Deconstructing therapy outcome measurement with Rasch analysis of a measure of general clinical distress: the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised [PDF]
, 2006 Rasch analysis was used to illustrate the usefulness of item-level analyses for evaluating a common therapy outcome measure of general clinical distress, the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R; Derogatis, 1994).
Beltyukova, Svetlana A. +5 more
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Pragmatic disorders and their social impact [PDF]
, 2011 Pragmatic disorders in children and adults have been the focus of clinical investigations for approximately 40 years. In that time, clinicians and researchers have established a diverse range of pragmatic phenomena that are disrupted in these disorders ...
Cummings, L
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Eyes tell the psychopathology: preliminary findings
Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2021 OBJECTIVE: A number of studies on eye movement dysfunction in patients with psychiatric disease have been published. Glutamatergic neurotransmission mediated by the NMDA receptor is involved in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia and some neurological ...
Hakan Balibey +7 more
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Cues and knowledge structures used by mental-health professionals when making risk assessments [PDF]
, 2008 Background: Research into mental-health risks has tended to focus on epidemiological approaches and to consider pieces of evidence in isolation. Less is known about the particular factors and their patterns of occurrence that influence clinicians’ risk ...
Ann Adams +27 more
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Evaluating emotional distress and health-related quality of life in patients with heart failure and their family caregivers:Testing dyadic dynamics using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model [PDF]
, 2020 Purpose: 1) To compare levels of emotional symptoms and health-related quality of life between patients with heart failure and their family caregivers; and 2) to examine whether patients’ and caregivers’ emotional symptoms were associated with their own,
Andreis, Federico +8 more
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Adaptive and maladaptive personality traits as predictors of violent and nonviolent offending behavior in men and women [PDF]
, 2010 he aim of this study was to assess both violent and nonviolent offending behavior in a single, mixed-sex population. The rationale for this is that the two types of offending are usually researched separately, despite evidence that they overlap.
Archer +66 more
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Extreme overvalued beliefs: How violent extremist beliefs become “normalized” [PDF]
, 2018 Extreme overvalued beliefs (EOB) are rigidly held, non-deusional beliefs that are the motive behind most acts of terrorism and mass shootings. EOBs are differentiated from delusions and obsessions. The concept of an overvalued idea was first described by
Rahman, Tahir
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A Case Report of Folie\u27a Deux: Husband-and-Wife [PDF]
, 2011 Shared paranoid disorder is a relatively rare psychiatric disorder in which paranoid delusions are transferred from one individual to one or more other susceptible person(s) in close association.
Nakamura, Craig T., Nishihara, Ryan M.
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Schizophrenia Genetics Modulates Clinical Depressive Features
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Schizophrenia (SCZ) genetic liability, quantified by polygenic scores (PGS), may influence clinical phenotypes in major depressive disorder (MDD). We investigated the effect of the SCZ‐PGS derived from the latest SCZ genome‐wide association study (GWAS) on MDD symptom severity, comorbidities, and treatment outcomes.
Alessandro Serretti +13 more
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Suspicious minds : the dramatisation of paranoia in Victorian poetry : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English at Massey University [PDF]
, 1999 This thesis contains readings of a number of Victorian poems by Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning and Dante Gabriel Rossetti which dramatise paranoia and jealousy.
Frost, Sarah Lee
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