objective: the aim of this study was to investigate the reliability and validityof the farsi version of the toronto alexithymia scale-20 in a sample of opioidsubstance use disordered patients. methods: 321 substance dependent patients (287 male, 34 female)participated in this study. all of the participants were asked to complete thefarsi version of the toronto alexithymia scale-20 (ftas-20), th...

Attachment theory is a powerful theoretical framework that complements and extents current models psychosis. We tested the hypothesis that attachment anxiety and avoidance are differentially associated with the severity of positive, negative and general psychopathology symptoms in patients with a diagnosis of psychosis. Five hundred patients with DSM-IV or ICD-10 diagnoses of psychotic disorder...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Across three experiments we investigated transfer effects of single-session attention bias modification via dot-probe training. METHODS In experiment 1, participants received training either toward or away from negative images or no-training, and transfer to an affective task-switching task was examined. In two other experiments, participants were trained to orient a...

BACKGROUND Several prospective longitudinal studies have suggested that somatic/affective depressive symptoms, but not cognitive/affective depressive symptoms, are related to prognosis in patients with heart disease, but findings have been inconsistent. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of cognitive/affective and somatic/affective symptoms of depression with cardiovascula...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between repeated measures of affective symptoms collected over 2 decades and hypertension (clinically ascertained or self-report); to test whether, among people with hypertension, affective symptoms are associated with awareness of hypertension, and to evaluate the longitudinal effects of the label of hypertension on affective symptoms. METHODS Multiv...

The higher prevalence of affective symptoms among women compared to men emerges in adolescence, and it has been associated with pubertal maturation. However, it remains unclear whether pubertal timing has long-term influences on affective symptoms. Using data from the British 1946 birth cohort, we investigated whether pubertal timing was associated with affective symptoms over the life course, ...

BACKGROUND Depressive symptoms are a major complaint reported by cancer patients. Somatic and affective symptoms can contribute to depression. PATIENTS AND METHODS We investigated the prevalence of somatic and affective depressive symptoms with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) in 213 hospitalized cancer patients prior to the start of chemotherapy. RESULTS Seventeen of 213 patients (8%) w...