Browsing by Subject "Psychiatric Status Rating Scales"
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A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of pramipexole augmentation in treatment-resistant major depressive disorder.
(The Journal of clinical psychiatry, 2013-07)<h4>Background</h4>Multiple treatments for patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) have demonstrated efficacy, but up to one-third of individuals with MDD do not achieve symptomatic remission despite various interventions. ... -
Accuracy of proactive case finding for mental disorders by community informants in Nepal.
(Br J Psychiatry, 2015-12)BACKGROUND: Accurate detection of persons in need of mental healthcare is crucial to reduce the treatment gap between psychiatric burden and service use in low- and middle-income (LAMI) countries. AIMS: To evaluate the accuracy ... -
Alcohol dependence and use of treatment services among women in the community.
(The American journal of psychiatry, 2004-10)OBJECTIVE:This study examined the extent and characteristics of alcohol dependence and the perceived need for and use of alcohol treatment services among women compared with men in a nonclinical sample of adults 18-64 years ... -
Comorbid substance use disorders with other Axis I and II mental disorders among treatment-seeking Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, and mixed-race people.
(Journal of psychiatric research, 2013-12)Little is known about behavioral healthcare needs of Asian Americans (AAs), Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders (NHs/PIs), and mixed-race people (MRs)-the fastest growing segments of the U.S. population. We examined substance ... -
Differential predictability of four dimensions of affect intensity.
(Cogn Emot, 2012)Individual differences in affect intensity are typically assessed with the Affect Intensity Measure (AIM). Previous factor analyses suggest that the AIM is comprised of four weakly correlated factors: Positive Affectivity, ... -
Gender-specific structural abnormalities in major depressive disorder revealed by fixel-based analysis.
(NeuroImage. Clinical, 2019-01-08)<h4>Background</h4>Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a chronic disease with a large global impact. There are currently no clinically useful predictors of treatment outcome, and the development of biomarkers to inform clinical ... -
Hallucinogen-related disorders in a national sample of adolescents: the influence of ecstasy/MDMA use.
(Drug and alcohol dependence, 2009-09)To present the prevalence and correlates of hallucinogen use disorders (HUDs: abuse or dependence) and subthreshold dependence.The study sample included adolescents aged 12-17 years (N=55,286) who participated in the National ... -
Impact of preoperative depression on 2-year clinical outcomes following adult spinal deformity surgery: the importance of risk stratification based on type of psychological distress.
(Journal of neurosurgery. Spine, 2016-10)OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to isolate whether the effect of a baseline clinical history of depression on outcome is independent of associated physical disability and to evaluate which mental health screening ... -
Inhalant use among incarcerated adolescents in the United States: prevalence, characteristics, and correlates of use.
(Drug and alcohol dependence, 2008-03)OBJECTIVE: To characterize patterns and correlates of inhalant use among incarcerated youth. METHOD: Residents (N=723) of 27 Missouri Division of Youth Services facilities completed interviews assessing substance use, psychiatric ... -
Prediction of Acute-Phase Treatment Outcomes by Adding a Single-Item Measure of Activity Impairment to Symptom Measurement: Development and Validation of an Interactive Calculator from the STAR*D and CO-MED Trials.
(The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology, 2019-05)<h4>Background</h4>Day-to-day functioning is impaired in major depressive disorder. Yet there are no guidelines to systematically assess these functional changes. This report evaluates prognostic utility of changes in activity ... -
Psychotic experiences and risk of death in the general population: 24-27 year follow-up of the Epidemiologic Catchment Area study.
(The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science, 2015-07)Psychotic experiences are common in the general population and are associated with adverse psychiatric and social outcomes, even in the absence of a psychotic disorder.To examine the association between psychotic experiences ... -
Reduced comparison speed during visual search in late life depression.
(Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology, 2013-01)Slowed information processing is a prominent deficit in late-life depression (LLD). To better differentiate processing speed components in LLD, we examined characteristics of visual search performance in 32 LLD and 32 control ... -
Relationship of trauma symptoms to amygdala-based functional brain changes in adolescents.
(J Trauma Stress, 2013-12)In this pilot study, amygdala connectivity related to trauma symptoms was explored using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (R-fMRI) in 23 healthy adolescents ages 13-17 years with no psychiatric diagnoses. ... -
Resilience as a predictor of treatment response in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder treated with venlafaxine extended release or placebo.
(Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England), 2012-06)This post-hoc analysis evaluated resilience as a predictor of treatment response in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Data were pooled from two randomized, double-blind studies conducted with adult outpatients ... -
The centrality of event scale: a measure of integrating a trauma into one's identity and its relation to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.
(Behav Res Ther, 2006-02)We introduce a new scale that measures how central an event is to a person's identity and life story. For the most stressful or traumatic event in a person's life, the full 20-item Centrality of Event Scale (CES) and the ... -
The epidemiology of substance use and disorders among middle aged and elderly community adults: national survey on drug use and health.
(The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, 2009-03)To estimate the prevalence, distribution, and correlates of drug use among middle aged and elderly persons in the United States and to compare with alcohol use in this age group.The 2005 and 2006 National Surveys on Drug ... -
The high prevalence of substance use disorders among recent MDMA users compared with other drug users: Implications for intervention.
(Addictive behaviors, 2009-08)In light of the resurgence in MDMA use and its association with polysubstance use, we investigated the 12-month prevalence of substance use disorders (SUDs) among adult MDMA users to determine whether they are at risk of ... -
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Vascular Surgery Trainees in the United States.
(Annals of vascular surgery, 2021-04)<h4>Background</h4>The impact of the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic on health care workers has been substantial. However, the impact on vascular surgery (VS) trainees has not yet been determined. The goals of ... -
The Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Workgroup: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Enters the Age of Large-Scale Genomic Collaboration.
(Neuropsychopharmacology, 2015-09)The development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is influenced by genetic factors. Although there have been some replicated candidates, the identification of risk variants for PTSD has lagged behind genetic research ... -
The relation between insecure attachment and posttraumatic stress: Early life versus adulthood traumas.
(Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy, 2015-07)The present study examined the relations between insecure attachment and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms among community-dwelling older adults with exposure to a broad range of traumatic events. Attachment ...
