Development of the bipolar inventory of symptoms scale.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this 1-year follow-up study was to compare functional outcome as well as clinical differences between patients with first- and multiple-episode bipolar disorder. METHOD:Bipolar disorder patients with first (n = 60) and multiple episodes (n = 59) were recruited from two hospitals in Spain. The Func...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rosa AR,González-Ortega I,González-Pinto A,Echeburúa E,Comes M,Martínez-Àran A,Ugarte A,Fernández M,Vieta E

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occurrence of pain was investigated in 73 non-psychotic psychiatric inpatients; 75% had been bothered by pain within the last 3 months and about half of these had pain every day. Pain was most frequent in patients with neurosis and personality disorder. The occurrence of pain was significantly associated with unskille...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jensen J

更新日期：1988-08-01 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 aim of this study was to ascertain whether suicide victims had ever been in contact with a primary health-care centre, a psychiatric out-patient treatment centre or any form of institutional psychiatric care, and whether there had been any change in such patterns over time. The results show an increase in the numb...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hydén LC

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Depression in bipolar disorder (BipD) requires a therapeutic approach that is from treating unipolar major depressive disorder (UniD), but to date, no reliable methods could separate these two disorders. The aim of this study was to establish the clinical validity and utility of a non-invasive functional MRI-...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Li M,Das T,Deng W,Wang Q,Li Y,Zhao L,Ma X,Wang Y,Yu H,Li X,Meng Y,Palaniyappan L,Li T

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent interest in community care of schizophrenic patients has led to publication of a number of studies that deal with patients' rehabilitation in their families. Joint efforts of psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers have produced a number of techniques for collaboration with families of schizophrenic pat...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： el-Islam MF

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this review is to summarize all data on suicidal behaviour reported in the Bible and to discuss basic implications for medical ethical positions. METHOD:All books of the Jerusalem Bible, including the apocrypha accepted in the Catholic canon, were searched for all cases of suicide, attempted suici...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Koch HJ

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to identify psychopathological factors associated with long-term functional outcome in euthymic bipolar disorder patients and to test new measures of mood instability and symptoms intensity. METHOD:Fifty-five patients with more than 12 months of follow-up were included. In addition ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Strejilevich SA,Martino DJ,Murru A,Teitelbaum J,Fassi G,Marengo E,Igoa A,Colom F

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Many anti-stigma programmes use the 'mental illness is an illness like any other' approach. This review evaluates the effectiveness of this approach in relation to schizophrenia. METHOD:The academic literature was searched, via PsycINFO and MEDLINE, to identify peer-reviewed studies addressing whether public...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Read J,Haslam N,Sayce L,Davies E

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：:Review of recent literature with emphasis on growth, development and epidemiology of eating disorders and diabetes reveals many common features of the conditions. Thus we hypothesize more concurrence than would occur by chance alone. At present epidemiological evidence is inconclusive, but prevalence of eating disorde...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nielsen S,Børner H,Kabel M

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first comparative double-blind study of raclopride. Ninety-one patients with acute schizophrenia received either raclopride 2-8 mg twice daily or haloperidol 5-20 mg twice daily for 4 weeks. Both neuroleptics produced clinical improvements. There were no significant between-drug differences in overall effi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors：

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare ratings of quality of life in patients with established schizophrenia in Chandigarh, India, in both subjective and objective view points and between patients' and relatives' ratings. METHOD:Subjective and objective quality of life was assessed in 38 patients with schizophrenia using the Quality of...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lobana A,Mattoo SK,Basu D,Gupta N

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:419 patients in Sri Lanka, 150 patients in U.K. and 172 patients in Canada who were suffering from "Functional Psychoses" were interviewed using the Present State Examination to elicit Schneider's First Rank Symptoms (FRS). Nationality and ethnicity were found to be significant variables associated with lower prevalen...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Chandrasena R

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Speech recordings were made of 16 depressed patients during depression and after clinical improvement. The recordings were analyzed using a computer program which extracts acoustic parameters from the fundamental frequency contour of the voice. The percent pause time, the standard deviation of the voice fundamental fr...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nilsonne A

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There is a high prevalence of depression in south Asian women. We aimed to examine the association between antenatal depression and low birthweight (LBW) in infants in a rural community in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. METHOD:A total of 143 physically healthy mothers with ICD-10 depression in the third trimester of ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rahman A,Bunn J,Lovel H,Creed F

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within a sample of 88 pregnant women with a history of nonorganic psychosis, mental health characteristics during pregnancy, assessed prospectively through interviews and psychiatric records, were studied in relationship to the development of 25 postpartum psychotic episodes (PPPs) occurring during the first 6 months ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： McNeil TF

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to differentiate bipolar II, bipolar I and recurrent unipolar depression by their familial load for affective disorders. Eighty bipolar, 108 unipolar, 80 control subjects and interviewed first-degree relatives were diagnosed according to Research Diagnostic Criteria using the Schedule for Affe...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Heun R,Maier W

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dexamethasone suppression test (DST) was investigated in 45 female anorectic out-patients (cross sectional study) nine of whom were followed serially as in-patients (longitudinal study). DST non-suppression was strongly associated with negative energy balance (low body weight and low Ponderal Index) but there was ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Abou-Saleh MT,Oleesky D,Crisp AH,Lacey JH

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the psychological substrate of catatonia. METHOD:Reviewing the historical descriptions and explanations of catatonic behaviours by clinicians from its delineation in the 19th century to the present. RESULTS:Patients with catatonia are often haunted by fears and terrors; this has not been widely a...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Fink M,Shorter E

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：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：:Thirty-one of 50 patients satisfying the NINCDS-ADRDA criteria of probable or possible Alzheimer's disease showed psychotic features during a 2-year observation period. Paranoid delusions were reported in 23 patients, delusional misidentification in 17, visual hallucinations in 16 and auditory hallucinations in 8. All...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Förstl H,Besthorn C,Geiger-Kabisch C,Sattel H,Schreiter-Gasser U

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic relationship has been considered an important ingredient of all psychotherapies. In communities in which no familiar conventions of such a relationship are available, the therapeutic encounter poses very different problems from those in the West, where such conventions freely prevail. This study has been c...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Neki JS,Joinet B,Hogan M,Hauli JG,Kilonzo G

更新日期：1985-06-01 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：OBJECTIVE:This study examined the predictors, extent and pattern of fatal antidepressant overdose (FAO) in all psychoactive drug-related deaths and compared these in drug abusers and non-drug abusers. METHOD:Inquest data on 491 psychoactive drug-related cases in England and Wales were analysed. We examined predictors ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Oyefeso A,Valmana A,Clancy C,Ghodse H,Williams H

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：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：OBJECTIVE:To determine the number of attempts it took before patients with a first episode of psychosis received adequate help, the signs or symptoms that led them to seek help and the people from whom they attempted to seek help. METHOD:Subjects were 86 individuals with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder, mainly schiz...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Addington J,Van Mastrigt S,Hutchinson J,Addington D

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 1,040 consecutive male criminals remitted for mental examination nine had the karyotype 47,XYY, one 48,XXYY and eleven 47,XXY. The types of crime in the XYY men were much like those in the XXY men, the proportion of sexual crimes possibly being greater than among other criminal offenders. The reasons for these f...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Schröder J,de la Chapelle A,Hakola P,Virkkunen M

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00