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A retrospective study examined predictors of MMPI responses for a sample of 66 post-acute traumatic brain-injured patients. Years of education was found to be correlated to four clinical scales and two validity scales with the more educated subjects reporting less psychopathological symptoms. Those with higher Verbal IQs tended to score higher on the Hysteria scale and the Repression scale. Those with higher Performance IQs were found to be endorsing more items on the Hypochondriasis, Hysteria and Organic Symptoms scales. The Verbal-Performance (V-P) difference score was not found to be significantly predictive of indices of defensiveness. Depression was found to vary over time peaking between 1 and 3 years after injury. The results were discussed in terms of their implications for clinicians.
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PMID:MMPI correlates among post-acute TBI patients. 239 Jun 48

Based on a review of numerous studies conducted on normal, neurosurgical and brain-injured individuals, the right cerebral hemisphere appears to be dominant in the perception and identification of environmental and nonverbal sounds; the analysis of geometric and visual space (e.g., depth perception, visual closure); somesthesis, stereognosis, the maintenance of the body image; the production of dreams during REM sleep; the perception of most aspects of musical stimuli; and the comprehension and expression of prosodic, melodic, visual, facial, and verbal emotion. When the right hemisphere is damaged a variety of cognitive abnormalities may result, including hemi-inattention and neglect, prosopagnosia, constructional apraxia, visual-perceptual disturbances, and agnosia for environmental, musical, and emotional sounds. Similarly, a myriad of affective abnormalities may occur, including indifference, depression, hysteria, gross social-emotional disinhibition, florid manic excitement, childishness, euphoria, impulsivity, and abnormal sexual behavior. Patients may become delusional, engage in the production of bizzare confabulations and experience a host of somatic disturbances such as pain and body-perceptual distortions. Based on studies of normal and "split-brain" functioning, it also appears that the right hemisphere maintains a highly developed social-emotional mental system and can independently perceive, recall and act on certain memories and experiences without the aid or active reflective participation of the left. This leads to situations in which the right and left halves of the brain sometime act in an uncooperative fashion, which gives rise to inter-manual and intra-psychic conflicts.
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PMID:The right cerebral hemisphere: emotion, music, visual-spatial skills, body-image, dreams, and awareness. 246 90

The use of MRI in clinical psychiatry is evaluated on the basis of over four years' experience. Of 931 psychiatric patients examined, 156 were found to manifest pathological cerebral conditions, a frequency of 17 per cent, as compared with 2 per cent (2/101) among apparently healthy controls. The occurrence of intracerebral lesions, with exclusively psychiatric symptoms, is illustrated with case reports. The importance is stressed of early examination with neurodiagnostic imaging techniques in cases of psychiatric disorders where any of the following symptoms or preliminary diagnoses are present: atypical psychiatric features, first episode psychosis, late onset depression, dementia, HIV and other infections in conjunction with psychiatric symptoms, hysteria, and alcohol or drug abuse. The findings suggest MRI to be a useful supplementary diagnostic tool for improving the care of the psychiatric patient, while relieving the burden both on the patient's family and on mental health care resources.
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PMID:[Magnetic resonance tomography in psychiatry--clear benefits for health care services]. 258 13

In a sample of 74 normal adults, a typology of character structure based on the developmental theory of Piaget was used to predict performance on the MMPI. The typology's validity was assessed by examining its empirical relationship to 11 clinical scales of the MMPI. Significant differences among the character types were noted for 5 of the 11 scales examined (Hypochondriasis, Depression, Masculinity/femininity, Psychasthenia, and Ego strength). There were significant differences on three additional scales (Hysteria, Psychopathic deviate, and Hypomania) between subtypes of the most numerous character type, which included two-thirds of the subjects studied. Differences among the character types and subtypes were generally consistent with expectations.
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PMID:Character structure and performance on the MMPI. 262 5

Most previous psychologic and psychiatric studies of patients with fibromyalgia have utilized instruments that do not control for pain and therefore may be falsely interpreted as indicative of increased depression, hysteria, or hypochondriasis. Future studies must utilize psychiatric techniques that take into account a coexistent medical condition and such evaluation should include patients with varying levels of severity of fibromyalgia symptoms and utilization of health care.
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PMID:Psychiatric and psychologic aspects of fibromyalgia syndrome. 264 72

Fifteen studies on the relations between preoperative psychological evaluation and outcome of operation after lumbar discectomy are evaluated. Firstly, the methodological shortcomings are pointed out, and then the results are discussed. It is concluded that high ratings on the MMPI scales for hypochondria, depression and hysteria are shown to be correlated with poor operative outcome. Other MMPI scales, and other psychological tests may have the same correlation. Finally, it is discussed which studies are still required before preoperative psychological evaluation can be used as a routine check in cases of lumbar intervertebral disc herniation.
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PMID:[Preoperative psychological assessment prior to surgery in lumbar disk prolapse. A review of the literature]. 265 41

Common concepts of personality states and traits (hysteria, hypochondria, depression, neuroticism, extraversion) will be discussed concerning their relevance to describe pain patients phenomenologically. Further characteristics as sex, age, fear and aggressiveness are regarded. Perceptual styles (repression vs sensitization, augmentation vs reduction) and cognitive factors are briefly mentioned. Finally critical comments on methodological aspects of empirical pain patients' personality description will be outlined, which reflect the controversial discussion on possible association between personality and pain.
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PMID:[Pain and personality--a review of the literature with special reference to depressive syndromes]. 267 81

Ganser, in 1897, described a syndrome that the main symptoms were: Impaired consciousness, distorted communication (Maladjusted answers, looking like dementia nonsense). This syndrome was first included to hysteria. Gradually, the most striking aspect, approximate answers, has been stretch as regards to his pathogeny, to other concepts like post-traumatic disease, depression and especially schizophrenia. In this way, the Ganser's syndrome now cover a large scale of troubles related to perturbation of communication and with non psychopathologic relation to the primitive syndrome.
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PMID:[The Ganser syndrome and its ups and downs]. 267 90

This work wants to emphatize the role of the personality in the development of the algodystrophic syndrome. For this purpose 13 patients affected by algodystrophy of the hand and 23 with brachial plexus lesions were invited to fill in the M.M.P.I.; the patients suffering from algodystrophy reached higher scores on the Depression, Hysteria and Hypocondria scales.
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PMID:Algodystrophy and related psychological features. 273 3

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was analyzed in 30 patients with fibromyalgia and 30 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Eighteen statements on the hypochondriasis, depression and hysteria scales and 14 statements on the schizophrenia scale differentiated patients with fibromyalgia and RA. Patients with fibromyalgia had higher scores on 29 of the 32 statements. Patients with RA seemed appropriately concerned about health and the possibility of additional illness. By contrast, patients with fibromyalgia were more symptomatic and presented a more unusual and complex syndrome, raising the possibility of a somatoform disorder and also greater personal distress in these patients. On the basis of analyzing the scores of patients with RA, one can also conclude that physical illness alone is not sufficient to drive MMPI profiles into the abnormal range. Patients with fibromyalgia who have a similar degree of pain intensity compared with patients with RA (61.3 vs 60 on a scale of 100) have significantly more abnormal MMPI, and analysis of their MMPI suggest a more complex somatic syndrome and greater psychological disturbance.
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PMID:Is the MMPI invalid for assessing psychological disturbance in pain related organic conditions? 274 92


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