Management of depressive illness in a Nigerian neuro-psychiatric hospital.

abstract：:This article reviews the effects of psychological treatments specifically developed for depression. Promising and durable results have been reported for cognitive and interpersonal psychotherapies but also for behavioral psychotherapy, which has generated less research interest so far. The therapeutic effects seem to ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Stravynski A,Greenberg D

更新日期：1992-06-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To assess the methodological value of studies that signaled one or more selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) as teratogenic agents. METHOD:Medical literature, published in English (1980-November 2010), was searched using MEDLINE/PubMed, TOXNET, EMBASE, and The Cochrane Library to identify all arti...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gentile S

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To compare the service use and costs of individuals who have a dual diagnosis of psychosis and substance abuse with those who have a diagnosis of psychosis but no substance abuse. METHOD:Patients with psychosis were identified and a representative sample were interviewed. Six-month service use was measured a...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： McCrone P,Menezes PR,Johnson S,Scott H,Thornicroft G,Marshall J,Bebbington P,Kuipers E

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1814 patients were studied from the Mississippi State Hospital with a DSM-III diagnosis of schizophrenia and aged 15-39 years at the time of admission. The 634 schizophrenics with a birth date between 1 December and 31 March were compared with the 1180 born between 1 April and 30 November for age of admissi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rodrigo G,Lusiardo M,Briggs G,Ulmer A

更新日期：1991-10-01 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 provide a clinically useful analysis of the relationship between selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), in particular fluoxetine and violent or suicidal behaviour. METHOD:All published papers on Medline and other databases linking serotonin, SSRIs and aggression were reviewed. RESULTS:A small p...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Walsh MT,Dinan TG

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 'short family therapy' in schizophrenia, according to a specific systemic model (the 'Elementary Pragmatic Model' or EPM) with a strong paradoxical structure is presented. A total of 38 schizophrenic patients, randomly allocated, were treated according to the EPM model combined with psychotropic drugs (19 cases, eac...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： De Giacomo P,Pierri G,Santoni Rugiu A,Buonsante M,Vadruccio F,Zavoianni L

更新日期：1997-03-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The study aimed to characterize neuropsychiatric symptomatology and its evolution in a large group of poststroke patients during their first year. METHOD:The Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) was administered to a sample of 124 poststroke patients, divided into three independent groups on the basis of time fr...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Angelelli P,Paolucci S,Bivona U,Piccardi L,Ciurli P,Cantagallo A,Antonucci G,Fasotti L,Di Santantonio A,Grasso MG,Pizzamiglio L

更新日期：2004-07-01 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 Hamilton Rating Scale for depression (HDRS) has become the standard observer rating scale for depression, yet there are no adequate data from normal samples. The present study was carried out in northern Italy. The purposes were 1) to examine the ratings in normals and 2) to examine the scale's validity in the dif...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Fava GA,Kellner R,Munari F,Pavan L

更新日期：1982-07-01 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：: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：:The study comprises a retrospective evaluation of the case records of 49 first-admission patients with acute reactive paranoid psychosis and of the subsequent follow-up almost 10 years later, with special reference to clinical and social course and outcome. Ten of the 41 followed-up patients were diagnosed schizophren...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jørgensen P

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation studied by direct interviews in a randomly selected sample of 58 Swedish unbroken families, factors of importance for the father's experience of his preschool child. The father's experience of his child was shown to correlate with the child's experience of him. Fathers experiencing their child in a ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nettelbladt P,Uddenberg N,Englesson I

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine secular trends in the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VD) in a general Japanese population. METHOD:Four cross-sectional examinations were conducted among residents of a Japanese community aged >or=65 in 1985, 1992, 1998 and 2005. RESULTS:The age- and sex-adjusted pre...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Sekita A,Ninomiya T,Tanizaki Y,Doi Y,Hata J,Yonemoto K,Arima H,Sasaki K,Iida M,Iwaki T,Kanba S,Kiyohara Y

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a review article parental losses (PL) of children in different age and sex groups are psycho-analytically examined from the view point of the triangular family relationship, cognitive development of the children and their ability to mourn, delinquency, schizophrenia and affective illnesses, and lastly the controver...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Laajus S

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent interest in community care of schizophrenic patients has led to publication of a number of studies that deal with patients' rehabilitation in their families. Joint efforts of psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers have produced a number of techniques for collaboration with families of schizophrenic pat...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： el-Islam MF

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Examine the effects of obesity and metabolic syndrome on outcome in bipolar disorder. METHOD:The Comparative Effectiveness of a Second Generation Antipsychotic Mood Stabilizer and a Classic Mood Stabilizer for Bipolar Disorder (Bipolar CHOICE) study randomized 482 participants with bipolar disorder in a 6-mo...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： McElroy SL,Kemp DE,Friedman ES,Reilly-Harrington NA,Sylvia LG,Calabrese JR,Rabideau DJ,Ketter TA,Thase ME,Singh V,Tohen M,Bowden CL,Bernstein EE,Brody BD,Deckersbach T,Kocsis JH,Kinrys G,Bobo WV,Kamali M,McInnis MG

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present evaluation focused on the inter-rater reliability of single items and subscales of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) before and after a standardized rater training. The results of two independent studies comprising n=23 (study I) and n=12 (study II) psychiatrists and videotaped interviews wi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Müller MJ,Wetzel H

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is little information about hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis function in mania, particularly in mixed states. We therefore investigated HPA function and its relationship to clinical state in 19 hospitalized manic patients meeting Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia - Research Diagn...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Swann AC,Stokes PE,Casper R,Secunda SK,Bowden CL,Berman N,Katz MM,Robins E

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of double blind trial in which 139 patients with primary depression were randomly assigned to either lofepramine (46), imipramine (48), or placebo (45) are discussed. After treatment with either active drug, lofepramine or imipramine, the clinical outcome was significantly greater than with placebo. No sig...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Feighner JP,Meridith CH,Dutt JE,Hendrickson GG

更新日期：1982-08-01 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：:Resting and pre-infusion heart rates recorded in 66 panic disorder patients revealed no significant differences between panickers and nonpanickers. There was also no significant difference in pre-fusion heart rates between either lactate or isoproterenol panickers and placebo nonpanickers. There was neither a sensitiz...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Yeragani VK,Pohl R,Rainey JM,Balon R,Ortiz A,Lycaki H,Gershon S

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apomorphine HC1 (2 mg subcutaneously), a dopamine receptor agonist, was administered to two schizophrenic patients with catalepsy. In one of these patients the clinical response to apomorphine was compared with that of sodium amytal and the growth hormone response apomorphine (0.75 mg subcutaneously) was compared with...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Cervantes P,Lal S,Smith F,Guyda H

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To combine the results of earlier comparison studies of in-patient aggression to quantitatively assess the strength of the association between patient factors and i) aggressive behaviour,ii) repetitive aggressive behaviour. METHOD:A systematic review and meta-analysis of empirical articles and reports of com...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Dack C,Ross J,Papadopoulos C,Stewart D,Bowers L

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：:In eight bipolar depressives, 11 unipolar depressives, and 15 healthy controls urinary excretion of MHPG was measured at 3-h intervals over one 24-h period. Bipolars excreted smaller amounts of MHPG than unipolars and controls, especially at night. MHPG excretion was significantly dependent on time of day in the contr...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Giedke H,Gaertner HJ,Mahal A

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00