Risk factors predicting onset and persistence of subthreshold expression of bipolar psychopathology among youth from the community.

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：OBJECTIVE:The study aimed to characterize neuropsychiatric symptomatology and its evolution in a large group of poststroke patients during their first year. METHOD:The Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) was administered to a sample of 124 poststroke patients, divided into three independent groups on the basis of time fr...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Angelelli P,Paolucci S,Bivona U,Piccardi L,Ciurli P,Cantagallo A,Antonucci G,Fasotti L,Di Santantonio A,Grasso MG,Pizzamiglio L

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study was designed to investigate the association between major mental disorders (MMDs) and homicide. METHOD:The rates of exculpations because of MMDs among 1087 Austrian homicide offenders during 1975 and 1999 were compared with the rates of the respective disorders in the general population. RESULTS:...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Schanda H,Knecht G,Schreinzer D,Stompe T,Ortwein-Swoboda G,Waldhoer T

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dexamethasone suppression test (DST) and thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) stimulation test were performed in 34 patients with endogenous depression. Compared with 33 psychiatric controls (limit of discrimination for serum cortisol of 275 nmol/l = 10 micrograms/100 ml) the specificity of the DST was 91% and the sens...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Aggernaes H,Kirkegaard C,Krog-Meyer I,Kijne B,Larsen JK,Laursen AL,Lykke-Olesen L,Mikkelsen PL,Rasmussen S,Bjørum N

更新日期：1983-04-01 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：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: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：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：:Because non-compliance with antipsychotic drug therapy is both common and associated with a substantially increased risk of acute relapse, depot medication must be preferred for most schizophrenic out-patients. Yet there is a perception that depot medication is unpopular among patients. In the survey of out-patients r...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Pereira S,Pinto R

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study was made, investigating the post-treatment outcomes of patients in two apparently dissimilar psychiatric therapeutic centres in Nigeria: the Aro Mental Hospital, a custodial facility, and the Aro Community Village Program, a pilot experiment in community psychiatry. A matches sample of 208 treate...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Erinosho OA

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The development of the Antidepressant Compliance Questionnaire (ADCQ), assessing patients' attitudes and beliefs on depression and antidepressants. METHOD:A 51-item questionnaire was applied to 85 psychiatric out-patients with a DSM-IV diagnosis of major depressive disorder (MDD). This data set was used to a...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Demyttenaere K,Bruffaerts R,Albert A,Mesters P,Dewé W,Debruyckere K,Sangeleer M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The affect of 20 chronic schizophrenic in-patients was assessed by two psychiatrists using two rating scales. The interview recordings were reviewed three times--firstly with the auditory information only (the "audio review"), secondly with the visual information only (the "visual review") and thirdly with both (the "...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kitamura T,Kahn A,Kumar R

更新日期：1984-03-01 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：:A modified version of the revised Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire (PDQ-R), based on DSM-III-R personality disorders (PD), was completed by 74 psychiatric patients. A factor analysis of the scores for each of the PD (i.e. of the number of positive DSM-III-R criteria for each of the PD) yielded 3 factors that defin...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Dowson JH,Berrios GE

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Treatment of schizophrenia is frequently complicated by patients' ambivalence and lack of insight into the disease, occasionally warranting involuntary treatment. This study aims to describe involuntary treatment in Danish schizophrenia patients. METHOD:Patients diagnosed with a lifetime ICD-10 F20 schizophr...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Andersen TH,Kappers D,Sneider B,Uggerby P,Nielsen J

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examined the psychometric properties of the Family Questionnaire (FQ): a self-report measure of relatives' perceptions of the behaviours and symptoms of schizophrenic patients in terms of three dimensions: the frequency of symptoms, the relatives' concern (primary appraisal) and their ability to co...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Quinn J,Barrowclough C,Tarrier N

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To date only five reports of neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) related to olanzapine exist. The first case report was published in November 1998. METHOD:We report the case of a 78-year-old woman suffering from chronic schizophrenia who developed a NMS while being treated with olanzapine and levomepromazin...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Järventausta K,Leinonen E

更新日期：2000-09-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of zotepine in the treatment of acute episodes of schizophrenia. METHOD:Patients with acute exacerbation of schizophrenia (DSM-III-R criteria; n = 158) were allocated on a random, double-blind basis to receive zotepine (150 or 300 mg/day), chlorpromazine (30...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Cooper SJ,Tweed J,Raniwalla J,Butler A,Welch C

更新日期：2000-03-01 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：:Cerebral computed tomography (CT) was performed before and after right-sided electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in 40 patients aged 26-87 years with major affective disorders. Nine patients with a concomitant definite or possible non-acute organic brain disorder were included. Several patients had long seizure durations,...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bergsholm P,Larsen JL,Rosendahl K,Holsten F

更新日期：1989-12-01 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：:In this research we investigated the effects of 4 antipsychotic drugs with different anticholinergic components on different memory functions of schizophrenic patients. Drugs were administered in cumulative doses and memory was tested 90 min after each drug was administered. The results show that chlorpromazine and th...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Eitan N,Levin Y,Ben-Artzi E,Levy A,Neumann M

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Admissions for mania have risen significantly in Edinburgh since 1970. Differencing was used to remove time trends; this showed that the rise was not accounted for by diagnosis change (from schizophrenia or personality disorder) or by lithium prescription. The contribution of non-specific factors such as admission pol...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mander AJ

更新日期：1989-11-01 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：: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: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

abstract：:In an open study of 12 inpatients who met the DSM-III criteria for a major depressive episode, the effects of clomipramine (CI) on the monoamine metabolites 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA), homovanillic acid (HVA), 4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl glycol (HMPG) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) were measured simultaneously wi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mårtensson B,Wägner A,Beck O,Brodin K,Montero D,Asberg M

更新日期：1991-02-01 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 determine if behavioral symptoms detected at initial evaluation relate to cognitive or functional status or survival time in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. method: Review, in 100 cases of autopsy-proven AD, of the relationship of behavioral symptoms detected at initial evaluation to cognitive and globa...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Weiner MF,Hynan LS,Bret ME,White C 3rd

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00