A placebo-controlled comparison of zotepine versus chlorpromazine in patients with acute exacerbation of schizophrenia.

abstract：:This study set out to describe the sexual attitudes and behaviour of 50 hospitalized alcoholic men by comparing them with a sample of the general population, matched in age and social class. This control sample was identified by random selection from a company register, and subjects were recruited into the study with ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Whalley LJ

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) plays a crucial role in modulating resilience and vulnerability to stress. The aim of this study was to investigate whether epigenetic regulation of the BDNF gene is a biomarker of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) development among veterans exposed to combat in th...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kim TY,Kim SJ,Chung HG,Choi JH,Kim SH,Kang JI

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study autism over time in order to ascertain whether there has been an increase in its prevalence in recent years. METHOD:All English language papers on the prevalence of autism were reviewed. Ten of the studies retrieved were not used in the final analysis because they did not meet full criteria for incl...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gillberg C,Wing L

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate all published case reports of torsade de pointes (TdP) induced by psychotropic drugs (PDs) in order to examine the prevalence of risk factors for TdP prior to the drug initiation. METHOD:We found 45 reports on 70 patients with TdP induced by PDs. Each report was analyzed for the presence of ri...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Justo D,Prokhorov V,Heller K,Zeltser D

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there are 22 Arab countries in the Arab League, the mental health services provided in those countries show several forms of variation. Economic, political, social and cultural factors seem to play a major role in determining the state of the psychiatric profession and the access of the service to citizens. T...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Okasha A,Karam E

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 30 patients with newly diagnosed motor conversion disorder were consecutively investigated by means of a Swedish self-rating inventory designed to assess perceived parental rearing practices (EMBU), and the Karolinska Scale of Personality (KSP). DSM Axis I and II psychopathology was assessed using a Structu...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Binzer M,Eisemann M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a Nordic comparative study on contact rates of new patients and use of services in seven catchment areas, contact rates and use of services for patients with a functional psychosis during a 1-year follow-up period were investigated. The highest contact rates were found in two large city catchment areas in S...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hansson L,Muus S,Vinding HR,Göstas G,Saarento O,Sandlund M,Lönnerberg O,Oiesvold T

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hopelessness has not been adequately studied in first-episode psychotic patients, although it is already present at the early stages, especially in schizophrenic patients. We have studied 96 neuroleptic-naive psychotic patients (49 schizophrenic patients and 47 other non-affective psychotic patients) over a period of ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Aguilar EJ,Haas G,Manzanera FJ,Hernández J,Gracia R,Rodado MJ,Keshavan MS

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study was designed to investigate the association between major mental disorders (MMDs) and homicide. METHOD:The rates of exculpations because of MMDs among 1087 Austrian homicide offenders during 1975 and 1999 were compared with the rates of the respective disorders in the general population. RESULTS:...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Schanda H,Knecht G,Schreinzer D,Stompe T,Ortwein-Swoboda G,Waldhoer T

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is a predictor analysis of the screening procedure followed by a psychiatric service for a period of 1 year preceding and a period of 1 year following the introduction of community psychiatry. Throughout this period, the psychiatric service consisted of a local service within the catchment area and a centra...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Søgaard HJ,Søndergaard I

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The leisure activities of 110 depressed patients and of 98 non-psychiatric controls were studied. The following aspects of leisure behaviour were taken into account: quantity, type (active, passive), frequency, presence of other people, place and satisfaction. In addition, possible relationships between personality an...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Eisemann M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:109 killers, 38 nonviolent offenders and 54 community controls were compared on psychiatric diagnosis, the MMPI, Cattell 16 PF, IQ and clinical neurological results. Killers did not differ from nonviolent offenders on diagnosis or personality in general. Only higher MMPI Hysteria scale scores differentiated the killer...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Langevin R,Paitich D,Orchard B,Handy L,Russon A

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the premenstrual and follicular phases of the menstrual cycle, 41 women who had generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) plus premenstrual syndrome (PMS) were assessed with psychiatric rating scales and compared with 21 GAD patients without PMS and 19 controls. The latter two groups were rated only once, in the typic...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： McLeod DR,Hoehn-Saric R,Foster GV,Hipsley PA

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lithium is the primary treatment for manic-depressive illness. The mechanism of action of lithium and its endocrine effects remain unclear. Therefore, the hormone responses to sequential stimuli, namely arginine, TRH, and LHRH, were studied in eight patients with major depression before and during treatment with lithi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Joffe RT,Post RM,Ballenger JC,Rebar R,Gold PW

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The associations between milieu therapists' feelings towards patients and the unit's psychological climate were studied at 21 small treatment homes for severely disturbed psychiatric patients. The milieu therapists filled out self-report instruments where they rated their feelings towards patients on a feeling-word ch...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Holmqvist R,Fogelstam H

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety men between the ages of 20 to 65 were studied to investigate the relationships between stress, depression and psychogenic pain. Three groups (the coronary heart disease (CHD) group; the left-sided psychogenic chest pain (LPCP) group; and the control group) comprising 30 patients per group, each completed the So...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Naidoo P,Patel CJ

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The relationship between insight and neurocognition in bipolar disorder has not been clearly established. METHOD:A neuropsychological battery assessing attention, mental control, perceptual-motor skills, executive functions, verbal fluency and abstraction, and visuo-spatial attention was administered to 50 b...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Dias VV,Brissos S,Carita AI

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is 9 years since the mental health reform was passed by the Italian Parliament. The author presents a data-based evaluation of the effects of the Italian mental health reform. There are still many problems to be resolved: More than 30,000 inpatients are still in psychiatric hospitals and little is known of the fate...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Crepet P

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine secular trends in the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VD) in a general Japanese population. METHOD:Four cross-sectional examinations were conducted among residents of a Japanese community aged >or=65 in 1985, 1992, 1998 and 2005. RESULTS:The age- and sex-adjusted pre...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Sekita A,Ninomiya T,Tanizaki Y,Doi Y,Hata J,Yonemoto K,Arima H,Sasaki K,Iida M,Iwaki T,Kanba S,Kiyohara Y

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been many studies in the literature examining childhood parental loss as a risk factor for adult psychiatric disorders such as depression, schizophrenia or anxiety disorders. However, with regard to alcohol dependence, only a limited number of such studies exists, and these have reported inconsistent findin...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Furukawa T,Harai H,Hirai T,Fujihara S,Kitamura T,Takahashi K

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between serum cholesterol and a number of measures of impulsiveness and aggression was examined in 38 prepubertal, psychiatrically hospitalized children. Although care was taken to use reports and direct observations of both variables within 2 weeks of admission and 8 weeks later, no consistent relati...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rao U,Carlson GA,Rapport MD

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that not only intrafamiliar childhood abuses inflicted to the patient, but also major losses or other severe life events suffered by the mother within 2 years of patient's birth, are risk factors for the development of dissociative disorders (DDs). METHOD:A multicentric case-control st...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Pasquini P,Liotti G,Mazzotti E,Fassone G,Picardi A,Italian Group for the Study of Dissociation.

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to further evaluate the oestrogen hypothesis of schizophrenia, which postulates low oestradiol levels to be a risk factor for these disorders. A possible influence of neuroleptic-induced hyperprolactinaemia was to be addressed. METHOD:Sex hormones were measured and cycle phase asses...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Huber TJ,Borsutzky M,Schneider U,Emrich HM

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of all neuroleptic-naive, acutely psychotic subjects admitted to hospital over a 2-year period (n = 62), 27 participated in a neuroendocrine study and 35 did not participate (51% refused consent, 19% were incapable of consent and 31% started neuroleptics immediately). However, all nonparticipants agreed to psychopatho...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Keks NA,Copolov DL,Mackie B,Stuart GW,Singh BS,McGorry PD,Coffey C

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A self-assessment scale has been developed and found to be a reliable instrument for detecting states of depression and anxiety in the setting of an hospital medical outpatient clinic. The anxiety and depressive subscales are also valid measures of severity of the emotional disorder. It is suggested that the introduct...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Zigmond AS,Snaith RP

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors compared 16 nondepressed obsessive-compulsive patients (OCS) with 8 normal controls (NC) of similar age for resting-state regional cerebral glucose metabolic rates (rCMRglu) using positron emission tomography with the fluorodeoxyglucose method. OCS were rated for clinical data, and a neuropsychological bat...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Martinot JL,Allilaire JF,Mazoyer BM,Hantouche E,Huret JD,Legaut-Demare F,Deslauriers AG,Hardy P,Pappata S,Baron JC

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Deficits in social cognition have been reported in euthymic subjects with bipolar disorder (BD). However, some studies have failed to find differences favoring controls. As most investigations have been conducted with small samples, they have not had sufficient power to detect statistically significant differ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Samamé C,Martino DJ,Strejilevich SA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little attention has been payed to the classification of psychotic symptoms in dementia sufferers. This article compares the etiology of delusions, visual hallucinations and delusional misidentification and examines the value of factors generated from principal components analysis as a possible classificatory system i...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ballard CG,Bannister CL,Patel A,Graham C,Oyebode F,Wilcock G,Chung MC

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A representative selection of 2,283 persons, 18-65 years old in "former" Stockholm County were examined by psychiatrists in 1970-71. The total non-response was 12%. The 12-month prevalence of mental disorders in relation to social class (I-III), marital status and immigration was estimated. The "psychiatric diagnoses ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Halldin J

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The care of mentally ill people at home is being encouraged nowadays. As a result, the family members feel an increased burden of care and find it difficult to cope with the care of a schizophrenic patient at home. We interviewed the relatives of 62 schizophrenics systematically regarding the behaviour of the patients...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gopinath PS,Chaturvedi SK

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00