The development of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

Buchanan, Roderick D.

doi:10.1002/1520-6696(199404)30:2<148::aid-jhbs2300300204>3.0.co;2-9

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“…Healthy subjects were screened for possible psychopathology with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) (Buchanan 1994). Any presumed healthy subject scoring more than two standard deviations from the mean on any MMPI scale was excluded.…”

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Pro-inflammatory biomakers in depression: Treatment with venlafaxine

Piletz

Halaris²,

Iqbal³

et al. 2009

The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry

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High levels of pro-inflammatory biomarkers have been reported in depression. In the present study, five pro-inflammatory biomarkers were measured in the blood of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). Biomarker levels were compared to age- and sex-matched healthy subjects. Patients with MDD had significantly higher baseline levels of tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNFalpha, P=0.04), interleukin-1beta (IL1beta, P=0.03), and monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1; P=0.02) compared to controls. There were no differences between groups in levels of cell determinant-40 ligand (CD40L) and C-reactive protein (CRP). A subset of the MDD patients consented to undergo treatment with venlafaxine (an SNRI: at lower doses a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor; at higher doses also a norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor) for 8 weeks. By week 8, all treatment completers had responded therapeutically. However, levels of TNFalpha, IL1beta, and MCP-1 remained elevated. A concave quadratic equation described the associations between plasma venlafaxine concentrations and IL1beta (P=0.03), TNFalpha (P=0.09), and MCP-1 (P=0.02), suggesting that these biomarkers may have become selectively lowered in the serotonergic dose range of venlafaxine. This is the first report of venlafaxine's possible effect on pro-inflammatory biomarkers.

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Section: Study Subjects: Selection Grouping Assessments and Treatmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pro-inflammatory biomakers in depression: Treatment with venlafaxine

Piletz

Halaris²,

Iqbal³

et al. 2009

The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry

122

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“…MIRT models were developed for situations where distinct multiple traits are involved in producing the manifest responses for an item. A special case of the MIRT model applies to the situation where the instrument consists of several subscales with each measuring a different latent trait, such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI; Buchanan, 1994). In the IRT literature, such a model has been named as the multi-unidimensional model (Sheng & Wikle, 2007) and is the major focus of the study.…”

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Bayesian Estimation of a Multi-Unidimensional Graded Response IRT Model

Kuo

Sheng

2015

Behaviormetrika

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Unidimensional graded response models are useful when items are designed to measure a unified latent trait. They are limited in practical instances where the test structure is not readily available or items are not necessarily measuring the same underlying trait. To overcome the problem, this paper proposes a multi-unidimensional normal ogive graded response model under the Bayesian framework. The performance of the proposed model was evaluated using Monte Carlo simulations. It was further compared with conventional polytomous models under simulated and real test situations. The results suggest that the proposed multi-unidimensional model is more general and flexible, and offers a better way to represent test situations not realized in unidimensional models.

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“…Their research produced data through a number of clinical scales (commonly recognized psychiatric classifications), including social introversion, hypochondriasis, depression, hysteria, psychopathic tendencies, masculinity-femininity identity issues, paranoia, psychasthenia, schizophrenia, and hypomania (ibid. It was these validity scales that would later account for the MMPI's rapid translation into industry, government, and education (Dahlstrom 1992;Buchanan 1994). To this largely pioneering work on the psychometrics of personality types, Hathaway and McKinley supplemented a further, novel dimension, one that redressed their inventory's putative rigor.…”

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Of Psychometric Means: Starke R. Hathaway and the Popularization of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

Schilling¹,

Casper²

2015

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The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was developed at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in the 1930s and 1940s. It became a highly successful and highly controversial psychometric tool. In professional terms, psychometric tools such as the MMPI transformed psychology and psychiatry. Psychometric instruments thus readily fit into the developmental history of psychology, psychiatry, and neurology; they were a significant part of the narrative of those fields' advances in understanding, intervening, and treating people with mental illnesses. At the same time, the advent of such tools also fits into a history of those disciplines that records the rise of obsessional observational and evaluative techniques and technologies in order to facilitate patterns of social control that became typical during the Progressive Era in the United States and after. It was those patterns that also nurtured the resistance to psychometrics that emerged during the Vietnam War and after.

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The development of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

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Pro-inflammatory biomakers in depression: Treatment with venlafaxine

Pro-inflammatory biomakers in depression: Treatment with venlafaxine

Bayesian Estimation of a Multi-Unidimensional Graded Response IRT Model

Of Psychometric Means: Starke R. Hathaway and the Popularization of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

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