The effect of sleep deprivation on depressed patients.

abstract：:A total of 1814 patients were studied from the Mississippi State Hospital with a DSM-III diagnosis of schizophrenia and aged 15-39 years at the time of admission. The 634 schizophrenics with a birth date between 1 December and 31 March were compared with the 1180 born between 1 April and 30 November for age of admissi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rodrigo G,Lusiardo M,Briggs G,Ulmer A

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repeated doses of 5 mg nitrazepam, 15 mg flurazepam, and 1 mg flunitrazepam improved subjective assessments of the ease of getting to sleep and the perceived quality of induced sleep in a population of 30 healthy volunteers. The subjective reports of improved sleep inducement were related to a perceived difficulty in ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hindmarch I

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:'Crisis cards' state patients' treatment details and preferences in anticipation of a later occasion when the patient might be too ill to express them directly. We assessed the feasibility of introducing 'crisis cards', or a collaborative form of them, 'joint crisis plans', into a sectorized community psychia...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Sutherby K,Szmukler GI,Halpern A,Alexander M,Thornicroft G,Johnson C,Wright S

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews certified suicide in Fiji during the 2-year period from 1971-1972. The data show the much higher incidence of suicide in Fiji Indians than in other races, the incidence in Fiji Indian females being particularly high. The findings on a more detailed sample survey of 50% of the certified cases are p...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Price J,Karim I

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There are hardly any randomised-controlled trials of structured family interventions for schizophrenia from India. This study attempted to evaluate the impact of a structured psychoeducational intervention for schizophrenia, compared with standard out-patient treatment, on various patient- and caregiver-relat...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kulhara P,Chakrabarti S,Avasthi A,Sharma A,Sharma S

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This article illustrates the development of psychiatric register research and discusses the strengths, limitations, and possible directions for future activities. METHOD:Examples illustrating the development from the post-World War II introduction of psychiatric register research until today are selected. R...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Munk-Jørgensen P,Okkels N,Golberg D,Ruggeri M,Thornicroft G

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suicide rates by each major method of suicide are presented for 16 countries in 1960-1964 and in 1980. The overall suicide rate rose during this period in the sample countries. Suicide rates by motor vehicle exhaust, hanging, firearms and other methods rose during this period, suicide rates by domestic gas fell, and s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lester D

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of mental disorders in a representative sample of old people in Gothenburg, Sweden, was studied at 70, 75 and 79. The study comprised 392 subjects at 70, 302 subjects at 75 and 203 at 79. A case was defined by cut-off points on symptom and sign rating scales, and diagnoses were defined operationally as ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nilsson LV,Persson G

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective 1-year study was conducted in 69 patients with affective disorder. Despite remission, there was a significant continued presence at each visit of major symptoms of mania and depression and of mean mood shift. Furthermore, sub-clinical affective symptoms, as determined by General Behavior Inventory self-r...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Goodnick PJ,Fieve RR,Schlegel A,Kaufman K

更新日期：1987-06-01 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:Research suggests that group psychotherapy for adults with a history of child sexual abuse (CSA) is generally beneficial. Only few studies have included random assignment. This study compared the effects of analytic (A) and systemic group psychotherapy (S) on CSA. METHOD:One hundred and fifty-one women with ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lau M,Kristensen E

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible hypersecretion involvement of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) in the pathophysiology of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis disturbances in patients with major depressive episode and with an abnormal dexamethasone suppression test (DST) was investigated. The corticotropin (ACTH) and cortisol ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Thalén BE,Kjellman BF,Ljunggren JG,Akner G,Kågedal B,Wahlund B,Wetterberg L

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Prevalence rates for dissociative disorders among psychiatric in-patients vary widely. The aim of this meta-analysis is to offer an explanation for these differences. METHOD:Prevalence studies using a clinical diagnostic interview among psychiatric in-patients were included. Hypotheses concerning the impact ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Friedl MC,Draijer N,de Jonge P

更新日期：2000-12-01 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：OBJECTIVE:We examine the safety and efficacy of venlafaxine monotherapy in bipolar type II (BP II) patients with major depressive episode (MDE) who were unresponsive to prior lithium monotherapy. We hypothesized that venlafaxine would be superior to lithium with a low hypomanic conversion rate. METHOD:Seventeen patien...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Amsterdam JD,Wang G,Shults J

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a short, 5-item measure of the core symptoms of depression based on the 16-item Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology - Self-Report (QIDS-SR16 ) and to evaluate psychometric properties of this new measure (Very Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology - Self-Report: VQIDS-SR5 ). METHOD:...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： De La Garza N,John Rush A,Grannemann BD,Trivedi MH

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological correlates of suicide were explored for the counties of Hungary and the states of the United States. Only one common correlate was identified (divorce rates). The remaining social indicators that were associated with suicide rates in the United States were not associated with suicide rates in Hungary. The i...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lester D,Moksony F

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the renal function (urine volume, glomerular filtration rate, urinary osmolality and proteinuria) of 50 patients chronically treated with lithium carbonate for major affective disorder. No patient had any alteration in the parameters considered. No relationship was found between any of the parameters s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Conte G,Vazzola A,Sacchetti E

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of 273 children and adolescents, aged 8 to 19 years, who had been treated for a congenital malformation during their 1st month of life, were studied using psychiatric interviews with the child and at least one of his parents. The child was also given a Wechsler intelligence test. The rate of psychopathological...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Sandberg S

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To combine the results of earlier comparison studies of in-patient aggression to quantitatively assess the strength of the association between patient factors and i) aggressive behaviour,ii) repetitive aggressive behaviour. METHOD:A systematic review and meta-analysis of empirical articles and reports of com...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Dack C,Ross J,Papadopoulos C,Stewart D,Bowers L

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of 167 consecutive patients admitted to a general hospital following an episode of deliberate self-harm was carried out; 102 patients were interviewed by computer and then by a psychiatrist who was blind to the results of the computer interview. The computer interview consisted of a self-rating mod...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Levine S,Ancill RJ,Roberts AP

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between childhood social adjustment and personality and adult social adjustment and symptoms in a population of schizophrenic patients. Adult social adjustment was assessed in 43 patients by means of the Social Adjustment Scale Self-Report, and symptoms were asses...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： MacEwan TH,Athawes RW

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiology behind the abnormalities of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal cortex axis found in patients with major depressive disorder was studied by the use of the vasopressin test. The response of plasma adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) and cortisol to the injection of 10 IU lysine-vasopressin (LVP) was investiga...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Akner G,Ljunggren JG,Kjellman BF,Undén F,Wetterberg L

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Speech recordings were made of 16 depressed patients during depression and after clinical improvement. The recordings were analyzed using a computer program which extracts acoustic parameters from the fundamental frequency contour of the voice. The percent pause time, the standard deviation of the voice fundamental fr...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nilsonne A

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroencephalographic coherence scores in 21 teetotaler first-degree relatives of alcoholics, 27 subjects with alcohol dependence and 21 healthy subjects without a family history of alcohol abuse were compared. The relatives had significantly higher coherence scores in the frontal and parietal leads than the alcohol...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Michael A,Mirza KA,Mukundan CR,Channabasavanna SM

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On admission, IgA, IgG and IgM concentrations were determined in 76 schizophrenics, and the correlations of these concentrations to the variables relating to psychopathology, background and prognosis were investigated in the present study, which is a part of a more extensive unpublished study. On the basis of factoriz...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Pulkkinen E

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Denmark about 11-12 per 100,000 population are diagnosed as schizophrenics for the first time each year. Less than half of these receive this diagnosis at first admission and therefore only 5-6 per 100,000 are included in the official schizophrenia incidence figures. In a cohort (n = 53), predictors for diagnosis o...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Munk-Jørgensen P,Mortensen PB

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There have been increasing pressures to adopt or incorporate dimensional representations in various sections of DSM-5 including the psychotic disorders section. Thus far, findings offered as evidence of a continuous distribution of psychosis are limited given their exclusive focus on the manifest rather than ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ahmed AO,Buckley PF,Mabe PA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-blind study was carried out to compare the efficacy and tolerability of nomifensine and amitriptyline in 17 Malaysian patients with moderate to severe depression. The two drugs did not differ with regard to antidepressant effect but nomifensine-treated subjects report fewer side-effects with no complaints of ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ong SB,Lee CT

更新日期：1981-03-01 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