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  • Inequitable access to healthcare in Africa : reconceptualising the “accountability for reasonableness framework” to reflect indigenous principles 
    Ujewe, Samuel J.; Van Staden, C.W. (Werdie) (BMC, 2021-06-13)
    BACKGROUND : The “Accountability for Reasonableness” (A4R) framework has been widely adopted in working towards equity in health for sub-Saharan Africa (SAA). Its suitability for equitable health policy in Africa hinges, ...
  • The influence of conflicting medieval church and social discourses on individual consciousness : dissociation in the visions of Hadewijch of Brabant 
    Kruger, Christa (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2009-10)
    This article examines the influence of the conflicting discourses in the medieval church and its social context on the subconscious experiences of Hadewijch of Brabant, a 13th century Flemish visionary, mystical author, ...
  • Institutional abuse and societal silence : an emerging global problem 
    Stavropoulos, Pam; Dorahy, Martin J.; Kruger, Christa; Lewis-Fernández, Roberto; Martínez-Taboas, Alfonso; Sar, Vedat; Brand, Bethany L. (SAGE, 2014-01)
    No abstract available.
  • Interrelations between pain, stress and executive functioning 
    Feller, Liviu; Feller, Gal; Ballyram, Theona; Chandran, Rakesh; Lemmer, Johan; Khammissa, Razia Abdool Gafaar (Sage, 2020-08)
    AIM: The purpose of this narrative review is to discuss the interrelations between pain, stress and executive functions. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE : Self-regulation, through executive functioning, exerts control over ...
  • Is conversion a dissociative symptom? 
    Kruger, Christa; Van Staden, C.W. (Werdie) (Leopolis agency, 2003)
    BACKGROUND: DSM-IV continues to classify conversion disorder separately from the dissociative disorders, together with the somatoform disorders. This is done on the basis that conversion disorder presents with bodily ...
  • The lifetime prevalence of psychiatric diagnoses in an academic gender reassignment service 
    Grobler, Gerhard Paul (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2017-11)
    PURPOSE OF THE REVIEW : To review the literature regarding the prevalence of mental health concerns, including psychiatric diagnoses in the TGNC community. RECENT FINDINGS : Gender dysphoria is not the only mental health ...
  • Limited access to an individual's mental content - a constraint on the strength of our knowledge in the courts 
    Van Staden, C.W. (Werdie) (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2009-10)
    The role of neuroscience on the limited access of psychiatrists and other parties to the mental content of an individual and the use in courts.
  • The lipid-lowering effects of lomitapide are unaffected by adjunctive apheresis in patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia - a post-hoc analysis of a phase 3, single-arm, open-label trial 
    Stefanutti, Claudia; Blom, Dirk J.; Averna, Maurizio R.; Meagher, Emma A.; Theron, Hendrik Du Toit; Marais, A. David; Hegele, Robert A.; Sirtori, Cesare R.; Shah, Prediman K.; Gaudet, Daniel; Vigna, Giovanni B.; Sachais, B.S.; Di Giacomo, S.; Du Plessis, Anna M.E.; Bloeden, LeAnne T.; Balser, J.; Rader, Daniel J.; Cuchel, Marina (Elsevier, 2015-06)
    OBJECTIVE : Lomitapide (a microsomal triglyceride transfer protein inhibitor) is an adjunctive treatment for homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (HoFH), a rare genetic condition characterised by elevated low-density ...
  • Loss-of-function variants in schizophrenia risk and SETD1A as a candidate susceptibility gene 
    Takata, Atsushi; Xu, Bin; Ionita-Laza, Iuliana; Roos, J.L. (Johannes Louw); Gogos, Joseph A.; Karayiorgou, Maria (Elsevier, 2014-05)
    Loss-of-function (LOF) (i.e., nonsense, splice site, and frameshift) variants that lead to disruption of gene function are likely to contribute to the etiology of neuropsychiatric disorders. Here, we perform a systematic ...
  • Low-grade systemic inflammation and the workplace 
    Viljoen, Margaretha; Thomas (nee Negrao), Bianca Lee (IOS Press, 2021)
    BACKGROUND: Psychosocial and physical stressors can elicit the stress response, co-ordinated by interactions between neuroendocrine and inflammatory processes. The central role of the immune system, specifically low- grade ...
  • Major depressive disorder 
    Grobler, G. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2013-08)
    This treatment guideline draws on several international guidelines: (i) Practice Guidelines of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for the Treatment of Patients with Major Depressive Disorder, Second Edition; (ii) ...
  • Medical students on the value of role models for developing ‘soft skills’ - “That’s the way you do it” 
    Joubert, Pierre M.; Kruger, Christa; Bergh, Anne-Marie; Pickworth, Glynis Ellen; Van Staden, C.W. (Werdie); Roos, J.L. (Johannes Louw); Schurink, W.J.; Du Preez, Renata; Grey, Somarie V.; Lindeque, B. Gerhard (In House Publications, 2006)
    OBJECTIVE: The Soft Skills Project examined the professional development of medical students at the University of Pretoria, especially their doctor-patient interaction skills and professional socialisation. This paper ...
  • Medical students' experience and perceptions of their final rotation in psychiatry 
    Du Preez, Renata; Bergh, Anne-Marie; Grimbeek, J. (Jackie); Van der Linde, Michael J. (Mike) (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2015-02)
    BACKGROUND : Evaluation of specific courses, rotations or attachments in medical education is common practice. OBJECTIVE : To evaluate medical students’ perceptions of their final psychiatry rotation of 7 weeks. METHODS ...
  • Medical students’ perceptions of accessibility and barriers to the utilisation of the University of Pretoria’s support systems 
    Alison, H.C.; Scribante, L.; Kruger, Christa (In House Publications, 2008-11)
    OBJECTIVE: A campus-based website was set up by medical students following their study that showed a low awareness and utilsation of support systems at the University of Pretoria. The aim of the website was to improve the ...
  • Medical students’ perceptions of their development of ‘soft skills’ Part I : a qualitative research methodology 
    Schurink, W.J.; Kruger, Christa; Bergh, Anne-Marie; Van Staden, C.W. (Werdie); Roos, J.L. (Johannes Louw); Pickworth, Glynis Ellen; Joubert, Pierre M.; Du Preez, Renata; Grey, Somarie V.; Lindeque, B. Gerhard (South African Academy of Family Practice, 2006)
    BACKGROUND: Following the introduction of a new, integrated, problem-oriented undergraduate medical curriculum at the University of Pretoria (UP) in 1997, a research project was undertaken to study interpersonal skills, ...
  • Medical students’ perceptions of their development of ‘soft skills’ Part II : The development of ‘soft skills’ through ‘guiding and growing’ 
    Bergh, Anne-Marie; Van Staden, C.W. (Werdie); Joubert, Pierre M.; Kruger, Christa; Pickworth, Glynis Ellen; Roos, J.L. (Johannes Louw); Schurink, W.J.; Du Preez, Renata; Grey, Somarie V.; Lindeque, B. Gerhard (South African Academy of Family Practice, 2006)
    BACKGROUND: This paper reports on medical students’ views on the ways in which their ‘soft skills’ were developed. It is the result of a study on soft skills among two groups of students before and after curriculum reform ...
  • Mental health symptoms among homeless shelter residents during COVID-19 lockdown in Tshwane, South Africa 
    Stonehouse, Joanelle; Grobler, Gerhard Paul; Bhoora, Urvisha; Janse van Rensburg, Michelle Nedine Schorn (AOSIS, 2023-04-03)
    BACKGROUND : In order to contain the spread of COVID-19 in South Africa during the national state of emergency, the Gauteng Department of Social Development established temporary shelters and activated existing facilities ...
  • Meta-analysis of 32 genome-wide linkage studies of schizophrenia 
    Ng, M.Y.M.; Levinson, D.F.; Faraone, S.V.; Suarez, B.K.; DeLisi, L.E.; Arinami, T.; Riley, B.; Paunio, T.; Pulver, A.E.; Irmansya; Holmans, P.A.; Escamilla, M.; Wildenauer, D.B.; Williams, Neal M.; Laurent, Claude; Mowry, B.J.; Brzustowicz, L.M.; Maziade, M.; Sklar, P.; Garver, D.L.; Abecasis, G.R.; Lerer, B.; Fallin, M.D.; Gurling, H.M.D.; Gejman, P.V.; Lindholm, E.; Moises, H.W.; Byerley, W.; Wijsman, E.M.; Foraboso, P.; Tsuang, M.T.; Hwu, H-G.; Okazaki, Y.; Kendler, K.S.; Wormley, B.; Fanous, A.; Walsh, D.; O'Neill, F.A.; Peltonen, L.; Nestadt, G.; Lasseter, V.K.; Liang, K.Y.; Papadimitriou, G.M.; Dikeos, D.G.; Schwab, S.G.; Owen, M.J.; O'Donovan, M.C.; Norton, N.; Hare, E.; Raventos, H.; Nicolini, H.; Albus, M.; Maier, W.; Nimgaonkar, V.L.; Terenius, L.; Mallet, J.; Jay, M.; Godard, S.; Nertney, D.; Alexander, M.; Crowe, R.R.; Silverman, J.M.; Basset, A.S.; Roy, M-A.; Merette, C.; Pato, C.N.; Pato, M.T.; Roos, J.L. (Johannes Louw); Kohn, Y.; Amann-Zalcenstein, D.; Kalsi, G.; McQuillin, A.; Curtis, D.; Brynjolfson, J.; Sigmundsson, T.; Petursson, H.; Sanders, A.R.; Duan, J.; Jazin, E.; Myles-Worsley, M.; Karayiorgou, Maria; Lewis, C.M. (Nature Publishing Group, 2009-08)
    A genome scan meta-analysis (GSMA) was carried out on 32 independent genome-wide linkage scan analyses that included 3255 pedigrees with 7413 genotyped cases affected with schizophrenia SCZ) or related disorders. The primary ...
  • Methodological limitations to a study on interpersonal therapy 
    Roos, J.L. (Johannes Louw); Kruger, Christa; Bohmer, M.W. (Manfred) (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2013-06)
    Studies comparing pharmaco- v. psychotherapy in HIV-positive patients with depression are of great importance. These are vulnerable patients, both in a psychological sense and because of potential drug interactions. ...
  • Mild hypoxia is associated with quantitative EEG changes, but not with dissociative symptoms 
    Pretorius, F.; Smith, H.W.; Kruger, Christa; Le Roux, C.; Van der Linde, Michael J. (Mike); Groeneveld, Hendrik T.; Bartel, Peter R. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2006-06)
    BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Hypoxia at altitude may lead to mental changes resembling dissociative symptoms. This study examined whether hypoxia precipitates dissociative states in normal subjects and whether quantitative ...