Psychotic and behavioural symptoms in a population-based sample of the very elderly subjects.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify the early signs of mood disorder development, specifically bipolar disorder (BD), in a population at familial risk for BD. METHOD:The sample included 107 Dutch adolescent bipolar offspring (age 12-21) followed into adulthood (age 22-32). Lifetime DSM-IV axis I diagnoses were examined at baseline,...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mesman E,Nolen WA,Keijsers L,Hillegers MHJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：:It is now generally recognized that dopamine receptors exist in the CNS as different subtypes: D1 receptors, associated with adenylyl cyclase activity, and D2 receptor, uncoupled to a cyclic AMP generating system. In order to understand the role of D1 and D2 receptors in the antipsychotic action of neuroleptics, we ha...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Memo M,Battaini F,Spano PF,Trabucchi M

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to relate measures of psychoanalytically derived personality traits to descriptive diagnosis and psychopathology in severe mental disorders. METHOD:Sixty-one consecutive first-episode patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and severe major depression were interviewed. Persona...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Heikkilä J,Karlsson H,Taiminen T,Lauerma H,Ilonen T,Leinonen KM,Wallenius E,Virtanen H,Heinimaa M,Kaljonen A,Salokangas RK

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this 12-week, double-blind, parallel group, placebo-controlled study was to compare paroxetine with clomipramine in 367 patients with DSM-III-R defined panic disorder. Efficacy assessments included the daily panic attack diary, the Clinical Global Impression Scale, the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, the Mar...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lecrubier Y,Bakker A,Dunbar G,Judge R

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the development of psychosexuality and object relationships in 58 young males who had survived malignancies in childhood. Using a psychodynamically oriented, semistructured psychiatric interview, we formed 13 criteria for comparisons between patients over and under 18 years of age. Of these 13 criteria, 12 ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ropponen P,Siimes MA,Rautonen J,Aalberg V

更新日期：1992-02-01 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 examine the reliability of a brief instrument to assess coping with symptoms by patients with psychotic illness. METHOD:A semi-structured interview (MACS) was developed to assess the amounts of distress, control and coping in relation to psychotic symptoms. Two raters interviewed 23 symptomatic but stable...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bak M,van der Spil F,Gunther N,Radstake S,Delespaul P,van Os J

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening tests for the detection of physical illness in 650 newly admitted psychiatric patients were examined critically. Almost 17% of these investigations were found to be abnormal and certain high risk groups were identified. These included patients suffering from significant weight loss, substance abuse, disorien...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ferguson B,Dudleston K

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a sample of the Finnish general population (n=4868), 2.4% of women and 2.3 % of men reported having thought about suicide during the preceding 12 months. The prevalence of parasuicide was correspondingly 0.9% in women and 1.1% in men, higher figures than have previously been found or estimated. Most suicidal indivi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hintikka J,Viinamäki H,Tanskanen A,Kontula O,Koskela K

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Antidepressants including selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)-associated mania or hypomania has been well documented in the literature but these patients with switch have either mood disorders or various risk factors for bipolar disorder. This case report examines SSRI-induced hypomania in a patient...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mendhekar DN,Gupta D,Girotra V

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This paper reviews studies on outcomes of involuntary hospital admissions in general adult psychiatry, and predictors of outcomes. METHOD:Studies assessing observer-rated clinical change and self-rated outcomes were identified. Relevant databases were searched and authors were contacted. Studies were clas...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Katsakou C,Priebe S

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trained raters from the Liverpool Continuing Health in the Community study interviewed 1070 people over the age of 65 in 1982-1983 using the Geriatric Mental State (GMS) examination. Three years later the cohort was re-interviewed, this time by psychiatrists trained in the GMS, who used the GMS and the History and Aet...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Green BH,Dewey ME,Copeland JR,Saunders PA,Sharma V,Larkin B,Davidson IA,Scott A

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the risk factors for suicidal behaviour in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive patients. METHOD:HIV substance dependent positive patients who had attempted suicide were compared with HIV substance dependent positive patients who had never attempted suicide for suicide risk factors. RESULT...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Roy A

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The symptom of anhedonia, or loss of pleasure, is widely recognized to occur in depression. More recently it has been suggested that this symptom alone might be the basis for a diagnosis of depression in medically ill patients, and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD) has been designed with this in mind. To...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Silverstone PH

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between brain density, measured by computerized tomography (CT), and severity of depression was investigated in 44 patients with a major depressive episode according to DSM-III. In order to limit methodological problems, correlations between both the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) and the Bech-...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Schlegel S

更新日期：1988-11-01 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

abstract：:This article considers the nosology and taxonomy of psychiatric disorders in Sushruta Samhita, an ancient Indian treatise on medicine. Some implications of this treatise for modern psychiatry are discussed. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Haldipur CV

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred and twenty-two adolescent suicide attempts were examined. The intent to die was weaker than in adult persons. Within lethality no difference was found. Adolescents came mostly from the lowest social classes and their educational status was low. Their mental health was often unsatisfactory. The psychiatric...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kotila L,Lönnqvist J

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The marital adjustment of patients with psychogenic pain disorder was evaluated and compared with a matched group of patients with other neurotic disorders. Pain patients spouses were found to have better marital adjustment and less psychiatric morbidity than the spouses of neurotic patients. These findings are discus...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hughes AM,Medley I,Turner GN,Bond MR

更新日期：1987-02-01 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：:A total of 30 patients with newly diagnosed motor conversion disorder were consecutively investigated by means of a Swedish self-rating inventory designed to assess perceived parental rearing practices (EMBU), and the Karolinska Scale of Personality (KSP). DSM Axis I and II psychopathology was assessed using a Structu...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Binzer M,Eisemann M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 103 schizophrenic patients we investigated the extent of practice needed in the use of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) to enable its reliability to be assessed. The agreement level of the 7 raters was analysed. Generally, the lowest mean agreement found was for the negative symptoms of the BPRS schizophre...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Andersen J,Kørner A,Larsen JK,Schultz V,Nielsen BM,Behnke K,Munk-Andersen E,Bjørum N

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin B12 levels in the serum and the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) were compared between patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and senile dementia of Alzheimer's type (SDAT) (AD group) and patients with multi-infarct dementia (MID group). The B12 levels in the serum and the CSF were 742 +/- 359 pg/ml and 28 +/- 7 pg/m...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ikeda T,Furukawa Y,Mashimoto S,Takahashi K,Yamada M

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Investigation of deep brain stimulation (DBS) as a last-resort treatment alternative to capsulotomy in treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). METHOD:Prospective single-case based design with evaluation of DBS impact on emotions, behaviour, personality traits and executive function in three...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gabriëls L,Cosyns P,Nuttin B,Demeulemeester H,Gybels J

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To measure how primary care physicians (PCPs) and psychiatrists treat mild depression. METHOD:We surveyed a national sample of US PCPs and psychiatrists using a vignette of a 52-year-old man with depressive symptoms not meeting Major Depressive Episode criteria. Physicians were asked how likely they were to ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lawrence RE,Rasinski KA,Yoon JD,Meador KG,Koenig HG,Curlin FA

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On admission, IgA, IgG and IgM concentrations were determined in 76 schizophrenics, and the correlations of these concentrations to the variables relating to psychopathology, background and prognosis were investigated in the present study, which is a part of a more extensive unpublished study. On the basis of factoriz...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Pulkkinen E

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten patients with manic psychosis were compared with 20 normal subjects with respect to their ratings of emotional meaning in music. As stimulus two pieces of music for a small symphony orchestra were used. These were structurally identical but performed at two different tempos: slow and fast. The change in tempo was ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nielzén S,Cesarec Z

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Sanfilippo B is a rare autosomal recessive mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS IIIB) caused by a deficiency of N-acetyl-alpha-D-glucosaminidase (NAGLU). METHOD:A mild mentally retarded elderly female patient is described with a slowly progressive dementia who had given birth to a daughter who developed normally. RES...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Verhoeven WM,Csepán R,Marcelis CL,Lefeber DJ,Egger JI,Tuinier S

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the associations between the Rust Inventory of Schizotypal Cognitions (RISC) and psychotic symptoms measured by the Present State Examination (PSE) and to assess the predictive validity of the RISC for later onset of schizophrenia. METHOD:A total of 154 subjects at high risk for schizophrenia but ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Miller PM,Lawrie SM,Byrne M,Cosway R,Johnstone EC

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00