Reactions of survivors of suicide victims to interviews.

abstract：:Substantial fluctuations have prevailed in both the rate and particular methods of suicide in the Federal Republic of Germany during the past 40 years. The current study examines the extent to which the availability, attraction and lethality of particular methods of suicide affect suicide rates. A close relationship e...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Wiedenmann A,Weyerer S

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We examined the relationship between biological rhythms and severity of depressive symptoms in subjects with bipolar disorder and the effects of biological rhythms alterations on functional impairment. METHOD:Bipolar patients (n = 260) and healthy controls (n = 191) were recruited from mood disorders program...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Pinho M,Sehmbi M,Cudney LE,Kauer-Sant'anna M,Magalhães PV,Reinares M,Bonnín CM,Sassi RB,Kapczinski F,Colom F,Vieta E,Frey BN,Rosa AR

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychiatry in Scandinavia has a tradition for research and clinical work with people from other countries, especially related to refugees and survivors after the Second World War. In recent years an increasing number of refugees have arrived, especially from the countries of the Middle East. The aim of this study was ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jensen SB,Schaumburg E,Leroy B,Larsen BO,Thorup M

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The study focuses on the controversial relationship between borderline personality disorder (BPD) and bipolar disorder (BD), defined according to different criteria set, in a world-wide sample of patients with a current major depressive episode (MDE). METHOD:A total of 5635 patients with an MDE were enrolled...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Perugi G,Angst J,Azorin JM,Bowden C,Vieta E,Young AH,BRIDGE Study Group.

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the predictive value of the Strauss and Carpenter Prognostic Scale (SCPS) for transition to a first psychotic episode in subjects clinically at high risk (CHR) of psychosis. METHOD:Two hundred and forty-four CHR subjects participating in the European Prediction of Psychosis Study were assessed...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nieman DH,Velthorst E,Becker HE,de Haan L,Dingemans PM,Linszen DH,Birchwood M,Patterson P,Salokangas RK,Heinimaa M,Heinz A,Juckel G,von Reventlow HG,Morrison A,Schultze-Lutter F,Klosterkötter J,Ruhrmann S,EPOS group.

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of mental disorders in a representative sample of old people in Gothenburg, Sweden, was studied at 70, 75 and 79. The study comprised 392 subjects at 70, 302 subjects at 75 and 203 at 79. A case was defined by cut-off points on symptom and sign rating scales, and diagnoses were defined operationally as ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nilsson LV,Persson G

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to test the transferability of the Marke-Nymann Temperament Scale (MNTS) using the Rasch item analysis. The results showed that the three Sjöbring personality dimensions Validity, Stability, and Solidity measured by the MNTS were without transferability. However, the item analysis demonst...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bech P,Allerup P,Rosenberg R

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of organic brain syndrome occurring in relation to psychological stress 2 years after a severe head injury is described. Treatment with haloperidol resulted only in slight improvement. A dramatic improvement was achieved with carbamazepine. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bouvy PF,van de Wetering BJ,Meerwaldt JD,Bruijn JB

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our clinical experience that lithium is an agent used infrequently for self-poisoning was investigated. The rate at which such overdoses occurred was determined from hospital records. A retrospective case notes study then compared overdose rates in patients taking lithium versus patients on antidepressant medication. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Waddington D,McKenzie IP

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isocarboxazide has been used as long-term treatment for a selected group of 20 depressive patients, of whom some 90% (17/19) were non-responders to treatment with tricyclic antidepressants. At the follow-up the median duration of illness was 162 months, and the median duration of treatment was 42 months. Side-effects ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Larsen JK,Rafaelsen OJ

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The neurodevelopmental hypothesis of psychosis suggests that disrupted white matter (WM) maturation underlies disease onset. In this longitudinal study, we investigated WM connectivity and compared WM changes between individuals at ultra-high-risk for psychosis (UHR) and healthy controls (HCs). METHOD:Thirty...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Krakauer K,Nordentoft M,Glenthøj BY,Raghava JM,Nordholm D,Randers L,Glenthøj LB,Ebdrup BH,Rostrup E

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To construct a practical instrument for the identification and referral of crime victims who are at high risk for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). METHOD:Crime victims filing a complaint at a police station were asked to fill out a questionnaire probing risk factors for PTSD (n=126). One and 3 months l...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Wohlfarth T,Winkel FW,Van Den Brink W

更新日期：2002-06-01 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: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：:A total of 1814 patients were studied from the Mississippi State Hospital with a DSM-III diagnosis of schizophrenia and aged 15-39 years at the time of admission. The 634 schizophrenics with a birth date between 1 December and 31 March were compared with the 1180 born between 1 April and 30 November for age of admissi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rodrigo G,Lusiardo M,Briggs G,Ulmer A

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Chronically mentally ill patients in community mental health care report a better quality of life (QOL) than those in long-term hospital care, which suggests that the treatment setting per se influences their QOL. METHOD:In a region where both treatment settings are of a comparable high standard, we assessed...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rössler W,Salize HJ,Cucchiaro G,Reinhard I,Kernig C

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Lycanthropy is an unusual psychiatric syndrome involving the delusion of being an animal. Cotard's syndrome is another rare condition in which the patient has nihilistic delusions and ideation of immortality. We report a psychiatric patient who had both syndromes simultaneously. METHOD:A single case was repo...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nejad AG,Toofani K

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Abnormalities in structural and functional brain connectivity have been increasingly reported in patients with bipolar disorder (BD) by recent neuroimaging studies. However, relatively little is known about the changes in functional interaction between the cerebral hemispheres in BD. The present study aimed t...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Wang Y,Zhong S,Jia Y,Zhou Z,Zhou Q,Huang L

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ethological method was employed to validate the DSM-III subtyping of unipolar, nondelusional depression. The nonverbal behavior of 44 depressed outpatients was video-recorded during psychiatric interview. The DSM-III subtyping was not significantly associated with sex or level of education. Patients with major depr...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Troisi A,Pasini A,Bersani G,Grispini A,Ciani N

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Examine the overall incidence of medically treated depression in Denmark among individuals 15-44 years old, and estimate the 5-year cumulative incidence of psychiatric hospital care among individuals treated first in non-hospital-based care. METHODS:We followed all individuals born in Denmark between 1969 an...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Musliner KL,Liu X,Gasse C,Christensen KS,Wimberley T,Munk-Olsen T

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper an account is given of the effect of single-night sleep deprivation (SD) therapy in 124 depressive patients of different diagnostic groups. Phasic depressives showed a marked improvement after treatment by sleep deprivation. Because these improvements were often of short duration, we repeated the treatme...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Pflug B

更新日期：1976-02-01 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 examine whether the development of tardive dyskinesia (TD) is accompanied by a parallel process of worsening negative symptoms in a longitudinal study. METHOD:A sample of 708 psychotic patients were followed over a period of 2 years, using the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale and the Scale for the Asse...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： van Os J,Walsh E,van Horn E,Tattan T,Bale R,Thompson SG

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred people with autistic disorder (DSM-III-R) without a known cause who comprised a total population of children with autism were compared with "autistic-like" children, Asperger syndrome and age-matched comparison children from the general population and were examined with regard to month of birth. There was ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gillberg C

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to examine motor threshold (MT) during treatment with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). METHOD:The TMS was administered to 46 patients with depression and 13 controls. TMS was performed at 90% power of measured MT. The stimulation frequency was 10 Hz for 6 s, for 20 trains, w...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Dolberg OT,Dannon PN,Schreiber S,Grunhaus L

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychological autopsies are an important research tool in establishing risk factors associated with suicide. We report the results of a validity study comparing psychological autopsy-generated DSM-III-R diagnoses in suicides and non-suicides with chart diagnoses generated by clinicians who had treated the subjects pri...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kelly TM,Mann JJ

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There are hardly any randomised-controlled trials of structured family interventions for schizophrenia from India. This study attempted to evaluate the impact of a structured psychoeducational intervention for schizophrenia, compared with standard out-patient treatment, on various patient- and caregiver-relat...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kulhara P,Chakrabarti S,Avasthi A,Sharma A,Sharma S

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We examine the safety and efficacy of venlafaxine monotherapy in bipolar type II (BP II) patients with major depressive episode (MDE) who were unresponsive to prior lithium monotherapy. We hypothesized that venlafaxine would be superior to lithium with a low hypomanic conversion rate. METHOD:Seventeen patien...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Amsterdam JD,Wang G,Shults J

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents an analysis of the impact of the psychiatric reform in Italy on health care delivery by the general practitioner. In an urban district of the Veneto region a survey was made on the opinions and assessments of the general practitioner about the new status of psychiatric care, on the psychiatric case...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rizzardo R,Rovea A,Magni G

更新日期：1986-03-01 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

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更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00