Recent findings suggest that patients with schizophrenia have a probabilistic learning impairment that is selective to learning from positive, relative to negative, feedback (Gold et al., 2012), and is more compromised in those with worse negative symptoms (Waltz et al., 2010). This is consistent with evidence linking motivational and affective symptoms of schizophrenia with dysfunctional signa...

BACKGROUND In order to elucidate the complex relationship between co-occurring depression and anxiety with cardiac autonomic function in the elderly, this study examined the correlation between cardiac vagal control (CVC) and pre-defined, theoretical factors from the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). METHODS Three hundred fifty-four randomly selected Chinese male subjects aged ≥ 6...

This study was designed to examine the contribution of multiple risk factors to early internalizing problems and to investigate whether family and ecological context moderated the association between child temperament and internalizing outcomes. A sample of 1,202 mothers of 2- and 3-year-old children completed a survey of child social-emotional functioning, family environment, and violence expo...

OBJECTIVE To describe the initial steps in the development and validation of a new self-reported instrument designed to assess daily rhythms of mood symptoms, namely, the Mood Rhythm Instrument. METHODS A multidisciplinary group of experts took part in systematic meetings to plan the construction of the instrument. Clarity of items, their relevance to evaluation of mood states, and the consis...

The physical and affective symptoms of a broad range of conditions are improved following mindfulness-based practices. One set of symptoms that has yet to be explored through the lens of mindfulness, however, is that associated with the premenstruum. Also, given the relationships among negative attitudes towards menstruation and amplified symptom reporting, it is reasonable to expect that mindf...

OBJECTIVE Examine relationships between parental depressive symptoms, affective and instrumental parenting practices, youth depressive symptoms and glycemic control in a diverse, urban sample of adolescents with diabetes. METHODS Sixty-one parents and youth aged 10-17 completed self-report questionnaires. HbA1c assays were obtained to assess metabolic control. Path analysis was used to test a...

BACKGROUND This case-control study investigated both the risk factors and outcome of mood disorders in epilepsy. METHODS For this study, 44 patients with both epilepsy and a mood disorder (study group) were compared with 44 randomly selected patients of epilepsy without a mood disorder (control group). Psychiatric diagnosis was made as per ICD-10 Diagnostic Criteria for Research (ICD-10 DCR)....

Twenty-one patients with primary chronic pain received electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for concurrent affective symptoms. Twenty of the 21 patients experienced improvement in the level of their pain. ECT can be an effective treatment modality for patients who have chronic pain complicated by affective symptoms.

objective : poor premorbid adjustment has been reported to be a predictor of more severe psychotic symptoms and poor quality of life in such psychotic disorders  as  schizophrenia.  however,  most  studies  were  performed  on chronic schizophrenic patients, and proposed the likelihood of recall biases and the effect of chronicity.  the aim of this study was to investigate these factors in a sa...