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Negative Symptoms and Avoidance of Social Interaction: A Study of Non-Verbal Behaviour.
(2018)
BACKGROUND: Non-verbal behaviour is fundamental to social interaction. Patients with schizophrenia display an expressivity deficit of non-verbal behaviour, exhibiting behaviour that differs from both healthy subjects and ...
Are facial injuries really different? An observational cohort study comparing appearance concern and psychological distress in facial trauma and non-facial trauma patients.
(2018-01)
Facial injuries are widely assumed to lead to stigma and significant psychosocial burden. Experimental studies of face perception support this idea, but there is very little empirical evidence to guide treatment. This study ...
Tobacco smoking and its association with cognition in first episode psychosis patients.
(2018-02)
Available evidence suggests that nicotine may enhance cognitive functioning. Moreover, it has been suggested that the high prevalence of smoking in people with schizophrenia is in part due to self-medication behaviour to ...
Predictors of length of stay in psychiatric inpatient units: Does their effect vary across countries?
(2018-02)
BACKGROUND: Previous studies in individual countries have identified inconsistent predictors of length of stay (LoS) in psychiatric inpatient units. This may reflect methodological inconsistencies across studies or true ...
Childhood maltreatment and adult medical morbidity in mood disorders: comparison of unipolar depression with bipolar disorder.
(2018-11)
BACKGROUND: The medical burden in mood disorders is high; various factors are thought to drive this pattern. Little research has examined the role of childhood maltreatment and its effects on medical morbidity in adulthood ...
Correspondence between negative symptoms and potential sources of secondary negative symptoms over time.
(2018-09)
There has been a debate in the literature about the distinction between primary and secondary negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Our aim was to study the associations between negative symptoms and potential sources of ...
Clinicians have several therapeutic relationships and patients only one: The effect on their assessments of relationships.
(2018-12)
OBJECTIVES: Little attention has been given to the common assessment problem that clinicians assess outcomes of several patients and may rate them in comparison to one another, whereas patients assess only their own outcomes ...
What might affect acceptability of online positive psychology interventions for depression: a qualitative study on patient expectations'.
(2018-07-27)
BACKGROUND: Positive psychology interventions are brief self-adminstered exercises designed to promote positive emotions, behaviours, or thoughts. They are potentially effective for reducing depression and are considered ...