Pure-tone auditory threshold in ...
To determine pure-tone auditory thresholds, 197 screened children at a typical primary school in a German town (*70,000 inhabitants) were examined. ...
Metabolic parameters in the sho ...
The presence of the metabolic syndrome is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. The short- and long-term metabolic safet ...
Different gray matter patterns ...
Gray matter (GM) volume deficits have been described in patients with schizophrenia (Sz) and bipolar disorder (BD), but to date, few studies have di ...
Testing anxious depression as a ...
The purpose of this analysis was to explore the potential role of anxious MDD as a treatment predictor and moderator in major depressive disorder (M ...
Cognitive performance and smoki ...
The self-medication hypothesis attempts to explain the extraordinary high levels of cigarette smoking in schizophrenia; patients may smoke in an att ...
BDNF serum levels, but not BDNF ...
Consisting evidence in animal models has suggested that alterations in brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) brain expression and release are inv ...
Combining the categorical and t ...
We introduce a diagnostic map that was calculated by robust non-metric multidimensional scaling based on AMDP symptom profiles of patients with sch ...
The illness and everyday living ...
The interaction of psychopathological states and psychosocial functioning determine the long-term course of schizophrenia and its treatment. To be a ...
Reappraisal of the interplay be ...
The interplay of psychotic and affective symptoms is a crucial challenge in understanding the pathogenesis of psychosis. In this study, we analyzed ...
Considerations for analysis of ...
Self/other (i.e., internal/external) source monitoring is one of the leading paradigms for the study of hallucinations in schizophrenia. The cogniti ...
Olfactory identification and pr ...
Olfactory identification deficit appears to be an enduring feature of schizophrenia, but it is unclear whether it is specific to schizophrenia or pr ...
The N1 auditory evoked potentia ...
The N1 component of the auditory evoked potential (AEP) is a robust and easily recorded metric of auditory sensory-perceptual processing. In patient ...
Is 5-HTTLPR linked to the respo ...
The role of a functional polymorphism in the transcriptional control region of serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR, SERTPR) has been studied intens ...
Patients’ attitudes toward side ...
Patients’ attitudes toward side effects of antidepressants are likely to differ according to gender, which has not yet been fully addressed in the l ...
Personality factors and mental ...
While neuroticism has been intensely investigated in caregivers of patients with serious somatic disorders, studies in caregivers of patients with m ...
Childhood adversity and chronic ...
To evaluate the potential impact of early childhood problems on the chronicity of mood disorders. A representative cohort from the population was pr ...
Transcranial magnetic stimulati ...
An increasing number of controlled studies strongly support an antidepressant effect of high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation ...
Decreasing the minimum length c ...
Brief hypomania lasting less than 4 days may impair functioning and help to detect bipolarity. This study analyzed brief hypomania that occurred in ...
Attention to emotion: auditory- ...
Several studies suggest that attention to emotional content is related to specific changes in central information processing. In particular, event-r ...
The effect of a 4-week treatmen ...
In the present study, we examined several metabolic parameters in a group of 19 acutely depressed inpatients with major depression (DSM-IV) at basel ...
Dysfunctional pain modulation i ...
To date, pain perception is thought to be a creative process of modulation carried out by an interplay of pro- and anti-nociceptive mechanisms. Rece ...
Gender-related features of pers ...
This paper presents gender-related features of Delusional Disorder. It is part of the Halle Delusional Syndromes Study (HADES-Study). All inpatients ...
Expressed and perceived emotion ...
While the impact of mentally ill patients’ perceptions of their key relatives’ expressed emotion is well examined with regard to relapse, there is a ...
Postmortem proteomic analysis i ...
Besides the ventral tegmental area and the nucleus accumbens as the most investigated brain reward structures, several reports about the relation be ...
A systematic experimental neuro ...
Verbal and visuospatial working memory (WM) impairment is a well-documented finding in psychiatric patients suffering from major psychoses such as ...