Maastricht Assessment of Coping Strategies (MACS-I): a brief instrument to assess coping with psychotic symptoms.

abstract：:Admissions for mania have risen significantly in Edinburgh since 1970. Differencing was used to remove time trends; this showed that the rise was not accounted for by diagnosis change (from schizophrenia or personality disorder) or by lithium prescription. The contribution of non-specific factors such as admission pol...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mander AJ

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate factors determining severely mentally ill patients' self-rated quality of life. The study hypothesized that objective life circumstances, personality, self-variables, and psychopathology would be determinants of quality of life. METHOD:A total of 117 individuals with schizophrenia and related ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Eklund M,Bäckström M,Hansson L

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Literature suggests that childhood trauma increases vulnerability for schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, including schizotypal personality disorder (SPD). Yet, it remains unexplored whether childhood trauma predicts symptom load and the level of neurocognitive functioning in SPD. METHOD:We included 225 indivi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Velikonja T,Velthorst E,McClure MM,Rutter S,Calabrese WR,Rosell D,Koenigsberg HW,Goodman M,New AS,Hazlett EA,Perez-Rodriguez MM

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within a controlled prospective intervention study, schizophrenic outpatients randomly assigned to four treatment groups and one control group were assessed with regard to collaboration with drug treatment. In total, 39.3% of 84 regular attenders of the psychoeducational training programme and 26.6% of 64 control pati...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hornung WP,Klingberg S,Feldmann R,Schonauer K,Schulze Mönking H

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fear of strangers ( FOS ) during the infant's first year was studied in 46 "high-risk" offspring of index mothers with a history of nonorganic psychosis and in 80 demographically similar control offspring. FOS was measured in the home by a standardized test at 1 year of age and by repeated interviews with the mother d...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Näslund B,Persson-Blennow I,McNeil T,Kaij L,Malmquist-Larsson A

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Australian death certificate data were analysed to determine whether they can provide useful information on regional differences in the prevalence of dementia. Strong differences between the Australian states were found in the prevalence of dementing disorders at death. However, evidence indicated that death certifica...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jorm AF,Henderson AS,Jacomb PA

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergency Psychiatric Service of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Athens is the only referral service for the emergency psychiatric cases coming from the Athens greater area. During 1981 2,169 patients used the Service. The relations of socio-demographic and resource factors of the 26 districts of the...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Vaslamatzis G,Kontaxakis V,Markidis M,Katsouyanni K

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Patients who engage in recurrent deliberate self-harm (DSH) behaviours have increased morbidity and mortality and use emergency services more than others. Unrecognized iatrogenic injury may play a role. Specifically, we call attention to the potential danger of cumulative radiation exposure. METHOD:Case pres...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Norelli LJ,Coates AD,Kovasznay BM

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aims of this study were (i) to assess the inter-rater reliability of the latest Italian expanded 24-item version of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, BPRS version 4.0 and (ii) to assess the feasibility of obtaining reliable BPRS 4.0 ratings by reliability training of clinically less experienced trainees...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Roncone R,Ventura J,Impallomeni M,Falloon IR,Morosini PL,Chiaravalle E,Casacchia M

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Schizophrenia is associated with alterations in blood inflammatory markers, including cytokines. Total white blood cell (WBC) count is a marker of low-grade inflammation. We conducted a meta-analysis of total and differential WBC counts in patients with schizophrenia. METHOD:Articles were identified through ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jackson AJ,Miller BJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1600 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 16 living in a county bordering on Paris were interviewed concerning their health, their use of drugs, both legal and illegal, their behavior, and their seeking of health care. Fourteen percent of the boys and 23% of the girls had already thought about suicide and...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Choquet M,Menke H

更新日期：1990-02-01 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：:Electrodermal activity and heart-rate were recorded in the laboratory from partially remitted schizophrenic patients living in the community, chronic schizophrenic inpatients and normal controls. Althoug all patients had faster heart-rates, no consistent electrodermal differences between patient groups and normals wer...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Tarrier N,Cooke EC,Lader MH

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of psychotherapy in schizophrenic patients, the existence of certain clinical and anamnestic variables, such as persistent auditory hallucinations, was found to correlate with a negative outcome. To test whether these clinical variables could be a sign of organic brain abnormality, the records of 33 schizop...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Cullberg J,Nybäck H

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attitude of the medical profession to psychiatry carries important implications for the quality of personnel attracted into the specialty and for the treatment, in a general medical setting, of patients with mental disorders. This article examines the components of doctors' attitudes and reviews the literature wit...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Buchanan A,Bhugra D

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:The families of 11 probands with Pick's disease as determined by histopathological examination, were investigated by interview and acquisition of medical records. The estimated morbid risk was 0.25 +/- 0.08 for parents and 0.07 +/- 0.07 for siblings or probands. Further analyses are presented that seek associations be...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Heston LL

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have repeated, on the average 29.7 years later, Rorschach test in 11 schizophrenic men and 19 schizophrenic women. This work was carried out in the course of a follow-up study of schizophrenics more than 65 years of age. Analysis of the records showed that the only differences between the first and second ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Müller C,Le-Dinh T

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There is ongoing concern about the possible negative impact of ECT on neurocognitive functioning in older patients. In this study, we aimed to characterize the long-term cognitive effects of ECT in patients with late-life depression, using an extensive neuropsychological battery. METHODS:A total of 110 patie...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Obbels J,Verwijk E,Vansteelandt K,Dols A,Bouckaert F,Schouws S,Vandenbulcke M,Emsell L,Stek M,Sienaert P

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumoencephalography (PEG) was carried out in 50 patients of both sexes consecutively discharged from a psychiatric department with a diagnosis of acute schizophrenia. At clinical follow-up with a mean observation time of 8 years the diagnosis was verified in 38 patients, while 12 were considered to have had a reacti...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Haug JO

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychological autopsies are an important research tool in establishing risk factors associated with suicide. We report the results of a validity study comparing psychological autopsy-generated DSM-III-R diagnoses in suicides and non-suicides with chart diagnoses generated by clinicians who had treated the subjects pri...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kelly TM,Mann JJ

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Behaviour therapy with exposure and response prevention (ERP) or cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) including ERP are considered the psychological treatments of choice for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), but group CBT/ERP has received relatively little research attention in the treatment of OCD. The aim...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jónsson H,Hougaard E

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the prevalence of depression according to ICD-10 criteria using a self-completed questionnaire and to identify psychosocial predictors of depression at discharge in patients with acute coronary syndrome. METHOD:A total of 899 patients with acute coronary syndrome completed the Major Depression In...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Sørensen C,Brandes A,Hendricks O,Thrane J,Friis-Hasche E,Haghfelt T,Bech P

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the economic impact of the duration of antidepressant drug treatment in a real-life setting. METHOD:A historical fixed cohort study included 27 917 patients aged 18 and over with a new antidepressant treatment registered in the national insurance database. The economic impact concerned healthcare e...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Tournier M,Crott R,Gaudron Y,Verdoux H

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies that measured cytokine and chemokine levels in individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) compared to healthy controls (HCs). METHOD:The PubMed/MEDLINE, EMBASE, and PsycINFO databases were searched up until May 30, 2016. Effect sizes were esti...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Köhler CA,Freitas TH,Maes M,de Andrade NQ,Liu CS,Fernandes BS,Stubbs B,Solmi M,Veronese N,Herrmann N,Raison CL,Miller BJ,Lanctôt KL,Carvalho AF

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Prefrontal cortical dysfunction has been implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia but it is unclear to what extent these are related to changes in symptomatology as well as task demand. METHOD:We examined the neural correlates of symptom change and task demand during a longitudinal functional magne...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Smee C,Krabbendam L,O'Daly O,Prins AM,Nalesnik N,Morley L,Samson G,Shergill S

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a study of drug treatment of aggressive behavior to be reported separately, we have evaluated the double-blind procedure in a recently completed comparison of the efficacy of lithium carbonate versus placebo in modifying aggressive behavior in nonpsychotic incarcerated delinquents. We conclude that the side...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Marini JL,Sheard MH,Bridges CI,Wagner E

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study, was to compare the prevalence of sleeping problems in two ethnically different populations living under the same extreme arctic climate. A total of 453 Norwegians (319 males and 134 females) were compared with 450 Russians (317 males and 133 females), all aged 18 years or older, living on Svalba...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nilssen O,Lipton R,Brenn T,Höyer G,Boiko E,Tkatchev A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of organic brain syndrome occurring in relation to psychological stress 2 years after a severe head injury is described. Treatment with haloperidol resulted only in slight improvement. A dramatic improvement was achieved with carbamazepine. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bouvy PF,van de Wetering BJ,Meerwaldt JD,Bruijn JB

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study was carried out on 30 patients suffering from a psychotic episode following a stressful life event. They were found to have an Emotional, Timid, Sensitive, Tense and Insecure personality. Sleep disturbance, Affective symptoms, Histrionic behaviour and Excitement were the common clinical features. S...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Pandurangi AK,Kapur RL

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00