A5091094838- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
2016-2025
Universität Hamburg
2016-2025
Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
2007-2025
Eppendorf (Germany)
1997-2024
MSH Medical School Hamburg – University of Applied Sciences and Medical University
2024
McGill University
2024
Stuttgart Observatory
2021
University Medical Center
2019-2020
Eppendorf (Belgium)
2016-2018
Public Health Service of Amsterdam
2018
Objective. Several studies have provided evidence for the claim that a subgroup of (schizophrenic) patients with current delusions share jumping to conclusions (JTC) bias. The primary aim present study was investigate whether currently deluded and non‐deluded schizophrenic perform differently on three tasks tapping probabilistic reasoning. Method. Probabilistic reasoning assessed in 31 patients, 28 psychiatric controls, 17 healthy controls. In addition traditional draws decision procedure,...
Objective: Studies investigating the impact of comorbid substance use disorders (SUD) in psychosis have tended to focus on cross‐sectional data, with few studies examining effects course clinical outcome. The main aim present study was assess baseline SUD and remission positive symptoms. Method: Early Psychosis Prevention Intervention Centre admitted 786 first‐episode (FEP) patients between 1998 2000. Data outcome were collected from patients’ medical records (MR) 643 who met inclusion...
(1) determine which antipsychotic side effects (SE) schizophrenic patients consider the most distressing during treatment with typical antipsychotics, (2) measure impact of actual and past SE on patients' attitude toward antipsychotics (3) assess influence both adherence.The 213 schizophrenics, treated conventional were recruited in two psychiatric hospitals Hamburg. Subjects assessed about type severity present their adherence to treatment.The 82 (39%) presented while 131 (61%) did not....
The present study investigated whether schizophrenic, unipolar depressive, and obsessive-compulsive psychiatric patients show a distinguishable profile in tasks considered sensitive to frontal lobe functioning. Three samples, each comprising 25 with little symptomatic overlap, were compared 70 healthy controls. Participants completed several executive (Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), verbal fluency, digit span, Stroop, Trail-Making). Except for age, which was entered as covariate,...
OBJECTIVE: This pilot study investigated the mental health status of women after genital mutilation. Although experts have assumed that circumcised are more prone to developing psychiatric illnesses than general population, there has been little research confirm this claim. It was predicted female mutilation is associated with a high rate posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). METHOD: The psychological impact assessed in 23 Senegalese Dakar. Twenty-four uncircumcised served as comparison...
A neuropsychological paradigm is introduced that provides a measure of bias against disconfirmatory evidence (BADE), and its correspondence with delusions in people schizophrenia schizoaffective disorder was investigated. Fifty-two patients diagnosed or (36 were acutely delusional) 24 healthy control participants presented delusion-neutral pictures each trial, asked to rate the plausibility four written interpretations scenario depicted by picture. Subsequently, new provided background...
A significant number of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) fail to benefit sufficiently from treatments. This study aimed evaluate whether certain OCD symptom dimensions were associated cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) outcome.Symptoms 104 CBT-treated in-patients assessed the clinician-rated Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale checklist. Logistic regression analyses examined outcome predictors.The most frequent symptoms aggressive and contamination obsessions, compulsive...
Studies have shown that certain Internet interventions can help alleviate depression. However, many such contain personal support elements, making it difficult to ascertain whether the program or drives effects. are needed investigate contribute symptom reduction even when they delivered without support, and among severely depressed individuals who often receive other forms of treatment. This randomized controlled trial aimed examine effect an intervention was deployed ("Deprexis") adults...
Theoretical models of persecutory delusions have emphasized the impact reasoning biases and negative emotion at early stages symptom formation. However, causal mechanisms remain unclear. This study tests hypothesis that state anxiety will increase paranoid ideation this be moderated by level individual vulnerability mediated tendency to jump conclusions. Healthy participants (n = 90) with varying levels (psychosis symptoms assessed Community Assessment Psychic Experiences) were randomly...
Background Although antipsychotic medication still represents the treatment of choice for schizophrenia, its objective impact on symptoms is only in medium-effect size range and at least 50% patients discontinue course treatment. Hence, clinical researchers are intensively looking complementary therapeutic options. Metacognitive training schizophrenia (MCT) a group intervention that seeks to sharpen awareness cognitive biases (e.g. jumping conclusions) seem underlie delusion formation...