Marijuana (Cannabis) dependence (addiction) is a disorder for which treatment is essential and relatively sophisticated. A basic assumption in the treatment model is that marijuana addiction involves pathological processes in the physical, mental…
Papers in Psychotherapy
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OBJECTIVE: The primary objective was to conduct a detailed analysis of individual variation in psychological morbidity in the year following surgery for breast cancer. The salience of the patients' "illness perceptions" to morbidity was examined as…
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A prospective naturalistic 1-year follow-up study of 39 patients with current panic disorder, 17 remitted panic patients, 46 infrequent panickers, 22 patients with simple phobias, and 45 controls assessed clinical course and variables related to the…
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OBJECTIVE: To see, if voluntary admission for treatment in first-episode psychosis results in better adherence to treatment and more favourable outcome than involuntary admission. METHOD: We compared consecutively first-admitted, hospitalised…
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Although social phobia is thought to be a chronic disorder, little is known about its long-term course in patients who engage in brief treatment studies. We, therefore, conducted a follow-up study of social phobics who had participated in a brief,…
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This study examined outcomes at a 2-year follow-up assessment for child psychotherapy as it typically is delivered in outpatient settings. The treatment condition (53 children, mean age = 10.5 years) and control condition (53 children, mean age =…
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The Eating Attitudes Test, Social Adjustment Scale: Self-Report (SAS-SR), and Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL) were administered to 18 normal-weight bulimics at 1- and 3-year follow-ups. Eating attitudes and depressive symptoms improved…
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The neuropsychological performance of 85 women with early stage breast cancer scheduled for chemotherapy, 43 women scheduled for endocrine therapy and/or radiotherapy and 49 healthy control subjects was assessed at baseline (T1), postchemotherapy…
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BACKGROUND: Depression is a common disease in primary care and produces significant morbidity in the community. Little is known about the outcomes of depression in general practice. OBJECTIVES: This research set out to explore both the longitudinal…
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This 5-year study examined students who were in individual psychotherapy. The specific interest of the study was in the stability of changes in their self-concept after psychotherapy. Students who were patients at the Dental Health Care Unit were…
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This 5-year study examined students who were in individual psychotherapy. The specific interest of the study was in the stability of changes in their self-concept after psychotherapy. Students who were patients at the Dental Health Care Unit were…
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Provides details of a conference that took place at the Combined Longwood Psychiatry Grand Rounds regarding a 69-yr-old male with a 27-yr history of angina pectoris, often triggered by stress. The patient's background, physical and medical…
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These practice parameters review the literature on the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with schizophrenia. Recommendations are based on the limited research available, the adult literature, and clinical experience. Early-onset…
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This paper investigates the relationship between the concepts of fear, anguish, nothingness and death in Heidegger's philosophy of existence. It points to the role of these existential phenomena in the transformation of "Dasein", from the…
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Neurons in area 7a of the posterior parietal cortex of monkeys respond to both the retinal location of a visual stimulus and the position of the eyes and by combining these signals represent the spatial location of external objects. A neural network…
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The visual processing of behaviorally relevant stimuli is enhanced through top-down attentional feedback. One possibility is that feedback targets early visual areas first and the attentional enhancement builds up at progressively later stages of…
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A fundamental problem in neuroscience is understanding how working memory-the ability to store information at intermediate timescales, like tens of seconds-is implemented in realistic neuronal networks. The most likely candidate mechanism is the…
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Fatigue can refer to a subjective symptom of malaise and aversion to activity or to objectively impaired performance. It has both physical and mental aspects. The symptom of fatigue
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