Electroconvulsive therapy and cerebral computed tomography. A prospective study.

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:To examine whether variation at two common polymorphisms, T102C and -1438AG, of the serotonin 2A gene (5HT2A) are involved in the puerperal triggering mechanism of bipolar affective puerperal psychosis. METHOD:A total of 242 parous women diagnosed with bipolar disorder were genotyped for the two polymorphism...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Robertson E,Jones I,Middle F,Moray J,Craddock N

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salivary secretion was measured in 54 psychiatric patients comprising four diagnostic groups: schizophrenia, mania, depression and anxiety state. Detailed psychometric assessment was carried out at the time of measurement. Although salivary flow failed to show an association with either diagnostic category or mental s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Toone BK,Lader MH

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The neurotransmitter serotonin (5-HT) has been linked to the underlying biological processes related to aggressive behaviour. However, only a few studies on this subject involving young people have been published so far. METHOD:We aimed to investigate the effects of acute tryptophan depletion (ATD) on reacti...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kötting WF,Bubenzer S,Helmbold K,Eisert A,Gaber TJ,Zepf FD

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：OBJECTIVE:While findings are contradictory, many studies report that long Duration of Untreated Psychosis (DUP) correlates with poorer outcome in first episode psychosis. In an outcome study of first-episode psychosis, we compared the patients who refused to participate in a follow-along with those who consented to est...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Friis S,Melle I,Larsen TK,Haahr U,Johannessen JO,Simonsen E,Opjordsmoen S,Vaglum P,McGlashan TH

更新日期：2004-10-01 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：:Religious patients with generalized anxiety disorder were given religious psychotherapy in addition to supportive psychotherapy anxiolytic drugs. Those receiving religious psychotherapy showed significantly more rapid improvement in anxiety symptoms than those who received supportive psychotherapy and drugs only. Thus...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Azhar MZ,Varma SL,Dharap AS

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the aims of the European Study on Parasuicide, which was initiated by the Regional Office for the European Region of the World Health Organization in the mid-1980s, was to try to identify social and personal characteristics that are predictive of future suicidal behaviour. A follow-up interview study (the Repet...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bille-Brahe U,Kerkhof A,De Leo D,Schmidtke A,Crepet P,Lonnqvist J,Michel K,Salander-Renberg E,Stiles TC,Wasserman D,Aagaard B,Egebo H,Jensen B

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore and to compare hypothalamic-pituitary-somatotropic (HPS), hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis function in depression, 30 subjects (15 patients with a major depressive episode and individually matched controls) received 50 micrograms growth hormone-releas...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lesch KP,Müller U,Rupprecht R,Kruse K,Schulte HM

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospective study, 124 patients with depression who were concomitantly receiving ECT and benzodiazepines were compared with patients (matched for age, sex, diagnosis, and laterality of ECT) receiving ECT without benzodiazepines in order to investigate the efficacy of ECT in terms of therapeutic response and len...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jha A,Stein G

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study set out to describe the sexual attitudes and behaviour of 50 hospitalized alcoholic men by comparing them with a sample of the general population, matched in age and social class. This control sample was identified by random selection from a company register, and subjects were recruited into the study with ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Whalley LJ

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the relations between personality traits using the Big Five model and presence of agoraphobia, clinical severity and short-term outcome in an unbiased clinical sample of never-treated panic disorder patients. METHOD:Panic disorder (PD) patients (n = 103) in the first stages of their illness were e...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Carrera M,Herrán A,Ramírez ML,Ayestarán A,Sierra-Biddle D,Hoyuela F,Rodríguez-Cabo B,Vázquez-Barquero JL

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Aiming at promoting young people's mental health and reducing stigma towards people with schizophrenia, project weeks were carried out with secondary school students aged 14-18 years (n=90). Key to the project week is meeting a (young) person with schizophrenia. METHOD:Students' attitudes and behavioural int...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Schulze B,Richter-Werling M,Matschinger H,Angermeyer MC

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：:Two groups of former depressed Italian patients comprising 54 bipolars and 52 unipolars completed the Italian version of the EMBU, a Swedish instrument aimed at assessing the experience of parental rearing behaviour. As in a previous study of Swedish depressives, three factors, "rejection", "emotional warmth", and "ov...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Perris C,Maj M,Perris H,Eisemann M

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort of 330 Chinese schizophrenic patients below age 40 were interviewed 5, 10 and 15 years later to determine which variables could predict their outcome. There were 189 males (57%) and 141 females (43%). At the end of 15 years, 48 (15%) died (34 (10%) from suicide). At the end of 5, 10 and 15 years, the percenta...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Tsoi WF,Wong KE

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The marital adjustment of patients with psychogenic pain disorder was evaluated and compared with a matched group of patients with other neurotic disorders. Pain patients spouses were found to have better marital adjustment and less psychiatric morbidity than the spouses of neurotic patients. These findings are discus...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hughes AM,Medley I,Turner GN,Bond MR

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-seven patients with the diagnosis of senile dementia and 70 children aged 6 months to 4 years were observed in three tasks that stimulated exploratory behavior. The subjects were rated according to the frequencies of certain forms of behavior in 52 variables. It was assumed that certain behavior would be more f...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jonsson CO,Edin P,Söderberg S,Waldton S

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of all neuroleptic-naive, acutely psychotic subjects admitted to hospital over a 2-year period (n = 62), 27 participated in a neuroendocrine study and 35 did not participate (51% refused consent, 19% were incapable of consent and 31% started neuroleptics immediately). However, all nonparticipants agreed to psychopatho...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Keks NA,Copolov DL,Mackie B,Stuart GW,Singh BS,McGorry PD,Coffey C

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1070 men and women aged 65 years and over living in the community in Liverpool were interviewed using the Geriatric Mental State. Diagnoses of depression at case and subcase level were made using the GMS-AGECAT package from an initial interview and at follow-up three years later. Data relating to blood pres...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gilmore C,Green BH,Copeland JR,Dewey ME,Davidson IA,Saunders PA,Sharma V

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Renewed insight into dose-related effects of sertindole and haloperidol was sought by re-analysing published data for antipsychotic effect, extrapyramidal effect, and patient wellbeing - i.e., the important pharmacopsychometric triangle domains. METHOD:Selected Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) su...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bech P,Tanghøj P,Andreasson K,Overø KF

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This paper presents a case of chronic mania and reviews the diagnosis with respect to its definition and utility. METHOD:A case of chronic mania is described. RESULTS:Unremitting mania poses a diagnostic and management challenge. CONCLUSION:Persistent mania of this duration is rare, but a diagnosis of chro...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Malhi GS,Mitchell PB,Parker GB

更新日期：2001-08-01 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:The aim was to elucidate the relationship between psychotic and behavioural symptoms in the elderly. METHOD:A representative sample of 85 year old subjects living in Gothenburg, Sweden (n = 451) was assessed with neuropsychiatric examinations, key informant interviews and record reviews. RESULTS:Fourteen pe...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ostling S,Gustafson D,Waern M

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：: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：:Serum levels of total L-tryptophan (L-TP) were determined before and during treatment in patients suffering from endogenous depression, who were treated with L-TP, 6 g daily, and unilateral electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). The gaussian curve of initial L-TP concentrations changed into a bimodal distribution during tre...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： d'Elia G,Lehmann J,Raotma H

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The current study aimed to compare specific cognitive profiles corresponding to auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) status and elucidate which pattern of cognitive deficits may predict voice-hearing status. METHOD:Clinical participants with schizophrenia spectrum disorders were partitioned into: (i) current...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Toh WL,Tan EJ,Neill E,Van Rheenen TE,Gurvich C,Sumner PJ,Carruthers SP,Thomas EHX,Rossell SL

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survival analysis of suicide risk by sex and age after attempted suicide was studied in a cohort of 1573 suicide attempters referred to the psychiatric emergency room at the Karolinska Hospital from 1981 to 1988. The time course of suicide risk and the overall prognosis after attempted suicide and, in particular, the ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nordström P,Samuelsson M,Asberg M

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00