MMPI profile characteristics in testable brain-damaged patients within several age/diagnostic categories.

1972 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 146-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia L. Sand
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Categories ◽  
Profile Characteristics ◽  
Mmpi Profile

Ability to Simulate Normalcy as a Function of Differential Psychopathology

1981 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-21
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Bonfilio ◽  
Robert D. Lyman
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Diagnostic Categories ◽  
Essentially Normal ◽  
Perceptual Distortions ◽  
Simulation Task ◽  
Mmpi Profile

Experiments on the simulation of MMPI profile types have generally neglected the possibility that individuals manifesting different forms of psychopathology may differ in ability to simulate normalcy. This thesis was tested by grouping college students (22 women and 13 men) into diagnostic categories on the basis of their own MMPI profiles and then comparing group MMPI profiles generated on a simulation task. Results indicated that simulations produced by the normal, neurotic, and psychopathic groups were essentially normal while those produced by the psychotic and hypomanic groups were clearly pathological. These results are discussed in terms of the requirements of the simulation task and the possibility that perceptual distortions which are concomitants of more severe forms of psychopathology may explain the findings.

Multiple MMPI Profiles of Suicidal Persons

1967 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 401-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alcon G. Devries ◽  
Edwin S. Shneidman
Keyword(s):  
Suicidal Intent ◽  
Clinical Syndromes ◽  
Profile Changes ◽  
Profile Characteristics ◽  
Mmpi Profile

This study showed that changes in degree of suicidal syndrome were difficult to detect in MMPI profiles. Any changes which occurred were in terms of a person's own profile characteristics. Interperson profile changes did not decrease significantly with increases in suicidal intent. It was suggested that suicidal persons with different clinical syndromes have also different suicidal syndromes. This would indicate that the establishment of suicidal MMPI profile syndromes can best be accomplished if persons with homogeneous rather than the heterogeneous syndromes are grouped together for comparison purposes.

The Psychophysiology of Anxiety and Mood Disorders

2017 ◽  
Vol 225 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Lang ◽  
Lisa M. McTeague ◽  
Margaret M. Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Heart Rate ◽  
Brain Function ◽  
Physiological Reactivity ◽  
Research Domain Criteria ◽  
Diagnostic Systems ◽  
Psychophysiological Reactivity ◽  
Diagnostic Categories ◽  
New Research ◽  
Research Domain

Abstract. Several decades of research are reviewed, assessing patterns of psychophysiological reactivity in anxiety patients responding to a fear/threat imagery challenge. Findings show substantive differences in these measures within principal diagnostic categories, questioning the reliability and categorical specificity of current diagnostic systems. Following a new research framework (US National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH], Research Domain Criteria [RDoC]; Cuthbert & Insel, 2013 ), dimensional patterns of physiological reactivity are explored in a large sample of anxiety and mood disorder patients. Patients’ responses (e.g., startle reflex, heart rate) during fear/threat imagery varied significantly with higher questionnaire measured “negative affect,” stress history, and overall life dysfunction – bio-marking disorder groups, independent of Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals (DSM). The review concludes with a description of new research, currently underway, exploring brain function indices (structure activation, circuit connectivity) as potential biological classifiers (collectively with the reflex physiology) of anxiety and mood pathology.

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