No association between two polymorphisms at the 5HT2A gene and bipolar affective puerperal psychosis.

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：: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：: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：:In Scandinavia during the past decade forensic psychiatry has been the subject of discussions, which have occasionally reached the height of vehement attacks. Changes in penal laws have expressed a declining interest in the cooperation of psychiatrists in the evaluation and treatment of offenders. Scandinavian forensi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Svendsen BB

更新日期：1977-03-01 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psychopathology, background and prognosis were investigated in the present study, which is a part of a more extensive unpublished study.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：: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：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the durability of positive effects of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) with coping training on psychotic symptoms and social functioning. METHOD:Forty patients with schizophrenia or related psychotic disorders and refractory auditory hallucinations were given CBT and coping training in an int...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Wiersma D,Jenner JA,van de Willige G,Spakman M,Nienhuis FJ

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The amygdala plays a major role in processing emotional stimuli. Fourteen studies using structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have examined the amygdala volume in paediatric and adult patients with bipolar disorder (BD) compared with healthy controls (HC) and reported inconsistent findings. Lithium has ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Usher J,Menzel P,Schneider-Axmann T,Kemmer C,Reith W,Falkai P,Gruber O,Scherk H

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:Salivary secretion was measured in 54 psychiatric patients comprising four diagnostic groups: schizophrenia, mania, depression and anxiety state. Detailed psychometric assessment was carried out at the time of measurement. Although salivary flow failed to show an association with either diagnostic category or mental s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Toone BK,Lader MH

更新日期：1979-05-01 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：:As part of a Nordic comparative study on contact rates of new patients and use of services in seven catchment areas, contact rates and use of services for patients with a functional psychosis during a 1-year follow-up period were investigated. The highest contact rates were found in two large city catchment areas in S...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hansson L,Muus S,Vinding HR,Göstas G,Saarento O,Sandlund M,Lönnerberg O,Oiesvold T

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the impact of tobacco, alcohol and cannabis on metabolic profile and cardiovascular risk in bipolar patients. METHOD:Naturalistic, cross-sectional, multicenter Spanish study. Current use of tobacco, alcohol and cannabis was determined based on patient self-reports. Metabolic syndrome was defined ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Garcia-Portilla MP,Saiz PA,Benabarre A,Florez G,Bascaran MT,Díaz EM,Bousoño M,Bobes J

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the hypothesis that drug addiction may be due to "masked depression", lithium was administered to 20 opiate addicts. Only nine patients took the lithium carbonate tablets for more than a few weeks; during this period they seemed to abstain from taking opiates. After 1 year, all the patients were off lithium and mos...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Altamura AC

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ICD-10 and DSM-IV classifications have both given low priority to "reactivity" to acute stress as a classificatory principle for functional psychoses. In Scandinavia, reactivity is still considered an important factor in the development of such psychoses. Reactivity is a complex concept, and its various components...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Guldberg CA,Dahl AA,Bertelsen A,Hansen H,Haslerud J,Hytten K,Narud K

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the framework of the multifactorial-polygenic model of inheritance, multiple threshold strategy was applied to a large set of pedigree data to examine the clinico-genetical position of some subtypes within the ICD-9 classification of schizophrenic psychoses. It appeared highly probable that the ICD-9 subtypes e...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ungvári G

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS) a subscale for depression has been derived in the course of a study of depression in which 209 patients took part. The subscale presented in this article comprises 28 items from the original pool and two additional items constructed later. The scale has a h...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Perris C,Eisemann M,von Knorring L,Perris H

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Koro is an acute anxiety reaction in which the perception of decreased penis length because of intra-abdominal traction is the main feature. This study attempts to explore the penis-root perception of the Koro patients by a graphomotor projective test--the Draw-a-penis Test (DAPT). This controlled DAPT investigation s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Chowdhury AN

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In the last decade, several studies have suggested that depression is accompanied by increased oxidative stress and decreased antioxidant defenses. We tested the hypothesis that high levels of the antioxidant uric acid are associated with lower risk of hospitalization with depression and use of prescription a...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Wium-Andersen MK,Kobylecki CJ,Afzal S,Nordestgaard BG

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of double blind trial in which 139 patients with primary depression were randomly assigned to either lofepramine (46), imipramine (48), or placebo (45) are discussed. After treatment with either active drug, lofepramine or imipramine, the clinical outcome was significantly greater than with placebo. No sig...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Feighner JP,Meridith CH,Dutt JE,Hendrickson GG

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been many studies in the literature examining childhood parental loss as a risk factor for adult psychiatric disorders such as depression, schizophrenia or anxiety disorders. However, with regard to alcohol dependence, only a limited number of such studies exists, and these have reported inconsistent findin...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Furukawa T,Harai H,Hirai T,Fujihara S,Kitamura T,Takahashi K

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a material of 71 patients admitted because of acute or chronic psychoses, 32 were treated with sulpiride (up to 1,800 mg per day) and 39 with chlorpromazine (up to 675 mg). Duration of treatment was from 4 to 8 weeks. The effect of the two preparations was very similar as were the type and frequency of side effects...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bratfos O,Haug JO

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this research we investigated the effects of 4 antipsychotic drugs with different anticholinergic components on different memory functions of schizophrenic patients. Drugs were administered in cumulative doses and memory was tested 90 min after each drug was administered. The results show that chlorpromazine and th...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Eitan N,Levin Y,Ben-Artzi E,Levy A,Neumann M

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To examine age, period and cohort effects on Australian suicide rates. METHOD:Male suicide rates for successive 5-year periods between 1919 and 1998, and for 1999 were displayed graphically to examine interactions between age, period and cohort effects. RESULTS:There has been a pronounced period effect on m...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Snowdon J,Hunt GE

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association between different levels of childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and sex differences in psychosocial outcomes during adolescence. METHOD:Swedish children (n = 4635) were screened for neuropsychiatric symptoms at age 9 or 12. ADHD symptoms were divided ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Norén Selinus E,Molero Y,Lichtenstein P,Anckarsäter H,Lundström S,Bottai M,Hellner Gumpert C

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nationwide register study of psychiatric admission for anorexia nervosa in Denmark yielded average incidence rates of 1.9 per 100,000 per year for females and 0.17 per 100,000 per year for males. The prevalence was 6.7 per 100,000 per year for females and 0.6 per 100,000 per year for males. The female-male ratio for...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nielsen S

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examined the co-occurrence of anxiety/mood and personality disorders (PDs) in substance abusers, the impact of anxiety/ mood disorders on the symptom profiles of PDs, and the impact of anxiety/mood disorders and PDs on pre-treatment status. METHOD:Current anxiety/mood disorders and PDs and pre-tre...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Verheul R,Kranzler HR,Poling J,Tennen H,Ball S,Rounsaville BJ

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the plasma level/therapeutic response relationship of haloperidol (HPDL) we used a prospective double-blind design in 95 acutely psychotic patients. After drug washout, patients were randomly assigned to a low, middle or high plasma level range for 2 weeks (phase A), and then 50% of the initial non-responde...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Janicak PG,Javaid JI,Sharma RP,Leach A,Dowd S,Davis JM

更新日期：1997-04-01 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