Suicide, homicide and the quality of life in various countries.

abstract：:Fifty-eight consecutive suicides committed between 1984 and 1987 by adolescents and young adults (age 15-29 years) in an urban community were the subject of retrospective investigations by means of interviews with survivors. The outcome of the survivors' crisis reactions and the interviewees' capacity to participate i...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Runeson B,Beskow J

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bright-light therapy is widely regarded as an effective treatment for winter seasonal affective disorder (SAD). We attempted to identify predictors of light therapy response in 54 depressed, drug-free outpatients diagnosed with SAD by DSM-III-R criteria. After a baseline week, patients were treated for 2 weeks with 25...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lam RW

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Most rating scales for bipolar disorders (BDs) do not encompass the spectrum of symptomatology now established as characterizing the illness. We report the rationale, format, reliability and initial validity studies of the Bipolar Inventory of Symptoms Scale (BISS), a 44-item scale designed to encompass the s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bowden CL,Singh V,Thompson P,Gonzalez JM,Katz MM,Dahl M,Prihoda TJ,Chang X

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To systematically review evidence on the efficacy and safety of sleep deprivation (SD) as a treatment option for patients with unipolar or bipolar depression. METHODS:A systematic review according to PRISMA guidelines was conducted. The certainty of evidence was assessed using the GRADE approach. Controlled ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ioannou M,Wartenberg C,Greenbrook JTV,Larson T,Magnusson K,Schmitz L,Sjögren P,Stadig I,Szabó Z,Steingrimsson S

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiology behind the abnormalities of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal cortex axis found in patients with major depressive disorder was studied by the use of the vasopressin test. The response of plasma adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) and cortisol to the injection of 10 IU lysine-vasopressin (LVP) was investiga...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Akner G,Ljunggren JG,Kjellman BF,Undén F,Wetterberg L

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of Schneiderian first-rank symptoms (FRS) in 294 consecutive admissions to a research unit was evaluated with reference to their diagnostic distribution (SADS/RDC). Thirty-five of 58 patients with schizophrenia had FRS, as compared to nine of 190 patients with major depressive disorder. All patients wit...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Tandon R,Greden JF

更新日期：1987-04-01 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：: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：:A total of 1600 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 16 living in a county bordering on Paris were interviewed concerning their health, their use of drugs, both legal and illegal, their behavior, and their seeking of health care. Fourteen percent of the boys and 23% of the girls had already thought about suicide and...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Choquet M,Menke H

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Examinations are anecdotally viewed as extremely stressful to Singapore schoolchildren. We test this postulate by obtaining parental ratings of children's emotional stress levels longitudinally in a large representative sample of sixth (P6) and fifth (P5) class primary schoolchildren, respectively, exposed an...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Parker G,Cai Y,Tan S,Dear K,Henderson AS,Poh GT,Kwee GC

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical effect of a sustained release preparation of amitriptyline has been compared with that of conventional amitriptyline tablets in a double-blind cross-over study with 24 patients suffering from endogenous depression. The sustained release preparation was given in a single evening dose (9 p.m.) of two thirds...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Liisberg P,Mose H,Amdisen A,Jørgensen A,Petersen HE

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The associations between milieu therapists' feelings towards patients and the unit's psychological climate were studied at 21 small treatment homes for severely disturbed psychiatric patients. The milieu therapists filled out self-report instruments where they rated their feelings towards patients on a feeling-word ch...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Holmqvist R,Fogelstam H

更新日期：1996-04-01 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：:As part of a study of drug treatment of aggressive behavior to be reported separately, we have evaluated the double-blind procedure in a recently completed comparison of the efficacy of lithium carbonate versus placebo in modifying aggressive behavior in nonpsychotic incarcerated delinquents. We conclude that the side...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Marini JL,Sheard MH,Bridges CI,Wagner E

更新日期：1976-05-01 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：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：: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：:A mild form of neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) in a schizophrenic patient who was receiving a depot neuroleptic is described and beneficial response to oral diazepam 50 mg daily is reported. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kontaxakis VP,Christodoulou GN,Markidis MP,Havaki-Kontaxaki BJ

更新日期：1988-09-01 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:To describe the impact of tobacco, alcohol and cannabis on metabolic profile and cardiovascular risk in bipolar patients. METHOD:Naturalistic, cross-sectional, multicenter Spanish study. Current use of tobacco, alcohol and cannabis was determined based on patient self-reports. Metabolic syndrome was defined ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Garcia-Portilla MP,Saiz PA,Benabarre A,Florez G,Bascaran MT,Díaz EM,Bousoño M,Bobes J

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the long-term social function of psychiatric patients with anxiety and depressive disorders and to relate this to personality status and other factors. METHOD:A cohort of 210 patients (mean age 35 years) with dysthymic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder or panic disorder diagnosed using a st...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Seivewright H,Tyrer P,Johnson T

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Deficits in social cognition have been reported in euthymic subjects with bipolar disorder (BD). However, some studies have failed to find differences favoring controls. As most investigations have been conducted with small samples, they have not had sufficient power to detect statistically significant differ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Samamé C,Martino DJ,Strejilevich SA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-seven, out of a sample of 100 elderly subjects, all suffering from dementia, were found to have delusions. The delusions were more common in women, in patients with a history of psychiatric illness, and amongst those with higher information subscores (Blessed Scale); and were less common in patients suffering f...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Berrios GE,Brook P

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The paper presents a comprehensive overview of prospective studies monitoring or intervening in the pre-onset phase of first episode psychosis. METHOD:A systematic literature search was conducted and supplemented by a manual search. All relevant studies were ordered and intensively reviewed according to spec...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Olsen KA,Rosenbaum B

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:Sleep deprivation (SD) is an antidepressant intervention with multiple administration formats that has been investigated primarily with uncontrolled clinical trials and qualitative reviews of the literature. The validity and applicability of these findings to the treatment of bipolar depression (BPD) is unce...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gottlieb JF,Goel N,Chen S,Young MA

更新日期：2020-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We followed the prescription of psychotropic drugs by primary health care physicians over a 3-year period. The material consisted of 1000 randomly selected adult primary health care patients. At least one psychotropic drug was prescribed to one third (n = 307) of the sample during the follow-up period. The most common...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Joukamaa M,Sohlman B,Lehtinen V

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug use and psychiatric symptoms were independently assessed in a random sample of 177 adolescents from a junior high school population. Pupils who used cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis, solutions (sniffing), and tranquilizers, all had higher frequencies of psychiatric symptoms than non-users. The use of alcohol was sho...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lavik NJ,Onstad S

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The study aimed to increase the knowledge about the detailed course differences between different forms of bipolar disorder. METHOD:Using the prospective life-chart-clinician version, we compared the fine-grain analysis of mood swings and treatment modalities of 18 bipolar II with 31 bipolar I patients. RES...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Born C,Seitz NN,Grunze H,Vieta E,Dittmann S,Seemüller F,Amann B

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00