Weight gain and obesity in schizophrenia: epidemiology, pathobiology, and management.

abstract：:During the Second World War 70,000-75,000 Finnish children were sent to Sweden to protect them from the war. This article describes a group of children sent to Sweden from Kuopio County. The management of this group is discussed in light of their health, education and profession in adulthood. The change in culture and...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Räsänen E

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In one of the hypotheses on the causes of schizophrenia it is proposed that viruses may play a role in the etiology and pathogenesis of at least some forms of schizophrenia. In our study, 30 healthy adults and 30 schizophrenic patients were investigated for humoral and cellular immunity against herpes simplex virus (H...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Schindler L,Leroux M,Beck J,Moises HW,Kirchner H

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few empirical studies have examined the attitudes and ethical beliefs of psychiatrists. In this study, 328 members of the Swedish Psychiatric Association were randomly selected to respond to a questionnaire containing three clinical vignettes examining involuntary hospitalization, other compulsory interventions, and r...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kullgren G,Jacobsson L,Lynöe N,Kohn R,Levav I

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the atheoretical approach of the DSM-III-R, the personality disorders have their roots in specific theoretical schools. Due to clinical tradition, analogies with Axis I and the tradition in psychiatry and medicine, the personality disorders are presented as categories although there is more empirical support f...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ekselius L,Lindström E,von Knorring L,Bodlund O,Kullgren G

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This paper presents evidence of new developments in the detection and treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders that have relevance for clinicians. METHOD:An electronic search was conducted in MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsychINFO and The Cochrane Library Database for the interval 1995-2005 for papers published...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Austin MP,Priest SR

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combined data from double-blind risperidone studies were used to analyse the severity of extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) associated with treatment in patients with chronic schizophrenia. Factors associated with maximum EPS severity were increasing risperidone dose (< or = 8 mg/day was similar to placebo), lower baseline...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lemmens P,Brecher M,Van Baelen B

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Lithium-neuroleptics induced encephalopathy is a rare drug interaction. Here I am reporting a patient who developed reversible encepatholopathy with lithium-risperidone combination. METHOD:A single case report. RESULT:A patient of bipolar disorder, who presented with manic symptoms with psychotic feature, s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Boora K,Xu J,Hyatt J

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Patients who engage in recurrent deliberate self-harm (DSH) behaviours have increased morbidity and mortality and use emergency services more than others. Unrecognized iatrogenic injury may play a role. Specifically, we call attention to the potential danger of cumulative radiation exposure. METHOD:Case pres...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Norelli LJ,Coates AD,Kovasznay BM

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective 1-year study was conducted in 69 patients with affective disorder. Despite remission, there was a significant continued presence at each visit of major symptoms of mania and depression and of mean mood shift. Furthermore, sub-clinical affective symptoms, as determined by General Behavior Inventory self-r...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Goodnick PJ,Fieve RR,Schlegel A,Kaufman K

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a catchment area study of 101 first inceptions of schizophrenia, mania and atypical psychoses, women were significantly more likely to have atypical psychosis and men were more likely to have definite schizophrenia. Negative symptoms such as affective flattening and poverty of speech were already present in many ca...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ring N,Tantam D,Montague L,Newby D,Black D,Morris J

更新日期：1991-12-01 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：: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：:Within the framework of the multifactorial-polygenic model of inheritance, multiple threshold strategy was applied to a large set of pedigree data to examine the clinico-genetical position of some subtypes within the ICD-9 classification of schizophrenic psychoses. It appeared highly probable that the ICD-9 subtypes e...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ungvári G

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article considers the nosology and taxonomy of psychiatric disorders in Sushruta Samhita, an ancient Indian treatise on medicine. Some implications of this treatise for modern psychiatry are discussed. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Haldipur CV

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Impaired executive functioning (EF) has often been reported in patients with major depression or schizophrenia. We hypothesize that the variance in EF is more affected by level of general psychopathology than by diagnosis. METHOD:Forty-three patients with major depression and 47 with schizophrenia were inclu...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Stordal KI,Mykletun A,Asbjørnsen A,Egeland J,Landrø NI,Roness A,Rund BR,Sundet KS,Lundervold AJ,Lund A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The validity of a questionnaire developed to assess negative attitudes towards drug therapy by relatives of schizophrenic patients is examined. The questionnaire items are tested against the statement: "Patients should not take drugs, they can only be helped by good advice". The prejudice of relatives of schizophrenic...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mantonakis J,Markidis M,Kontaxakis V,Liakos A

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether patients with a diagnosis of affective disorder are at an increased risk of developing Parkinson's disease compared with medically ill control groups. METHOD:By linkage of public hospital registers from 1977 to 1993, three study cohorts were identified: patients with affective disorder...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nilsson FM,Kessing LV,Bolwig TG

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：:Plasma concentrations of barbital and diazepam were measured daily during a double-blind study of the efficacy of the two drugs in the treatment of delirium tremens and less severe clinical states. Treatment was estimated as satisfactory in the majority of cases; the present study deals with the satisfactory groups on...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kramp P,Rønsted P,Hansen T

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The primary aim of the study was to compare the effectiveness of group and individual cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). METHOD:One hundred and ten out-patients with OCD were randomly assigned to 15 sessions of either group CBT or individual CBT. Outcome measures were ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jónsson H,Hougaard E,Bennedsen BE

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Behaviour therapy with exposure and response prevention (ERP) or cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) including ERP are considered the psychological treatments of choice for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), but group CBT/ERP has received relatively little research attention in the treatment of OCD. The aim...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jónsson H,Hougaard E

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Cannabis is an acknowledged risk factor for some mental disorders, but for others the evidence is inconclusive. Prescribed medicinal drugs can be used as proxies for mental disorders. In this study, we investigate how use of cannabis is prospectively related to prescription of antipsychotics, mood stabilizers...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rognli EB,Bramness JG,von Soest T

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EEG and EMG were monitored simultaneously at 72 ECT sessions in 18 patients. When EMG was recorded from the leg the duration of EMG curve convulsions varied between 43 and 89% of the EEG recorded seizure duration of the same fit. The EMG/EEG seizure ratio varied widely among different patients as well as within the si...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Sørensen P,Bolwig TG,Lauritsen B,Bengtson O

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic relationship has been considered an important ingredient of all psychotherapies. In communities in which no familiar conventions of such a relationship are available, the therapeutic encounter poses very different problems from those in the West, where such conventions freely prevail. This study has been c...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Neki JS,Joinet B,Hogan M,Hauli JG,Kilonzo G

更新日期：1985-06-01 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：:The efficacy and the safety of moclobemide (400-600 mg/day), a reversible and selective inhibitor of monoamine oxidase-A (RIMA) and of clomipramine (100-150 mg/day) were compared respectively in 98 and 93 nonmelancholic, nonpsychotic out-patients with a DSM-III major depressive episode over 6 weeks and up to 3 months,...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lecrubier Y,Pedarriosse AM,Payan C,Schmid-Burgk W,Stabl M

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Time trends for suicide, homicide and accident mortality among the Finnish population 65 years or over in 1951-1979 are presented. From 1951 to 1967 suicide, motor-vehicle accident mortality and overall accident mortality among elderly males tended to follow more or less similar patterns. In 1951-1979 male suicide rat...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kivelä SL

更新日期：1985-08-01 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：:Lithium is the primary treatment for manic-depressive illness. The mechanism of action of lithium and its endocrine effects remain unclear. Therefore, the hormone responses to sequential stimuli, namely arginine, TRH, and LHRH, were studied in eight patients with major depression before and during treatment with lithi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Joffe RT,Post RM,Ballenger JC,Rebar R,Gold PW

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There has been increasing concern about extensions to the definition of 'clinical' depression, but little evident investigation as to how clinical and non-clinical depressive states might best be differentiated. This review considers the potential of many candidate symptom and non-symptom parameters. METHOD:...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Parker G,Paterson A

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00