Personal recovery, living a satisfying, hopeful life alongside symptoms, has become an increasingly valued aim across mental health care agendas internationally. However, there is little understanding of how people experience personal recovery the mood challenges characteristic bipolar disorder diagnosis. frameworks have been developed for populations with mixed psychiatric diagnoses, predomina...

The current study aimed to investigate the relationship of family environment and parental bonding with controlling compulsions (cc) obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). also predictive value for OCD. Sample consisted 130 diagnosed patients OCD (65 males & 65 females) within age range 20-50 years. Three measures were used gather data - Family Environment Scale (FES), Parental Bonding Instru...

The effects of community characteristics on well-being were examined among 709 African American women. Direct and moderating effects of neighborhood characteristics on distress were tested. Aggregate-level ratings of neighborhood cohesion and disorder were significantly related to distress, although the relation between cohesion and distress became nonsignificant when individual risk factors we...

The association between pregnancy and perinatal complications (PPCs) and risks for adult psychiatric disorders other than psychoses has received relatively limited attention. In this study, we aim to characterize the associations between PPCs and risks for anxiety, affective, substance use, and eating disorders in a population-based sample of twins. Personal interviews were conducted with 1,806...

BACKGROUND The TaqI-A polymorphism of the ANKK1 gene, adjacent to the DRD2 gene, has been associated with alcoholism and other psychiatric conditions, although other DRD2 gene variants, such as the C957T polymorphism, could be related to these phenotypic traits. AIMS To investigate the contribution of the TaqI-A and the C957T polymorphisms to the presence of psychopathic traits in patients wi...

The paper describes two input devices and a software interface that allow severely impaired people to easily interact with a personal computer. The first input device does not require residual movement but makes use of skin electrical signals and applies Artificial Neural Networks to decode the mind-driven commands. The second input device is an evolution of a proximity sensor that can be activ...

BACKGROUND Unit cohesion is recognized as a potentially modifiable factor in the aetiology of mental illness among military personnel. AIMS To examine the association between unit cohesion and probable post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), common mental disorder and alcohol misuse, in UK armed forces personnel deployed to Iraq. METHODS A sample of 4901 male UK armed forces personnel who ha...