The Swedish version of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) for schizophrenia. Construct validity and interrater reliability.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The existence of cannabis-induced psychosis (CP) remains controversial, partly because of methodological problems. We hypothesize that acute schizophrenia (AS) and CP can have distinct demographic, premorbid and clinical features. METHOD:We compared 26 patients with CP to 35 with AS, after their cannabis-con...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Núñez LA,Gurpegui M

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Yawning has been described in relation to drugs such as serotonin reuptake inhibitors, levodopa, dopamine agonists, MAO B inhibitor, morphine, methadone, buprenorphine, dextromethorphan, benzodiazepine, lidocaine, and flecaine. This is a report of two patients, on long-term escitalopram therapy (more than 8 w...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gutiérrez-Alvarez AM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Services are intended to maintain patients in the community while improving the quality of their lives. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which psychiatric patients' diagnoses, levels of autonomy, objective living conditions and degree of service utilization are associated with their perceived q...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mercier C,King S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this review is to summarize all data on suicidal behaviour reported in the Bible and to discuss basic implications for medical ethical positions. METHOD:All books of the Jerusalem Bible, including the apocrypha accepted in the Catholic canon, were searched for all cases of suicide, attempted suici...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Koch HJ

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The marital adjustment of patients with psychogenic pain disorder was evaluated and compared with a matched group of patients with other neurotic disorders. Pain patients spouses were found to have better marital adjustment and less psychiatric morbidity than the spouses of neurotic patients. These findings are discus...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hughes AM,Medley I,Turner GN,Bond MR

更新日期：1987-02-01 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：:A total of 440 (50.1%) drinking patients were found in a study of 878 primary care patients in Nigeria, of whom 126 (28.6%) of drinking patients were observed to have alcohol-related problems. Those with alcohol-related problems were significantly more likely to be males, middle-aged and to belong to higher occupation...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Abiodun OA

更新日期：1996-04-01 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 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：:The prevailing theory that normal intelligence and mild mental retardation are determined by multiple additive genes is critically reviewed in the light of findings from recent population studies. Discrepancies between theoretical concepts and reported data are noted, particularly those concerning frequency of mild me...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Akesson HO

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We examined the prevalence and determinants of the reasons given for non-adherence to psychiatric medication in a representative community survey. METHOD:We used data for all participants taking oral psychotropic medication (n = 634) from the 2000 British Survey of National Psychiatric Morbidity. RESULTS:Of...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Cooper C,Bebbington P,King M,Brugha T,Meltzer H,Bhugra D,Jenkins R

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Aiming at promoting young people's mental health and reducing stigma towards people with schizophrenia, project weeks were carried out with secondary school students aged 14-18 years (n=90). Key to the project week is meeting a (young) person with schizophrenia. METHOD:Students' attitudes and behavioural int...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Schulze B,Richter-Werling M,Matschinger H,Angermeyer MC

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：: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：UNLABELLED:Lycanthropy is a rare psychiatric condition in which the patient believes in being transformed into an animal. Belief in the transformation of another person into an animal has not been reported, so far. Here, a patient with an impression of bipolar mood disorder (mixed type) and such delusion is reported. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nejad AG

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

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：:We present a case of priapism caused by the alpha adrenoreceptor blocking action of a butyrophenone. The problem was solved surgically performing a cavernousspongiosum fistula. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Morera A,Estrada AG,Valenciano R

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：:Antidepressants are ineffective in about 30% of patients with major depression. Some authors then advise treatment of non-responders with (non-tricyclic) more selective reuptake inhibitors. In a double-blind, partial crossover study, 71 patients were selected for treatment during 4 weeks with oxaprotiline and/or fluvo...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nolen WA,van de Putte JJ,Dijken WA,Kamp JS,Blansjaar BA,Kramer HJ,Haffmans J

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-one of 50 patients satisfying the NINCDS-ADRDA criteria of probable or possible Alzheimer's disease showed psychotic features during a 2-year observation period. Paranoid delusions were reported in 23 patients, delusional misidentification in 17, visual hallucinations in 16 and auditory hallucinations in 8. All...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Förstl H,Besthorn C,Geiger-Kabisch C,Sattel H,Schreiter-Gasser U

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:English as the language of publication for articles on suicide in the medical literature increased from 58% of articles in 1966 to 79% in 1986. This increase occurred at the expense of all languages. These changes parallel those for the language of publication of articles on mental disorders and all medical subjects. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Barraclough BM,Noyes R

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen chronic alcoholics and 15 presenile patients were matched in pairs with regard to their mean hemisphere cerebral blood parameters-an index of brain metabolism. The distribution of the regional cerebral blood flow was similar in the two groups. The alcoholics performed significantly better in all psychometric t...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Berglund M,Gustafson L,Hagberg B,Ingvar DH,Nilsson L,Risberg J,Sonesson B

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This paper reviews studies on outcomes of involuntary hospital admissions in general adult psychiatry, and predictors of outcomes. METHOD:Studies assessing observer-rated clinical change and self-rated outcomes were identified. Relevant databases were searched and authors were contacted. Studies were clas...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Katsakou C,Priebe S

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We describe a case of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) following the use of physical restraint in a patient with a diagnosis of acute delusional psychotic disorder. METHOD:A new case report of DVT and PE associated with prolonged physical restraint is presented. The literature on phys...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Laursen SB,Jensen TN,Bolwig T,Olsen NV

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the rates of suicidal behaviour during vs. after discontinuation of treatment with antidepressants, and to determine the comparative rates of suicidal behaviour for patients maintained on tricyclic (TCA) vs. selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants. METHOD:Charts were reviewed...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Yerevanian BI,Koek RJ,Feusner JD,Hwang S,Mintz J

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recurrent psychoses, rather than, as Kraepelin supposed, constituting 2 major entities, manic depressive illness and schizophrenia, as separate diseases, may be distributed along a continuum that extends from unipolar depressive illness through bipolar and schizoaffective psychosis to schizophrenia with increasing...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Crow TJ

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It seems odd that male suicide rates have decreased in Portugal over the last few years, whereas the opposite has happened in most other countries. In order to investigate the reasons for such a decrease, suicide rates were compared with controversial cases (ICD-9 category E 980-989) and with homicide rates. The resul...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： de Castro EF,Pimenta F,Martins I

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Remitted bipolar disorder (BD) patients frequently present with chronic mood instability and emotional hyper-reactivity, associated with poor psychosocial functioning and low-grade inflammation. We investigated emotional hyper-reactivity as a dimension for characterization of remitted BD patients, and clinica...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Dargél AA,Roussel F,Volant S,Etain B,Grant R,Azorin JM,M'Bailara K,Bellivier F,Bougerol T,Kahn JP,Roux P,Aubin V,Courtet P,Leboyer M,FACE-BD Collaborators.,Kapczinski F,Henry C

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a 25-year follow-up study of 50 children of schizophrenic mothers, consisting of 25 children reared by their mothers and 25 children reared apart. The children's adult psychiatric status was evaluated in a 3-h structured interview employing a battery of syndrome check-lists and scales. A slightly higher i...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Higgins J,Gore R,Gutkind D,Mednick SA,Parnas J,Schulsinger F,Cannon TD

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interviews were conducted with 21 patients classified as neurotic or prepsychotic/psychotic, consecutively admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) owing to suicide attempts by means of drug intoxication, with their 37 significant others and with care personnel concerning the patients' contacts with psychiatric, somat...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Wolk-Wasserman D

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00