schizophrenia is a chronic psychotic disorder with unknown etiology that causes cognitive impairment, affecting thinking, behavior, social function, sleep and dream content. this study considered the dream content of patients with schizophrenia, siblings of patients with schizophrenia, patients with psychiatric diagnoses other than schizophrenia, and a group of healthy controls. the aim of this...

To determine the relationship between the genetic and environmental risk factors for externalizing psychopathology and mental wellbeing, we examined detailed measures of emotional, social and psychological wellbeing, and a history of alcohol-related problems and smoking behavior in the last year in 1,386 individual twins from same-sex pairs from the MIDUS national US sample assessed in 1995. Ch...

this paper describes and discusses the psychopathology and demographic data of 922 schizophernic inpatients (aged 15-66) who had been diagnosed according to dsm-iii criteria in state mental hospitals of iran. data were collected via semistructured interviews (during 1985-91) by psychologists and trained research assistants from the tehran psychiatric institute. in this research depressed mood, ...

OBJECTIVES Examine the contribution of sleep problems and indicators of inadequate sleep to psychopathology among children after accounting for shared risk and comorbid psychopathology. METHODS Secondary analyses of cross-sectional data on 4- to 11-year-old (N = 1,550) children without chronic illness or developmental delay or disability. Parents provided information about sleep problems, ind...

The NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project represents a welcome effort to circumvent the limitations of psychiatric categories as phenotypes for psychopathology research. Here, we describe the hierarchical and dimensional structure of phenotypic psychopathology and illustrate how this structure provides phenotypes suitable for RDoC research on neural correlates of psychopathology. A hiera...

Shortcomings of approaches to classifying psychopathology based on expert consensus have given rise contemporary efforts classify quantitatively. In this paper, we review progress in achieving a quantitative and empirical classification psychopathology. A substantial literature indicates that is generally more dimensional than categorical. When the discreteness versus continuity treated as rese...

Objective: The study aimed to clarify and refine the conceptual framework of cumulative stressors trauma (CST) dynamics, its relationships centrality an event identity (COE), existential annihilation anxieties (EAA), psychopathology. propose test a model in which CST affects psychopathology directly greater extent indirectly through COE four different types identity-based EAA (personal/psychic ...

OBJECTIVE Familial loading and crucial outcomes of family history of psychopathology in psychiatric disorders have long been recognized. There has been ample literature providing convincing evidence for the importance of family psychopathology in development of emotional disturbances in children as well as worse outcomes in the course of psychiatric disorders. More often, maternal psychopatholo...