Venlafaxine monotherapy in bipolar type II depressed patients unresponsive to prior lithium monotherapy.

abstract：:To investigate the relationships between pre- and postdexamethasone hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis functioning in depression, we measured the levels of baseline and postdexamethasone urinary free cortisol (UFC), plasma cortisol, adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and beta-endorphin. We found that dexamethas...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Maes M,Vandervorst C,Suy E,Minner B,Raus J

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aims of this study were (i) to assess the inter-rater reliability of the latest Italian expanded 24-item version of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, BPRS version 4.0 and (ii) to assess the feasibility of obtaining reliable BPRS 4.0 ratings by reliability training of clinically less experienced trainees...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Roncone R,Ventura J,Impallomeni M,Falloon IR,Morosini PL,Chiaravalle E,Casacchia M

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen consecutive case records of inpatients at a child psychiatric department with the diagnosis anorexia nervosa (AN) (DSM-III-R) were investigated to describe the family interaction pattern. To evaluate the families, the information from the case records was supplemented by interviews of the therapists and final...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Røijen S

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medico-legal investigation into causes of unexpected death of five persons who suffered from eating disorders did not give distinct pathoanatomical explanations. The analysis disclosed a number of risk factors whose interplay may have resulted in a circulatory catastrophy. These factors were of organisational and ideo...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rajs J,Rajs E,Lundman T

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A psychiatric study of 197 children living in villages outside Khartoum was made in 1964-1965. In 1983, 104 randomly chosen subjects were investigated again. All were interviewed by a psychiatrist and somatically examined. The overall psychiatric impairment was 14% (males, 18%; females, 8%) according to the psychiatri...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Cederblad M,Rahim SI

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gender discriminating vocabulary tests administered to a consecutive series of 53 male transsexuals show different results. The Slater Selective Vocabulary Test, Cohen's factors and the Terman-Miles Attitude Interest Analysis Test (M-F) show male transsexuals to have a higher degree of feminization than normal control...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kenna JC,Hoenig J

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：:Eighty Kenyan 'psychotic' patients were screened using the New Haven Schizophrenic Index (NHSI) and were all studied for hallucinations using standardised definitions. Fifty-one of the patients were NHSI positive and the rest NHSI negative. Sixty-one percent of the NHSI positive had hallucinations in one or more modal...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ndetei DM,Singh A

更新日期：1983-03-01 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：: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：:One of the aims of the European Study on Parasuicide, which was initiated by the Regional Office for the European Region of the World Health Organization in the mid-1980s, was to try to identify social and personal characteristics that are predictive of future suicidal behaviour. A follow-up interview study (the Repet...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bille-Brahe U,Kerkhof A,De Leo D,Schmidtke A,Crepet P,Lonnqvist J,Michel K,Salander-Renberg E,Stiles TC,Wasserman D,Aagaard B,Egebo H,Jensen B

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examined the co-occurrence of anxiety/mood and personality disorders (PDs) in substance abusers, the impact of anxiety/ mood disorders on the symptom profiles of PDs, and the impact of anxiety/mood disorders and PDs on pre-treatment status. METHOD:Current anxiety/mood disorders and PDs and pre-tre...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Verheul R,Kranzler HR,Poling J,Tennen H,Ball S,Rounsaville BJ

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Can it be said that history's most outstanding psychiatrists and the various interrelated fields of mental health are to any extent realistically represented within the framework of thematic philately? With regard to the latter theme, five main categories can be distinguished: the mentally handicapped; psychiatric ins...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： van Alphen PJ

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report aims at alerting the clinician to the existence of rapid cycling depression in adolescence. The importance of integrating psychodynamic, social and pharmacological modalities in evaluation and treatment is emphasized. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Spurkland I,Vandvik IH

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Montgomery-Asberg Depression Scale was evaluated in 44 depressed inpatients. All items of the scale occurred frequently in the sample; the scale exhibited construct validity (internal homogeneity) and concurrent validity relative to the Hamilton Depression Scale and the concepts of endogenous and nonendogenous dep...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Davidson J,Turnbull CD,Strickland R,Miller R,Graves K

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrodermal activity and heart-rate were recorded in the laboratory from partially remitted schizophrenic patients living in the community, chronic schizophrenic inpatients and normal controls. Althoug all patients had faster heart-rates, no consistent electrodermal differences between patient groups and normals wer...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Tarrier N,Cooke EC,Lader MH

更新日期：1978-05-01 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 concept of 'Non-affective Acute Remitting Psychosis' (NARP) in a group of patients with first episode psychosis in Iran. METHOD:This is a 24-month follow-up study of 54 patients with first-episode psychosis admitted consecutively to a psychiatric hospital in Tehran, Iran. At the end of fol...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Alaghband-Rad J,Boroumand M,Amini H,Sharifi V,Omid A,Davari-Ashtiani R,Seddigh A,Momeni F,Aminipour Z

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some further results on the effects of the two hypnotic drugs, nitrazepam and flurazepam monohydrochloride, on mood state are described. An automated assessment and scoring system, Computer Assisted Psychometric System (C.A.P.S.), was used to assess mood state and showed that both hypnotics had a mild euphoriant effec...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Sambrooks JE,MacCulloch MJ,Rooney JF

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ninth known case of the concurrence of anorexia nervosa and Turner's syndrome is presented. The question whether the presence of Turner's syndrome represents a greater risk for a patient to develop anorexia nervosa is considered. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Theilgaard A,Philip J

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence rate of personality disorder among a consecutive sample of UK primary care attenders. Associations between a diagnosis of personality disorder, sociodemographic background and common mental disorder were examined. METHOD:Three hundred and three consecutive primary care attenders w...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Moran P,Jenkins R,Tylee A,Blizard R,Mann A

更新日期：2000-07-01 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：:Twenty-five DSM-III-diagnosed schizophrenics and 37 normal and age-matched controls were examined using an oddball paradigm for the generation of P300 and smooth eye-pursuit tasks. Results were compared between groups and related to clinical characteristics, including a family history of psychiatric illness. Group dif...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ebmeier KP,Potter DD,Cochrane RH,Mackenzie AR,MacAllister H,Besson JA,Salzen EA

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence of depression in a community with 15 000 inhabitants in Brazil (Bambuí). METHOD:The Composite International Diagnostic Interview was applied in a random sample of 1041 residents aged 18+ years. RESULTS:The ICD-10 1-month, 1-year and lifetime prevalences of depression were 8.2% (9...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Vorcaro CM,Lima-Costa MF,Barreto SM,Uchoa E

更新日期：2001-10-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To identify trajectories of depressive symptoms in older community residents. METHOD:Depressive symptomatology, based on a modified Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression scale, was obtained at years 0, 3, 6, and 10, in the Duke Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (n = 416...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kuchibhatla MN,Fillenbaum GG,Hybels CF,Blazer DG

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-five cases of stupor referred to a psychiatric teaching hospital over 15 years are reviewed. Ten cases presented with a depressive syndrome, four cases with catatonic phenomena and a further 10 cases with established organic aetiology; one case was considered to be psychogenic in origin. The overall mortality w...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Johnson J

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trends in death rates from all suicides and specific methods of suicide in Italy over the period 1955-79 were analysed on the basis of age-specific and age-standardised rates, and through a log-linear Poisson model to isolate the effects of age, birth cohort and calendar period. In both sexes, a large decrease in mort...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： La Vecchia C,Bollini P,Imazio C,Decarli A

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the longitudinal impact of borderline personality disorder (BPD) on the course and outcome of bipolar disorder (BP) in a pediatric BP sample. METHOD:Participants (N = 271) and parents from the Course and Outcome of Bipolar Youth (COBY) study were administered structured clinical interviews and s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Yen S,Frazier E,Hower H,Weinstock LM,Topor DR,Hunt J,Goldstein TR,Goldstein BI,Gill MK,Ryan ND,Strober M,Birmaher B,Keller MB

更新日期：2015-10-01 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