[Stealing as an Impulse Control Disorder Associated with Pramipexole - A Case Report from Forensic Psychiatric Practice].

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the non-cognitive symptoms in 153 consecutive dementia patients admitted to our psychiatric ward or seen at the gerontopsychiatric ambulance and Memory Clinic. METHODS:We used the Global Deterioration Scale, the Hachinski Ischaemia Score, the Hamilton Psychiatric Rating Scale for Depression, and th...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Rainer M,Mucke HA,Masching A,Haushofer M

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germany, in comparison to other countries, provides a good quality of services to distinct groups of patients. But as far as total expenditure for mental health services is concerned, it belongs to the top European states. The differentiation of services since the Expert Commission to the parliament (1975) was associa...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Kunze H,Schepker R

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the provision of psychiatric services within the last decennials are probably best understood if the impact of national socialism on clinical psychiatry is regarded. Many psychiatrists took part in the "Aktion T4" the organised killing of their patients, at least they did not resist campaigns directed to ki...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Schaub R

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was the establishing of associations of parents and friends of mentally handicapped persons that started, above all in the 50's and 60's, in many countries direct and intensive endeavours for the improvement of their social situation. In this context the major goals are the normalisation of their living conditions ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Mutters T

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Theoretical background and first results of a vocational rehabilitation program for unemployed persons with chronic psychiatric disabilities will be presented. The aim of the program is job-placement in the regular labour market. METHODS:After a 3-month preparatory period the participants were given the poss...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Waschkowski H,Bailer J,Fischer S,Lederle K

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Although guidelines usually recommend monotherapy, in clinical practice, antipsychotic polypharmacy is common especially with chronically ill patients. We therefore assessed the current practice of antipsychotic polypharmacy in "high-utilising" patients with schizophrenia in Germany. METHODS:Antipsychotic m...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Schmidt-Kraepelin C,Puschner B,Loos S,Janssen B

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Due to increasing health care expenditures the discussion about advantages and disadvantages of new methods for resource allocation in mental health care has been intensified. A promising model is the Regional Budget for Mental Health Care, which is currently being examined in Schleswig-Holstein. The present ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Roick C,Deister A,Zeichner D,Birker T,König HH,Angermeyer MC

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an open clinical trial patients with full-developed delirium tremens were treated either by controlled infusion of clomethiazol (n = 21) or by intravenous injections of clorazepate (n = 20). Acute symptomatic quickly decreased after a few days and medication could be reduced. By adding haloperidol a further stabili...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Caspari D,Wappler M,Bellaire W

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examined illness beliefs of the lay public associated with the diagnostic labels burnout and depression. METHODS:Representative population survey in Germany 2011, using unlabelled case vignettes of a person suffering from depression. Following presentation of the vignette, respondents were asked o...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Bahlmann J,Schomerus G,Angermeyer MC

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE: The aim of our study was to investigate the influence of antidepressants on psychomotor function related to car driving abilities. METHOD: Depressive inpatients (n = 64) were investigated under steady state plasma level conditions. Data were collected with the ART 90 (Act and React Testsystem) measuring vis...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Brunnauer A,Laux G

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the legislation of the compulsory admission and treatment of mentally ill persons in the Swiss canton of Basle-City. We inquired retrospectively the requests of the clinic and the appointed time given by the psychiatric court of appeal in the year 2000. With 320 compulsory admissions there were 118 appeals....

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Eichhorn M,Zimmermann R,Kräuchi K,Finzen A

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In Germany, outpatient care is provided exclusively by physicians in private practice. This privilege is very strictly observed, with only a few exceptions. While psychiatric hospitals are routinely permitted to establish outpatient clinics, psychiatric departments of general hospitals, even if they serve a c...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Böcker FM

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conditions determining statutory offences as represented by indictable sex offences, have been amended and revised by the 4th Penal Reform Law of the Federal German Penal Code, in 1973, under the heading "Indictable Offences against Sexual Self-Determination". This heading, which is meant to convey a programme, ho...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Rasch W,Sassenberg U

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The clinical practice concerning the use of coercive measures in psychiatry should be compared. METHOD:A common documentation of physical restraint, seclusion, and medication by coercion was introduced among 10 hospitals. RESULTS:8.4 % of cases treated within the first 6 months of 2004 were exposed to coerc...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Martin V,Kuster W,Baur M,Bohnet U,Hermelink G,Knopp M,Kronstorfer R,Martinez-Funk B,Roser M,Voigtländer W,Brandecker R,Steinert T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the conditional factors underlying a premature termination of vocational rehabilitation programs. METHODS:123 rehabilitation participants were assessed prospectively regarding sociodemographic and psychopathological variables, level of functioning, subjective health, intellectual and work capaci...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Watzke S,Galvao A,Gawlik B,Hühne M,Brieger P

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：OBJECTIVE AND METHOD:In this paper we report about the situation of psychotherapeutic inpatient treatment in Bavarian state mental hospitals, based on data coming from surveys in those hospitals. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:22 State mental hospitals in Bavaria have 1217 beds for acute psychotherapy, proofed on the basis of...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Wolfersdorf M,Klein HE,Dose M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new activities of nurses working in the field of psychiatry, resulting from the realisation of sociopsychiatric and sociotherapeutic concepts, have led to an expansion of the "job description" of the nursing personnel. Intensive measures for additinal training and continuing education will have to be taken to acqu...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Winkler WT

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There are highly effective treatments either in inpatient or day hospital settings available for elderly with major depression. It is important to consider some specific needs of elderly people (e. g. higher somatic comorbidities). METHODS:On the base of a large routine data set (139 307 patients in hospital...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Godemann F,Seemüller F,Schneider A,Wolff-Menzler C

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：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：:This study reflects the labour-situation of 67 DSM-III schizophrenic outpatients in an 8-year follow-up. About 50% of the patients had less than 20 hours of work a week on the average--most of them in work therapy or sheltered work-places. Many of them changed their location of work. Patients with an initially good pr...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Mönking HS,Buchkremer G,Hornung WP

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospectively 20% of more than 200 patients with myasthenia gravis reported being initially diagnosed as having a psychiatric disorder. Younger women are significantly most at risk of a psychiatric misdiagnosis whereas men are more often subject to somatic misdiagnoses. The sample's mean duration of the disease was ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Rohr W

更新日期：1992-09-01 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：OBJECTIVE:There is a lack of a psychometrically sound screening questionnaire that assesses important dimensions of traumatic experiences during childhood and adolescence in a time-efficient way. Based on the German version of the "Childhood Trauma Questionnaire" (CTQ, 28 items) we developed a five-item self-report chi...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Grabe HJ,Schulz A,Schmidt CO,Appel K,Driessen M,Wingenfeld K,Barnow S,Spitzer C,John U,Berger K,Wersching H,Freyberger HJ

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The "Center of Epidemiologic Studies - Depression scale" (CES-D) is a well-known screening tool for depression. Until now the criterion validity of the German version of the CES-D was not investigated in a sample of the adult general population. METHODS:508 study participants of the Austrian general populati...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Jahn R,Baumgartner JS,van den Nest M,Friedrich F,Alexandrowicz RW,Wancata J

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Although there is growing evidence for clinical effectiveness of crisis resolution teams (also called Home Treatment Teams) for patients with severe psychotic disorders, a lot of studies suffer from poor model fidelity, which leads to an ignorance of specific effective factors. METHODS:Here we present the im...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Sturm D,Arends S,Henke T,Reichmann C,Janssen B,Görtz P

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:The author tries to convey an idea of the process which takes place during art therapy, quoting examples from her own work with mentally diseased patients. She considers the visual message resulting from the work of art created by the patient, as a process of communication which takes place between the patient and the...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Wellendorf E

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00