[German language psychiatry journals in Germany - a quantitative analysis].

abstract：:Huntington's disease is a hereditary and progressive disease of the central nervous system. Sudden and irregular hyperkinesias are prominent. Psychopathological findings are very frequent and often proceed the decline of motor functions for years. Almost all the patients develop a dementia in later stages of the illne...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Weimer E,Ries S,Tost H,Braus DF

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manic disorders and bipolar psychoses have long been underdiagnosed in child and adolescent psychiatry. Scientific research has been rare as well. In particular in adolescence and young adulthood bipolar disorders are not easy to diagnose. Therefore these disorders should be included in differential diagnosis as resea...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Braun-Scharm H,Bilke O

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There is some evidence that the treatment with new ("atypical") neuroleptics is associated with a higher frequency of hyperlipidemia. AIM:In this study the serum lipid levels of patients with chronic schizophrenia were investigated. METHODS:The serum lipid levels of 177 consecutively admitted schizophrenic ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Wetterling T,Schneider B,Weber B

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the highest rates of suicide occur in German-speaking countries and particularly in Saxonia. There are grounds for the assumption that the fact has been caused by a careful recording of suicides in this country since 1829. The paper describes the development of rates of suicide and the changes of the suicidal m...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Müller E,Bach O

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing employment of graduates in psychology (Diplom-Psychologen) in psychiatric hospitals not only expands therapeutical facilities as a result of cooperation between psychologists and physicians; it also entails structural re-organisation both formally and in terms of contents, of behavioural rituals which h...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Bartmann U,Schröder HG

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The German Adaptation of the Verona Service Satisfaction Scale: An Instrument for Patients' Satisfaction with Mental Health Care. AIM:Measuring effectiveness and quality of care became an important topic in psychiatry. Considering that objective criteria were not sufficient in the past, the subjective persp...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Mory C,Matschinger H,Roick C,Kilian R,Bernert S,Angermeyer MC

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective Therapy recommendations of relatives of individuals with psychotic disorders. Method A total of n = 52 inpatient relatives were interviewed about their attitude towards psychotherapy and antipsychotics. Results Over 80 % of the relatives recommended psycho- and pharmacotherapy. Concerns reduced recommendatio...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Hesse K,Hermanutz U,Hölzel LP,Klingberg S

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the controversy about severely chronic mental patients, who still reside in the psychiatric hospital after decades of deinstitutionalization, their quality of life (QoL) has become a main topic. On the basis of a critique of the dominant, mere standardized approach to QoL this method is compared with a qualitative ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Franz M,Meyer T,Gallhofer B

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basing on a review of the literature and on own research, the authors examine the incidence rate of convulsions under neuroleptic treatment. In addition, the authors go into the neurophysiological and neuropharmacological mechanisms of the convulsive action of neuroleptics. An attempt is made to present information on...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Bartels M,Heimann H

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The report describes the inpatient and out-patient treatment facilities for alcoholics in a defined catchment area and the experience gathered by the initiation of out-patient group therapy for a group of alcoholics at the general community hospital in Offenbach/Main. The goal of the group therapy at the hospital was ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Fiedler D

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the rare case of a woman first diagnosed with Huntington's disease at the age of 86. She was first seen at our hospital in 1999 for evaluation of dementia. Prior to her hospitalization, she had been treated with Melperone for restlessness. There was no essential psychopathology other than mild dementia (MMSE 2...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Jähnel M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of flupentixol and risperidone were compared in a randomized double-blind study in 153 chronic schizophrenic patients. Flupentixol showed to be not inferior to risperidone concerning schizophrenic negative symptoms at week 8, 16 and 24. Positive symptoms and general psychopathology improved comparably, to...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Philipp M,Lesch OM,Schmauss M,Dose M,Glaser T

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a standardized assessment-procedure for the so-called "Gemeindepsychiatrische Verbünde" in Germany (GPV-Documentation), which are regional combines of community-based mental health care services. It is the first procedure in Germany which puts data on psychiatric care offers, needs for care and se...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Salize HJ,Bullenkamp J,Alscher I,Wolf I

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the process of individual psychotherapy the author stresses the importance of understanding the initial everyday life view of "what is about being sick" for to establish a working, and cooperative setting. Thus, a three step procedure has been developed to guide the patient to a self responsible attitude toward...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Leder S

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Providing information about the disease and the way of coping with it has a central position in therapeutic interventions with families. By giving basic knowledge about schizophrenia to relatives we developed the practical conception of the psychoeducative relatives' group (information-group), a structured program, wh...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Scherrmann TE,Seizer HU,Rutow R,Vieten C

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Improvement of depression treatment by health insurance based case-management. Criteria of improvement were a higher treatment rate of patients suffering from affective disorders or depression by psychiatrists or psychotherapists than by general practitioners or family doctors and sickness fund payments. MET...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Salize HJ,Jacke C,Gallas C,Stamm K

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 62-year-old woman with parkinson's disease and depression. Her symptoms included episodes of flushing, palpitations and hypertension, giving rise to the suspicion of the existence of a phaeochromocytoma. The levels of adrenaline and vanillymandelic acid in the urine were moderately elevated, th...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Jähnel M

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients are mostly passive utilizer of the health-care-system. They are confronted with a supply of medical service and they are allowed to show their satisfaction with it retrospectively. Our medical system has in future to develop itself from an effective perspective to an utilizer orientated medicine. Orientation ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Fleischmann H

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To provide an overview of empirical findings with regard to compulsive hoarding. METHODS:A systematic literature search of medical and psychological journals was conducted using PubMed. Relevant publications from the reference lists and recent books were also identified and included. RESULTS:The article rev...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Mueller A,de Zwaan M

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Assessing long-term effects of a family systems therapy approach (systems therapy methods in acute psychiatry, SYMPA) on occupational stress and interdisciplinary cooperation of team members in three German psychiatric hospitals. METHODS:Pre-post-follow-up survey using the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Haun MW,Kordy H,Ochs M,Schweitzer J,Zwack J

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three publications by K.P. Kisker that appeared in the 'sixties of the present century are milestones along an important path of panoramic changes in the recent history of psychiatry. They are model reflections of the steps or stages towards a new approach to understanding the social system represented by the hospital...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Veltin A

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:According to results of the latest research, the state of knowledge of the German population regarding depressive disorders has improved during the last years. The question arises to what extent the print media have contributed to this development. METHOD:All editions of three German dailies--Sueddeutsche Ze...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Kroll M,Dietrich S,Angermeyer MC

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presented document discusses the problems of psychological/psychiatric and emergency long term users. The author, director of the East Berlin Crisis Centre, describes the long-term patient phenomenon from different perspectives. He develops ideas to change the concept of acute intervention. The crisis intervention...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Neumann O

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Interdisciplinary analysis of the consequences of laws and legal practice for mental health conditions of asylum seekers and psychiatric care. METHODS:Based on the case study of a Kurdish woman with complex trauma-related psychiatric disorder, who had been in psychiatric hospital care for 25 months, the lega...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Hanewald B,Gieseking J,Vogelbusch O,Markus I,Gallhofer B,Knipper M

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Based on the Obsessive Compulsive Drinking Scale (OCDS) we developed and validated the Mannheimer Craving Scale (MaCS) for quantitative measurements of craving across different substances and suitable for multiple substance abuse. METHODS:The MaCS questionnaire measures obsessive-compulsive symptoms in the c...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Nakovics H,Diehl A,Geiselhart H,Mann K

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Evaluations of clozapine treatment by relatives of schizophrenic patients were assessed as part of an exploratory study and compared with the patients' own assessment. METHOD:46 relatives of individuals suffering from schizophrenia were questioned by means of a problem-centred interview. RESULTS:In addition to th...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Angermeyer MC,Boitz K,Löffler W,Müller P,Priebe S

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delirium--a state of acute or subacute confusion--is a common organic mental syndrome occurring predominantly in old age. The disorder is highly prevalent in psychiatric institutions, in general hospitals and nursing homes. Patients affected by delirium carry an increased mortality-risk and will become dependent on nu...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Hewer W,Förstl H

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a questionnaire the therapists of the Psychiatric Hospital in Ravensburg Weissenau were requested for information on the suicidality and symptomato-logy of their patients. This was done to assess the acute and chronic suicidality prevalent in a psychiatric hospital. The number of acute and chronic suicidal patie...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Schmölzer C,Wolfersdorf M,Hole G

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deinstitutionalization (DI) of most of the chronic long-stay patients has taken place in the last decades in Germany. However, a "residual" group of patients often remains in psychiatric hospitals, with an ongoing controversy on an appropriate type of their care (community based vs. hospital). Clinical, functional and...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Franz M,Meyer T,Ehlers F,Gallhofer B

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Misplacement of the old in psychiatry gains in special importance based on the absolute and relative increase of this population. 117 patients have been announced for admission to the psychogeriatric department of the Zwiefalten State Mental Hospital within six months. Admission of 47 patients did not happen mostly as...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Wagner H

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00