Prospective investigations of the prodromal state of schizophrenia: review of studies.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This paper presents evidence of new developments in the detection and treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders that have relevance for clinicians. METHOD:An electronic search was conducted in MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsychINFO and The Cochrane Library Database for the interval 1995-2005 for papers published...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Austin MP,Priest SR

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of personality disorders in a group of elderly patients without an organic mental disorder and to examine the relationship between the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) and personality disorder symptoms in psychogeriatric clinical practice. METHOD...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Casey JE,Joyce PR

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence from follow-up studies concerned with the mortality of epilepsy suggests the suicide rate is increased. The risk of suicide seems to be higher from temporal lobe epilepsy, for epilepsy with a greater degree of handicap and in the early years of the condition. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Barraclough BM

更新日期：1987-10-01 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intravenously), an alpha-adrenergic receptor agonist, was administered to 13 male chronic schizophrenics, who had been withdrawn from chronic neuroleptic therapy, and to 18 normal male controls.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: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：OBJECTIVE:To examine the factor structure of DSM-IV criteria for obsessive compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) in patients with binge eating disorder (BED). METHOD:Two hundred and eleven consecutive out-patients with axis I diagnoses of BED were reliably assessed with semi-structured diagnostic interviews. The eigh...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Grilo CM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebrospinal fluid levels of radioreceptor assayable insulin-like growth factors (RRA-IGFs) and immunoreactive somatomedin B (SMB) (RIA-B) were determined in apparently healthy individuals and in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (AD). The CSF levels of RIA-B and RRA-IGFs did not alter from the healthy con...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Tham A,Sparring K,Bowen D,Wetterberg L,Sara VR

更新日期：1988-06-01 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：:The care of mentally ill people at home is being encouraged nowadays. As a result, the family members feel an increased burden of care and find it difficult to cope with the care of a schizophrenic patient at home. We interviewed the relatives of 62 schizophrenics systematically regarding the behaviour of the patients...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gopinath PS,Chaturvedi SK

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Much of the knowledge we now take for granted regarding major mental disorders such as schizophrenia, suicide and other disorders, would not exist without the use of population based registers. The use of population based registers in psychiatric epidemiology have enabled analyses of associations that otherwi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Allebeck P

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 23-year-old male with a history of severe Tourette syndrome refractory to treatment with oral haloperidol is reported. The Tourette symptoms remitted after treatment with haloperidol decanoate. The response has been maintained over 18 months. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Clarke DJ,Ford R

更新日期：1988-04-01 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：:We investigated the renal function (urine volume, glomerular filtration rate, urinary osmolality and proteinuria) of 50 patients chronically treated with lithium carbonate for major affective disorder. No patient had any alteration in the parameters considered. No relationship was found between any of the parameters s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Conte G,Vazzola A,Sacchetti E

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of an autopsied patient with hypophyseal prolactinoma and dermatozoic delusions is reported, and the mechanism of onset of this special form of delusion is discussed from the neuroendocrinological view point, including response to medications, and neuropathological and pituitary hormonal studies. The subject ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Takeda M,Tanino S,Nishinuma K,Matsubayashi T,Yamashita S,Nishimura T

更新日期：1985-11-01 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

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to determine the treatment incidence, diagnostic stability and clinical and social outcome of affective disorders in the Greenlandic population. METHODS:A cohort of Greenlanders first hospitalized in 1980-1983 and diagnosed with an affective disorder at least once during the period ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lynge I,Munk-Jørgensen P,Mortensen PB

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a randomized double-blind study with parallel group design involving 60 anxious psychoneurotic outpatients, the anxiolytic activity of alprazolam was compared with that of oxazepam. Following a 4 to 7-day placebo washout period, both groups showed a similar and significant response to treatment during the 4-week ac...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Väisänen E,Jalkanen E

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines admission rates for schizophrenia in terms of degree of urbanization. Patient data was obtained from the Dutch psychiatric register. The scale of urbanization used had five categories and was utilized to establish the degree of urbanization in each municipality (n=647). Admission rates showed a s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Peen J,Dekker J

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether (reported) parental over involvement and lack of affection identify initially healthy subjects at risk for depression. One thousand subjects from the province of Utrecht, the Netherlands were randomly selected by using telephone addresses and asked to participate in a...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kerver MJ,van Son MJ,de Groot PA

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequencies of auditory, visual and olfactory hallucinations as defined by Wing et al. were studied in schizophrenic patients of various groups treated in the same hospital. The diagnosis of schizophrenia was made by the use of the Syndrome Check List. It was found that there were some cultural differences in the ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ndetei DM,Vadher A

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between low cerebrospinal fluid 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (CSF 5-HIAA) and aggressive acts in mentally disordered violent offenders. METHOD:CSF concentrations of 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA), homovanillic acid and 4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl gly...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lidberg L,Belfrage H,Bertilsson L,Evenden MM,Asberg M

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The families of 11 probands with Pick's disease as determined by histopathological examination, were investigated by interview and acquisition of medical records. The estimated morbid risk was 0.25 +/- 0.08 for parents and 0.07 +/- 0.07 for siblings or probands. Further analyses are presented that seek associations be...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Heston LL

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify psychopathological predictors for suicide in a population of major depressed Diagnostic Statistical Manual-III (DSM-III) in-patients. METHOD:A total of 210 previous participants in multicentre antidepressant drug trials, carried out in a randomized double-blind design, were followed prospectively...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hansen PE,Wang AG,Stage KB,Kragh-Sorensen P,Danish University Antidepressant Group.

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study a newly developed Self-rating Inventory for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is presented. The instrument consists of 47 items, reflecting DSM-III-R criteria, associated features and items corresponding to the disorder of extreme stress not otherwise specified. All items are phrased in a trauma-indep...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hovens JE,van der Ploeg HM,Bramsen I,Klaarenbeek MT,Schreuder JN,Rivero VV

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study comprises a retrospective evaluation of the case records of 49 first-admission patients with acute reactive paranoid psychosis and of the subsequent follow-up almost 10 years later, with special reference to clinical and social course and outcome. Ten of the 41 followed-up patients were diagnosed schizophren...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jørgensen P

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within a controlled prospective intervention study, schizophrenic outpatients randomly assigned to four treatment groups and one control group were assessed with regard to collaboration with drug treatment. In total, 39.3% of 84 regular attenders of the psychoeducational training programme and 26.6% of 64 control pati...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hornung WP,Klingberg S,Feldmann R,Schonauer K,Schulze Mönking H

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a part of the American-Danish prospective study of children of schizophrenic mothers, psychiatrically hospitalised and untreated cases of schizophrenia spectrum conditions, i.e. borderline schizophrenia, schizoid and paranoid personality disorders, were compared on a number of characteristics. This exploratory anal...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Parnas J,Teasdale TW

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychological autopsies are an important research tool in establishing risk factors associated with suicide. We report the results of a validity study comparing psychological autopsy-generated DSM-III-R diagnoses in suicides and non-suicides with chart diagnoses generated by clinicians who had treated the subjects pri...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kelly TM,Mann JJ

更新日期：1996-11-01 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：:A study sample of 51 patients with acute and transient psychotic disorder (ATPD) (ICD-10) is presented. The findings suggest that, in hospital settings, ATPD is a non-frequent condition with onset in early adult life and most often associated with female sex, good premorbid social functioning and no or minor/moderate ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jørgensen P,Bennedsen B,Christensen J,Hyllested A

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00