Search Results - "Gilvarry, C"
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Reducing violence in severe mental illness: randomised controlled trial of intensive case management compared with standard care
Published in BMJ (10-11-2001)“…Abstract Objectives: To establish whether intensive case management reduces violence in patients with psychosis in comparison with standard case management…”
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Verbal fluency in patients with schizophrenia and affective psychoses and their first-degree relatives
Published in Psychological medicine (01-05-2001)“…Schizophrenic patients are known to have neuropsychological deficits including impaired verbal fluency, but it is not clear whether this latter deficit is: (a)…”
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Life events, ethnicity and perceptions of discrimination in patients with severe mental illness
Published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (01-11-1999)“…Whilst it is commonly believed that black and ethnic minority (B&EM) people living in the UK experience social disadvantage compared with the white British…”
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Morbid risk of schizophrenia in first-degree relatives of white and African-Caribbean patients with psychosis
Published in British journal of psychiatry (01-12-1996)“…The high rate of schizophrenia among the second-generation African-Caribbean population in Britain has prompted much concern and speculation. Sugarman and…”
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Autoimmune diseases in the pedigrees of schizophrenic and control subjects
Published in Schizophrenia research (05-07-1996)“…Autoimmune diseases aggregate in individuals and within pedigrees, and it has been postulated that autoimmune mechanisms may account for a proportion of…”
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Increased rate of psychosis among African-Caribbeans in Britain is not due to an excess of pregnancy and birth complications
Published in British journal of psychiatry (01-08-1997)“…It has been suggested that the increased rate of psychotic illness among African-Caribbeans living in Britain is due to an excess of pregnancy and birth…”
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Childhood schizotypy and positive symptoms in schizophrenic patients predict schizotypy in relatives
Published in Schizophrenia research (03-08-2000)“…Background: Schizotypy is one phenotypic expression of the familial–genetic liability to schizophrenia, but its precise relationship to frank psychotic…”
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Family history of autoimmune diseases in psychosis
Published in Schizophrenia research (01-03-1996)“…The mothers of 101 psychotic patients and 116 normal controls were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire designed to determine the presence or…”
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Ethnicity and dissatisfaction with mental health services
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Diagnostic value of the DSM and ICD categories of psychosis: an evidence-based approach
Published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (11-08-2000)“…Background: It is generally assumed that the distinction between affective and non-affective psychosis occasioned by modern diagnostic criteria provides a…”
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Neuropsychological performance of psychotic patients in community care: results from the UK700 study
Published in Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica (01-01-2001)“…Objective: To compare cognitive performance in chronic schizophrenic and affective psychotic patients maintained in community care. Method: We studied a sample…”
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Schizophrenic patients and their first-degree relatives show an excess of mixed-handedness
Published in Schizophrenia research (19-10-1999)“…An excess of mixed-handedness in schizophrenia has been reported. However, it is not established whether this excess is manifest in non-schizophrenic…”
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Schizotypal Personality Traits in Nonpsychotic Relatives Are Associated With Positive Symptoms in Psychotic Probands
Published in Schizophrenia bulletin (01-01-2003)“…There remains disagreement over whether increased risk of schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) is confined to the relatives of patients with a diagnosis of…”
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Comparison of the family history with the family study method: Report from the Camberwell Collaborative Psychosis Study
Published in American journal of medical genetics (21-02-1997)“…We assessed the accuracy of the family history (FH‐RDC) and family study (SADS‐L) methods for obtaining information about the presence of psychopathology in…”
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Neuropsychological performance and spectrum personality traits in the relatives of patients with schizophrenia and affective psychosis
Published in Psychiatry research (25-03-2001)“…Neuropsychological deficits are found in both schizophrenic patients and their relatives, and some studies have shown similar, but less severe, deficits in…”
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Trail making test performance in the first degree relatives of schizophrenic and affective psychotic patients
Published in Cognitive neuropsychiatry (01-08-2000)“…Numerous studies have found deficits in executive functioning in schizophrenic patients, but it is not clear whether these deficits are shared by patients with…”
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Predicting violence in schizophrenia: a prospective study
Published in Schizophrenia research (01-04-2004)“…Background: People with schizophrenia are more violent than the general population, but this increased risk is attributable to the actions of a small subgroup…”
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Premorbid Social Functioning in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder: Similarities and Differences
Published in The American journal of psychiatry (01-11-1997)“…OBJECTIVE: This research examined social functioning in childhood and adolescence among patients with schizophrenia and patients with bipolar disorder compared…”
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Profile of service users attending a voluntary mental health sector service
Published in Psychiatric bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (01-07-2000)“…Aims and Method Very little research has been undertaken to characterise the service user groups served by the voluntary sector mental health services in…”
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Personality dimensions and neuropsychological performance in first-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia and affective psychosis
Published in Schizophrenia research (01-06-2002)“…Several studies have found a significant increase in the prevalence of some personality disorders in the first-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia;…”
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