abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine whether performance on a standard cognitive test-battery can be used to clearly separate higher functioning autism from schizophrenia. Revised Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-R) or Adults (WAIS-R) profiles of 20 autistic and 20 schizophrenic adolescent young adul...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Bölte S,Rudolf L,Poustka F

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to explore, throughout the life cycle, the prevalence of self-harm behaviors among psychiatric inpatients with and without borderline personality disorder (BPD). Psychiatric inpatients with BPD (n = 43) were compared to those without BPD (n = 40) with regard to self-reported self-harm beh...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Sansone RA,Gaither GA,Songer DA

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report studies the personality of individuals who suffer from dissociative trance disorder and examines whether the personality profiles could predict the individual's frequency of trance states. A total of 58 cases were given the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and their personal information harvested fr...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Ng BY,Yap AK,Su A,Lim D,Ong SH

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gender differences in pathological gambling disorder (PGD) have received little investigation. This study was constructed to detail the demographic and phenomenological differences in men and women with PGD. We assessed gender differences in 131 subjects with PGD who were evaluated in terms of demographic characterist...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Grant JE,Kim SW

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-four patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) were followed up for a mean of 27 years. Outcome was assessed using the Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines, Revised (DIB-R); the Schedule for DSM-III-R Diagnosis (SCID); Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF); the Symptom Check List-90 (SCL-90); and the ...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Paris J,Zweig-Frank H

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to obtain standardized scores that correspond with the raw scores on the four Rasch scales of the Benzodiazepine Dependence-Self Report Questionnaire (Bendep-SRQ). The eligible normative group for standardization of the Bendep-SRQ scales consisted of 217 general practice (GP) patients,...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Kan CC,van der Ven AH,Breteler MH,Zitman FG

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the prevalence and correlates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) risk behaviors in a large sample of severely mentally ill (SMI) patients. Risk levels were correlated with demographic factors, diagnosis, symptom severity, trauma history, post-traumatic stress di...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Rosenberg SD,Trumbetta SL,Mueser KT,Goodman LA,Osher FC,Vidaver RM,Metzger DS

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies indicate that first-episode and chronic schizophrenic patients do not differ regarding neuropsychological performance as assessed with standard cognitive tasks. For the present study, it was investigated whether first-episode and chronic schizophrenics report similar subjective cognitive deficits. The...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Moritz S,Lambert M,Andresen B,Böthern A,Naber D,Krausz M

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depressive mixed states (major depressive episodes [MDE] with some hypomanic symptoms) are not classified in DSM-IV. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of depressive mixed states in depressed outpatients, and to compare bipolar II with unipolar depressive mixed states. Seventy consecutive bip...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Benazzi F

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:About one quarter of the more than 69,000 medical students in this country suffer symptoms of mental illness, including 7% to 18% with substance use disorders. Subjective distress and physical health needs of medical students are also common and have been linked to training stresses. This first large-scale study of me...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Roberts LW,Warner TD,Lyketsos C,Frank E,Ganzini L,Carter D

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of concurrent axis I diagnoses and axis II traits on the efficacy of a 22-session exposure-based treatment program for 43 outpatients with panic disorder and agoraphobia (PDA) and 63 with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) was examined. Trained interviewers used the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-II...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Steketee G,Chambless DL,Tran GQ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although several studies have addressed the issue of the relationship between the subjective response to neuroleptics and drug compliance, very little attention has been given to the study of the subjective experience of psychosis and drug attitudes. The present study was therefore undertaken to examine the relationsh...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Rossi A,Arduini L,Stratta P,Pallanti S

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichotillomania, the compulsive urge to pull out one's hair, is a poorly studied chronic condition affecting 2 to 8 million people, 90% of whom are women. Significant gains have been made about the nature and clinical presentation of this disorder, and yet conceptualizations of trichotillomania remain inconsistent an...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Casati J,Toner BB,Yu B

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated a series of clinical characteristics, including the level of insight into illness and axis I comorbidity, in 125 patients with bipolar disorder with psychotic features categorized in three groups: 62 patients with mania, 28 patients with mixed mania, and 35 patients with depression. All patient...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Dell'Osso L,Pini S,Tundo A,Sarno N,Musetti L,Cassano GB

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mental and physical health care issues of medical students are increasingly recognized as both prevalent and complex. Emotional distress, symptoms of mental illness, and maladaptive substance use are widespread and may often be driven by training-related stressors. The data suggest that nearly all medical students...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Roberts LW,Warner TD,Trumpower D

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The covariation patterns of DSM-IV personality disorders (PDs) were studied in 431 consecutively admitted psychiatric patients. The co-occurrence rate was greater than 50% for all DSM-IV PDs. Both bivariate association tests and loglinear models showed distinct significant covariation patterns among PDs which were sta...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Fossati A,Maffei C,Bagnato M,Battaglia M,Donati D,Donini M,Fiorilli M,Novella L,Prolo F

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on a representative sample of elderly subjects, a description of the limitations in activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental ADL (IADL) at subthreshold levels of dementia and depression is presented and compared against a sample of psychiatric non-cases and samples with specified levels of the respectiv...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Wilms HU,Kanowski S,Baltes MM

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transition to alcohol dependence is supposed to occur during a critical period that begins with increased drinking and ends with a loss of control. This process may last about 3 to 4 years, and is modified by gender and accelerated by premorbid traits (e.g., novelty-seeking) and comorbid disorders (e.g., dissocial...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Schmidt LG,Dufeu P,Kuhn S,Smolka M,Rommelspacher H

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in psychiatric practice was studied in 41 consecutive psychiatric outpatients. Different criteria for IBS were applied to the data set to determine the effects on the rates of IBS obtained. Depending on an option in the Rome criteria, IBS rates varied from 13% using the...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： North CS,Alpers DH

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study is to replicate an earlier epidemiological finding of seasonal changes in mood and behavior among Chinese medical students using an independent study population. Three hundred nineteen college students were surveyed with a Chinese version of the Seasonal Pattern Assessment Questionnaire (SPAQ) a...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Han L,Wang K,Cheng Y,Du Z,Rosenthal NE,Primeau F

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The history of antipsychotic drug development has had a long and torturous course, often based on chance findings that bear little relationship to the intellectual background driving observations. In 1891, Paul Ehrlich observed the antimalarial effects of methylene blue, a phenothiazine derivative. Later, the phenothi...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Shen WW

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differentiation of three types of panic attacks is proposed to be significant for understanding the course and etiology of panic and other psychiatric disorders and physical illnesses. The present investigation is based on longitudinal data from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) Study of 1980 to 1981 and its ...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Bovasso G,Eaton W

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Five-Minute Speech Sample (FMSS) is a brief measure for the assessment of expressed emotion (EE). No prior studies have investigated the validity of the FMSS in comparison to the Camberwell Family Interview (CFI) in Japan. Therefore, we administered the CFI and the FMSS to schizophrenic families in an attempt to e...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Shimodera S,Mino Y,Inoue S,Izumoto Y,Kishi Y,Tanaka S

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From a total sample of 1,448 psychiatric outpatients, 175 (12.1%) received a diagnosis of a somatoform disorder according to DSM-III-R criteria. One hundred twenty-two (70%) of these patients had another current axis I diagnosis, and this rate increased to 79% (139 of 175) when lifetime psychiatric diagnoses were reco...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Garyfallos G,Adamopoulou A,Karastergiou A,Voikli M,Ikonomidis N,Donias S,Giouzepas J,Dimitriou E

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjects with bulimia nervosa (BN) have been shown to exhibit abnormal satiety responses. Short-term satiety is largely mediated by afferent vagal activity. Activation of afferent vagal fibers has also been found to stimulate a descending pain inhibitory pathway that leads to elevation in somatosensory pain thresholds...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Raymond NC,Eckert ED,Hamalainen M,Evanson D,Thuras PD,Hartman BK,Faris PL

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insight is a quality which has been highly valued by most clinicians in the mental health field, largely because a strong link is assumed between good insight and better quality of life. Yet it is a complex construct, one which has not until recently been subjected to much critical scrutiny or adequately explicated. A...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： McGorry PD,McConville SB

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study employed grade of membership (GoM) analysis in a clinical setting to determine if the DSM-III-R personality disorder (PD) diagnostic criteria cluster into recognizable disorders resembling the official axis II nosology. The GoM model, based on fuzzy-set theoretic concepts, explicitly examines medical diagno...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Nurnberg HG,Woodbury MA,Bogenschutz MP

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six hundred Massachusetts-registered psychiatrists were surveyed for their opinions on items plausibly related to the production of false memories of childhood sexual abuse. One hundred fifty-four psychiatrists completed the written questionnaire. A majority of respondents (69%) endorsed the following statement: "The ...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Feigon EA,de Rivera J

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical chart-review study of the Cluster B personality disorders (PDs) was conducted to evaluate the specificity of DSM-IV criteria for the Antisocial Personality Disorder (ANPD), Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Eight-six outpatients meeting DSM-IV criteria for a...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Holdwick DJ Jr,Hilsenroth MJ,Castlebury FD,Blais MA

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major depression forms the background of upwards of half of all suicides. Women are twice as likely as men to experience major depression, yet women are one fourth as likely as men to take their own lives. Current and past explanations of this paradox are built on androcentric assumptions that women are deficient in s...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Murphy GE

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We do not see the world as it is. Perception forms a subjective image of the world in a language that has proven to be adaptive to our interaction with the external world. Perception is mainly determined by current needs of the organism and goals of behavior. Sensory processing itself does not culminate in perception ...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Behrendt RP

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenomenological, biological, genetic, treatment-response, and outcome data support a link between schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) and schizophrenia. Furthermore, SPD and normal schizotypy also seem connected, although the relationship can at times be ambiguous. In this regard, this study was conducted to test ...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Daneluzzo E,Bustini M,Stratta P,Casacchia M,Rossi A

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-two percent of 86 major depressive patients with atypical features as defined by the DSM-IV and evaluated systematically were found to meet our criteria for bipolar II and related "soft" bipolar disorders; nearly 60% had antecedent cyclothymic or hyperthymic temperaments. The family history for bipolar disorde...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Perugi G,Akiskal HS,Lattanzi L,Cecconi D,Mastrocinque C,Patronelli A,Vignoli S,Bemi E

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the prevalence and clinical correlates of abnormal subjective experiences across functional psychotic disorders. Patients were recruited from consecutive admissions with the following diagnoses; schizophrenia (n = 40), schizophreniform disorder (n = 40), schizoaffective disorder (n = 21), mood dis...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Peralta V,Cuesta MJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the stable relations between coping style and cognitive function in schizophrenic and depressed patients and in patient and normal controls on two test occasions. The results show that a poor self-report of coping style is independent of psychiatric diagnosis, but there are associations with both subjectiv...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： van den Bosch RJ,Rombouts RP

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Separation anxiety disorder is well recognized as a juvenile psychiatric disorder, but it appears to be rarely diagnosed in adulthood. Drawing on our clinical impressions and a review of the relevant literature, we sought to investigate whether separation anxiety symptoms could be identified in adulthood. Forty-four s...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Manicavasagar V,Silove D,Curtis J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to identify psychiatric symptoms, neurological impairments, and situational factors associated with the emergence of violence and with its persistence. Psychiatric symptoms were assessed in newly admitted physically assaultive psychiatric patients and nonviolent controls. Patients were tha...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Krakowski M,Czobor P

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of major psychiatric disorders in human immunodeficiency virus-positive (HIV+) men with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)-defining conditions. Secondary goals were to identify correlates of distress and psychopathology, and to determine whether th...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Rabkin JG,Ferrando SJ,Jacobsberg LB,Fishman B

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-occurring substance abuse is common among people with chronic mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. Although gender differences have been established among substance abusers in the general population and among people with schizophrenia, little is known about gender differences in people with the dual disorders of...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Brunette MF,Drake RE

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the presence of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) in a group of 277 patients (88 with obsessive-compulsive disorder [OCD], 58 with major depressive disorder [MDD], and 131 with panic disorder [Panic]) to test the specificity of the relationship between OCPD and OCD. OCPD is stati...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Diaferia G,Bianchi I,Bianchi ML,Cavedini P,Erzegovesi S,Bellodi L

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00