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PubMed1973

Bhang psychosis.

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PubMed1986

Delineating social phobia.

The natural history--including psychiatric symptoms, precipitating factors, onset and course of illness, and personality characteristics--of 47 social phobics, 80 agoraphobics, and 72 simple phobics was examined. The social phobia group differed from the agoraphobia group by having a lower mean age, fewer females and married members, and a higher educational and occupational status. They were less fearful generally, less obsessive, and less likely to follow a fluctuating or phasic course. There was overlap between the two groups with regard to main phobias, and they were similar with regard to adjacent symptomatology. Both the social and agoraphobia groups differed in similar and significant ways from simple phobics.

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PubMed1992

Differential rates of psychiatric disorders in adults with Down's syndrome compared with other mentally handicapped adults.

The total number of adults with Down's syndrome living in Leicestershire, ascertained by widespread enquiry, was found to be 378. Of these, 371 were matched with adults with mental handicap due to other pathologies, on the basis of age, sex, and type of residence. Those with Down's syndrome were found to have a different spectrum of mental disorders from those without the syndrome. In particular, Down's syndrome patients were more likely to have been diagnosed as having depression and dementia; the controls were more likely to have been diagnosed as suffering from conduct disorder, personality disorder, or schizophrenia/paranoid state. The same proportion of each group had been given a diagnosis of autism.

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PubMed1998

Mental disorder and violence. A special (high security) hospital study.

BACKGROUND: From a first clinical description of a complete resident sample of special (high security) hospital patients, we examined the association between mental disorder and violence. METHOD: A record survey of all 1740 patients resident at any time between 1 January and 30 June 1993, inclusive, and, for most, the official criminal record. RESULTS: 1015 patients (58%) had functional psychosis, one-quarter of whom also had an independent personality disorder; 461 (26%) had personality disorders uncomplicated by psychosis, and 264 (16%) had learning disabilities. Pre-admission substance misuse, which was probably under-recorded, had been most common among those with psychosis and an independent personality disorder. Less than 10% had never been convicted of a criminal offence, although 25% had been admitted directly from other hospitals. Direct personal violence was more common among men, and fire-setting among women. Schizophrenia was most strongly associated with personal violence. More than 75% of those with a psychosis were recorded as being driven to offend by their delusions. In the absence of delusions, hallucinations had no such effect. CONCLUSIONS: For people with personality disorder better clinical descriptions seem essential. For people with a pure psychosis, as symptoms were usually a factor driving the index offence, treatment appears as important for public safety as for personal health.

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PubMed1998

Effects of community services on disability and symptoms. PRiSM Psychosis Study. 4.

BACKGROUND: Community care for people with psychosis can be provided via several different service models. The study compared two models: standard community treatment with high patient: staff ratios, and intensive community treatment in which there was more of an emphasis on community involvement and lower patient:staff ratios. METHOD: All people fulfilling diagnostic criteria for psychosis and living in two defined geographical areas in south London were identified. These people were provided with either an intensive or standard service depending on their address. Their social behaviour and symptoms were measured at the beginning of the study and after two years. RESULTS: There is little evidence of any effects of the two service models on levels of symptoms. However, the standard service did seem to be advantageous in reducing social disability for those with medium or low levels of disability. CONCLUSIONS: The effect of intensive community services was the opposite to that predicted. Despite improvements in outcomes (e.g. hospital admission), there were no advantages for this type of service in the measures of disability or symptoms. In fact, the standard service was effective in reducing disability, whereas in the intensive service there was no change.

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PubMed2006

Neuropsychological dysfunction, soft neurological signs and social disability in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder.

BACKGROUND: Neurocognitive deficits exist in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder, but relationships between symptoms, psychosocial and neurological factors remain uncertain. AIMS: To measure neurocognitive function in bipolar disorder and explore links to sub-syndromal mood symptoms, soft neurological signs and psychosocial impairment. METHOD: Attention, memory and executive function were tested in 37 euthymic patients with bipolar disorder and 37 controls. Psychosocial functioning, soft neurological signs and residual mood symptoms were assessed. RESULTS: Performances on tests reflecting executive function and verbal memory (but not attention) were significantly poorer in the bipolar disorder group. Sub-syndromal mood symptoms produced small cognitive effects, predominantly on verbal memory. Soft neurological signs, especially frontal signs, were marked; some patients showed marked social disability which correlated strongly with soft neurological signs but weakly with executive dysfunction, which was linked to illness episodes. CONCLUSIONS: Cognitive dysfunction, social dysfunction and soft signs occur in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder and may represent trait deficits.

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PubMed1999

Deficient social problem-solving in boys with ODD/CD, with ADHD, and with both disorders.

OBJECTIVE: To study social problem-solving skills in psychiatrically defined aggressive boys, starting from Dodge's social information-processing model. METHOD: Videotaped stimuli of problematic social situations and questions were presented to elicit responses that indicate boys' social problem-solving skills (encoding and interpretation of social cues, generation of possible responses, evaluation of responses, self-efficacy evaluation, and response selection). Boys aged 7 to 12 years with oppositional defiant or conduct disorder (ODD/CD) (n = 48), attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (n = 27), and both disorders (ODD/CD + ADHD) (n = 29) were involved as well as a normal control group (n = 37) and a psychiatric control group with internalizing disorders (n = 23). RESULTS: When compared with normal controls, boys with ADHD, with ODD/CD, and with ODD/CD + ADHD encoded fewer social cues and generated fewer responses. Boys with ODD/CD and with ODD/CD + ADHD moreover were more confident in their ability to enact an aggressive response than normal controls. When ODD/CD boys and ODD/CD + ADHD boys were given the opportunity to select a response from various types of responses shown, they selected an aggressive response more often than normal controls. Thus, in ADHD boys social problem-solving was affected only in encoding and in the generation of responses, whereas in ODD/CD and ODD/CD + ADHD boys social problem-solving was affected throughout the process. CONCLUSION: For the further study of social problem-solving in aggressive children, it is essential to differentiate between children with ADHD and children with ODD/CD and ODD/CD + ADHD.

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PubMed2002

[Subjective blockage in Parkinson's disease].

UNLABELLED: Akinetic symptoms or off-period motor signs in patients with Parkinson's disease and motor fluctuations can be associated with subjective symptoms. A systematic interview was conducted in a series of 24 patients. Sixteen out of 24 (67 p. cent) experienced these subjective symptoms as on-off non motor symptoms that were classified in three groups: energy lost consistent with a severe asthenia, perceptive and cognitive alterations, and emotional troubles such as panic and depression. These phenomenons could be combined in some patients and were sometimes asynchron to akinesia. In some patients (six cases reported), they occurred without any akinesia but could totally inhibit patients daily activities, and so could be described as subjective off-period . Frequently, the patients did not distinguish them from motor disability. Their persistence, after subthalamic nucleus stimulation or intrastriatal transplant, could interfere with functional results, even though akinetic symptoms had disappeared. CONCLUSION: subjective phenomenons during off-periods are frequent. Their frequency is underestimated due to a non-targeted examination. Subjective off-periods are symptoms of Parkinson's disease, partly independent from off motor symptoms, and important to consider in evaluation of therapeutics, especially surgery.

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