Clonazepam/haloperidol combination therapy in schizophrenia: a double blind study.

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：: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：:Sleep disturbances commonly occur in the premenstruum in both Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) patients and in women from the general population. Reports on the Post-Sleep Inventory were obtained from a clinic sample of PMS patients and samples from the general population dichotomized into a non-clinic group with and witho...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mauri M,Reid RL,MacLean AW

更新日期：1988-07-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Exploration of academic and creative potentials of first-degree relatives of hospital-treated psychotic patients in Iceland. METHOD:Relatives identified in a previously published family study of psychosis are evaluated, using records available at the National Archives and National Library in Reykjavik. Perfo...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Karlsson JL

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between brain density, measured by computerized tomography (CT), and severity of depression was investigated in 44 patients with a major depressive episode according to DSM-III. In order to limit methodological problems, correlations between both the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) and the Bech-...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Schlegel S

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one borderline patients (in accordance with Gunderson) who had committed suicide were compared with matched borderline patients who stayed alive. The suicide group had more frequent childhood loss, lack of treatment contact before hospitalization, longer hospitalization, and they were more frequently discharged...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kjelsberg E,Eikeseth PH,Dahl AA

更新日期：1991-09-01 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：:Speech recordings were made of 16 depressed patients during depression and after clinical improvement. The recordings were analyzed using a computer program which extracts acoustic parameters from the fundamental frequency contour of the voice. The percent pause time, the standard deviation of the voice fundamental fr...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nilsonne A

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By means of a psychiatric case register the total psychiatric population in the Nacka region (75,000 inhabitants) was analysed during a 2-year period with regard to the amount of psychotherapy consumed in different social groups. Among the patients, the utilization of psychotherapy was 60% for social group I compared ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Cullberg J,Stefansson CG

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified version of the revised Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire (PDQ-R), based on DSM-III-R personality disorders (PD), was completed by 74 psychiatric patients. A factor analysis of the scores for each of the PD (i.e. of the number of positive DSM-III-R criteria for each of the PD) yielded 3 factors that defin...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Dowson JH,Berrios GE

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aims of this study were (i) to assess the inter-rater reliability of the latest Italian expanded 24-item version of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, BPRS version 4.0 and (ii) to assess the feasibility of obtaining reliable BPRS 4.0 ratings by reliability training of clinically less experienced trainees...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Roncone R,Ventura J,Impallomeni M,Falloon IR,Morosini PL,Chiaravalle E,Casacchia M

更新日期：1999-09-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To review the evidence from empirical studies regarding the validity of 'post-traumatic stress disorder with secondary psychotic features' (PTSD-SP) as a separate diagnostic entity. METHOD:The authors performed a review tracing publications between 1980 and January 2008. RESULTS:Twenty-four comparative stud...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Braakman MH,Kortmann FA,van den Brink W

更新日期：2009-01-01 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

abstract：:In a randomized double-blind study with parallel group design involving 60 anxious psychoneurotic outpatients, the anxiolytic activity of alprazolam was compared with that of oxazepam. Following a 4 to 7-day placebo washout period, both groups showed a similar and significant response to treatment during the 4-week ac...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Väisänen E,Jalkanen E

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beck's Depression Inventory was administered in a study of all students aged 16-17 years in the first year of high school in a Swedish town, and was completed by 93% of them (n = 2270). Cronbach's reliability coefficient alpha was 0.89, and there were strong correlations between item scores and total scores. A diagnos...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Olsson G,von Knorring AL

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the associations between the Rust Inventory of Schizotypal Cognitions (RISC) and psychotic symptoms measured by the Present State Examination (PSE) and to assess the predictive validity of the RISC for later onset of schizophrenia. METHOD:A total of 154 subjects at high risk for schizophrenia but ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Miller PM,Lawrie SM,Byrne M,Cosway R,Johnstone EC

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bright-light therapy is widely regarded as an effective treatment for winter seasonal affective disorder (SAD). We attempted to identify predictors of light therapy response in 54 depressed, drug-free outpatients diagnosed with SAD by DSM-III-R criteria. After a baseline week, patients were treated for 2 weeks with 25...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lam RW

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebrospinal fluid levels of radioreceptor assayable insulin-like growth factors (RRA-IGFs) and immunoreactive somatomedin B (SMB) (RIA-B) were determined in apparently healthy individuals and in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (AD). The CSF levels of RIA-B and RRA-IGFs did not alter from the healthy con...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Tham A,Sparring K,Bowen D,Wetterberg L,Sara VR

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to test the hypothesis of "schizophrenic spectrum" disorders. The families of 60 process schizophrenics were systematically interviewed with structured interview forms, and evaluated for psychiatric illness according to strict diagnostic criteria. The interviewed persons were then separa...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Fowler RC,Tsuang MT,Cadoret RJ,Monnelly E

更新日期：1975-03-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Many anti-stigma programmes use the 'mental illness is an illness like any other' approach. This review evaluates the effectiveness of this approach in relation to schizophrenia. METHOD:The academic literature was searched, via PsycINFO and MEDLINE, to identify peer-reviewed studies addressing whether public...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Read J,Haslam N,Sayce L,Davies E

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：: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：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：:Difficulties surrounding the meaning of insight in psychiatry have led to neglect of its assessment in clinical practice. A study is described in which an insight scale was constructed and tested in a sample of 43 patients suffering from schizophrenia or depression. The results showed that the insight instrument was a...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Marková IS,Berrios GE

更新日期：1992-08-01 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：:We investigated the capacity of several thyroid-axis measures to distinguish between depressed and control subjects and determined whether these variables were related to antidepressant treatment response. We studied 105 subjects who fulfilled the DSM-III-R criteria for a current major depressive episode and 41 volunt...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Sullivan PF,Wilson DA,Mulder RT,Joyce PR

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between childhood social adjustment and personality and adult social adjustment and symptoms in a population of schizophrenic patients. Adult social adjustment was assessed in 43 patients by means of the Social Adjustment Scale Self-Report, and symptoms were asses...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： MacEwan TH,Athawes RW

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00