Kamilla Portala

Uppsala University | UU · Department of Neuroscience

The West-Haven Multidimensional Pain Inventory (MPI) can be used to describe behavioural and psychosocial consequences of long-term pain but little is known about how MPI items and MPI subgroups relate to goals that patients find important in rehabilitation. Life satisfaction measured by the LiSat-11 checklist can be defined as an individual's perc...

Life satisfaction can be defined as a measure of a patient's perception of the difference between his reality and his needs or wants. Here we compare life satisfaction in patients with long-term pain to a reference group sampled from the normal population, and relate the results to pain intensity and to demographic factors. Questionnaires containin...

Wilson disease (WD) is a recessively inherited copper storage disorder mainly affecting liver and brain. Genotype/phenotype correlations have been report ed but as yet not regarding psychic symptoms. Our aim was to investigate if a correlation might exist between genotype and phenotype concerning psychopathology and/or personality traits in patient...

To examine general sleep habits and sleep disturbances among patients with treated Wilson's disease (WD), and in comparison with an age- and sex-matched reference group (RG). Twenty-four patients with WD with a mean (+/-s) age of 35.1 +/- 8.7 years and a disease duration of 17.7 +/- 5.1 years were investigated using a standardized sleep questionnai...

The study aimed to describe the neuropsychological profiles in patients with treated Wilson's disease (WD). The series included 19 symptomatic and 2 asymptomatic patients with a mean age of 35.3 ± 9.2 years. They were tested with the Automated Psychological Test system (APT), a comprehensive computerised neuropsychological test battery. APT compris...

The aim was to elucidate the personality traits of patients with treated Wilsons disease (WD) in comparison to healthy volunteers. Twenty-five WD patients, ten females and 15 males, with a mean age of 35.2 +/- 8.3 years completed the Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP), a self-report inventory comprising 15 separate scales. The results were comp...

To examine the occurrence and severity of psychopathological symptoms in patients with treated Wilson's disease (WD) and to evaluate the clinical utility of a self-assessment. Twenty-six consecutive patients with confirmed WD were investigated using the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS) and the CPRS Self-rating Scale. The total C...

Thesis (doctoral)--Uppsala Universitet, 2001.