Wei, Yan-Xin Liu, Bao-Peng Ma, Zhen-Yu Zhou, Liang Jia, Cun-Xian
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The Journal of nervous and mental disease
This study aimed to examine the association between family functioning and suicide among the elderly in rural China. This 1:1 paired case-control psychological autopsy study included 242 suicides at age 60 or more and an equal number of controls matched on age (±3 years), gender, and residency. Family functioning was assessed by the Family Adaptati...
Uzun Çiçek, Ayla Akdag, Emrah Celebi Erdivanli, Ozlem
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The Journal of nervous and mental disease
The aim of this study was to identify major risk factors and sociodemographic characteristics responsible for speech and language delay/disorders. Two hundred twenty-eight children (aged 24-72 months) with speech and language delay/disorders participated in this study. The Ankara Developmental Screening Inventory and The Peabody Picture Vocabulary ...
Fischer, Melanie W Dimaggio, Giancarlo Hochheiser, Jesse Vohs, Jenifer L Phalen, Peter Lysaker, Paul H
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The Journal of nervous and mental disease
Impairments in metacognition or the ability to form integrated senses of self and others have been linked to deficits in laboratory-based measures of social functioning in schizophrenia. This study examined whether self-reported social functioning was related to metacognition in 88 adults in a nonacute phase of schizophrenia. Concurrent assessments...
Skjernov, Mathias Bach, Bo Fink, Per Fallon, Brian Soegaard, Ulf Simonsen, Erik
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The Journal of nervous and mental disease
Severe health anxiety (SHA)/hypochondriasis (HY) is often associated with personality pathology; however, studies report inconsistent results. In general populations, 12% have a personality disorder (PD). We assessed physician-referred psychiatric outpatients with SHA enrolled for a treatment study (n = 84) with the Structured Clinical Interview fo...
Yusim, Anna Grigaitis, Justinas
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The Journal of nervous and mental disease
The objective of this study was to examine the efficacy of a novel binaural beat meditation technology for the treatment of anxiety symptoms in both psychiatric outpatients and nonpatients. Twenty psychiatric outpatients with anxiety disorder and eight individuals (nonpatients) in the healing professions were given the opportunity to use this medit...
Stroope, Samuel Kent, Blake Victor Zhang, Ying Kandula, Namratha R Kanaya, Alka M Shields, Alexandra E
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The Journal of nervous and mental disease
Almost no research exists on the relationship between religiosity/spirituality (R/S) and health in the US South Asian population. Using data from the joint Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health and Mediators of Atherosclerosis Among South Asians Living in America Study (MASALA), this article examined associations between self-rated R/S and self...
Levin, Jennifer B Aebi, Michelle E Howland, Molly Barboza, Marina Eskew, Logan Tatsuoka, Curtis Cassidy, Kristin A Sajatovic, Martha
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The Journal of nervous and mental disease
The relationship between medication attitudes and adherence as well as reliable measures of medication attitudes need further study. This study examined the psychometric properties of the Attitudes Toward Mood Stabilizers Questionnaire (AMSQ) in bipolar participants and the relationship between medication attitudes and adherence, measured by the se...
Kealy, David Laverdière, Olivier Pincus, Aaron L
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The Journal of nervous and mental disease
Research is scarce regarding the mechanisms by which pathological narcissism--consisting of narcissistic grandiosity and vulnerability--is linked with depression. The present study examined whether impaired emotional processing would mediate relations between pathological narcissism domains and depressive symptoms in a sample of 99 psychiatric outp...
Rakesh, Gopalkumar Sumner, Calvin R Alexander, Jeanne Leventhal Gross, Lawrence S Pine, Janet Slaby, Andrew Garakani, Amir Baron, David
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The Journal of nervous and mental disease
Pharmacogenomic testing in clinical psychiatry has grown at an accelerated pace in the last few years and is poised to grow even further. Despite robust evidence lacking regarding efficacy in clinical use, there continues to be growing interest to use it to make treatment decisions. We intend this article to be a primer for a clinician wishing to u...
Rady, Hanaa I Ismail, Omnia Raafat Abdelkader, Mohammed Safwat Abdelgalil, Abobakr Abosree
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The Journal of nervous and mental disease
We aimed to assess psychiatric risk in children after admission to pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) and its association with greater psychiatric morbidity. We examined 130 children aged 6 to 13 years in a cross-sectional study divided into two groups: 65 children discharged from PICU and another 65 from general wards. The PICU group scored wo...
