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Minimization of childhood maltreatment is common and consequential : results from a large, multinational sample using the childhood trauma questionnaire
(Public Library of Science, 2016)
ENGLISH SUMMARY : Childhood maltreatment has diverse, lifelong impact on morbidity and mortality. The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) is one of the most commonly used scales to assess and quantify these experiences ...
What is the research experience of young scientists in South Africa?
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2013-11-27)
ENGLISH SUMMARY : The results of an online survey – the SAYAS Survey of Young Scientists that involved the participation of 1021 postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows from tertiary institutions in South Africa – ...
The relationship between childhood adversity, recent stressors, and depression in college students attending a South African university
(BioMed Central, 2018-03-09)
Background: College students are at risk of depression. This risk may be increased by the experience of childhood adversity and/or recent stressors. This study examined the association between reported experiences of ...
Excoriation (skin-picking) disorder : a systematic review of treatment options
(Dove Medical Press, 2017)
Although pathological skin-picking has been documented in the medical literature since the 19th century, it has only recently been included as a distinct entity in psychiatric classification systems. In the Diagnostic and ...
Sniffing out olfactory reference syndrome
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)
Olfactory reference syndrome is characterised by the erroneous belief that one emits an unpleasant body odour. This results in significant distress and is often accompanied by repetitive behaviour such as frequent showering ...
Problematic use of the Internet is a unidimensional quasi-trait with impulsive and compulsive subtypes
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2019-11-08)
Background: Problematic use of the Internet has been highlighted as needing further study by international
bodies, including the European Union and American Psychiatric Association. Knowledge regarding the optimal
classification ...
Partitioning the heritability of Tourette syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder reveals differences in genetic architecture
(PLoS, 2013-10)
The direct estimation of heritability from genome-wide common variant data as implemented in the program Genome-wide
Complex Trait Analysis (GCTA) has provided a means to quantify heritability attributable to all interrogated ...
Symmetry symptoms in obsessive-compulsive disorder : clinical and genetic correlates
(Associacao Brasileira de Psiquiatria, 2016)
Objective: In obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), symmetry-related symptoms may be important. Although clinical correlates of symmetry-related symptoms have been identified in OCD, few data exist on genetic associations. ...
Toward identifying reproducible brain signatures of obsessive-compulsive profiles : rationale and methods for a new global initiative
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2020-02-14)
Background: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has a lifetime prevalence of 2–3% and is a leading cause of global
disability. Brain circuit abnormalities in individuals with OCD have been identified, but important knowledge ...
Does higher severity really correlate with a worse quality of life in obsessive compulsive disorder? A meta-regression
(Dove Medical Press, 2018)
Background: Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is one of the leading causes of disability and reduced quality of life (QOL), with impairment in a number of domains. However, there is a paucity of literature on the association ...