorily on the basis of voice quality alone. The laryngograph...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Leff J,Abberton E

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is little evidence of a curvilinear relationship between pre-operative emotionality and post-operative adjustment, as predicted by a model which supposes that moderate preoperative anxiety assists adjustment. This paper suggests that the negative affect, or stress, associated with the work of worry should be dis...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Ray C,Fitzgibbon G

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-stage psychiatric survey of a random samples of adults aged 18-64 from Camberwell is described. Agency interviewers carried out the first stage (N = 800), using the shorter form of the Present State Examination (PSE). MRC interviewers, using the full PSE, saw a stratified sample of these (N = 310) in the second ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bebbington P,Hurry J,Tennant C,Sturt E,Wing JK

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an earlier paper we found that a model of depression developed on a sample of women in a London population was confirmed in a female population in the Outer Hebrides. Differences in the rates of onset and chronic cases between the two populations, however, suggested that the Scottish women might be more likely to b...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Prudo R,Brown GW,Harris T,Dowland J

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia and affective disorders selected according to the Feighner criteria can be differentiated on the basis of 40-year outcome. Within schizophrenia the presence of disorganized thoughts at the index admission was associated with poor outcome, whereas better outcome was associated with the presence of delusio...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Tsuang MT,Woolson RF,Simpson JC

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The variations in suicide mortality in England and Wales over a 100-year period (1876-1975) are explained by the development of a descriptive model. The model used in a stepwise linear regression using 5 variables including toxic gas production. The variables give a good description of the observed changes in suicide ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Low AA,Farmer RD,Jones DR,Rohde JR

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of domiciliary and out-patient treatment of self-poisoning patients, using a brief problem-orientated approach, it was found that domiciliary treatment resulted in much higher attendance rates but no difference in outcome. Patients who completed out-patient treatment had a better outcome than those who fail...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hawton K,Bancroft J,Catalan J,Kingston B,Stedeford A,Welch N

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral electrodermal orienting responses were measured to repeated auditory stimuli in schizophrenic patients and controls. In 3 studies phasic activity to moderate intensity sounds of patients on no drugs or phenothiazines was predominantly hyper- or hypo-responsive. Controls showed moderate or slow habituation. P...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Gruzelier J,Connolly J,Eves F,Hirsch S,Zaki S,Weller M,Yorkston N

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally recognized that social relationships occupy a central position in psychiatry. To examine the role of social relationships in the onset of minor psychiatric morbidity it is necessary to construct an instrument which will meet the need for a valid, reliable and comprehensive index of social relationships...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Henderson S,Duncan-Jones P,Byrne DG,Scott R

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are many reports which suggest that patients with effective illness (mania and/or depression) have abnormalities in the functioning of one or more neurobiological systems. At a conference convened by the Clinical Research Branch, Division of Extramural Research Programs, National Institute of Mental Health, thes...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Maas JW,Koslow SH,Davis JM,Katz MM,Mendels J,Robins E,Stokes PE,Bowden CL

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that a high level of agreement between informants' reports about events and happenings ('objective' data) is a sound basis for establishing (a) the validity of the measure which is based on the reports, and (b) the nature of objective reality. In this paper it is argued that such agreement may not...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Platt S

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Principal component analysis was applied to data relating to depressive experiences collected from a general population sample. The structure of depression found in the general population showed strong similarities to that found in the psychiatric population. There were, however, important differences. Four substantia...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Cooke DJ

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors review the evidence that parental death in childhood predisposes to depressive disorders in later life. The findings in general are quite inconsistent; this is due in part to the methodological limitations of most studies, principally that of inadequate control of potentially confounding variables. Where e...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Tennant C,Bebbington P,Hurry J

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00