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Career Development in Schizophrenia: A Heuristic Framework
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2005-06)
Adults with schizophrenia continue to have poor rates of competitive employment. We have learned how to support individuals in the workplace with supported employment (SE); but have paid limited attention to early vocational ...
Effects of alcoholism severity and smoking on executive neurocognitive function
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2009-01)
Aims Neurocognitive deficits in chronic alcoholic men are well documented. Impairments include memory, visual–spatial processing, problem solving and executive function. The cause of impairment could include direct effects ...
Striatal monoamine terminals in Lewy body dementia and Alzheimer's disease
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2004-06)
We used positron emission tomography (PET) with (+)-[ 11 C]dihydrotetrabenazine ([+]-[ 11 C]DTBZ) to examine striatal monoaminergic presynaptic terminal density in 20 patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), 25 with ...
The Role of Clinical Information Technology in Depression Care Management
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006-01)
We examine the literature on the growing application of clinical information technology in managing depression care and highlight lessons learned from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s national program “Depression in Primary ...
The Symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Adolescence and Adulthood
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-12)
This article describes the symptoms of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) manifested by 405 individuals between the ages of 10 and 53 years, all of whom had an ASD diagnosis. Data were collected using the Autism Diagnostic ...
The National Survey of American Life: a study of racial, ethnic and cultural influences on mental disorders and mental health
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2004-11)
The objectives of the National Survey of American Life (NSAL) are to investigate the nature, severity, and impairment of mental disorders among national samples of the black and non-Hispanic white (n = 1,006) populations ...
Association of a single nucleotide polymorphism in neuronal acetylcholine receptor subunit alpha 5 (CHRNA5) with smoking status and with ‘pleasurable buzz’ during early experimentation with smoking
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008-09)
Aims To extend the previously identified association between a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in neuronal acetylcholine receptor subunit alpha-5 (CHRNA5) and nicotine dependence to current smoking and initial ...
Adolescent inhalant use, abuse and dependence
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2009-07)
Aims To compare adolescent inhalant users without DSM-IV inhalant use disorders (IUDs) to youth with IUDs (i.e. abuse or dependence) across demographic, psychosocial and clinical measures. Design Cross-sectional survey ...
HPA axis activity in patients with panic disorder: review and synthesis of four studies
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2007)
Dysregulation of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis may play a role in panic disorder. HPA studies in patients with panic disorder, however, have produced inconsistent results. Seeking to understand the ...