Rediscovering chronic mania.

abstract：:Religious patients with generalized anxiety disorder were given religious psychotherapy in addition to supportive psychotherapy anxiolytic drugs. Those receiving religious psychotherapy showed significantly more rapid improvement in anxiety symptoms than those who received supportive psychotherapy and drugs only. Thus...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Azhar MZ,Varma SL,Dharap AS

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One stage case-identification method, using the Arabic Version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD) was applied in a pilot study for estimating the prevalence of depressive and anxiety disorders among a group of Saudi primary care attenders. The validity of the Arabic Version of the HAD scale was previou...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： el-Rufaie OE,Albar AA,Al-Dabal BK

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroleptic side-effects adversely affect clinical outcome in schizophrenic patients. Clinicians therefore require an understanding of the impact of such side-effects. This study compared psychiatrists' estimates of the prevalence of neuroleptic side-effects and associated distress with schizophrenic patients' reports...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Day JC,Kinderman P,Bentall R

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:A reliability study was carried out to compare the short Manchester Scale (MS) to the longer Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), to see if similar items scored the same aspect of pathology and to find the sources of error. The raters were a psychiatrist and a psychologist cum medical student; they had recently arri...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Manchanda R,Saupe R,Hirsch SR

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We examined the relationship between biological rhythms and severity of depressive symptoms in subjects with bipolar disorder and the effects of biological rhythms alterations on functional impairment. METHOD:Bipolar patients (n = 260) and healthy controls (n = 191) were recruited from mood disorders program...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Pinho M,Sehmbi M,Cudney LE,Kauer-Sant'anna M,Magalhães PV,Reinares M,Bonnín CM,Sassi RB,Kapczinski F,Colom F,Vieta E,Frey BN,Rosa AR

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To differentiate the relation between the structure and timing of rest-activity patterns and symptoms of impulsivity and mood instability in bipolar disorder (BD), borderline personality disorder (BPD) and healthy controls (HC). METHODS:Eighty-seven participants (31 BD, 21 BPD and 35 HC) underwent actigraph...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： McGowan NM,Goodwin GM,Bilderbeck AC,Saunders KEA

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:224 newly admitted inpatients were randomly allocated to two treatment groups: standard care (length of stay determined by the clinical team) and brief care (acute treatment aimed at effecting the patient's discharge after about a week). Using a new research instrument (the Patient Behaviour Assessment Schedule), info...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Platt SD,Hirsch SR,Knights AC

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports a true prevalence study of demoralization conducted in a kibbutz. This commune, which assures its members all their instrumental needs throughout the individual life span, is probably one of the few of its kind in the world. All adult members (n = 353) of a kibbutz affiliated with the most orthodo...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gilboa S,Levav I,Gilboa L,Ruiz F

更新日期：1990-07-01 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：:Seven chronic psychiatric patients developed signs of polyneuropathy mainly in the lower limbs after receiving chlorprothixene (500-1800 mg/d) from 3 to more than 24 months. The most prominent electroneuromyographic findings were decreased or not measurable motor conduction velocities of the peroneal nerves. Electromy...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Luisto M

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate women who had first-episode psychosis within 1 year after parturition. The Danish Psychiatric Central Register and the Danish Medical Birth Register were linked to identify all women admitted for the first time to a psychiatric department in Arhus County with a psychotic episod...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Videbech P,Gouliaev G

更新日期：1995-03-01 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: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：:alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency (ATD) predisposes the individual for serious lung disease in adulthood. The identification of ATD by neonatal screening was hypothesized to have negative long-term effects on the parents' attitudes and feelings associated with the child. This hypothesis was tested by comparing these atti...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： McNeil TF,Thelin T,Aspegren-Jansson E,Sveger T

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent discussions on euthanasia the question about mercy killing without consent of mentally ill persons has turned up, particularly in cases of hopeless suffering among senile or chronically insane patients. Possible analogies to the actions under the German Nazi-regimen and relations to the concept of Social Dar...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lauter H,Meyer JE

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:At least 50% of bipolar disorder (BD) patients have an additional diagnosis, one of the most difficult to manage being obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Defining the nosology of BD-OCD comorbidity has important clinical implications, given that treatments for OCD can worsen BD outcomes. METHOD:A systemati...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Amerio A,Odone A,Liapis CC,Ghaemi SN

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:All cases from the county, who were subjected to post-mortem examination at the Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Lund with a diagnosis of suicide during 1949-1984, were compared with the inpatient register at the Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital, Lund during 1949-1969. During these years all...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Berglund M,Krantz P,Lundqvist G,Therup L

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-five DSM-III-diagnosed schizophrenics and 37 normal and age-matched controls were examined using an oddball paradigm for the generation of P300 and smooth eye-pursuit tasks. Results were compared between groups and related to clinical characteristics, including a family history of psychiatric illness. Group dif...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ebmeier KP,Potter DD,Cochrane RH,Mackenzie AR,MacAllister H,Besson JA,Salzen EA

更新日期：1990-10-01 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 examine the association between physical and mental disorders and the separate and joint effect of physical and mental disorders on work-loss. METHOD:Data was derived from the Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Study. This was a general population study in which 7076 adults, aged between 18 an...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Buist-Bouwman MA,de Graaf R,Vollebergh WA,Ormel J

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tardive dyskinesia (TD) is a syndrome of involuntary movements that develops in predisposed individuals during neuroleptic drug treatment, with an average prevalence of 15%. Neuroleptic (antidopaminergic) drugs are the predominant etiological factor. Although no simple correlation can be established, both dosage and t...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gerlach J,Casey DE

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For patients dependent on benzodiazepines alone, or in combination with alcohol and/or other legal and illegal drugs, observed mortality rates were compared with the average population, and, in cases of isolated benzodiazepine dependence, also with a control group of non-dependent patients chosen to match each depende...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Piesiur-Strehlow B,Strehlow U,Poser W

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the possibility that autism, catatonia and psychoses in children are different manifestations of a single underlying form of brain pathology - a kind of 'Iron Triangle' of symptomatology - rather than three separate illnesses. METHOD:Systematic evaluation of historical case literature on autism to...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Shorter E,Wachtel LE

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The follow-up since 1989 of a large sample of multigenerational families of eastern Québec that are densely affected by schizophrenia (SZ) or bipolar disorder (BP) has permitted to look at the rates of DSM diagnoses in the young offspring of a SZ parent (HRSZ) and of a BP parent (HRBP) who had an extremely lo...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Maziade M,Gingras N,Rouleau N,Poulin S,Jomphe V,Paradis ME,Mérette C,Roy MA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By use of standardized case-recording criteria (MULTI-CLAD) manic-melancholic patients were classified as unipolar (n = 13) and bipolar (n = 23). Personality patterns are evaluated when patients were in neutral mood (defined by low symptom rating scale scores). Results showed that the similarities in the personality p...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bech P,Shapiro RW,Sihm F,Nielsen BM,Sørensen B,Rafaelsen OJ

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An empirical classification of 203 adolescent suicide attempters (mean age 17.3) was achieved using multiple correspondence analysis. The characteristics upon which the classification is based concern sociodemographic as well as psychological variables. Two groups are identified: the first is predominantly characteriz...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kienhorst CW,de Wilde EJ,van den Bout J,van der Burg E,Diekstra RF,Wolters WH

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 23-year-old male with a history of severe Tourette syndrome refractory to treatment with oral haloperidol is reported. The Tourette symptoms remitted after treatment with haloperidol decanoate. The response has been maintained over 18 months. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Clarke DJ,Ford R

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Abnormalities in structural and functional brain connectivity have been increasingly reported in patients with bipolar disorder (BD) by recent neuroimaging studies. However, relatively little is known about the changes in functional interaction between the cerebral hemispheres in BD. The present study aimed t...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Wang Y,Zhong S,Jia Y,Zhou Z,Zhou Q,Huang L

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00