Neurotic Disorders - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Influence of personality on objective and subjective social support among patients with major depressive disorder: a prospective study.

29 Sep 2009 Personality and social support (SS) influence risk for depression and modify its outcome through multiple pathways. The impact of personality dimensions neuroticism and extraversion on SS among patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) has been ... Read more...

Neuroticism, intelligence, and intra-individual variability in elementary cognitive tasks: testing the mental noise hypothesis.

30 Jul 2009 Some studies show positive correlations between intraindividual variability in elementary speed measures (reflecting processing efficiency) and individual differences in neuroticism (reflecting instability in behaviour). The so-called neural noise ... Read more...

The question of drive vs. motive in psychoanalysis: a modest proposal.

21 Jul 2009 This essay explores the possibility of an alternative hypothesis to the prevailing psychoanalytic instinctual drive theory whose theoretical and clinical validity has been variously critiqued and challenged. Arguments are suggested in support of the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Neurotic Disorders - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Influence of personality on objective and subjective social support among patients with major depressive disorder: a prospective study. 29 Sep 2009
• Neuroticism, intelligence, and intra-individual variability in elementary cognitive tasks: testing the mental noise hypothesis. 30 Jul 2009
• The question of drive vs. motive in psychoanalysis: a modest proposal. 21 Jul 2009
• The personality domains and styles of the five-factor model are related to incident depression in Medicare recipients aged 65 to 100. 29 Jun 2009
• Commentary on Sander M. Abend's "Freud, transference, and therapeutic action". 29 Jun 2009
• Freud's technique: more from experience than theory. 29 Jun 2009
• Comments on Sander M. Abend's "Freud, transference, and therapeutic action". 29 Jun 2009
• Freud, transference, and therapeutic action. 29 Jun 2009
• Neuroticism and locus of control as moderators of the relationships of charismatic and autocratic leadership with burnout. 29 Jun 2009
• High neuroticism at age 20 predicts history of mental disorders and low self-esteem at age 35. 29 Jun 2009
• Personality correlates of financial behavior. 30 May 2009
• A culturally sensitive study of premenstrual and menstrual symptoms among Chinese women. 30 May 2009
• Fear of recurrence in long-term testicular cancer survivors. 30 May 2009
• Public health significance of neuroticism. 29 Apr 2009
• Compensatory conscientiousness and health in older couples. 29 Apr 2009
• Testing personality-coping diatheses for negative and positive affect: a longitudinal evaluation. 29 Apr 2009
• Exploring relationships for visceral and somatic pain with autonomic control and personality. 21 Apr 2009
• Female students' disordered eating and the big five personality facets. 15 Apr 2009
• Levels of circulating interleukin-1 receptor antagonist and C-reactive protein in long-term survivors of testicular cancer with chronic cancer-related fatigue. 7 Apr 2009
• Poor decision making among older adults is related to elevated levels of neuroticism. 5 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Neurotic Disorders'

Definition: Disorders in which the symptoms are distressing to the individual and recognized by him or her as being unacceptable. Social relationships may be greatly affected but usually remain within acceptable limits. The disturbance is relatively enduring or recurrent without treatment.

Descriptor UI: D009497

Alternative terms: Neurotic Disorders; Disorder, Neurotic; Disorders, Neurotic; Neurotic Disorder; Psychoneuroses; Neuroses;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.650;

Online Note: use NEUROTIC DISORDERS to search NEUROSES 1966-80

History Note: 81; was NEUROSES 1963-80