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Nova Scotia Hospital
Healthcare•Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada•
About: Nova Scotia Hospital is a healthcare organization based out in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Mental health & Mania. The organization has 41 authors who have published 43 publications receiving 1252 citations.
Topics: Mental health, Mania, Sexual arousal, Sexual abuse, Psychosocial
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TL;DR: The SAI has concurrent validity with respect to sexual experience, activity, and satisfaction, and discriminates between clinical and normal populations, and possesses exceptional internal consistency.
Abstract: This report describes the development of a self-report Sexual Arousability Inventory (SAI) for women. Sexual arousability was defined as the sum of a respondent's ratings of 28 erotic experience along a 7-point Likert arousal dimension. Multiple-regression and factor analyses were used to select valid items from a 131-item pool and build in factorial purity. The SAI has concurrent validity with respect to sexual experience, activity, and satisfaction, and discriminates between clinical and normal populations. In addition, the SAI is easy to administer and score, may be used with single, married, or lesbian women, is available with norms and in alternate forms, and possesses exceptional internal consistency. Although the SAI was designed primarily for clinical use, the construct it measures may have theoretical significance in future research.
207 citations
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TL;DR: It is concluded that although extensive data is available on 5-HT-neuroendocrine probes, there is no test that is currently available that would fulfil all the proposed requirements for a test to be acceptable, although ipsapirone, m-chlorophenylpiperazine, and possibly fenfluramine challenge tests come very close.
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TL;DR: Both the wide range of DUP among patients first presenting with schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders and the association of long DUP, defined as greater than approximately 1year, with a poorer clinical outcome are confirmed.
126 citations
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TL;DR: The methodology described in this research shows promise as a diagnostic and research tool and indicates highly significant positive correlations among the cognitive and physiological measures for five out of six individual subjects, although the pooled group data failed to show significance.
Abstract: Six sexually normal women were exposed to a wide variety of erotic video tapes while vaginal, groin, and breast vasocongestion measures were taken. The women indicated their subjective level of sexual arousal while viewing the tapes by positioning a lever device along a calibrated scale. The results indicated highly significant positive correlations among the cognitive and physiological measures for five out of six individual subjects, although the pooled group data failed to show significance. The methodology described in this research shows promise as a diagnostic and research tool.
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TL;DR: Operational criteria can be applied to ratings from commonly used standardized scales to determine the percentages of clients achieving recovery in multiple symptom and functional dimensions for clients completing the first year of treatment in an early psychosis program.
Abstract: Recovery is a complex individual process that unfolds over time and involves multiple dimensions. We propose operational criteria for defining recovery in five symptom dimensions and two functional dimensions including an overall functional dimension that we characterize as 'return to the life line'. The multi-dimensional model was used to organize the results gathered from 103 clients, not previously treated with antipsychotic medications, who enrolled in the Nova Scotia Early Psychosis Program and completed one year of treatment for schizophrenia or a related psychotic disorder.The subjects were assessed with the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), the Global Assessment of Function scale (GAF) and the Social and Occupational Functional Assessment scale (SOFA) prior to starting antipsychotic medication and again at six and 12 months of treatment. After one year of treatment, 67% of subjects met our criterion for symptomatic recovery (no relevant PANSS item greater than 'mild') for both positive...
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Authors
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Lili C. Kopala | 36 | 114 | 3705 |
Ivan Kiss | 13 | 23 | 1125 |
Lakshmi N. Yatham | 5 | 5 | 275 |
Margaret Bayer | 3 | 5 | 28 |
Emily Franck Hoon | 3 | 3 | 345 |
Q. Rui | 2 | 2 | 213 |
Syed Naveed Akhtar | 2 | 3 | 12 |
D. K. Jana | 2 | 2 | 11 |
Simon A. Brooks | 2 | 4 | 11 |
Adel Gabriel | 2 | 2 | 22 |
David Whitehorn | 2 | 2 | 118 |
Ahmed Al Ansari | 1 | 1 | 19 |
L. Peters | 1 | 1 | 123 |
Alison Leduc Carter | 1 | 1 | 23 |
Brad R. C. Kelln | 1 | 1 | 5 |