Alpha-1-antichymotrypsin polymorphism in schizophrenia: frequency, age at onset and cognitive function.

abstract：:Alcohol-dependent patients face a substantial risk of relapse after detoxification. Though psychosocial stress and coping strategies are regarded as major contributing factors in returning to drinking, the direct effects of coping styles on relapse are not clear. In this treatment outcome study, a mixed gender sample ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Walter M,Gerhard U,Duersteler-MacFarland KM,Weijers HG,Boening J,Wiesbeck GA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actions of the new antiepileptic drug lamotrigine (LTG) were characterized using extracellular and whole cell patch clamp recordings from rat CA1 and CA3 pyramidal cells in vitro. The results suggest that LTG, beside its previously described effect on the fast sodium inward current, also modulates - presumably voltage...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Grunze H,von Wegerer J,Greene RW,Walden J

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports a replication study of a four-group cluster-analytic typology of depressed patients. Several hierarchial agglomerative clustering procedures were applied on the original patient sample using a slightly reduced variable pool. The best replication obtained used Ward's error sum of squares method and w...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Paykel ES,Henderson AJ

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intermittent short-lived episodes of depression were examined in a group of 20 recurrent suicidal attempters without major depression, classified misleadingly as borderline personality disorders on DSM-IIIR, during careful prospective follow-up for between 4 and 6 months. The duration of depressions clustered tightly ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Montgomery SA,Montgomery D,Baldwin D,Green M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentrations of adenosine 3'5'-cyclic monophosphate (cyclic AMP) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in manic-melancholic patients were studied. As control groups served patients suffering from other psychiatric disorders as well as neruological and orthopedic patients. The results showed no difference between the vari...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Geisler A,Bech P,Johannesen M,Rafaelsen OJ

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abnormalities in different parameters of the norepinephrine system have been widely described in major depression. The presence of alpha(2)-adrenoreceptors in blood platelets, similar to those in the brain, prompted us to evaluate them in depressed patients, as compared with healthy controls. METHODS:Fiftee...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Marazziti D,Baroni S,Masala I,Di Nasso E,Giannaccini G,Betti L,Lucacchini A,Cassano GB

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 56-year-old male parkinsonian patient developed a unique behavioral change following the oral administration of cinepazide, a cerebral vasodilator. This behavior consisted of an apparent infatuation with a ward nurse, which ceased after medication was discontinued. ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Hashimoto A,Hanada M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we performed an MRI study that revealed smaller volumes of the subregions of the cerebellar vermis in men and women with chronic schizophrenia. An issue that arose from that study was whether similar structural changes in the cerebellum are found in patients with first-episode schizophrenia. In the present...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Okugawa G,Nobuhara K,Takase K,Kinoshita T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with bipolar disorder are at a high risk for becoming obese. Adipokines are associated with depression and obesity via the inflammatory process. However, few studies have investigated the associations between depression and leptin, adiponectin and resistin levels in patients with bipolar disorder. W...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Lee HJ,Kim SH,Kim EY,Lee NY,Yu HY,Kim YS,Ahn YM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the circadian aspects of delayed sleep phase syndrome (DSPS) in 4 patients with DSPS, we recorded polysomnograms and rectal temperature before and after chronotherapy. The time interval (2.7 h) between sleep onset and rectal temperature minimum before chronotherapy was shorter than the time interval after c...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Ozaki N,Iwata T,Itoh A,Kogawa S,Ohta T,Okada T,Kasahara Y

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The region coding human leukocyte antigen (HLA) on chromosome 6q21 was shown to be associated with both the vulnerability to schizophrenia and presence of eye movement disturbances (EMD). The aim of this preliminary study was to investigate how individual class I and II HLA antigens in schizophrenic patients may be re...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Bogacki PA,Borkowska A,Wojtanowska-Bogacka M,Rybakowski JK

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Panic disorder (PD) is a common and often chronic psychiatric condition that can lead to considerable disability in daily life. Using [(18)F]fluorodeoxyglucose-PET, we examined brain baseline glucose metabolism in PD patients in comparison with normal controls and the changes in glucose metabolism after 12 w...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Kang EH,Park JE,Lee KH,Cho YS,Kim JJ,Yu BH

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The systematic recording of spontaneous electrodermal activity (EDA) on 23 normal subjects during 5 15-min sessions and the self-rating of anxious and/or depressive moods (Q-sort forced choice) shows a positive linear relationship between spontaneous EDA and anxious mood despite a low covariation between those two var...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： de Bonis M,Baqué EF

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Derangements of the gut microbiome have been linked to increased systemic inflammation and central nervous system disorders, including schizophrenia. This systematic review thus aimed to investigate the hypothesis that probiotic supplementation improves schizophrenia symptoms. METHODS:By using the keywords ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Ng QX,Soh AYS,Venkatanarayanan N,Ho CYX,Lim DY,Yeo WS

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence for an influence of directed attention on prepulse inhibition (PPI) of the acoustic startle reflex. However, the existing paradigms for the assessment of this effect have methodological problems and pitfalls. In particular, most previous studies used a paradigm which directed the attention...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Heekeren K,Meincke U,Geyer MA,Gouzoulis-Mayfrank E

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysfunctional mechanisms in the serotonergic system have been implicated in suicidal behavior among patients with schizophrenia. However, previous association analyses of major serotonin genes have provided inconsistent findings regarding their role in suicidal behavior. The goal of the current study was to identify s...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Bani-Fatemi A,Howe AS,Matmari M,Koga A,Zai C,Strauss J,De Luca V

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The usual method for extracting evoked potentials from EEG, the so-called averaging, is based on the hypothesis of the stationarity of the single responses in every EEG segment. Therefore, the possible variability of the single responses cannot be regarded. In this paper, a method for estimating single evoked response...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Heinze HJ,Künkel H

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute quantitative electroencephalographic effects of cigarette smoking were examined in 15 smokers within a repeated-measures design which assessed changes in power-spectral estimates following acute pre-treatment with placebo, a dose (20 mg) of mecamylamine, a dose (0.6 mg) of scopolamine and a combined dose of meca...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Knott VJ,Harr A,Ilivitsky V,Mahoney C

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depressive disorder (DD) is characterized by an inflammatory process and oxidative stress. Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), the expression of which increases in depression, is an enzyme involved in inflammation and free radical processes. The aim of our study was to assess the correlation between single nucleotide ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Gałecki P,Florkowski A,Bieńkiewicz M,Szemraj J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous evidence suggested the possible association of FK506 binding protein 5 (FKBP5) gene variants in bipolar disorder (BPD). OBJECTIVE:Given the need of refinement of the findings obtained in large but poorly phenotyped samples, this study investigated the possible role of variants within FKBP5 in a sma...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Calabrò M,Crisafulli C,Di Nicola M,Colombo R,Janiri L,Serretti A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Self-immolation (SI) is considered one of the most painful, dramatic, and at the same time most inexplicable methods of suicide, with a high social impact. Prevalence rates are particularly high in Iran, and in north-western Iran specifically. Here, we report sociodemographic, psychological, and psychiatric ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Ahmadpanah M,Rahighi AH,Haghighi M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Valproic acid or valproate (VA) is an anticonvulsant and mood-stabilizing drug primarily used in the treatment of epilepsy and bipolar disorder. Ziprasidone (ZPN) is an atypical antipsychotic drug used mainly for the treatment of schizophrenia. METHODS:This study is a part of our investigation on the c...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Karapidaki I,Ekonomopoulou MT,Akritopoulou K,Anestakis D,Iakovidou-Kritsi Z

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is so far a possibly underestimated yet well-described sleep disorder. Its major impact is the vigorous sleep behavior that often results in injuries to the patient himself or to people sleeping nearby. We treated a 64-year-old male with a clinically and polysomnographically confirmed...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Kunz D,Bes F

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible involvement of anxiety and learning/memory processes in escape-directed (struggling) behavior in a two-trial swimming test was investigated in mice, as well as the differential effects that low doses of flumazenil (a benzodiazepine receptor antagonist) could display depending on the animals' anxiety level...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Ferré P,Fernández Teruel A,Escorihuela RM,García E,Zapata A,Tobeña A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As low-dose amphetamine stimulation of locomotor activity in the rat depends upon a mesolimbic dopaminergic substrate, neuroleptic antagonism of this behavior has been suggested as a model for studying antipsychotic activity. Animals in the present study received 21 days of chronic treatment with 1.0 mg/kg amphetamine...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Lynch MR,Kuhn HG,Carey RJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two studies experimentally induced colds slowed the speed of response in a serial reaction task. Responding was also slower during the incubation period of the illness, which shows that performance on such a task may be used to predict subsequent illness. Volunteers who had no significant clinical illness, but who ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Smith AP,Tyrrell DA,Al-Nakib W,Coyle KB,Donovan CB,Higgins PG,Willman JS

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between physical activity and mental health has been widely investigated, and several hypotheses have been formulated about it. Specifically, during the aging process, physical exercise might represent a potential adjunctive treatment for neuropsychiatric disorders and cognitive impairment, helping de...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Deslandes A,Moraes H,Ferreira C,Veiga H,Silveira H,Mouta R,Pompeu FA,Coutinho ES,Laks J

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Many studies have examined the effects of cerebrovascular changes on treatment response in geriatric depression. However, few such studies have examined the relationship between cerebrovascular changes and long-term prognosis. We examined the effects of cerebrovascular changes on the course of geriatric depre...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Yamashita H,Fujikawa T,Takami H,Yanai I,Okamoto Y,Morinobu S,Yamawaki S

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symptoms of anxiety suggest autonomic dysfunction and most of the psychotropic agents used to treat anxiety and affective disorders have strong autonomic effects. This article describes the utility and importance of analysis of heart rate and blood pressure time series to study cardiac autonomic function in psychiatri...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Yeragani VK

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest that the eye blink response to intense acoustic stimuli consists of two components that may occasionally result in waveforms with two peaks. In the present study, the prevalence, peak latencies, and peak magnitudes in responses exhibiting one or two peaks were investigated in healthy subjects in...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Meincke U,Light GA,Geyer MA,Braff DL

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00