Schizophrenic patients who develop postoperative confusion have an increased norepinephrine and cortisol response to surgery.

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Suicidal behavior (SB) in bipolar disorder (BD) is a complex multifactorial event resulting from an interaction of genetic, neurobiological and psychosocial factors. Recent studies identified new possible mechanisms, suggesting a role for sirtuins (SIRTs 1-7), a family of nicotinamide adenine dinucleoti...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Nivoli A,Porcelli S,Albani D,Forloni G,Fusco F,Colom F,Vieta E,Serretti A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of 27 patients with definite (n = 20) or probable (n = 7) RDC major depressive disorder underwent 2 sleep EEGs and 1 TRH test while in a drug-free depressive phase. A short mean REM latency (less than 60 min) identified 55.5% of major depressives while added use of blunted TSH responses (delta max. less than 5...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Pugnetti L,Scarone S,Brambilla F

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The search for specific predepressive personality factors has a long tradition in psychiatry. Studies in which assessments were made prospectively, before the onset of a first-ever episode of the illness, are, however, rare. In the present report from the Lundby Study we have investigated premorbid, mainly personality...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Rorsman B,Gräsbeck A,Hagnell O,Isberg PE,Otterbeck L

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of febarbamat and pipamperon on agitational and aggressive states of patients with diffuse psycho-organic syndrome were compared in a double-blind study on patients over 60 years of age requiring nursing care. Such disorders, particularly in the field of psychiatric gerontology, represent an increasing pro...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Brenner HD,Alberti L,Keller F,Schaffner L

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, single-unit extracellular recording was used in male Wistar rats to compare the effects of a single dose (acute treatment) and a 21-day regimen (long-term treatment) with clomipramine (2.5 mg/kg) and fluoxetine (1.0 mg/kg) on the spontaneous firing rate of nucleus accumbens (NAcc) neurons connect...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Rodríguez-Landa JF,Contreras CM,Gutiérrez-García AG,Bernal-Morales B

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth hormone (GH) possesses multiple metabolic effects, in particular with regard to glucose and lipid homeostasis. Studies on the effects of GH on body weight and food and water intake are scarce and have yielded controversial results. We investigated the effects of different modes of GH administration on the param...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Schulz C,Wieczorek I,Reschke K,Lehnert H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last few years, the working group 'Psychophysiology' of the Association for Methodology and Documentation in Psychiatry (AMDP) discussed the possibility of the establishment of defined EEG modules in psychiatry. It was the aim to create a common data pool in order to be able to have access to larger data se...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Winterer G,Dorn H,Herrmann WM,Gallhofer B,Bauer U,Hegerl U,Ihl R,Dierks T,Maurer K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like the industry, the medical profession takes now an interest in quality assurance programs. In the field of psychiatry, the quality assessment of antidepressive drug prescriptions is an ideal target. A brief review of previous studies reveals a high prevalence of the use of psychotropes among the general population...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Wilmotte J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suicide is a major problem for psychiatry. Depression is the most common mental disorder related to suicidal behavior. The present study aimed at investigating the relationship between the symptomatology related to death, dying, and suicide and neurobiological factors in depressed patients. Fifty patients aged 21-60 y...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Fountoulakis KN,Iacovides A,Fotiou F,Nimatoudis J,Bascialla F,Ioannidou C,Kaprinis G,Bech P

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular measurements were used as indicators of autonomic arousal during an orthostatic challenge test without medication and after a test dose of 150 mg perazine in 20 acute schizophrenic patients. Unmedicated schizophrenics showed elevated heart rates and elevated systolic and diastolic blood pressure in comp...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Volz HP,Mackert A,Diefenbacher A,Friedrich A,Gaebel W,Müller H,Stock G,Möller HJ

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clozapine is an effective atypical antipsychotic that has high affinity for many neurotransmitter receptors. Among the adverse effects of clozapine, urinary incontinence is commonly found and is suggested to be caused by alpha-adrenergic blockade. We tested the hypothesis that clozapine-induced urinary incontinence is...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Hsu JW,Wang YC,Lin CC,Bai YM,Chen JY,Chiu HJ,Tsai SJ,Hong CJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:The popular recreational drug, (+/-)3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA; 'Ecstasy') is a potent and selective brain serotonin (5-HT) neurotoxin in animals. MDMA-induced 5-HT neurotoxicity can be demonstrated using a variety of neurochemical, neuroanatomical and, more recently, functional measures of 5-HT neurons....

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Ricaurte GA,Yuan J,McCann UD

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lithium augmentation is a first-line strategy for depressed patients resistant to antidepressive therapy, but little is known about patients' subsequent long-term course or outcome predictors. We investigated long-term outcomes of unipolar depressed patients who had participated in a study on the effects of ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Adli M,Bschor T,Bauer M,Lucka C,Lewitzka U,Ising M,Uhr M,Mueller-Oerlinghausen B,Baethge C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans and several other mammals, a quantitative EEG analysis has been used to study the regulation of sleep-wake behavior. In all mammalian species studied, cortical EEG recorded during non-REM sleep (NREMS) is characterized by the occurrence of spindles and high voltage, slow waves (0.5-4.0 Hz). Furthermore, slow...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Lancel M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A considerable proportion of chronic non-organic pain patients suffer from insomnia, and alpha sleep has been suggested to be specifically associated with fibromyalgia. However, the clinical significance of those symptoms is not clear. This study was carried out to investigate this question. Twenty-six middle-aged, no...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Schneider-Helmert D,Whitehouse I,Kumar A,Lijzenga C

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In alcohol and other substance dependencies, patients often suffer relapse despite better knowledge and their intention to remain abstinent. A variety of neurotransmitter systems and their respective alterations due to the chronic drug intake are involved in mechanisms that facilitate relapse. It has been po...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Garbusow M,Sebold M,Beck A,Heinz A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The focus is on evaluating the relationships between early behavioural problems and biochemical variables at adult age and their significance for early criminality and violent behaviour in a life perspective. In the present study, using prospective longitudinal data, a sample of males with a history of early criminal ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Eklund J,Alm PO,af Klinteberg B

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Personality traits were assessed in a series of 148 patients classified according to Winokur into depression pure disease (DPD), depression spectrum disease (DSD) and sporadic depression (SD) with the addition of a fourth group: family history positive-others (FH + .O) comprised of patients with psychiatric disorders ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Perris C,Eisemann M,Ericsson U,von Knorring L,Perris H

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：:The responses of cortisol to acute administration of saline and of clonidine (2.5 micrograms/kg B.W.) were examined in 10 children and adolescents with major depressive disorder and in 10 age- and sex-matched controls. Clonidine administration did not inhibit cortisol secretion in controls or in patients, contrary to ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Brambilla F,Guareschi-Cazzullo A,Musetti C,Nobile P,Tacchini C

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol (MHPG) levels in 53 depressed women were compared to current suicidal thoughts or activity. Comparisons were also made between MHPG and past suicide attempts, number of past attempts, and seriousness of the worst attempt. There was a weak trend for current but not past suicidali...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Garvey MJ,Hollon SD,Tuason VB

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral benzodiazepine receptors (PBR) have been identified in peripheral organs as well as in brain glial cells. PBR differ from central benzodiazepine receptors (CBR) in their lack of coupling to the gamma-aminobutyric acid receptors and the chloride ion channels. We investigated the effect of 21 days administrat...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Leschiner S,Weizman R,Shoukrun R,Veenman L,Gavish M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative pharmaco-EEG has become a useful technique for determining pharmacodynamic parameters after CNS-active drug administration. Nevertheless, one of the most important problems faced by practitioners of pharmaco-EEG is the difficulty in evaluating drug-specific effects. In this article, a methodology for comp...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Dago KT,Luthringer R,Lengellé R,Rinaudo G,Macher JP

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge in neuropsychobiology continues to benefit from the use of drugs as 'tools' to alter neurochemical events as a means of studying interactions between the events and behaviour. Before drugs could play such a role, concepts about basic properties of living organism had to be refined. Techniques had to be inven...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Russell RW

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disturbances in the serotonergic neurotransmission system have been implicated in the etiology of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). As the importance of genetic factors is well established, genes encoding for proteins of the serotonergic pathway are important candidates to unravel the underlying genetic...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Zoroglu SS,Erdal ME,Erdal N,Ozen S,Alasehirli B,Sivasli E

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:10 long-term schizophrenic patients with tardive dyskinesia were studied over 14 weeks and maintained on their usual neuroleptic medications while anticholinergic antiparkinson drugs were employed and then discontinued, and the cycle then repeated. Discontinuation of anticholinergic medications resulted in improvement...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Burnett GB,Prange AJ Jr,Wilson IC,Jolliff LA,Creese IC,Synder SH

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is considered a prodromal phase of α-synucleinopathy like Parkinson disease (PD). PD is characterized by a progressive decline of dopamine (DA) in the striatum. Here we report the surprising increase in DA transporter density over successive years in an RBD patient treated...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Kunz D,Bes F

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing number of studies examining the relationship between suicide and lipid metabolism are based upon studies suggesting that cholesterol-lowering procedures may increase the risk of death due to suicide or impulsive-aggressive behavior. Leptin seems to be strongly associated with lipid metabolism. In the prese...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Atmaca M,Kuloglu M,Tezcan E,Ustundag B,Gecici O,Firidin B

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00