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Understanding, treating, and renaming grandiosedelusions: A qualitative study
(2019-11)
Background.Grandiose delusions are arguably the most neglected psychotic experience in research.
Objectives.We aimed to discover from patients: whether grandiose delusions have harmful consequences; the psychological ...
Automated virtual reality (VR) cognitive therapy for patients with psychosis: study protocol for a single-blind parallel group randomised controlled trial (gameChange).
(2019-08)
Introduction Many patients with psychosis experience everyday social situations as anxiety-provoking. The fears can arise, for example, from paranoia, hallucinations, social anxiety or negative-self beliefs. The fears lead ...
The comments of voices on the appearance of patients with psychosis: ‘the voices tell me that I am ugly’
(2019-09)
Background:There are high rates of obesity and low self-esteem in patients with psychosis. The occurrence of negative voice content directly about appearance is therefore plausible. Derogatory comments about appearance are ...
Barriers and facilitators of loaded self-managed exercises and physical activity in people with patellofemoral pain: understanding the feasibility of delivering a multicentred randomised controlled trial, a UK qualitative study
(2019-05)
Objectives: There is an emergent body of evidence supporting exercise therapy and physical activity in the management of musculoskeletal pain. The purpose of this study was to explore potential barriers and facilitators ...
The Functional Consequences of Social Attention for Memory-guided Attention Orienting and Anticipatory Neural Dynamics
(2019-02)
Social attention when viewing natural social (compared to non-social) images has functional consequences on contextual memory in healthy human adults. In addition to attention affecting memory performance, strong evidence ...
Effectiveness of Vitamin D Supplementation in the Management of Multiple Sclerosis: A Systematic Review
(2019-03)
The main objective was to examine the extent of effect vitamin D in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) on pathology and symptoms. A literature search was performed in November 2018 (CRD42018103615).
Eligibility criteria: randomised ...
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Nightmares for Patients with Persecutory Delusions (Nites): An Assessor-Blind, Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
(2019-05)
Objective:Nightmares are relatively common in patients experiencing psychosis but rarely assessed or treated. Nightmares may maintain persecutory delusions by portraying fears in sensory-rich detail. We tested the potential ...
Subclinical anxiety and depression are associated with deficits in attentional target facilitation, not distractor inhibition
(2019-06)
Mood and anxiety disorders are associated with deficits in attentional control
involving emotive and non-emotive stimuli. Current theories focus on impaired
attentional inhibition of distracting stimuli in producing these ...
Suicidal ideation and behaviour in patients with persecutory delusions: Prevalence, symptom associations, and psychological correlates
(2019-07)
Background:To determine the prevalence of suicidal ideation and behaviour - and their correlates - in patients with persecutory delusions.
Methods:110 patients with persecutory delusions in the context of non-affective ...
Automated psychological therapy using virtual reality (VR) for patients with persecutory delusions: study protocol for a single-blind parallel-group randomised controlled trial (THRIVE)
(2019-01)
Persecutory delusions are a major psychiatric problem and are associated with a wide range of adverse outcomes. Our theoretical model views these delusions as unfounded threat beliefs which persist due to defence behaviours ...