Synaesthesia and major affective disorder.

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：OBJECTIVE:To identify the population-level first- and second-order effects among candidate correlates of labour force activity by people with ICD-10 depression and anxiety disorders. METHOD:Australian Bureau of Statistics multistage sampling strategies obtained a household sample of 37,580 individuals. Analyses were c...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Waghorn G,Chant D

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder. Its prevalence appears inconsistent in different regions of China; thus, we conducted this meta-analysis to estimate the prevalence of schizophrenia in mainland China. METHOD:Studies on the prevalence of schizophrenia in mainland China were identified from electroni...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Long J,Huang G,Liang W,Liang B,Chen Q,Xie J,Jiang J,Su L

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low levels of platelet monoamine oxidase have been found in schizophrenic and bipolar depressive patients. The enzyme activity seems to correlate negatively with certain personality traits (social activity, sensation seeking, hypomania, positive affect and monotony avoidance) which are correlated to some extent with t...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gattaz WF,Beckmann H

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the impact of tobacco, alcohol and cannabis on metabolic profile and cardiovascular risk in bipolar patients. METHOD:Naturalistic, cross-sectional, multicenter Spanish study. Current use of tobacco, alcohol and cannabis was determined based on patient self-reports. Metabolic syndrome was defined ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Garcia-Portilla MP,Saiz PA,Benabarre A,Florez G,Bascaran MT,Díaz EM,Bousoño M,Bobes J

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a material of 71 patients admitted because of acute or chronic psychoses, 32 were treated with sulpiride (up to 1,800 mg per day) and 39 with chlorpromazine (up to 675 mg). Duration of treatment was from 4 to 8 weeks. The effect of the two preparations was very similar as were the type and frequency of side effects...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bratfos O,Haug JO

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective study a number of women and their husbands were interviewed early on in the pregnancy, in the week after delivery and again 4 months later. The couvade syndrome, in which the father-to-be suffers from somatic symptoms of psychogenic origin connected in some way with his wife's pregnancy, was investiga...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bogren LY

更新日期：1983-07-01 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：:The aim of this study was to investigate whether there is any correlation between negative experiences in early infancy and the later occurrence of psychiatric disorders. The subjects in this study were a cohort of 2,215 adoptees born 1930-1949. Information about the probands' early experiences has been obtained from ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： von Knorring AL,Bohman M,Sigvardsson S

更新日期：1982-04-01 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：:The pathophysiology behind the abnormalities of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal cortex axis found in patients with major depressive disorder was studied by the use of the vasopressin test. The response of plasma adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) and cortisol to the injection of 10 IU lysine-vasopressin (LVP) was investiga...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Akner G,Ljunggren JG,Kjellman BF,Undén F,Wetterberg L

更新日期：1988-04-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To identify psychopathological predictors for suicide in a population of major depressed Diagnostic Statistical Manual-III (DSM-III) in-patients. METHOD:A total of 210 previous participants in multicentre antidepressant drug trials, carried out in a randomized double-blind design, were followed prospectively...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hansen PE,Wang AG,Stage KB,Kragh-Sorensen P,Danish University Antidepressant Group.

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：:Trends in death rates from all suicides and specific methods of suicide in Italy over the period 1955-79 were analysed on the basis of age-specific and age-standardised rates, and through a log-linear Poisson model to isolate the effects of age, birth cohort and calendar period. In both sexes, a large decrease in mort...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： La Vecchia C,Bollini P,Imazio C,Decarli A

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty Kenyan 'psychotic' patients were screened using the New Haven Schizophrenic Index (NHSI) and were all studied for hallucinations using standardised definitions. Fifty-one of the patients were NHSI positive and the rest NHSI negative. Sixty-one percent of the NHSI positive had hallucinations in one or more modal...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ndetei DM,Singh A

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 103 schizophrenic patients we investigated the extent of practice needed in the use of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) to enable its reliability to be assessed. The agreement level of the 7 raters was analysed. Generally, the lowest mean agreement found was for the negative symptoms of the BPRS schizophre...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Andersen J,Kørner A,Larsen JK,Schultz V,Nielsen BM,Behnke K,Munk-Andersen E,Bjørum N

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a double-blind study the effects of a 14-day lithium medication (dosage: 24 mval/day to 36 mval/day) were investigated. The subjects were 24 healthy male volunteers. The effect of lithium on their mood, ability to learn nouns, and memory of the words learnt was measured after 2 hours and 14 days. In spite of a rela...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kropf D,Müller-Oerlinghausen B

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence of depression in a community with 15 000 inhabitants in Brazil (Bambuí). METHOD:The Composite International Diagnostic Interview was applied in a random sample of 1041 residents aged 18+ years. RESULTS:The ICD-10 1-month, 1-year and lifetime prevalences of depression were 8.2% (9...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Vorcaro CM,Lima-Costa MF,Barreto SM,Uchoa E

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study was carried out on 30 patients suffering from a psychotic episode following a stressful life event. They were found to have an Emotional, Timid, Sensitive, Tense and Insecure personality. Sleep disturbance, Affective symptoms, Histrionic behaviour and Excitement were the common clinical features. S...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Pandurangi AK,Kapur RL

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the outcome of a sequential treatment protocol in elderly, severely depressed in-patients. METHOD:All 81 patients from a 12-week double-blind randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing venlafaxine with nortriptyline were asked to participate in a 3 year follow-up study. Thirty-two patients who did ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kok RM,Nolen WA,Heeren TJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 8-week multidimensional program of behavioral management, cognitive restructuring, and assertiveness training was administered to depressed outpatients either individually with a single therapist (n = 12), in two small groups (n = 11), or one large group (n = 11), or as bibliotherapy (n = 12). A randomly assigned w...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Schmidt MM,Miller WR

更新日期：1983-05-01 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：:The subjective quality of life (QOL) (i.e. individual evaluation of one's life experiences) has been studied according to a series of different parameters such as resource availability, and sociodemographic and clinical variables, at times yielding contradictory results. Subjective quality of life and standard of life...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Carpiniello B,Lai GL,Pariante CM,Carta MG,Rudas N

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We examine the safety and efficacy of venlafaxine monotherapy in bipolar type II (BP II) patients with major depressive episode (MDE) who were unresponsive to prior lithium monotherapy. We hypothesized that venlafaxine would be superior to lithium with a low hypomanic conversion rate. METHOD:Seventeen patien...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Amsterdam JD,Wang G,Shults J

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increased death rate has been found in patients treated in hospital for neurosis but the reasons for this are not known. A case note study is described in which 37 patients who were treated in hospital for neurosis and subsequently died are compared with a cross-matched sample of treated neurotics who were alive at...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Sims AC,Rudge BJ

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A psychiatric study of 197 children living in villages outside Khartoum was made in 1964-1965. In 1983, 104 randomly chosen subjects were investigated again. All were interviewed by a psychiatrist and somatically examined. The overall psychiatric impairment was 14% (males, 18%; females, 8%) according to the psychiatri...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Cederblad M,Rahim SI

更新日期：1989-06-01 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：: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