No association between the -399 C > T polymorphism of the neuropeptide Y gene and schizophrenia, unipolar depression or panic disorder in a Danish population.

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：:Beck's Depression Inventory was administered in a study of all students aged 16-17 years in the first year of high school in a Swedish town, and was completed by 93% of them (n = 2270). Cronbach's reliability coefficient alpha was 0.89, and there were strong correlations between item scores and total scores. A diagnos...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Olsson G,von Knorring AL

更新日期：1997-04-01 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：:In one of the hypotheses on the causes of schizophrenia it is proposed that viruses may play a role in the etiology and pathogenesis of at least some forms of schizophrenia. In our study, 30 healthy adults and 30 schizophrenic patients were investigated for humoral and cellular immunity against herpes simplex virus (H...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Schindler L,Leroux M,Beck J,Moises HW,Kirchner H

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis (CBTp) delivered by non-expert therapists, using CBT relevant measures. METHOD:Participants (N = 74) were randomised into immediate therapy or waiting list control groups. The therapy group was offered 6 months of therapy and followed up 3 months later. T...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Peters E,Landau S,McCrone P,Cooke M,Fisher P,Steel C,Evans R,Carswell K,Dawson K,Williams S,Howard A,Kuipers E

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on the development and testing of a new Chinese diagnostic instrument--the Adult Diagnostic Interview Schedule-Present (ADIS-P). This instrument uses a selection of items adapted from DIS and SADS. It is administered within approximately 25 min by a trained clinician using a small portable computer ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Zheng Y,Yang W,Phillips MR,Dai C,Zheng H

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tardive dyskinesia (TD) is a syndrome of involuntary movements that develops in predisposed individuals during neuroleptic drug treatment, with an average prevalence of 15%. Neuroleptic (antidopaminergic) drugs are the predominant etiological factor. Although no simple correlation can be established, both dosage and t...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gerlach J,Casey DE

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Hope has long been considered an important therapeutic factor in medicine, nursing and mental health and recently received attention as a central component of recovery. However, conceptual clarity, applicability and the predictive value of hope remain unclear. This review aims to define hope, review current a...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Schrank B,Stanghellini G,Slade M

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:367 new cases of drug abuse and related cases were admitted to the teaching hospital within the study period. These cases comprised approximately 11% of all new admissions during the period. 80% were between 15 and 30 years, and 76% of them were single. People in this age group tend to abuse cannabis and amphetamine m...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ahmed MH

更新日期：1986-07-01 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：: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：OBJECTIVE:There has been increasing concern about extensions to the definition of 'clinical' depression, but little evident investigation as to how clinical and non-clinical depressive states might best be differentiated. This review considers the potential of many candidate symptom and non-symptom parameters. METHOD:...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Parker G,Paterson A

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major aim of this study was to investigate links between chronic insomnia and mental and personality disorders using the DSM-III-R classification. Of a sample of 2512 general practice attenders, 105 with a chronic insomnia complaint over a 4-month period were evaluated for mental and personality disorders. In addi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Schramm E,Hohagen F,Käppler C,Grasshoff U,Berger M

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:In a review article parental losses (PL) of children in different age and sex groups are psycho-analytically examined from the view point of the triangular family relationship, cognitive development of the children and their ability to mourn, delinquency, schizophrenia and affective illnesses, and lastly the controver...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Laajus S

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:Eleven patients with DSM-III-R major depression who were treatment-resistant to sertraline were allocated for lithium augmentation therapy. In conjunction with their sertraline, 6 received lithium carbonate 400 mg at night and 5 received 800 mg at night. A total of 7 patients responded within 1 week. The degree of res...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Dinan TG

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified version of the revised Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire (PDQ-R), based on DSM-III-R personality disorders (PD), was completed by 74 psychiatric patients. A factor analysis of the scores for each of the PD (i.e. of the number of positive DSM-III-R criteria for each of the PD) yielded 3 factors that defin...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Dowson JH,Berrios GE

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to test the transferability of the Marke-Nymann Temperament Scale (MNTS) using the Rasch item analysis. The results showed that the three Sjöbring personality dimensions Validity, Stability, and Solidity measured by the MNTS were without transferability. However, the item analysis demonst...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bech P,Allerup P,Rosenberg R

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examines if YKL-40 is increased in individuals with psychotic disorders and if elevated YKL-40 levels at baseline is associated with subsequent development of type 2 diabetes. METHOD:A total of 1383 patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or affective psychosis and 799 healthy controls were rec...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Dieset I,Mørch RH,Hope S,Hoseth EZ,Reponen EJ,Gran JM,Aas M,Michelsen AE,Reichborn-Kjennerud T,Nesvåg R,Agartz I,Melle I,Aukrust P,Djurovic S,Ueland T,Andreassen OA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional brain glucose metabolism was investigated in healthy volunteers (n = 10) and in drug free schizophrenic patients (n = 20). The metabolism was determined by positron emission tomography (PET) with 11C-glucose as the tracer. Diagnosis of schizophrenia was made according to RDC and DSM III. Eight patients had th...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Wiesel FA,Wik G,Sjögren I,Blomqvist G,Greitz T,Stone-Elander S

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to compare moclobemide and clomipramine in endogenous depression according to the Newcastle II classification. Sixty-two patients were allocated to either 300 mg moclobemide or 150 mg clomipramine, both given in 3 daily doses. Improvements occurred over time but differences between treatm...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Koczkas C,Holm P,Karlsson A,Nagy A,Ose E,Pétursson H,Ulverås L,Wenedikter O

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study autism over time in order to ascertain whether there has been an increase in its prevalence in recent years. METHOD:All English language papers on the prevalence of autism were reviewed. Ten of the studies retrieved were not used in the final analysis because they did not meet full criteria for incl...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gillberg C,Wing L

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To provide meta-analytical evidence of bone mineral density (BMD), fractures, and osteoporosis rates in eating disorders (ED) vs. healthy controls (HCs). METHOD:Three independent authors searched major electronic databases from inception till August 2015 for cross-sectional studies reporting BMD in people wi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Solmi M,Veronese N,Correll CU,Favaro A,Santonastaso P,Caregaro L,Vancampfort D,Luchini C,De Hert M,Stubbs B

更新日期：2016-05-01 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:Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a highly effective and well-tolerated therapy for severe and treatment-resistant depression. Cognitive side-effects are still feared by some patients and clinicians. Importantly, cognitive impairments are among the most disabling symptoms of depression itself. METHODS:Patie...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Biedermann SV,Bumb JM,Demirakca T,Ende G,Sartorius A

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：OBJECTIVE:This paper presents a case of chronic mania and reviews the diagnosis with respect to its definition and utility. METHOD:A case of chronic mania is described. RESULTS:Unremitting mania poses a diagnostic and management challenge. CONCLUSION:Persistent mania of this duration is rare, but a diagnosis of chro...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Malhi GS,Mitchell PB,Parker GB

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients receiving lithium who had noticed changes in hair texture since starting that drug, described variously as hair losing its curl or wave, have a greater lithium concentration in hair than patients on lithium with no such complaints. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： McCreadie RG,Farmer JG

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Ethnicity is a risk factor for tardive dyskinesia (TD) and other antipsychotic drug-induced movement disorders (ADIMD). It is unclear whether this association is mediated through genetic, environmental or cultural factors individually or in combination. This pilot study aimed to explore this interaction by de...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Sundram S,Lambert T,Piskulic D

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00