Increased use of primary care during 6 years of prodromal schizophrenia.

abstract：:An intensive 1-year study was carried out on 41 male patients, mean age 49, mean hospitalization time 49 days, admitted to a special ward of the Beckomberga Hospital with the diagnosis of delirium tremens and 50 concomitant somatic and psychiatric diagnoses (1--9 per capita), and given a standardized treatment. The me...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Stendig-Lindberg G,Rudy N

更新日期：1980-10-01 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：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：OBJECTIVE:To update evidence from studies on family intervention in schizophrenia looking carefully at methodological issues. METHOD:Twenty-five studies were reviewed, using specific outcome criteria, and computing effect sizes whenever possible. RESULTS:Effect on relapse is relatively well assessed, although differe...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Barbato A,D'Avanzo B

更新日期：2000-08-01 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：:The purpose of this study was to examine the accuracy of translation and to test the validity of the Greek version of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). In the translation study, the English and the Greek versions of the GHQ were administered to a sample of 50 bilingual respondents. The internal consistency, item...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Garyfallos G,Karastergiou A,Adamopoulou A,Moutzoukis C,Alagiozidou E,Mala D,Garyfallos A

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that not only intrafamiliar childhood abuses inflicted to the patient, but also major losses or other severe life events suffered by the mother within 2 years of patient's birth, are risk factors for the development of dissociative disorders (DDs). METHOD:A multicentric case-control st...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Pasquini P,Liotti G,Mazzotti E,Fassone G,Picardi A,Italian Group for the Study of Dissociation.

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within a controlled prospective intervention study, schizophrenic outpatients randomly assigned to four treatment groups and one control group were assessed with regard to collaboration with drug treatment. In total, 39.3% of 84 regular attenders of the psychoeducational training programme and 26.6% of 64 control pati...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hornung WP,Klingberg S,Feldmann R,Schonauer K,Schulze Mönking H

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study adult mental health in offspring of mothers who experienced severe puerperal disorder. METHOD:Mothers, followed up a mean of 23 years after puerperal disorder requiring hospitalization, were interviewed regarding adult psychiatric illness, childhood neurotic symptoms and conduct problems of 48 offsp...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Abbott R,Dunn VJ,Robling SA,Paykel ES

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the family variables of expressed emotion (EE) and communication deviance (CD) and patient attributes of cognitive functions and clinical symptoms were examined. Eleven schizophrenic patients and their parents were evaluated at the beginning and the end of a 2-year treatment programme. The tes...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rund BR

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We set forth to build a prediction model of individuals who would develop bipolar disorder (BD) using machine learning techniques in a large birth cohort. METHODS:A total of 3748 subjects were studied at birth, 11, 15, 18, and 22 years of age in a community birth cohort. We used the elastic net algorithm wit...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rabelo-da-Ponte FD,Feiten JG,Mwangi B,Barros FC,Wehrmeister FC,Menezes AM,Kapczinski F,Passos IC,Kunz M

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevailing theory that normal intelligence and mild mental retardation are determined by multiple additive genes is critically reviewed in the light of findings from recent population studies. Discrepancies between theoretical concepts and reported data are noted, particularly those concerning frequency of mild me...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Akesson HO

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is a predictor analysis of the screening procedure followed by a psychiatric service for a period of 1 year preceding and a period of 1 year following the introduction of community psychiatry. Throughout this period, the psychiatric service consisted of a local service within the catchment area and a centra...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Søgaard HJ,Søndergaard I

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the prevalence of Toxoplasma infection between the first-episode schizophrenia and the controls and to compare the clinical features between the Toxoplasma-seronegative and Toxoplasma-seropositive patients with schizophrenia. METHOD:The rate of serum reactivity to Toxoplasma in 600 schizophrenia, ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Wang HL,Wang GH,Li QY,Shu C,Jiang MS,Guo Y

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:419 patients in Sri Lanka, 150 patients in U.K. and 172 patients in Canada who were suffering from "Functional Psychoses" were interviewed using the Present State Examination to elicit Schneider's First Rank Symptoms (FRS). Nationality and ethnicity were found to be significant variables associated with lower prevalen...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Chandrasena R

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the longitudinal impact of borderline personality disorder (BPD) on the course and outcome of bipolar disorder (BP) in a pediatric BP sample. METHOD:Participants (N = 271) and parents from the Course and Outcome of Bipolar Youth (COBY) study were administered structured clinical interviews and s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Yen S,Frazier E,Hower H,Weinstock LM,Topor DR,Hunt J,Goldstein TR,Goldstein BI,Gill MK,Ryan ND,Strober M,Birmaher B,Keller MB

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there are 22 Arab countries in the Arab League, the mental health services provided in those countries show several forms of variation. Economic, political, social and cultural factors seem to play a major role in determining the state of the psychiatric profession and the access of the service to citizens. T...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Okasha A,Karam E

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

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：:Previous studies have suggested that arylsulphatase A (ASA - the biochemical marker of metachromatic leucodystrophy) deficiency may be present in a sizeable proportion of patients with chronic psychosis. This study surveyed leucocyte ASA activity in a group of chronic psychotic patients and compared ASA activity in 3 ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Heavey AM,Philpot MP,Fensom AH,Jackson M,Crammer JL

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examined the predictors, extent and pattern of fatal antidepressant overdose (FAO) in all psychoactive drug-related deaths and compared these in drug abusers and non-drug abusers. METHOD:Inquest data on 491 psychoactive drug-related cases in England and Wales were analysed. We examined predictors ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Oyefeso A,Valmana A,Clancy C,Ghodse H,Williams H

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rates of middle ear disease in 70 patients with schizophrenia from a defined catchment population were compared with the rates in 359 nonpsychiatric controls who were matched for age, sex and general practice. A relative risk (odds ratio) of middle ear disease in schizophrenia of 1.92 was found. This was raised to...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mason PR,Winton FE

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differentiating power of two individually related measures of outcome, target complaints and psychiatrists' evaluation of individually defined treatment objectives, were studied in two models of treatment planning, one with and one without active patient participation. Target complaints were measured at admission,...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hansson L,Berglund M,Ohman R

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the renal function (urine volume, glomerular filtration rate, urinary osmolality and proteinuria) of 50 patients chronically treated with lithium carbonate for major affective disorder. No patient had any alteration in the parameters considered. No relationship was found between any of the parameters s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Conte G,Vazzola A,Sacchetti E

更新日期：1989-05-01 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：: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

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the association between recall for socially rewarding (positive) and/or socially critical (negative) information and depressive symptoms. METHOD:Cohort study of people who had visited UK primary care in the past year reporting depressive symptoms (N = 558, 69% female). Positive and negative recall wa...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lewis G,Kounali DZ,Button KS,Duffy L,Wiles NJ,Munafò MR,Harmer CJ,Lewis G

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：:We conducted a 25-year follow-up study of 50 children of schizophrenic mothers, consisting of 25 children reared by their mothers and 25 children reared apart. The children's adult psychiatric status was evaluated in a 3-h structured interview employing a battery of syndrome check-lists and scales. A slightly higher i...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Higgins J,Gore R,Gutkind D,Mednick SA,Parnas J,Schulsinger F,Cannon TD

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study was made, investigating the post-treatment outcomes of patients in two apparently dissimilar psychiatric therapeutic centres in Nigeria: the Aro Mental Hospital, a custodial facility, and the Aro Community Village Program, a pilot experiment in community psychiatry. A matches sample of 208 treate...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Erinosho OA

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy and safety of pirlindole (300 mg/day), a new reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase A, have been evaluated in a multicentre placebo-controlled double-blind randomized trial in 103 in-patients suffering from unipolar major depression (DSM-III-R 296.2, 296.3) over a 42-day period after a run-in placebo p...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： De Wilde JE,Geerts S,Van Dorpe J,Bruhwyler J,Géczy J

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00