A double-blind study of alprazolam and oxazepam in the treatment of anxiety.

abstract：:This is a clinical study of 80 patients, diagnosed as suffering from hysteria, who attended the psychiatric clinic in Khartoum Hospital over a period of 3 years. The incidence of hysteria was 10%, the female-male ratio 15:1, and young age-groups predominate. 60% were essentially of normal personality. The clinical pic...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hafeiz HB

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine whether bipolar disorder patients who stop cannabis use during a manic/mixed episode have better clinical and functional outcomes than continued use or never use. METHOD:Data from the European Mania in Bipolar Longitudinal Evaluation of Medication (EMBLEM), a 2-year prospective observational study...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Zorrilla I,Aguado J,Haro JM,Barbeito S,López Zurbano S,Ortiz A,López P,Gonzalez-Pinto A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare neurological soft signs (NSS) in patients of schizophrenia with onset in childhood (COS), adolescence (AdOS) and adulthood (AOS). METHOD:Assessment of NSS in 15 patients of COS and 20 patients each of AdOS and AOS was made using condensed neuropsychiatric examination for NSS. RESULTS:NSS were sig...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Biswas P,Malhotra S,Malhotra A,Gupta N

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It seems odd that male suicide rates have decreased in Portugal over the last few years, whereas the opposite has happened in most other countries. In order to investigate the reasons for such a decrease, suicide rates were compared with controversial cases (ICD-9 category E 980-989) and with homicide rates. The resul...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： de Castro EF,Pimenta F,Martins I

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the long-term social function of psychiatric patients with anxiety and depressive disorders and to relate this to personality status and other factors. METHOD:A cohort of 210 patients (mean age 35 years) with dysthymic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder or panic disorder diagnosed using a st...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Seivewright H,Tyrer P,Johnson T

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sleep deprivation (SD) is an antidepressant intervention with multiple administration formats that has been investigated primarily with uncontrolled clinical trials and qualitative reviews of the literature. The validity and applicability of these findings to the treatment of bipolar depression (BPD) is unce...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gottlieb JF,Goel N,Chen S,Young MA

更新日期：2020-11-15 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：:This article is based on intensive interviews made with 75 Turkish migrant women living in Denmark. The interviews were conducted in the women's own homes, in their own language, and special care was taken to establish an atmosphere of confidence. The methodological problems involved in this kind of research are discu...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mirdal GM

更新日期：1985-03-01 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：:A study sample of 51 patients with acute and transient psychotic disorder (ATPD) (ICD-10) is presented. The findings suggest that, in hospital settings, ATPD is a non-frequent condition with onset in early adult life and most often associated with female sex, good premorbid social functioning and no or minor/moderate ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jørgensen P,Bennedsen B,Christensen J,Hyllested A

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of 430 patients treated for depressive illness, at the Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Aro, Abeokuta, Nigeria, has been reviewed. Psychotherapy particularly with tricyclic antidepressants and electroconvulsive therapy were the main methods of treatment, but neuroleptics and anxiolytics were frequently prescr...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Makanjuola JD,Oyerogba KO

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional brain glucose metabolism was determined in 9 male alcohol-dependent inpatients and 12 male healthy controls. All the patients were socially impaired by the alcohol abuse. All the subjects had abstained from alcohol and drugs for more than four weeks before entering the study. Brain glucose metabolism was dete...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Wik G,Borg S,Sjögren I,Wiesel FA,Blomqvist G,Borg J,Greitz T,Nybäck H,Sedvall G,Stone-Elander S

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven psychotic inpatients (two women and five men) aged between 18 and 74 years, treated with neuroleptic and antiparkinson drugs, participated in a double-blind study with 1/3 DDD (Defined Daily Dose) of procyclidine, orphenadrine, or trihexyphenidyl hydrochloride against placebo. Euphoric effects were scored on a s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Vågen R,Götestam KG

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examined the co-occurrence of anxiety/mood and personality disorders (PDs) in substance abusers, the impact of anxiety/ mood disorders on the symptom profiles of PDs, and the impact of anxiety/mood disorders and PDs on pre-treatment status. METHOD:Current anxiety/mood disorders and PDs and pre-tre...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Verheul R,Kranzler HR,Poling J,Tennen H,Ball S,Rounsaville BJ

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-six patients who had hypochondriacal neurosis for 6 months or longer were treated with individual psychotherapy which focused predominantly on presenting complaints, fears and beliefs. Antianxiety drugs were used at times of anxiety. Sixty-four percent either recovered or improved to the extent that they no lon...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kellner R

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether patients with a diagnosis of affective disorder are at an increased risk of developing Parkinson's disease compared with medically ill control groups. METHOD:By linkage of public hospital registers from 1977 to 1993, three study cohorts were identified: patients with affective disorder...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nilsson FM,Kessing LV,Bolwig TG

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-seven patients with the diagnosis of senile dementia and 70 children aged 6 months to 4 years were observed in three tasks that stimulated exploratory behavior. The subjects were rated according to the frequencies of certain forms of behavior in 52 variables. It was assumed that certain behavior would be more f...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jonsson CO,Edin P,Söderberg S,Waldton S

更新日期：1976-04-01 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：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：:Evidence from follow-up studies concerned with the mortality of epilepsy suggests the suicide rate is increased. The risk of suicide seems to be higher from temporal lobe epilepsy, for epilepsy with a greater degree of handicap and in the early years of the condition. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Barraclough BM

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) has been translated into Swedish and tested in 88 chronic schizophrenic patients. All 4 subscales exhibited a roughly normal distribution. The overall alpha for the positive, negative and general psychopathology subscales were 0.81, 0.58 and 0.63, respectively. The corr...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： von Knorring L,Lindström E

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to ascertain whether suicide victims had ever been in contact with a primary health-care centre, a psychiatric out-patient treatment centre or any form of institutional psychiatric care, and whether there had been any change in such patterns over time. The results show an increase in the numb...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hydén LC

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:302 mentally retarded adults, sampled by epidemiological criteria, were examined with regard to epilepsy and psychiatric disorder. Each of the complications was frequent and related to degree and origin of mental retardation. In 55 (18.2%) epilepsy had occurred at some time during their lives, in 25 (8.3%) of these in...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lund J

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the number of attempts it took before patients with a first episode of psychosis received adequate help, the signs or symptoms that led them to seek help and the people from whom they attempted to seek help. METHOD:Subjects were 86 individuals with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder, mainly schiz...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Addington J,Van Mastrigt S,Hutchinson J,Addington D

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency (ATD) predisposes the individual for serious lung disease in adulthood. The identification of ATD by neonatal screening was hypothesized to have negative long-term effects on the parents' attitudes and feelings associated with the child. This hypothesis was tested by comparing these atti...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： McNeil TF,Thelin T,Aspegren-Jansson E,Sveger T

更新日期：1986-10-01 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：:The relation between age at onset of schizophrenia diagnosed using DSM-III criteria and the presence or absence of this illness among first-degree relatives was investigated in 2417 patients. The mean age at onset among those with a family history of schizophrenia was slightly and nonsignificantly earlier than that of...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Shimizu A,Kurachi M,Yamaguchi N,Torii H,Isaki K

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin B12 levels in the serum and the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) were compared between patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and senile dementia of Alzheimer's type (SDAT) (AD group) and patients with multi-infarct dementia (MID group). The B12 levels in the serum and the CSF were 742 +/- 359 pg/ml and 28 +/- 7 pg/m...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ikeda T,Furukawa Y,Mashimoto S,Takahashi K,Yamada M

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There is conflicting data on drug abuse and outcome in severe mental illness. This study aims to investigate if the amount of illicit psychoactive drug use is related to symptom load or premorbid functioning across diagnosis in patients with severe mental illness. METHOD:Symptom load, sociodemographic status...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ringen PA,Melle I,Birkenaes AB,Engh JA,Faerden A,Vaskinn A,Friis S,Opjordsmoen S,Andreassen OA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland resulted in a nationwide quarantine on March 27, 2020. This study represents the first assessment of rates of anxiety and depression in the general population of Ireland during the pandemic. AIMS:Our first aim was to estimate the probable prevalence rates of generalized anxi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hyland P,Shevlin M,McBride O,Murphy J,Karatzias T,Bentall RP,Martinez A,Vallières F

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00