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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 – ...
A case of Ifufunyane : a Xhosa culture-bound syndrome
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2005-11)
Clinicians and patients frequently have a different understanding and interpretation of the nature of an illness. While many reasons for these discrepancies can be postulated, differences in sociocultural background often ...
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 ...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder and trichotillomania : a phenomenological comparison
(BioMed Central, 2005-01)
Background: Similarities between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and trichotillomania (TTM) have been widely recognized. Nevertheless, there is evidence of important differences between these two disorders. Some authors ...
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. ...