The epidemiology of demoralization in a kibbutz.

abstract：:On the hypothesis that drug addiction may be due to "masked depression", lithium was administered to 20 opiate addicts. Only nine patients took the lithium carbonate tablets for more than a few weeks; during this period they seemed to abstain from taking opiates. After 1 year, all the patients were off lithium and mos...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Altamura AC

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1983-1984 the Swedish Committee for the Prevention and Treatment of Depression launched an educational program on the diagnosis and treatment of depressive disorders for all general practitioners on the island of Gotland. The baseline year chosen was 1982 and the immediate effects were evaluated in 1985. In 1988 th...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rutz W,Carlsson P,von Knorring L,Wålinder J

更新日期：1992-06-01 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

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:Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are core features of psychotic illness and remain significant in predicting poor outcome and risk. There has been a wide range of approaches to understanding these experiences. METHOD:A systematic literature review summarizing different methods of investigation and their...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Upthegrove R,Broome MR,Caldwell K,Ives J,Oyebode F,Wood SJ

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pipamperone was compared double-blindly with placebo to evaluate its capacity to relieve sleep disorders in 40 depressive inpatients. At the end of the 1-week trial, most of the items relating to sleep disturbances had improved significantly in the 24 patients of the pipamperone group whereas only a few items showed s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ansoms C,Backer-Dierick GD,Vereecken JL

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To review the available literature on the association between daily and longer-term weather data and the incidence of attempted and completed suicide. METHOD:A computerized search supplemented by a cross-check of the references sections of the thereby identified papers was performed. RESULTS:A total of 27 s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Deisenhammer EA

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

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：: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：OBJECTIVE:To determine if the Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire (BMQ) has satisfactory psychometric properties in patients with severe mental disorders and if their scores differ from those of patients with severe medical disorders. To investigate if the scores are related to medication adherence. METHOD:Two hundr...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jónsdóttir H,Friis S,Horne R,Pettersen KI,Reikvam A,Andreassen OA

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Fear of strangers ( FOS ) during the infant's first year was studied in 46 "high-risk" offspring of index mothers with a history of nonorganic psychosis and in 80 demographically similar control offspring. FOS was measured in the home by a standardized test at 1 year of age and by repeated interviews with the mother d...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Näslund B,Persson-Blennow I,McNeil T,Kaij L,Malmquist-Larsson A

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 30 patients with newly diagnosed motor conversion disorder were consecutively investigated by means of a Swedish self-rating inventory designed to assess perceived parental rearing practices (EMBU), and the Karolinska Scale of Personality (KSP). DSM Axis I and II psychopathology was assessed using a Structu...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Binzer M,Eisemann M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The first objective is to detail the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) over a decade of follow-up for those in both study groups. The second is to determine time-to-remission, recurrence, and new onset of PTSD, and the third is to assess the relationship between sexual adversity and the like...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Zanarini MC,Hörz S,Frankenburg FR,Weingeroff J,Reich DB,Fitzmaurice G

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Yawning has been described in relation to drugs such as serotonin reuptake inhibitors, levodopa, dopamine agonists, MAO B inhibitor, morphine, methadone, buprenorphine, dextromethorphan, benzodiazepine, lidocaine, and flecaine. This is a report of two patients, on long-term escitalopram therapy (more than 8 w...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gutiérrez-Alvarez AM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nationwide register study of psychiatric admission for anorexia nervosa in Denmark yielded average incidence rates of 1.9 per 100,000 per year for females and 0.17 per 100,000 per year for males. The prevalence was 6.7 per 100,000 per year for females and 0.6 per 100,000 per year for males. The female-male ratio for...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nielsen S

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study assessed the manner in which insight influenced schizophrenic patients' evaluation of their objective life conditions and the concurrent validity between patients' and clinicians' assessments of patients' global quality of life. METHOD:Forty out-patients who fulfilled DSM-III-R criteria for schizo...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Doyle M,Flanagan S,Browne S,Clarke M,Lydon D,Larkin C,O'Callaghan E

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：:Prior reviews indicate that schizophrenics tend to be born in the winter, relative to non-psychiatric controls. This conclusion has been criticized, however, as the association between birth seasonality and schizophrenia may be the result of a statistical artifact, the age-incidence effect. To examine this possibility...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

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

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To give an update on epidemiological findings on sex differences in the prevalence of unipolar depression and putative risk factors. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Systematic review of the literature. RESULTS:Recent epidemiological research yields additional evidence for a female preponderance in unipolar depression,...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kuehner C

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-four myasthenic patients (54 F, 20 M; mean age 49.6 years) were evaluated using the diagnostic criteria of the DSM-III in order to investigate the prevalence of psychiatric disturbances in this order. Fifty-one had had thymectomies, of whom 28 females had hyperplasia, two females and five males had involution ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Magni G,Micaglio GF,Lalli R,Bejato L,Candeago MR,Merskey H,Angelini C

更新日期：1988-04-01 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：:The major aim of this study was to investigate links between chronic insomnia and mental and personality disorders using the DSM-III-R classification. Of a sample of 2512 general practice attenders, 105 with a chronic insomnia complaint over a 4-month period were evaluated for mental and personality disorders. In addi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Schramm E,Hohagen F,Käppler C,Grasshoff U,Berger M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examines if YKL-40 is increased in individuals with psychotic disorders and if elevated YKL-40 levels at baseline is associated with subsequent development of type 2 diabetes. METHOD:A total of 1383 patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or affective psychosis and 799 healthy controls were rec...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Dieset I,Mørch RH,Hope S,Hoseth EZ,Reponen EJ,Gran JM,Aas M,Michelsen AE,Reichborn-Kjennerud T,Nesvåg R,Agartz I,Melle I,Aukrust P,Djurovic S,Ueland T,Andreassen OA

更新日期：2019-01-01 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: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：OBJECTIVE:Evidence based on controlled studies is still limited for treatment strategies that prevent recurrence of suicide attempts. Findings from observational as well as meta-analytic studies strongly suggest that lithium may have suicide-protective properties. METHOD:Patients with a recent suicide attempt in the c...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lauterbach E,Felber W,Müller-Oerlinghausen B,Ahrens B,Bronisch T,Meyer T,Kilb B,Lewitzka U,Hawellek B,Quante A,Richter K,Broocks A,Hohagen F

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：:A prospective study was carried out on 30 patients suffering from a psychotic episode following a stressful life event. They were found to have an Emotional, Timid, Sensitive, Tense and Insecure personality. Sleep disturbance, Affective symptoms, Histrionic behaviour and Excitement were the common clinical features. S...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Pandurangi AK,Kapur RL

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonazepam (CLN), a benzodiazepine originally used as an anti-epileptic, was tested in schizophrenia in a double blind comparison in combination with haloperidol (HL). Twenty-four schizophrenic inpatients, diagnosed according to DSM III were treated with HL and CLN (Group 1) or HL and placebo (Group 2) for 4 weeks. Th...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Altamura AC,Mauri MC,Mantero M,Brunetti M

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00