Examination stress in Singapore primary schoolchildren: how compliance by subjects can impact on study results.

abstract：:Tardive dyskinesia (TD) is a long-term potential adverse effect of neuroleptic treatment, and older age has been correlated with the development of TD. We conducted a chart review of current out-patients and examined annual Abnormal Inventory Movement Scale (AIMS) evaluations for the period 1987-1995 for 43 patients w...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Labbate LA,Lande RG,Jones F,Oleshansky MA

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We followed the prescription of psychotropic drugs by primary health care physicians over a 3-year period. The material consisted of 1000 randomly selected adult primary health care patients. At least one psychotropic drug was prescribed to one third (n = 307) of the sample during the follow-up period. The most common...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Joukamaa M,Sohlman B,Lehtinen V

更新日期：1995-11-01 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:The aim of this study was to examine motor threshold (MT) during treatment with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). METHOD:The TMS was administered to 46 patients with depression and 13 controls. TMS was performed at 90% power of measured MT. The stimulation frequency was 10 Hz for 6 s, for 20 trains, w...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Dolberg OT,Dannon PN,Schreiber S,Grunhaus L

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the risk factors for suicidal behaviour in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive patients. METHOD:HIV substance dependent positive patients who had attempted suicide were compared with HIV substance dependent positive patients who had never attempted suicide for suicide risk factors. RESULT...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Roy A

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The platelet levels of serotonin and the amino acids aspartic acid, glutamine, glutamic acid and gamma-aminobutyric acid were measured in 18 drug-free autistic (DSM-III criteria) and 14 age-matched healthy children. Serotonin was significantly increased while the amino acids aspartic acid, glutamine, glutamic acid and...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rolf LH,Haarmann FY,Grotemeyer KH,Kehrer H

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep disturbances commonly occur in the premenstruum in both Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) patients and in women from the general population. Reports on the Post-Sleep Inventory were obtained from a clinic sample of PMS patients and samples from the general population dichotomized into a non-clinic group with and witho...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mauri M,Reid RL,MacLean AW

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By record linkage of a discharge diagnosis registry and a medical birth registry we identified 350 women with manic-depressive disease who had born a child. The total delivery outcome was poorer than expected with a high perinatal death rate and a high malformation rate. Further studies revealed a high rate of perinat...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Källén B,Tandberg A

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A self-assessment scale has been developed and found to be a reliable instrument for detecting states of depression and anxiety in the setting of an hospital medical outpatient clinic. The anxiety and depressive subscales are also valid measures of severity of the emotional disorder. It is suggested that the introduct...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Zigmond AS,Snaith RP

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between symptom disorder and personality disorder according to DSM-III was studied in 289 consecutive outpatients. It was observed that personality disorders occurred frequently among the chronic affective and anxiety disorders. The "dramatic" personality disorders were observed especially frequently ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Alnaes R,Torgersen S

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this 1-year follow-up study was to compare functional outcome as well as clinical differences between patients with first- and multiple-episode bipolar disorder. METHOD:Bipolar disorder patients with first (n = 60) and multiple episodes (n = 59) were recruited from two hospitals in Spain. The Func...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rosa AR,González-Ortega I,González-Pinto A,Echeburúa E,Comes M,Martínez-Àran A,Ugarte A,Fernández M,Vieta E

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Exploration of academic and creative potentials of first-degree relatives of hospital-treated psychotic patients in Iceland. METHOD:Relatives identified in a previously published family study of psychosis are evaluated, using records available at the National Archives and National Library in Reykjavik. Perfo...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Karlsson JL

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:Recently, provisional research criteria for "schizo-affective" and related psychoses were published by the St. Louis Group. These rigorous criteria were modified and expanded for purposes of the present study in order to analyze the case records of 83 first admissions of Schneider-positive schizophrenics, that is, tho...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Koehler K,Seminario I

更新日期：1979-10-01 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：:Opinions about mental illness were measured, in 1994, in a probability sample consisting of 360 residents of two boroughs in greater Athens. These boroughs represent the catchment area of a community mental health centre. The aim of this study was to compare the differences in attitudes towards mental illness with a m...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Madianos MG,Economou M,Hatjiandreou M,Papageorgiou A,Rogakou E

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are core features of psychotic illness and remain significant in predicting poor outcome and risk. There has been a wide range of approaches to understanding these experiences. METHOD:A systematic literature review summarizing different methods of investigation and their...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Upthegrove R,Broome MR,Caldwell K,Ives J,Oyebode F,Wood SJ

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

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:Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) plays a crucial role in modulating resilience and vulnerability to stress. The aim of this study was to investigate whether epigenetic regulation of the BDNF gene is a biomarker of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) development among veterans exposed to combat in th...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kim TY,Kim SJ,Chung HG,Choi JH,Kim SH,Kang JI

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonidine (0.15 mg intravenously), an alpha-adrenergic receptor agonist, was administered to 13 male chronic schizophrenics, who had been withdrawn from chronic neuroleptic therapy, and to 18 normal male controls. There was no significant difference in growth hormone (GH) response between the two groups. There was no ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lal S,Nair NP,Thavundayil JX,Monks RC,Guyda H

更新日期：1983-08-01 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：:Two patients with major affective disorder are described. In both cases synaesthesia was a prominent and integral feature of the disorder. The discussion considers the relationship of perceptual upset and affective disorders. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： McKane JP,Hughes AM

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study was designed to investigate the association between major mental disorders (MMDs) and homicide. METHOD:The rates of exculpations because of MMDs among 1087 Austrian homicide offenders during 1975 and 1999 were compared with the rates of the respective disorders in the general population. RESULTS:...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Schanda H,Knecht G,Schreinzer D,Stompe T,Ortwein-Swoboda G,Waldhoer T

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study sample of 50 patients suffering from schizophrenia was examined at readmission and thereafter every second week until each patient had been interviewed five times i.e. eight weeks in total. Three types of recovery are identified, one with full and two with partial recovery of delusional beliefs. In patients wi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jørgensen P

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demographic data, personal and familial characteristics, as well as DSM-III-R-based psychiatric diagnoses were collected in 369 adolescents and young adults aged between 15 and 29 years, referred to an Emergency Department for psychological problems. In total, 60% of them were suicide attempters. Separations before th...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Chastang F,Rioux P,Dupont I,Baranger E,Kovess V,Zarifian E

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Children of parents with major depression are at significantly increased risk for developing major depression themselves; however, not all children at genetic risk will develop major depressive disorder (MDD). We investigated the utility of subsyndromal scores on the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) Anxiety/De...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Uchida M,Fitzgerald M,Lin K,Carrellas N,Woodworth H,Biederman J

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study comprised 26 patients with somatic symptoms indicating a hernia-reflux syndrome referred to a university hospital ear, nose and throat department. The aim was to throw light on the hypothesis that this syndrome is largely a psychosomatic problem. The patients were divided into two groups: subjects with and w...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nielzén S,Pettersson KI,Regnéll G,Svensson R

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the prescription of aripiprazole, compared with olanzapine and haloperidol, was associated with a lower frequency of metabolic syndrome (MS) and treatment discontinuation at 1 year. METHOD:Patients were randomly assigned to be treated open-label and according to usual clinical practice w...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Parabiaghi A,Tettamanti M,D'Avanzo B,Barbato A,GiSAS study group.

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:While findings are contradictory, many studies report that long Duration of Untreated Psychosis (DUP) correlates with poorer outcome in first episode psychosis. In an outcome study of first-episode psychosis, we compared the patients who refused to participate in a follow-along with those who consented to est...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Friis S,Melle I,Larsen TK,Haahr U,Johannessen JO,Simonsen E,Opjordsmoen S,Vaglum P,McGlashan TH

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between age at onset of schizophrenia diagnosed using DSM-III criteria and the presence or absence of this illness among first-degree relatives was investigated in 2417 patients. The mean age at onset among those with a family history of schizophrenia was slightly and nonsignificantly earlier than that of...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Shimizu A,Kurachi M,Yamaguchi N,Torii H,Isaki K

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00