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Brief Report: Brief Syntactic Analysis in Asperger Syndrome: A Preliminary Study
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-02)
Professional help use among Black Americans: Implications for unmet need
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1984-10)
Seeking professional help for personal problems: Black American's use of health and mental health services
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1985-09)
This article explored the use of health and mental health services for serious personal problems in a national sample of adult black Americans. The results indicated low usage of the mental health sector in response to ...
Racial Identity, Parental Support, and Alcohol Use in a Sample of Academically At-Risk African American High School Students
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2004-09)
This study examined racial identity and parental support as predictors of alcohol use in a sample of 488 African American adolescents. Two dimensions of racial identity were investigated: (1) racial centrality (i.e., the ...
The influence of racial factors on psychiatric diagnosis: A review and suggestions for research
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1989-12)
Research on race and diagnosis initially focused on black-white differences in depression and schizophrenia. Statistics showing a higher treated prevalence of schizophrenia and a lower prevalence of depression for blacks ...
Summary of a National Institute of Mental Health workshop: developing animal models of anxiety disorders
(Springer-Verlag, 2001-10)
Rationale: There exists a wide range of animal models and measures designed to assess anxiety or fearfulness. However, the relationship between these models and clinical anxiety symptoms and syndromes is unclear. The ...
Beyond the Individual: Toward a Nomological Network of Organizational Empowerment
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2004-09)
Empowerment research has generally been limited to the individual level of analysis. Efforts to study empowerment beyond the individual require conceptual frameworks suggesting attributes that define the construct and guide ...
Brain imaging evidence of preclinical Alzheimer's disease in normal aging
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006-04)
Objective This study was designed to test the hypothesis that baseline glucose metabolism and medial temporal lobe brain volumes are predictive of cognitive decline in normal older people. Methods We performed ...
Decreased striatal monoaminergic terminals in olivopontocerebellar atrophy and multiple system atrophy demonstrated with positron emission tomography
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1996-12)
We used [ 11 C]dihydrotetrabenazine, a new ligand for the type 2 vesicular monoamine transporter (VMAT2), with positron emission tomography to study striatal monoaminergic presynaptic terminals in 4 patients with multiple ...
Clinical calibration of DSM-IV diagnoses in the World Mental Health (WMH) version of the World Health Organization (WHO) Composite International Diagnostic Interview (WMH-CIDI)
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2004-06)
An overview is presented of the rationale, design, and analysis plan for the WMH-CIDI clinical calibration studies. As no clinical gold standard assessment is available for the DSM-IV disorders assessed in the WMH-CIDI, ...