General psychopathology is more important for executive functioning than diagnosis.

abstract：:Twenty-nine depressed elderly patients receiving ECT were randomly assigned to a unilateral or bilateral group; post-ictal recovery times, memory changes, and clinical improvement during and after each course were measured by blind and independent observers. All patients but one showed full recovery on testing 3 weeks...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Fraser RM,Glass IB

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature is reviewed on EEG alpha activity in different psychological states, i.e., morbid anxiety, attention and mental relaxation. In the present study, 20 male neurotic inpatients suffering from chronic moderate anxiety were assessed with respect to anxiety level and EEG alpha activity (frequency and per cent...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Siciliani O,Schiavon M,Tansella M

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal glucose tolerance is often found in patients with anorexia nervosa (AN). We attempted to evaluate pancreatic B-cell functioning after intravenous glucagon administration. Fourteen patients with the restricting type of AN (percentage of ideal body weight 71.5 +/- 1.6%, mean +/- SE) and 6 patients with the buli...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kobayashi N,Tamai H,Takii M,Matsubayashi S,Nakagawa T

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trends in death rates from all suicides and specific methods of suicide in Italy over the period 1955-79 were analysed on the basis of age-specific and age-standardised rates, and through a log-linear Poisson model to isolate the effects of age, birth cohort and calendar period. In both sexes, a large decrease in mort...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： La Vecchia C,Bollini P,Imazio C,Decarli A

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A marked proportion of primary care patients have mental disorders and problems that remain unrecognized by the patients and their general practitioners. There is furthermore a great variation in the physicians' ability to detect mental disorders. The aim of the present study was to find out the overall prevalence of ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Joukamaa M,Lehtinen V,Karlsson H,Rouhe E

更新日期：1994-05-01 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

abstract：:Drug use and psychiatric symptoms were independently assessed in a random sample of 177 adolescents from a junior high school population. Pupils who used cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis, solutions (sniffing), and tranquilizers, all had higher frequencies of psychiatric symptoms than non-users. The use of alcohol was sho...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lavik NJ,Onstad S

更新日期：1986-04-01 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 aim of the study was to examine the social and economic variables associated with mental health by means of telephone interviews of a randomly chosen population sample (n = 1557) in Finland in 1993. Mental health was evaluated by means of a 12-item General Health Questionnaire. A mental disorder, indicated by the ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Viinamäki H,Kontula O,Niskanen L,Koskela K

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to elucidate the influence of various events in childhood on suicidal behavior in adult age. For this purpose, 99 patients admitted to the Department of Psychiatry of Odense University Hospital after making a suicide attempt were followed for 5 years, to register repeated suicidal behavior. T...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Krarup G,Nielsen B,Rask P,Petersen P

更新日期：1991-01-01 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early diagnosis is important for the course of schizophrenia. AIM:To investigate whether prodromal symptoms of schizophrenia lead to increased use of primary care. METHOD:A register-based cohort study of 21 894 cases with incident schizophrenia and 437 880 matched controls. RESULTS:Cases used daytime prim...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nørgaard H,Søndergaard Pedersen H,Fenger-Grøn M,Mors O,Nordentoft M,Vestergaard M,Munk Laursen T

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several operational diagnoses (OPD) for endogenous depression have been proposed. However--though aiming at similar clinical concepts--the amount of association and agreement between different OPD is rather low. In this study the relationship between eight OPD (Research Diagnostic Criteria, DSM-III, Michigan Discrimin...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Maier W,Philipp M

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty Kenyan 'psychotic' patients were screened using the New Haven Schizophrenic Index (NHSI) and were all studied for hallucinations using standardised definitions. Fifty-one of the patients were NHSI positive and the rest NHSI negative. Sixty-one percent of the NHSI positive had hallucinations in one or more modal...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ndetei DM,Singh A

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Premenstrual Assessment Form (PAF) is a new self report procedure designed to measure changes in mood, behavior, and physical condition during the premenstrual period. It reflects the great variability of premenstrual syndromes as opposed to the common practice of viewing these changes as a single entity. In compa...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Halbreich U,Endicott J,Schacht S,Nee J

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The leisure activities of 110 depressed patients and of 98 non-psychiatric controls were studied. The following aspects of leisure behaviour were taken into account: quantity, type (active, passive), frequency, presence of other people, place and satisfaction. In addition, possible relationships between personality an...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Eisemann M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is based on intensive interviews made with 75 Turkish migrant women living in Denmark. The interviews were conducted in the women's own homes, in their own language, and special care was taken to establish an atmosphere of confidence. The methodological problems involved in this kind of research are discu...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mirdal GM

更新日期：1985-03-01 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：:Cerebral computed tomography (CT) was performed before and after right-sided electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in 40 patients aged 26-87 years with major affective disorders. Nine patients with a concomitant definite or possible non-acute organic brain disorder were included. Several patients had long seizure durations,...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bergsholm P,Larsen JL,Rosendahl K,Holsten F

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The validity of DIS-CM (Chinese modified version of Diagnostic Interview Schedule) was examined by analyzing lifetime prevalence of each age group, age at onset, and recency of illness. The magnitude of the discrepancy between the empirical and the estimated data was adopted as the criterion of the degree of deviation...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hwu HG,Yeh EK,Chang LY,Yeh YL

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research in neuroendocrinology has evidenced that hyperactivity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) depends on hypersecretion of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH). The aim of this study was to investigate the activity of HPA before and after recovery in depressed patients treated with electro...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Dored G,Stefansson S,d'Elia G,Kågedal B,Karlberg E,Ekman R

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is 9 years since the mental health reform was passed by the Italian Parliament. The author presents a data-based evaluation of the effects of the Italian mental health reform. There are still many problems to be resolved: More than 30,000 inpatients are still in psychiatric hospitals and little is known of the fate...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Crepet P

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Examinations are anecdotally viewed as extremely stressful to Singapore schoolchildren. We test this postulate by obtaining parental ratings of children's emotional stress levels longitudinally in a large representative sample of sixth (P6) and fifth (P5) class primary schoolchildren, respectively, exposed an...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Parker G,Cai Y,Tan S,Dear K,Henderson AS,Poh GT,Kwee GC

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the prevalence of Toxoplasma infection between the first-episode schizophrenia and the controls and to compare the clinical features between the Toxoplasma-seronegative and Toxoplasma-seropositive patients with schizophrenia. METHOD:The rate of serum reactivity to Toxoplasma in 600 schizophrenia, ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Wang HL,Wang GH,Li QY,Shu C,Jiang MS,Guo Y

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Examine the overall incidence of medically treated depression in Denmark among individuals 15-44 years old, and estimate the 5-year cumulative incidence of psychiatric hospital care among individuals treated first in non-hospital-based care. METHODS:We followed all individuals born in Denmark between 1969 an...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Musliner KL,Liu X,Gasse C,Christensen KS,Wimberley T,Munk-Olsen T

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine factors increasing the risk for onset and persistence of subthreshold mania and depression. METHOD:In a prospective cohort community study, the association between risk factors [a family history of mood disorders, trauma, substance use, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and temperame...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Tijssen MJ,Van Os J,Wittchen HU,Lieb R,Beesdo K,Wichers M

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:In this paper an account is given of the effect of single-night sleep deprivation (SD) therapy in 124 depressive patients of different diagnostic groups. Phasic depressives showed a marked improvement after treatment by sleep deprivation. Because these improvements were often of short duration, we repeated the treatme...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Pflug B

更新日期：1976-02-01 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 thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP) effect and erythrocyte transketolase activity (ETKA) in a group of 28 patients admitted to a psychiatric emergency ward because of severe alcohol withdrawal syndrome were compared with the TPP effect and ETKA in a control group of 20 healthy nonalcoholic volunteers. The patients were t...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nordentoft M,Timm S,Hasselbalch E,Roesen A,Gammeltoft S,Hemmingsen R

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00