Methods: A multistage, overlapping cohorts design was used, in which 4500 of the 11 758 children aged 9, 11, and 13 years in an 11 - country area of the southeastern United States were randomly selected for screening
for psychiatric symptoms.
This study complements an fMRI study that demonstrated activation to the hippocampus during this technique, and elaborates upon the application of Kundalini yoga and meditation
for psychiatric symptoms, as evidenced by a randomized controlled trial for OCD that outshines most if not all industry - funded pharmaceutical trials I have seen.
Not exact matches
Whatever the
symptom, the earlier
psychiatric treatment is begun, the better the chances
for full recovery.
«Three beliefs about God were tested separately in ordinary least squares regression models to predict five classes of
psychiatric symptoms: general anxiety, social anxiety, paranoia, obsession, and compulsion,» reads the abstract
for this paper.
Furthermore, «Belief in a punitive God was positively associated with four
psychiatric symptoms, while belief in a benevolent God was negatively associated with four
psychiatric symptoms, controlling
for demographic characteristics, religiousness, and strength of belief in God.
Hoarding is not an actual
psychiatric diagnosis at this time, although it can be a
symptom for diagnoses like obsessive - compulsive disorder or reactive attachment disorder.
The number does not suggest that 50 % of 18 year olds have or even received a
psychiatric diagnosis, but that 50 % experienced enough
symptoms sometime in the past to meet the diagnostic criteria
for at least 1
psychiatric diagnosis.»
«We have discovered a small molecule compound that shows a profound and prolonged effect on autism - like social deficits without obvious side effects, while many currently used compounds
for treating a variety of
psychiatric diseases have failed to exhibit the therapeutic efficacy
for this core
symptom of autism,» said Zhen Yan, PhD, professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB, and senior author on the paper.
The new study, conducted by researchers at Columbia University's Center
for Infection and Immunity, promises to sway many of the holdouts by providing the first conclusive evidence that strep antibodies can induce neurological and
psychiatric symptoms in healthy animals.
Other researchers can apply the method to different sets of patients with hospital - linked genomic records, and identification of the same loci would strengthen the support
for their role in
psychiatric symptoms.
The study published in the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin reports preliminary results showing that a blood test, when used in
psychiatric patients experiencing
symptoms that are considered to be indicators of a high risk
for psychosis, identifies those who later went on to develop psychosis.
In an article published Online First in JAMA Neurology, researchers suggest that, while isolated
psychiatric episodes are rare in anti-NMDAR encephalitis cases, abnormal test findings or subtle neurological
symptoms should prompt screening
for the condition, as it is treatable with immunotherapies.
New research from the University of Missouri finds that
for mental health courts to be successful, every professional engaged in the process should be aware of the relationship between
psychiatric symptoms and participant engagement within the system and connect participants with comprehensive treatment and services as early as possible.
«Depressed patients with earlier and more severe
symptoms have high genetic risk
for major
psychiatric disorders.»
Previous studies have found a decrease in behavioural and
psychiatric symptoms of dementia when patients are treated
for pain, but this new study now shows,
for the first time, a decrease in symptomatic drug use.
Although exercise has been shown to be an effective treatment
for people with long - term schizophrenia, no studies have assessed its effects on
psychiatric symptoms in young adults with early psychosis, until now.
Few options currently exist
for treating the debilitating «negative»
symptoms of severe
psychiatric disorders, which include slowed movement, blunted affect, and social withdrawal.
The authors conclude that valproate may be effective
for treating negative
symptoms in
psychiatric patients with two copies of the «Val» variant of the COMT gene, which breaks down dopamine in the brain.
But new research presented at the American Diabetes Association's 74th Scientific Sessions ® shows that
symptoms of depression in people with type 2 diabetes can be significantly reduced through interventions
for «diabetes distress,» suggesting that much of what is being labeled as depression may not be a co-morbid
psychiatric disorder after all, but rather a reaction to living with a stressful, complex disease that is often difficult to manage.
Mindfulness group therapy has an equally positive effect as individual CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy)
for the treatment of a wide range of
psychiatric symptoms in patients with depression, anxiety and stress - related disorders.
«Mindfulness just as effective as CBT
for a broad range of
psychiatric symptoms.»
There has long been a belief that a major reason
for the high prevalence of smoking in people with
psychiatric disorders is that nicotine helps with
psychiatric symptoms — by improving negative mood and anxiety,
for example.
Mineral and vitamin supplements can be an alternative to the increase of
psychiatric medicines
for relief of depression and anxiety
symptoms.
In her practice Dr. Kelly Brogan takes a radical approach
for an Ivy League - trained psychiatrist and pharmaceutical expert: she helps her patients heal
psychiatric conditions and
symptoms without medication.
Concomitantly, all her
psychiatric symptoms had returned... She was moody, anhedonic (unable to experience pleasure), and chronically irritable and was having cravings
for sugary and starchy foods.
For this reason, I recommend an empirical trial of at least one month in all individuals struggling with
psychiatric symptoms.
A PTSD service dog is a
psychiatric service dog that is trained to mitigate the
symptoms of PTSD
for its owner.
SS and Relapse Prevention are efficacious short - term treatments
for low - income urban women with PTSD, substance use disorder, and other
psychiatric symptoms.
Two - week test - retest reliability of CAPA diagnoses in children aged 10 to 18 years is comparable with that of other highly structured interviews (κs
for individual disorders range from 0.6 - 1.0).39 To minimize recall bias, the time frame of both interviews
for determining the presence of most
psychiatric symptoms was the preceding 3 months.
Reliability and validity in inpatient and outpatient populations have been demonstrated, with high test - retest reliability and moderate to high correlations with discharge diagnoses.34 - 38 The Children's Interview
for Psychiatric Syndromes was used because its psychometric properties mimic those of other structured interviews while offering pragmatic advantages, including shorter administration time, a detailed training manual, ease of administration, and a concise response booklet.39 These instruments were administered at baseline to document lifetime and current presence or absence of
psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses.
Analyses were adjusted
for age and sex of child, severity of maternal baseline
symptoms, annual household income, mother's treatment setting (primary vs
psychiatric outpatient care), and treatment status of child during 3 - month follow - up.
One limitation of this study is that the researchers did not use formal diagnostic criteria
for psychiatric or substance use problems, rather they relied upon self - reported
symptoms and treatment history.
PTSD is a severe
psychiatric illness characterised by four core
symptom clusters: re-experiencing, avoidance, negative cognition and mood and hyperarousal.1 With an estimated lifetime prevalence in community samples of up to 8 %, PTSD results in a great deal of personal suffering and escalating social and economic costs.2 Unfortunately, current evidence - based treatments
for PTSD leave a high percentage with a significant
symptom burden, highlighting the urgent need
for novel treatments.
Conclusions: The exposure and
symptom criteria proposed
for a developmental trauma disorder diagnosis warrant clinical dissemination and scientific field testing to determine their actual clinical utility in treating traumatized children with complex
psychiatric presentations.
There is also inconsistency regarding studying anxiety and depressive
symptoms as a single «internalizing domain» or as two clinically - distinct presentations.6, 7 Similar issues with how to classify
symptoms are reflected in the lack of consensus as to whether emotional problems should be conceptualized and studied in a categorical versus dimensional fashion.8 Diagnostic criteria (DSM - IV - TR) 9 are often inappropriate
for young children and do not capture developmentally - salient types of impairment (e.g., disruption in family routine), which make it difficult to apply
psychiatric research methods.
Anxiety, disruptive, eating, mood, and substance use disorders were assessed during adolescence and early adulthood using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule
for Children.36 The parent and offspring versions of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule
for Children were administered during the adolescent interviews because the use of multiple informants increases the reliability and validity of
psychiatric diagnoses among adolescents.37, 38
Symptoms were considered present if reported by either informant.
The mediating effect of parental supervision accounted
for approximately 77 % of the effect of changing poverty level on the number of
psychiatric symptoms during the 4 years after the opening of the casino.
Contrary to the meta - analyses of Crits - Christoph5 andAnderson and Lambert, 7 studies of IPT werenot included (eg, Elkin et al30 and Wilfleyet al31), because the relation of IPT to STPPis controversial, and empirical results suggest that IPT is very close toCBT.9 Thus, this review includes only studiesfor which there is a general agreement that they represent models of STPP.As it is questionable to aggregate the results of very different outcome measuresthat refer to different areas of psychological functioning, we assessed theefficacy of STPP separately
for target symptoms, general psychiatric symptoms (ie, comorbid symptoms), and social functioning.32 Thisprocedure is analogous to the meta - analysis of Crits - Christoph.5 Asoutcome measures of target problems, we included patient ratings of targetproblems and measures referring to the symptoms that are specific to the patientgroup under study, eg, measures of anxiety for studies investigating treatmentsof anxiety disorders.33 For the efficacy ofSTPP in general psychiatric symptoms, broad measures of psychiatric symptomssuch as the Symptom Checklist - 90 and specific measures that do not refer specificallyto the disorder under study were included; eg, the Beck Depression Inventoryapplied in patients with personality disorders.34, 35 Forthe assessment of social functioning, the Social Adjustment Scale and similarmeasures were included
for target
symptoms, general
psychiatric symptoms (ie, comorbid
symptoms), and social functioning.32 Thisprocedure is analogous to the meta - analysis of Crits - Christoph.5 Asoutcome measures of target problems, we included patient ratings of targetproblems and measures referring to the
symptoms that are specific to the patientgroup under study, eg, measures of anxiety
for studies investigating treatmentsof anxiety disorders.33 For the efficacy ofSTPP in general psychiatric symptoms, broad measures of psychiatric symptomssuch as the Symptom Checklist - 90 and specific measures that do not refer specificallyto the disorder under study were included; eg, the Beck Depression Inventoryapplied in patients with personality disorders.34, 35 Forthe assessment of social functioning, the Social Adjustment Scale and similarmeasures were included
for studies investigating treatmentsof anxiety disorders.33
For the efficacy ofSTPP in general psychiatric symptoms, broad measures of psychiatric symptomssuch as the Symptom Checklist - 90 and specific measures that do not refer specificallyto the disorder under study were included; eg, the Beck Depression Inventoryapplied in patients with personality disorders.34, 35 Forthe assessment of social functioning, the Social Adjustment Scale and similarmeasures were included
For the efficacy ofSTPP in general
psychiatric symptoms, broad measures of
psychiatric symptomssuch as the
Symptom Checklist - 90 and specific measures that do not refer specificallyto the disorder under study were included; eg, the Beck Depression Inventoryapplied in patients with personality disorders.34, 35 Forthe assessment of social functioning, the Social Adjustment Scale and similarmeasures were included.36
The clinical diagnosis of hypochondriasis was made with the Structured Diagnostic Interview
for Hypochondriasis based on operationalized DSM - III - R criteria.27 Interrater agreement with this instrument is 96 %, and the univariate correlation between the interview responses and self - report questionnaire scores is 0.75.27 The DSM diagnosis of hypochondriasis specifically excludes hypochondriacal
symptoms that are better explained by another, comorbid
psychiatric disorder or by major medical illness.
The present study also has numerous methodological strengths, including the size and composition of the sample; the use of a prospective longitudinal design; the systematic assessment of maladaptive parenting, childhood maltreatment, parental and offspring
psychiatric symptoms, negative life events, and severe interpersonal difficulties based on data from multiple informants; and the use of statistical procedures to control
for offspring age, sex, and offspring and parental
psychiatric symptoms.
For example, although we assessed mothers» symptoms of depression and anxiety, parental history of psychiatric disorder is an important risk factor for depression that was not measur
For example, although we assessed mothers»
symptoms of depression and anxiety, parental history of
psychiatric disorder is an important risk factor
for depression that was not measur
for depression that was not measured.
This questionnaire was developed in a hospital outpatient clinic, avoiding questions that could be influenced by physical illness symptoms72 and has since been found a reliable measure of anxiety and depression
symptom severity in physical and
psychiatric illness, primary care patients and general population.73 It has been validated
for Portuguese patients.74
Compared to non-LD peers, youth with LD frequently report feelings of loneliness, stress, depression and suicide, among other
psychiatric symptoms.15, 16
For example, in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the LD sample was twice as likely to report a suicide attempt in the past year.16 Longitudinal research on risk - taking indicates that, compared to non-LD peers, adolescents with LD engage more frequently in various risk behaviours.17 Therefore, the presence of LD in childhood appears to confer a general risk for adverse outcomes throughout adolescence and into adultho
For example, in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the LD sample was twice as likely to report a suicide attempt in the past year.16 Longitudinal research on risk - taking indicates that, compared to non-LD peers, adolescents with LD engage more frequently in various risk behaviours.17 Therefore, the presence of LD in childhood appears to confer a general risk
for adverse outcomes throughout adolescence and into adultho
for adverse outcomes throughout adolescence and into adulthood.
For STPP, the pre — follow - up effectsizes were stable (target problems, 1.44 vs 1.57; general
psychiatric symptoms, 0.91 vs 0.95; social functioning, 0.89 vs 1.19).
This was also true
for CBT (target problems, 1.37 vs 1.33; general
psychiatric symptoms, 1.01 vs 0.97; social functioning, 0.97 vs 1.05).
Short - term psychodynamic psychotherapy yielded significant and large pretreatment - posttreatment effect sizes
for target problems (1.39), general
psychiatric symptoms (0.90), and social functioning (0.80).
There were no significant differences between these659 families and the original 976 families
for demographic characteristics, maladaptive parental behavior, maternal
psychiatric symptoms, offspring temperament, or the overall prevalence of paternal
psychiatric symptoms, although paternal substance abuse in 1975 was less prevalent among the 659 families in the present sample than among the 976 families in the original sample.
Several psychotherapy treatments specifically developed
for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) have proven to be effective.1 General
psychiatric management (GPM) is one of the therapies that have been shown to be effective
for reducing recurrent suicidal and self - harm behaviour,
symptom distress and borderline personality disorder features.2 However, these proven effective therapies1, 2 have generally been delivered over 1 — 3 years of therapy.
Heterogeneity within groups of
psychiatric patients who present with the same
symptom profile poses problems
for theory, research, and treatment.
Results Maladaptive parenting and childhood maltreatment were associated with an elevated risk
for interpersonal difficulties during middle adolescence and
for suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood after age, sex,
psychiatric symptoms during childhood and early adolescence, and parental
psychiatric symptoms were controlled statistically.