Showing papers in "Psychosomatics in 2010"

TL;DR: Findings suggest that olanzapine prophylaxis of postoperative delirium may be an effective strategy.

TL;DR: Patients with SMI are losing many years of life to preventable and treatable medical illnesses and solutions to the problem will require attention to patient, provider, and system-level factors.

TL;DR: Among hemodialysis patients, depression was associated with a low BMI and an increased number of comorbid physical illnesses, and depression and anxiety were robust indicators of suicidal ideation.

TL;DR: Data are consistent with a growing body of literature that implicates inflammatory cytokines in neural and behavioral processes and further suggests that TNF- α may be involved in the production and/or maintenance of non-motor symptoms in PD.

TL;DR: Clinicians can use R/9-OHR and the C/D ratios to interpret plasma R levels and guide treatment and suggest the major route of paliperidone elimination.

TL;DR: Depression is common in patients with PAH, with 55% demonstrating depressive symptoms, and the results suggest that screening patients withPAH will identify a large proportion of patients who might benefit from depression therapy.

TL;DR: Surgical modality and tumor prognostic factors seemed to play a minor role in patients' subjective QoL, which is discussed in terms of the "well-being paradox."

TL;DR: Investigation of common co-occurring medical and psychiatric conditions and patterns of conditions among returning Iraq/Afghanistan veterans using the Veterans Administration (VA) healthcare systems found high rates of comorbidity and multi-bidity.

TL;DR: Depression and anxiety are common in Chinese patients with RA and patients who lack social support or rely on economic assistance are more prone to the development of psychiatric disorders.

TL;DR: It is concluded that reducing pain-related depression could be a central therapeutic mechanism in cognitive-behavioral treatment of chronic back pain.

TL;DR: Cluster B PDs and dimensional traits may be independent risk factors for incident CVD in the community and post-hoc analysis revealed that Cluster B PD and traits also predict CVD mortality.

TL;DR: SRIs can interact with MB, causing a serious adverse reaction consistent with serotonin syndrome, and the diagnosis of serotonin syndrome was a possible diagnosis in all 25 patients.

TL;DR: Severely injured accident victims seem to face a major risk of PTSD and impairments in health-related quality of life, and there is a need for a biopsychosocial conceptual framework at the interface of psychiatry and trauma surgery in general hospitals.

TL;DR: Citalopram does not prevent depression onset; however, an empirically-supported treatment recommendation for IFN- α -induced depression includes monitoring depressive symptoms throughout antiviral therapy and initiating psychiatric treatment at the initial signs of depression.

TL;DR: The results indicate that some facets of alexithymia are a relevant feature of PD, possibly in relation to the neuropathological changes that characterize the disease.

TL;DR: Neuroticism, reduced extraversion, and reduced emotional stability were associated with tinnitus, but the level of prediction of the model improved with the addition of type D personality to the single traits.

TL;DR: Anxiety seems to influence patients’ perception/awareness of asthma symptoms, and is associated with worse subjective asthma outcomes and increased use of medication/healthcare services, but with decreased airway inflammation, and was not associated with lung function.

TL;DR: Successful treatment for depression appears to substantially decrease desire for hastened death in patients with advanced AIDS, and it decreased dramatically in patients who responded to antidepressant treatment.

TL;DR: This uncontrolled study suggests that CBT may be effective in treating dPD and may be an alternative or adjunct to pharmacological treatment.

TL;DR: Patients with CD exhibit a predominantly insecure attachment and perceived their parents’ behaviors as characterized by low maternal care and high paternal overprotection, and these findings may confirm the bidirectional relationship between insecure attachments and chronic illness.

TL;DR: The Japanese version of the DRS-R-98 has high reliability and validity, and is a useful tool for assessing delirium among Japanese medically ill populations, according to this study.

TL;DR: This brief program can improve nurses’ self-confidence in treating delirium patients; however, more work is needed to improve Nurses’ ability to detect Delirium early.

TL;DR: It is concluded that frequency and severity of IFN- α –associated depression during melanoma treatment are dose-dependent.

TL;DR: The strong association between joint hypermobility syndrome and panic disorder points to a genetic association and there is a possibility that JHS and mitral valve prolapse, another condition frequently associated with panic disorder, share a common pathophysiological mechanism.

TL;DR: Brief treatment addressing heavy drinking delivered by hepatitis clinicians with psychiatric-specialist follow-up was associated with abstinence or a significant reduction in alcohol consumption in over 50% of patients.

TL;DR: The success of any intervention policy for HIV-infected persons in sub-Saharan Africa must consider both low level of medication adherence and its associated factors.

TL;DR: Whereas the paradigm of FD in medicine as a whole is of the socially stable female healthcare worker, neurology continues to report largely the classic itinerant “Munchausen’s” type.

TL;DR: Depression, largely determined by low self-efficacy and, possibly, by use of maladaptive coping strategies, influenced HRQoL in three groups of liver patients, and HRQeL in CLD patients may be positively affected by enhancing coping and self- efficacy skills, thus improving levels of depression.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on symptom presentation and resolution in a case of abrupt withdrawal of clozapine medication, which led to a return of psychosis, autonomic instability, or catatonia.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined baseline data for 40 chronic-pain patients in a treatment trial targeting opioid analgesic abuse and found that abuse-disorder patients were dysfunctional and had high rates of psychiatric disorders and troublesome personality traits.