On the waveform of the acoustic startle blink in the paradigm of prepulse inhibition - methodological and physiological aspects.

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 AND AIM:Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is supposed to be not as effective in severe depression as it is in medium depression. We evaluated the treatment response to an ultra-high-frequency (UHF; 30 Hz) approach, which was used to maximize the rTMS efficacy in severely ill patients. METH...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Ullrich H,Kranaster L,Sigges E,Andrich J,Sartorius A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent findings indicate that the memory-impairing effects of benzodiazepines may preferentially involve the basolateral nucleus of the amygdala. To test this hypothesis we examined the effects on pretrial injection of diazepam into the central as compared to the lateral/basolateral amygdaloid nuclei on memory for a c...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Silva MA,Tomaz C

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:28 cases of suicide committed in a Swedish population subjected to repeated psychiatric investigations are described. Two groups of controls were selected from the same population: sex- and age-matched living persons (normal group) and sex-matched persons who had died from organic disease at ages corresponding to thos...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Hagnell O,Rorsman B

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,927 outpatients were included by 392 general practitioners in an open study in order to evaluate the safety of tianeptine in the ambulatory treatment of depression. The results of 1,858 depressed patients without melancholia and psychotic features, fulfilling DSM III criteria of Major Depressive Episode or Dysthymic...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Guelfi JD,Dulcire C,Le Moine P,Tafani A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:46 severely depressed inpatients received 10-hour intravenous infusions supplying a dose of 720 mg dibenzepin daily on 2 or some cases 3 successive days. The patients were kept under close psychiatric surveillance and their cardiovascular function was carefully monitored. The shorter infusions were as effective as inf...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Gastpar M,Cornu F,Faessler J,Haefliger A,Keller H,von Lerber W,Pagan J,Rem J

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma levels of free and conjugated 3,4-dihydroxyphenylethyleneglycol (DOPEG), the main deaminated metabolite of norepinephrine, were assayed in 48 depressed patients before initiating a treatment with either maprotiline, an inhibitor of norepinephrine reuptake, or indalpine, a specific inhibitor of serotonin reuptak...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Lôo H,Benkelfat C,Poirier MF,Vanelle JM,Olié JP,Dennis T,Scatton B

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal anterior pituitary responsiveness to acute administration of thyrotropin-releasing hormone was investigated in 8 patients, 6 women and 2 men, with primary affective disorders in a depressive phase and in 2 women with schizoaffective disorders. Thyrotropin-releasing hormone, 500 micrograms i.v., induced a rise...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Brambilla F,Scarone S,Massironi R,Nobile P,Pugnetti L

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma-aminobutyric acid-B (GABAB) binding sites labelled with [3H]GABA were determined in postmortem frontal cortex samples of 20 control subjects and 16 suicides. The suicide group was further subdivided according to the method of suicide and the existence of depressive symptoms prior to death. No significant differe...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Arranz B,Cowburn R,Eriksson A,Vestling M,Marcusson J

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past, some researchers found increased cortisol and prolactin responses to the administration of fenfluramine in major-depressed patients. It was believed that the fenfluramine test could prove to constitute another challenge probe to reflect the central serotonergic function. The present study was conducted in...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Maes M,Jacobs MP,Suy E,Minner B,Raus J

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:We report 3 patients who experienced nonconvulsive status epilepticus following generalized convulsions during antidepressant treatment. All showed prolonged confusion with some psychiatric symptoms, and their electroencephalograms (EEGs) showed either bilateral synchronous multiple spike wave discharges or continuous...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Yoshino A,Watanabe M,Shimizu K,Goto T,Ichinowatari N,Yoshimasu H,Masaki K,Aoyama T,Hara T

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two independent samples of psychiatric outpatients (n = 52 and 60) with blood type A or O completed the Brief Symptom Inventory, an abbreviated version of the SCL-90. In both samples patients with blood type A scored significantly higher than those with type O on the 'Obsessive-Compulsive' and 'Psychoticism' factors. ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Boyer WF

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia is a heterogeneous and multidimensional disorder. The different syndromes or dimensions of this disorder represent distinct pathophysiological processes. Evidence is growing that each of the composite syndromes or dimensions of this disorder is associated with specific validators. This article reviewed n...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Aderibigbe YA,Gureje O

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：: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：: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：:The efficacy and safety of tianeptine were compared, in the course of a multicentre randomised, double-blind, parallel group study, to those of placebo in the treatment of Major Depressions and Bipolar Disorder, Depressed with or without melancholia, without psychotic features. After a 1-week run-in placebo period, 12...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Costa e Silva JA,Ruschel SI,Caetano D,Rocha FL,da Silva Lippi JR,Arruda S,Ozun M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antidepressive and anxiolytic efficacy of flupenthixol has been investigated in numerous controlled and open trials involving patients with endogenous, reactive as well as senile depressions. When administered at a mean daily single or multiple dose of 1-2 mg, flupenthixol proved to be a very effective and well-to...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Pöldinger W,Sieberns S

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Structural brain changes and cognitive impairments have been identified as indicators of genetic risk for schizophrenia. However, the pattern of associations between such structural and functional liability markers has been less well investigated. METHODS:Magnetic resonance imaging data and cognitive assess...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Habets P,Krabbendam L,Hofman P,Suckling J,Oderwald F,Bullmore E,Woodruff P,Van Os J,Marcelis M

更新日期：2008-01-01 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 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：:Plasma cortisol, catecholamine and cyclic AMP levels, response to dexamethasone suppression test and platelet MAO activity have been determined in 15 patients suffering from bipolar affective psychosis, each examined during a depressive, a manic and an euthymic phase, and in 15 sex- and age-matched normal controls. Me...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Maj M,Ariano MG,Arena F,Kemali D

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) plays a prominent role in mediating the effect of stressors on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. In this study, we examined the effects of chronic administration of second-generation antipsychotic drug ziprasidone on CRF mRNA expression in the hypothalamic paravent...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Park SW,Choi SM,Lee JG,Lee CH,Lee SJ,Kim NR,Kim YH

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes of field potentials electrically evoked from the mesencephalon were studied in two dopaminergic target areas. The modulation of the responses in prefrontal cortex and striatum induced by intravenous injection of various compounds influencing central dopaminergic transmission is followed. In general, drugs with...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Dimpfel W

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:The serotonergic system has been implicated in the production of the N1 and P2 components of auditory evoked potentials (AEPs). Moreover, studies have indicated the influence of heritability in the genesis of these AEP components. The serotonin transporter is the major site of serotonin reuptake into the presynaptic n...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Chen TJ,Yu YW,Chen MC,Tsai SJ,Hong CJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonergic dysfunction is implicated in Alzheimer's disease (AD) on the basis of studies of serotonin and its metabolite in postmortem specimens and CSF. There were also reports on association of a tryptophan hydroxylase (TPH) intron 7 variant and CSF 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid concentrations. These suggested TPH mi...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Wang YC,Tsai SJ,Liu TY,Liu HC,Hong CJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper is a review of the use of psychophysiology in diagnosis and treatment of simple phobias. The paper begins with a definition and characterization of phobic fears, together with a description of prevalence rates, age onset, and gender differences. Acquisition is then discussed within a Three-Systems mo...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Hugdahl K

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During interictal periods in 9 patients with partial epilepsy we examined whether there were correlations between the relative power of background EEG (power spectral analysis) and the absolute values of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) measured by 99mTc hexamethylpropylene amine oxime (HMPAO) SPECT in each cerebra...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Jibiki I,Kurokawa K,Fukushima T,Kido H,Yamaguchi N,Matsuda H,Hisada K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00