Long-term neurocognitive functioning after electroconvulsive therapy in patients with late-life depression.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Bright light therapy in seasonal affective disorder (SAD) has been studied extensively. However, little attention has been given to subsyndromal seasonal affective disorder (SSAD) or the use of bright light in the workplace. Many patients using bright light boxes complain of the inconvenience of use. Much of ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Avery DH,Kizer D,Bolte MA,Hellekson C

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to compare moclobemide and clomipramine in endogenous depression according to the Newcastle II classification. Sixty-two patients were allocated to either 300 mg moclobemide or 150 mg clomipramine, both given in 3 daily doses. Improvements occurred over time but differences between treatm...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Koczkas C,Holm P,Karlsson A,Nagy A,Ose E,Pétursson H,Ulverås L,Wenedikter O

更新日期：1989-06-01 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：:For patients dependent on benzodiazepines alone, or in combination with alcohol and/or other legal and illegal drugs, observed mortality rates were compared with the average population, and, in cases of isolated benzodiazepine dependence, also with a control group of non-dependent patients chosen to match each depende...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Piesiur-Strehlow B,Strehlow U,Poser W

更新日期：1986-03-01 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：:Screening tests for the detection of physical illness in 650 newly admitted psychiatric patients were examined critically. Almost 17% of these investigations were found to be abnormal and certain high risk groups were identified. These included patients suffering from significant weight loss, substance abuse, disorien...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ferguson B,Dudleston K

更新日期：1986-11-01 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：:The recurrent psychoses, rather than, as Kraepelin supposed, constituting 2 major entities, manic depressive illness and schizophrenia, as separate diseases, may be distributed along a continuum that extends from unipolar depressive illness through bipolar and schizoaffective psychosis to schizophrenia with increasing...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Crow TJ

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether adolescents who self-harm are at increased risk of heavy and dependent substance use in adulthood. METHOD:Fifteen-year prospective cohort study of a random sample of 1943 adolescents recruited from secondary schools across the state of Victoria, Australia. Data pertaining to self-harm an...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Moran P,Coffey C,Romaniuk H,Degenhardt L,Borschmann R,Patton GC

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Can it be said that history's most outstanding psychiatrists and the various interrelated fields of mental health are to any extent realistically represented within the framework of thematic philately? With regard to the latter theme, five main categories can be distinguished: the mentally handicapped; psychiatric ins...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： van Alphen PJ

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demographic data, personal and familial characteristics, as well as DSM-III-R-based psychiatric diagnoses were collected in 369 adolescents and young adults aged between 15 and 29 years, referred to an Emergency Department for psychological problems. In total, 60% of them were suicide attempters. Separations before th...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Chastang F,Rioux P,Dupont I,Baranger E,Kovess V,Zarifian E

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether persons with bipolar disorder and their siblings have leadership traits and are overrepresented in executive professions. METHOD:A nested case-control study based on longitudinal Swedish total population registries. Data from officer suitability interviews (n=1,126,519), and informatio...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kyaga S,Lichtenstein P,Boman M,Landén M

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This article illustrates the development of psychiatric register research and discusses the strengths, limitations, and possible directions for future activities. METHOD:Examples illustrating the development from the post-World War II introduction of psychiatric register research until today are selected. R...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Munk-Jørgensen P,Okkels N,Golberg D,Ruggeri M,Thornicroft G

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated past suicidal behaviour and family history of suicide in 713 inpatients with major depressive illness. A familial history of suicide (mainly violent) significantly increased the frequency of violent suicidal behaviour in depressive women; bipolar patients being more affected than unipolars. In depresse...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Linkowski P,de Maertelaer V,Mendlewicz J

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Denmark about 11-12 per 100,000 population are diagnosed as schizophrenics for the first time each year. Less than half of these receive this diagnosis at first admission and therefore only 5-6 per 100,000 are included in the official schizophrenia incidence figures. In a cohort (n = 53), predictors for diagnosis o...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Munk-Jørgensen P,Mortensen PB

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of personality disorders in a group of elderly patients without an organic mental disorder and to examine the relationship between the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) and personality disorder symptoms in psychogeriatric clinical practice. METHOD...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Casey JE,Joyce PR

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The families of 11 probands with Pick's disease as determined by histopathological examination, were investigated by interview and acquisition of medical records. The estimated morbid risk was 0.25 +/- 0.08 for parents and 0.07 +/- 0.07 for siblings or probands. Further analyses are presented that seek associations be...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Heston LL

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy Japanese DSM-III-R schizophrenic patients were assessed for 30 clinical symptoms using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) of Kay et al. Principal component analysis was applied to the full item set of this scale and disclosed 5 orthogonal independent symptom groups: negative, hostile/excited, tho...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kawasaki Y,Maeda Y,Sakai N,Higashima M,Urata K,Yamaguchi N,Kurachi M

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature is reviewed on EEG alpha activity in different psychological states, i.e., morbid anxiety, attention and mental relaxation. In the present study, 20 male neurotic inpatients suffering from chronic moderate anxiety were assessed with respect to anxiety level and EEG alpha activity (frequency and per cent...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Siciliani O,Schiavon M,Tansella M

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The platelet levels of serotonin and the amino acids aspartic acid, glutamine, glutamic acid and gamma-aminobutyric acid were measured in 18 drug-free autistic (DSM-III criteria) and 14 age-matched healthy children. Serotonin was significantly increased while the amino acids aspartic acid, glutamine, glutamic acid and...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rolf LH,Haarmann FY,Grotemeyer KH,Kehrer H

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether large social networks are associated with better functional outcome in psychotic disorders. METHOD:A prospective cohort study of epidemiologically representative patients with psychosis was analysed to examine the relationship between social networks and functional outcome. Standardize...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Howard L,Leese M,Thornicroft G

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Antidepressants including selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)-associated mania or hypomania has been well documented in the literature but these patients with switch have either mood disorders or various risk factors for bipolar disorder. This case report examines SSRI-induced hypomania in a patient...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mendhekar DN,Gupta D,Girotra V

更新日期：2003-07-01 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:To investigate all published case reports of torsade de pointes (TdP) induced by psychotropic drugs (PDs) in order to examine the prevalence of risk factors for TdP prior to the drug initiation. METHOD:We found 45 reports on 70 patients with TdP induced by PDs. Each report was analyzed for the presence of ri...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Justo D,Prokhorov V,Heller K,Zeltser D

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a sample of the Finnish general population (n=4868), 2.4% of women and 2.3 % of men reported having thought about suicide during the preceding 12 months. The prevalence of parasuicide was correspondingly 0.9% in women and 1.1% in men, higher figures than have previously been found or estimated. Most suicidal indivi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hintikka J,Viinamäki H,Tanskanen A,Kontula O,Koskela K

更新日期：1998-07-01 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：:Occurrence of pain was investigated in 73 non-psychotic psychiatric inpatients; 75% had been bothered by pain within the last 3 months and about half of these had pain every day. Pain was most frequent in patients with neurosis and personality disorder. The occurrence of pain was significantly associated with unskille...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jensen J

更新日期：1988-08-01 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:At least 50% of bipolar disorder (BD) patients have an additional diagnosis, one of the most difficult to manage being obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Defining the nosology of BD-OCD comorbidity has important clinical implications, given that treatments for OCD can worsen BD outcomes. METHOD:A systemati...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Amerio A,Odone A,Liapis CC,Ghaemi SN

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attitude of the medical profession to psychiatry carries important implications for the quality of personnel attracted into the specialty and for the treatment, in a general medical setting, of patients with mental disorders. This article examines the components of doctors' attitudes and reviews the literature wit...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Buchanan A,Bhugra D

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00