Prevalence of dissociative disorders in psychiatric in-patients: the impact of study characteristics.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a highly effective and well-tolerated therapy for severe and treatment-resistant depression. Cognitive side-effects are still feared by some patients and clinicians. Importantly, cognitive impairments are among the most disabling symptoms of depression itself. METHODS:Patie...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Biedermann SV,Bumb JM,Demirakca T,Ende G,Sartorius A

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening tests for the detection of physical illness in 650 newly admitted psychiatric patients were examined critically. Almost 17% of these investigations were found to be abnormal and certain high risk groups were identified. These included patients suffering from significant weight loss, substance abuse, disorien...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ferguson B,Dudleston K

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether persons with bipolar disorder and their siblings have leadership traits and are overrepresented in executive professions. METHOD:A nested case-control study based on longitudinal Swedish total population registries. Data from officer suitability interviews (n=1,126,519), and informatio...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kyaga S,Lichtenstein P,Boman M,Landén M

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two groups of former depressed Italian patients comprising 54 bipolars and 52 unipolars completed the Italian version of the EMBU, a Swedish instrument aimed at assessing the experience of parental rearing behaviour. As in a previous study of Swedish depressives, three factors, "rejection", "emotional warmth", and "ov...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Perris C,Maj M,Perris H,Eisemann M

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the factor structure of DSM-IV criteria for obsessive compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) in patients with binge eating disorder (BED). METHOD:Two hundred and eleven consecutive out-patients with axis I diagnoses of BED were reliably assessed with semi-structured diagnostic interviews. The eigh...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Grilo CM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a study looking into the association between thyroid status and depression in the postpartum period were reanalysed to explore the psychometric properties of the rating scales employed. The performance of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale was found to be superior to that of the Hospital Anxiety a...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Thompson WM,Harris B,Lazarus J,Richards C

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if the Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire (BMQ) has satisfactory psychometric properties in patients with severe mental disorders and if their scores differ from those of patients with severe medical disorders. To investigate if the scores are related to medication adherence. METHOD:Two hundr...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jónsdóttir H,Friis S,Horne R,Pettersen KI,Reikvam A,Andreassen OA

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of Schneiderian first-rank symptoms (FRS) in 294 consecutive admissions to a research unit was evaluated with reference to their diagnostic distribution (SADS/RDC). Thirty-five of 58 patients with schizophrenia had FRS, as compared to nine of 190 patients with major depressive disorder. All patients wit...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Tandon R,Greden JF

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examined the co-occurrence of anxiety/mood and personality disorders (PDs) in substance abusers, the impact of anxiety/ mood disorders on the symptom profiles of PDs, and the impact of anxiety/mood disorders and PDs on pre-treatment status. METHOD:Current anxiety/mood disorders and PDs and pre-tre...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Verheul R,Kranzler HR,Poling J,Tennen H,Ball S,Rounsaville BJ

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between brain density, measured by computerized tomography (CT), and severity of depression was investigated in 44 patients with a major depressive episode according to DSM-III. In order to limit methodological problems, correlations between both the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) and the Bech-...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Schlegel S

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The study examined to what degree schizophrenia is characterized by a neuropsychological (NP) test profile specific in shape and level compared with depression and normal functioning. METHOD:Fifty-three patients with schizophrenia, 45 with non-psychotic depression, and 50 normals were assessed with a compreh...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rund BR,Sundet K,Asbjørnsen A,Egeland J,Landrø NI,Lund A,Roness A,Stordal KI,Hugdahl K

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Studies from three independent laboratories report varying relationships between electrodermal hyporeactivity and suicidal behavior in depressed patients. The aims of this study were to explain that variation, to assess the discriminative validity of electrodermal hyporeactivity for suicide and suicide attemp...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Thorell LH

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the hypothesis that drug addiction may be due to "masked depression", lithium was administered to 20 opiate addicts. Only nine patients took the lithium carbonate tablets for more than a few weeks; during this period they seemed to abstain from taking opiates. After 1 year, all the patients were off lithium and mos...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Altamura AC

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare neurological soft signs (NSS) in patients of schizophrenia with onset in childhood (COS), adolescence (AdOS) and adulthood (AOS). METHOD:Assessment of NSS in 15 patients of COS and 20 patients each of AdOS and AOS was made using condensed neuropsychiatric examination for NSS. RESULTS:NSS were sig...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Biswas P,Malhotra S,Malhotra A,Gupta N

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine whether variation at two common polymorphisms, T102C and -1438AG, of the serotonin 2A gene (5HT2A) are involved in the puerperal triggering mechanism of bipolar affective puerperal psychosis. METHOD:A total of 242 parous women diagnosed with bipolar disorder were genotyped for the two polymorphism...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Robertson E,Jones I,Middle F,Moray J,Craddock N

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to identify psychopathological factors associated with long-term functional outcome in euthymic bipolar disorder patients and to test new measures of mood instability and symptoms intensity. METHOD:Fifty-five patients with more than 12 months of follow-up were included. In addition ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Strejilevich SA,Martino DJ,Murru A,Teitelbaum J,Fassi G,Marengo E,Igoa A,Colom F

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Bright light therapy in seasonal affective disorder (SAD) has been studied extensively. However, little attention has been given to subsyndromal seasonal affective disorder (SSAD) or the use of bright light in the workplace. Many patients using bright light boxes complain of the inconvenience of use. Much of ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Avery DH,Kizer D,Bolte MA,Hellekson C

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates the utilization of clozapine in the treatment of therapy-refractory schizophrenia in terms both of patterns of care and of health care costs in a community psychiatric service in Italy. Data covering the year prior to commencing clozapine and the year following the initiation of the therapy were c...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Percudani M,Fattore G,Galletta J,Mita PL,Contini A,Altamura AC

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-five cases of stupor referred to a psychiatric teaching hospital over 15 years are reviewed. Ten cases presented with a depressive syndrome, four cases with catatonic phenomena and a further 10 cases with established organic aetiology; one case was considered to be psychogenic in origin. The overall mortality w...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Johnson J

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Difficulties surrounding the meaning of insight in psychiatry have led to neglect of its assessment in clinical practice. A study is described in which an insight scale was constructed and tested in a sample of 43 patients suffering from schizophrenia or depression. The results showed that the insight instrument was a...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Marková IS,Berrios GE

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a clinical study of 80 patients, diagnosed as suffering from hysteria, who attended the psychiatric clinic in Khartoum Hospital over a period of 3 years. The incidence of hysteria was 10%, the female-male ratio 15:1, and young age-groups predominate. 60% were essentially of normal personality. The clinical pic...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hafeiz HB

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the outcome of a sequential treatment protocol in elderly, severely depressed in-patients. METHOD:All 81 patients from a 12-week double-blind randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing venlafaxine with nortriptyline were asked to participate in a 3 year follow-up study. Thirty-two patients who did ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kok RM,Nolen WA,Heeren TJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Chronically mentally ill patients in community mental health care report a better quality of life (QOL) than those in long-term hospital care, which suggests that the treatment setting per se influences their QOL. METHOD:In a region where both treatment settings are of a comparable high standard, we assessed...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rössler W,Salize HJ,Cucchiaro G,Reinhard I,Kernig C

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atypical depression may show lowered rather than raised short-term cortisol levels. Atypical major depressive episodes (A-MDE) may also be more closely linked to environmental factors and show overlap with somatic symptom disorders. Hair specimens allow measuring long-term cortisol levels. METHODS:Twenty-se...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Herane-Vives A,de Angel V,Papadopoulos A,Wise T,Chua KC,Strawbridge R,Castillo D,Arnone D,Young AH,Cleare AJ

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore and to compare hypothalamic-pituitary-somatotropic (HPS), hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis function in depression, 30 subjects (15 patients with a major depressive episode and individually matched controls) received 50 micrograms growth hormone-releas...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lesch KP,Müller U,Rupprecht R,Kruse K,Schulte HM

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify trajectories of depressive symptoms in older community residents. METHOD:Depressive symptomatology, based on a modified Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression scale, was obtained at years 0, 3, 6, and 10, in the Duke Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (n = 416...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kuchibhatla MN,Fillenbaum GG,Hybels CF,Blazer DG

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether adolescents who self-harm are at increased risk of heavy and dependent substance use in adulthood. METHOD:Fifteen-year prospective cohort study of a random sample of 1943 adolescents recruited from secondary schools across the state of Victoria, Australia. Data pertaining to self-harm an...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Moran P,Coffey C,Romaniuk H,Degenhardt L,Borschmann R,Patton GC

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first comparative double-blind study of raclopride. Ninety-one patients with acute schizophrenia received either raclopride 2-8 mg twice daily or haloperidol 5-20 mg twice daily for 4 weeks. Both neuroleptics produced clinical improvements. There were no significant between-drug differences in overall effi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors：

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Much of the knowledge we now take for granted regarding major mental disorders such as schizophrenia, suicide and other disorders, would not exist without the use of population based registers. The use of population based registers in psychiatric epidemiology have enabled analyses of associations that otherwi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Allebeck P

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00