Personality traits in early phases of panic disorder: implications on the presence of agoraphobia, clinical severity and short-term outcome.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Impaired executive functioning (EF) has often been reported in patients with major depression or schizophrenia. We hypothesize that the variance in EF is more affected by level of general psychopathology than by diagnosis. METHOD:Forty-three patients with major depression and 47 with schizophrenia were inclu...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Stordal KI,Mykletun A,Asbjørnsen A,Egeland J,Landrø NI,Roness A,Rund BR,Sundet KS,Lundervold AJ,Lund A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The endocannabinoid (EC) system is widely distributed throughout the brain and modulates many functions. It is involved in mood and related disorders, and its activity may be modified by exogenous cannabinoids. This article examines the therapeutic potential of cannabinoids in psychiatric disorders. METHOD:A...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ashton CH,Moore PB

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:109 killers, 38 nonviolent offenders and 54 community controls were compared on psychiatric diagnosis, the MMPI, Cattell 16 PF, IQ and clinical neurological results. Killers did not differ from nonviolent offenders on diagnosis or personality in general. Only higher MMPI Hysteria scale scores differentiated the killer...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Langevin R,Paitich D,Orchard B,Handy L,Russon A

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

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：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relationship between social exclusion and outcomes of mentally ill patients with substance abuse problems receiving assertive outreach treatment in London. METHOD:Analysis was conducted on data on 580 patients from the 'Pan-London Assertive Outreach Study (PLAO)'. Data were collected using...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Fakhoury WK,Priebe S,PLAO Study Group.

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one borderline patients (in accordance with Gunderson) who had committed suicide were compared with matched borderline patients who stayed alive. The suicide group had more frequent childhood loss, lack of treatment contact before hospitalization, longer hospitalization, and they were more frequently discharged...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kjelsberg E,Eikeseth PH,Dahl AA

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Renewed insight into dose-related effects of sertindole and haloperidol was sought by re-analysing published data for antipsychotic effect, extrapyramidal effect, and patient wellbeing - i.e., the important pharmacopsychometric triangle domains. METHOD:Selected Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) su...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bech P,Tanghøj P,Andreasson K,Overø KF

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：OBJECTIVE:About one-third of patients referred to services for people at high risk for psychosis may have already developed a first episode of psychosis (FEP). We compared clinical outcomes in FEP patients who presented to either high risk or conventional mental health services. METHOD:Retrospective study comparing du...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Fusar-Poli P,Díaz-Caneja CM,Patel R,Valmaggia L,Byrne M,Garety P,Shetty H,Broadbent M,Stewart R,McGuire P

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the accuracy of psychiatric patients' statements on coercive measures compared with medical file information using empirical methodology, and relating the statements to patients' psychopathology. METHOD:One hundred and forty-three in-patients were identified consecutively, and interviewed usin...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Poulsen HD,Engberg M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate for subtypes of bipolar depression using latent class analysis (LCA). METHOD:Participants were recruited through a bipolar disorder (BD) clinic. LCA was undertaken using: (i) symptoms reported on the SCID-IV for the most severe lifetime depressive episode; (ii) lifetime illness features such a...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Perich T,Hadzi-Pavlovic D,Frankland A,Breakspear M,Loo C,Roberts G,Holmes-Preston E,Mitchell PB

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Evidence based on controlled studies is still limited for treatment strategies that prevent recurrence of suicide attempts. Findings from observational as well as meta-analytic studies strongly suggest that lithium may have suicide-protective properties. METHOD:Patients with a recent suicide attempt in the c...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lauterbach E,Felber W,Müller-Oerlinghausen B,Ahrens B,Bronisch T,Meyer T,Kilb B,Lewitzka U,Hawellek B,Quante A,Richter K,Broocks A,Hohagen F

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study aimed to estimate the commitment to mental health research by the European Union (EU) through the 7th framework (FP7) and the competitiveness and innovation (CIP) programmes during the 2007-2013 period. METHODS:Research projects dedicated or partially related to mental health were identified usin...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hazo JB,Gervaix J,Gandré C,Brunn M,Leboyer M,Chevreul K

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroencephalographic coherence scores in 21 teetotaler first-degree relatives of alcoholics, 27 subjects with alcohol dependence and 21 healthy subjects without a family history of alcohol abuse were compared. The relatives had significantly higher coherence scores in the frontal and parietal leads than the alcohol...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Michael A,Mirza KA,Mukundan CR,Channabasavanna SM

更新日期：1993-03-01 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：:Of all neuroleptic-naive, acutely psychotic subjects admitted to hospital over a 2-year period (n = 62), 27 participated in a neuroendocrine study and 35 did not participate (51% refused consent, 19% were incapable of consent and 31% started neuroleptics immediately). However, all nonparticipants agreed to psychopatho...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Keks NA,Copolov DL,Mackie B,Stuart GW,Singh BS,McGorry PD,Coffey C

更新日期：1991-05-01 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：:In a catchment area study of 101 first inceptions of schizophrenia, mania and atypical psychoses, women were significantly more likely to have atypical psychosis and men were more likely to have definite schizophrenia. Negative symptoms such as affective flattening and poverty of speech were already present in many ca...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ring N,Tantam D,Montague L,Newby D,Black D,Morris J

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that serum creatine kinase levels might be useful in the investigation of dementia. In this study serum creatine kinase BB (CKBB) isoenzyme levels were investigated in a community population of elderly women aged 70 to 80 years. Normative data for this group were compared with the findings in you...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Brayne C,Calloway P

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven children who had received a diagnosis of elective mutism upon admission to the children's psychiatric clinic, were followed up 8--18 years later. The average age upon admission was 9 1/2 years, and at the time of follow-up, 23 years. Nine of the children came from homes with a strong familial shyness and reserv...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Wergeland H

更新日期：1979-02-01 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：: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：: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：:One hundred people with autistic disorder (DSM-III-R) without a known cause who comprised a total population of children with autism were compared with "autistic-like" children, Asperger syndrome and age-matched comparison children from the general population and were examined with regard to month of birth. There was ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gillberg C

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare neurological soft signs (NSS) in patients of schizophrenia with onset in childhood (COS), adolescence (AdOS) and adulthood (AOS). METHOD:Assessment of NSS in 15 patients of COS and 20 patients each of AdOS and AOS was made using condensed neuropsychiatric examination for NSS. RESULTS:NSS were sig...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Biswas P,Malhotra S,Malhotra A,Gupta N

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy and safety of pirlindole (300 mg/day), a new reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase A, have been evaluated in a multicentre placebo-controlled double-blind randomized trial in 103 in-patients suffering from unipolar major depression (DSM-III-R 296.2, 296.3) over a 42-day period after a run-in placebo p...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： De Wilde JE,Geerts S,Van Dorpe J,Bruhwyler J,Géczy J

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five different strategies were used to detect cases in which depressed behaviour occurred in both spouses within the same time period (simultaneous depression). Among 7068 references on depression in the literature, only one referred to a case of simultaneous depression. Of 8008 registered individuals hospitalized in ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Holte A,Bjoru E,Sorvig BS,Abrahamsen P

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One stage case-identification method, using the Arabic Version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD) was applied in a pilot study for estimating the prevalence of depressive and anxiety disorders among a group of Saudi primary care attenders. The validity of the Arabic Version of the HAD scale was previou...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： el-Rufaie OE,Albar AA,Al-Dabal BK

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1070 men and women aged 65 years and over living in the community in Liverpool were interviewed using the Geriatric Mental State. Diagnoses of depression at case and subcase level were made using the GMS-AGECAT package from an initial interview and at follow-up three years later. Data relating to blood pres...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gilmore C,Green BH,Copeland JR,Dewey ME,Davidson IA,Saunders PA,Sharma V

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00