Preliminary results of a fine-grain analysis of mood swings and treatment modalities of bipolar I and II patients using the daily prospective life-chart-methodology.

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:Children of parents with major depression are at significantly increased risk for developing major depression themselves; however, not all children at genetic risk will develop major depressive disorder (MDD). We investigated the utility of subsyndromal scores on the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) Anxiety/De...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Uchida M,Fitzgerald M,Lin K,Carrellas N,Woodworth H,Biederman J

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between childhood social adjustment and personality and adult social adjustment and symptoms in a population of schizophrenic patients. Adult social adjustment was assessed in 43 patients by means of the Social Adjustment Scale Self-Report, and symptoms were asses...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： MacEwan TH,Athawes RW

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Services are intended to maintain patients in the community while improving the quality of their lives. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which psychiatric patients' diagnoses, levels of autonomy, objective living conditions and degree of service utilization are associated with their perceived q...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mercier C,King S

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Ninety men between the ages of 20 to 65 were studied to investigate the relationships between stress, depression and psychogenic pain. Three groups (the coronary heart disease (CHD) group; the left-sided psychogenic chest pain (LPCP) group; and the control group) comprising 30 patients per group, each completed the So...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Naidoo P,Patel CJ

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The follow-up since 1989 of a large sample of multigenerational families of eastern Québec that are densely affected by schizophrenia (SZ) or bipolar disorder (BP) has permitted to look at the rates of DSM diagnoses in the young offspring of a SZ parent (HRSZ) and of a BP parent (HRBP) who had an extremely lo...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Maziade M,Gingras N,Rouleau N,Poulin S,Jomphe V,Paradis ME,Mérette C,Roy MA

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：:To explore and to compare hypothalamic-pituitary-somatotropic (HPS), hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis function in depression, 30 subjects (15 patients with a major depressive episode and individually matched controls) received 50 micrograms growth hormone-releas...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lesch KP,Müller U,Rupprecht R,Kruse K,Schulte HM

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to further evaluate the oestrogen hypothesis of schizophrenia, which postulates low oestradiol levels to be a risk factor for these disorders. A possible influence of neuroleptic-induced hyperprolactinaemia was to be addressed. METHOD:Sex hormones were measured and cycle phase asses...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Huber TJ,Borsutzky M,Schneider U,Emrich HM

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bond's Defense Style Questionnaire was administered to control subjects from the general population (n = 50) and to psychiatric outpatients with neurosis (n = 42), high-level personality disorder (n = 37) and low-level personality disorder (n = 22). Factor analysis yielded 4 defense styles ranging on a continuum from ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Sammallahti P,Aalberg V,Pentinsaari JP

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To provide a clinically useful analysis of the relationship between selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), in particular fluoxetine and violent or suicidal behaviour. METHOD:All published papers on Medline and other databases linking serotonin, SSRIs and aggression were reviewed. RESULTS:A small p...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Walsh MT,Dinan TG

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen chronic alcoholics and 15 presenile patients were matched in pairs with regard to their mean hemisphere cerebral blood parameters-an index of brain metabolism. The distribution of the regional cerebral blood flow was similar in the two groups. The alcoholics performed significantly better in all psychometric t...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Berglund M,Gustafson L,Hagberg B,Ingvar DH,Nilsson L,Risberg J,Sonesson B

更新日期：1977-05-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Ginseng root extract is a widely used herbal product not devoid of side effects. This report describes the development of manic symptoms after ginseng consumption in a patient with affective disorder. Other potentially harmful side effects of ginseng are also reviewed. METHOD:A single case report. RESULTS:A...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Vázquez I,Agüera-Ortiz LF

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 103 Holocaust survivors who suffered from Nazi persecution during their childhood years were interviewed in 1992. The interviews were conducted using a questionnaire specially prepared for statistical studies of Holocaust survivors. The study demonstrated that most survivors in this sample still suffer toda...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Robinson S,Rapaport-Bar-Sever M,Rapaport J

更新日期：1994-04-01 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:Antidepressant medications are efficacious overall; however, some individuals experience worsening mood symptoms and increased suicidal ideation (SI) during treatment. We examined the quantitative electroencephalographic (QEEG) cordance biomarker of brain function biomarker in relation to treatment-emergent s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hunter AM,Leuchter AF,Cook IA,Abrams M

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within a longitudinal prospective study of children of schizophrenic mothers, premorbid, childhood levels of formal thought disorder correlated positively with measures of formal thought disorder obtained in adulthood. It is therefore concluded that schizophrenic symptomatology develops by gradual accretion and that s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Parnas J,Schulsinger H

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The idea of cortical surface anomalies in subjects with intellectual disability (mental retardation) and schizophrenia can be traced back to early 20th century qualitative observations. Since it is unknown whether modern quantitative measures of cortical complexity and folding would retrieve those early empir...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Sandu AL,Paillère Martinot ML,Artiges E,Martinot JL

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The amygdala plays a major role in processing emotional stimuli. Fourteen studies using structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have examined the amygdala volume in paediatric and adult patients with bipolar disorder (BD) compared with healthy controls (HC) and reported inconsistent findings. Lithium has ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Usher J,Menzel P,Schneider-Axmann T,Kemmer C,Reith W,Falkai P,Gruber O,Scherk H

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Scandinavia during the past decade forensic psychiatry has been the subject of discussions, which have occasionally reached the height of vehement attacks. Changes in penal laws have expressed a declining interest in the cooperation of psychiatrists in the evaluation and treatment of offenders. Scandinavian forensi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Svendsen BB

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of 430 patients treated for depressive illness, at the Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Aro, Abeokuta, Nigeria, has been reviewed. Psychotherapy particularly with tricyclic antidepressants and electroconvulsive therapy were the main methods of treatment, but neuroleptics and anxiolytics were frequently prescr...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Makanjuola JD,Oyerogba KO

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that not only intrafamiliar childhood abuses inflicted to the patient, but also major losses or other severe life events suffered by the mother within 2 years of patient's birth, are risk factors for the development of dissociative disorders (DDs). METHOD:A multicentric case-control st...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Pasquini P,Liotti G,Mazzotti E,Fassone G,Picardi A,Italian Group for the Study of Dissociation.

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-nine depressed elderly patients receiving ECT were randomly assigned to a unilateral or bilateral group; post-ictal recovery times, memory changes, and clinical improvement during and after each course were measured by blind and independent observers. All patients but one showed full recovery on testing 3 weeks...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Fraser RM,Glass IB

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Van den Eynde F, Guillaume S, Broadbent H, Stahl D, Campbell IC, Schmidt U, Tchanturia K. Neurocognition in bulimic eating disorders: a systematic review. OBJECTIVE:  The aim of this study was to review the literature on neurocognition comparing people with a bulimic eating disorder in the acute phase of th...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Van den Eynde F,Guillaume S,Broadbent H,Stahl D,Campbell IC,Schmidt U,Tchanturia K

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between serum cholesterol and a number of measures of impulsiveness and aggression was examined in 38 prepubertal, psychiatrically hospitalized children. Although care was taken to use reports and direct observations of both variables within 2 weeks of admission and 8 weeks later, no consistent relati...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rao U,Carlson GA,Rapport MD

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first (or menstrual) and fourth (or premenstrual) week of the menstrual cycle may be associated with many suicide attempts in women. The study sample included 113 Spanish women who attempted suicide and contacted an emergency service. Inclusion criteria were as follows: fertility; regular menstrual cycles; lack of...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Baca-García E,Sánchez-González A,González Diaz-Corralero P,González García I,de Leon J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00