What is underneath all that stuff? A Q-methodological exploration of profiles of beliefs and vulnerabilities in hoarding disorder.

Background: Hoarding disorder (HD) can be understood through the cognitive behavioural model in the context of vulnerability factors (for example, personality traits, co-morbidities, traumatic life events) and beliefs about possessions (for example, identity, emotional attachment, memory, utility). Less is known about the strength of these hypothesised beliefs, or how they interact within the hoarding population, with researchers suggesting that specifying beliefs would improve treatment outcomes.

Aim: The current study explored beliefs in HD, utilising Q-methodology to explore both categories of beliefs and the interactions between these.

The roles of intolerance of uncertainty, anxiety sensitivity and distress tolerance in hoarding disorder compared with OCD and healthy controls.

Background: It is suggested that the different psychological vulnerability factors of intolerance of uncertainty (IU), anxiety sensitivity (AS) and distress tolerance (DT) may be in important in hoarding disorder (HD). However, the extent to which these factors are specific to HD compared with other disorders remains unclear.

Aims: The current study aimed to investigate differences in IU, AS and DT in three groups: HD (=66), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD; =59) and healthy controls (HCs; =63).

Investigation into activation of dysfunctional schemas in euthymic bipolar disorder following positive mood induction.

OBJECTIVES. There are dysfunctional cognitions that may be characteristic of bipolar disorder (BD), and which may be mood-state dependent. However, it has been found that such cognitions may be resilient to minor positive mood increase.

Clinical and treatment comparisons between adults with early- and late-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder.

It is often suggested that early onset of disorders leads to higher severity and greater treatment refractoriness. Previous research has investigated whether there are clinical and demographic differences between groups of individuals who have experienced onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) at an early or later age. Results suggest that individuals who report an early onset (EO) of the disorder report greater severity and persistence of symptoms.

Neuro-cognitive performance in children with type 1 diabetes--a meta-analysis.

Objective: To conduct meta-analyses of neuropsychological performance in young people with type 1 diabetes.

Methods: Meta-analysis of 24 studies. Studies published between 1980 and 2005 were identified.

Measuring disability in patients with neurodegenerative disease using the 'Yesterday Interview'.

Objectives: To illustrate the use of time-budget methodology as a means of measuring disability within the framework of the World Health Organisation (WHO) International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in a mixed group of patients with neurodegenerative disease.

Methods: A semi-structured interview method (the 'Yesterday Interview') was used to reconstruct the preceding 24-hour period in terms of activity, social and environmental context, and subjective enjoyment. Data were collected on 40 elderly control subjects and a sample of 99 community based patients diagnosed with either Parkinson's disease without or with dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Dementia with Lewy bodies, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy or Multiple System Atrophy.