Offspring of women with nonorganic psychosis: fear of strangers during the first year of life.

abstract：:Prior reviews indicate that schizophrenics tend to be born in the winter, relative to non-psychiatric controls. This conclusion has been criticized, however, as the association between birth seasonality and schizophrenia may be the result of a statistical artifact, the age-incidence effect. To examine this possibility...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

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

更新日期：1992-11-01 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：:Survival analysis of suicide risk by sex and age after attempted suicide was studied in a cohort of 1573 suicide attempters referred to the psychiatric emergency room at the Karolinska Hospital from 1981 to 1988. The time course of suicide risk and the overall prognosis after attempted suicide and, in particular, the ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nordström P,Samuelsson M,Asberg M

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study, was to compare the prevalence of sleeping problems in two ethnically different populations living under the same extreme arctic climate. A total of 453 Norwegians (319 males and 134 females) were compared with 450 Russians (317 males and 133 females), all aged 18 years or older, living on Svalba...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nilssen O,Lipton R,Brenn T,Höyer G,Boiko E,Tkatchev A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We followed the prescription of psychotropic drugs by primary health care physicians over a 3-year period. The material consisted of 1000 randomly selected adult primary health care patients. At least one psychotropic drug was prescribed to one third (n = 307) of the sample during the follow-up period. The most common...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Joukamaa M,Sohlman B,Lehtinen V

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tardive dyskinesia (TD) is a syndrome of involuntary movements that develops in predisposed individuals during neuroleptic drug treatment, with an average prevalence of 15%. Neuroleptic (antidopaminergic) drugs are the predominant etiological factor. Although no simple correlation can be established, both dosage and t...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gerlach J,Casey DE

更新日期：1988-04-01 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：: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：: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：:Gender discriminating vocabulary tests administered to a consecutive series of 53 male transsexuals show different results. The Slater Selective Vocabulary Test, Cohen's factors and the Terman-Miles Attitude Interest Analysis Test (M-F) show male transsexuals to have a higher degree of feminization than normal control...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kenna JC,Hoenig J

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the relationships between pre- and postdexamethasone hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis functioning in depression, we measured the levels of baseline and postdexamethasone urinary free cortisol (UFC), plasma cortisol, adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and beta-endorphin. We found that dexamethas...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Maes M,Vandervorst C,Suy E,Minner B,Raus J

更新日期：1991-06-01 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：:Thirty-nine phobic patients from India were compared with 39 similarly diagnosed age and sex matched patients from the United Kingdom. The British sample contained significantly more patients with agoraphobia and social phobia compared to the Indian group. Sudden death and illness phobias were more frequent in the Ind...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Chambers J,Yeragani VK,Keshavan MS

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of zotepine in the treatment of acute episodes of schizophrenia. METHOD:Patients with acute exacerbation of schizophrenia (DSM-III-R criteria; n = 158) were allocated on a random, double-blind basis to receive zotepine (150 or 300 mg/day), chlorpromazine (30...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Cooper SJ,Tweed J,Raniwalla J,Butler A,Welch C

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information processing models are influenced by the information sciences and by computer technology, which progressed in the 1960s and 1970s. During the last decade these models have formed the theoretical basis for much of the experimental research on cognitive dysfunctions in psychiatric patients. An essential eleme...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rund BR,Landrø NI

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible hypersecretion involvement of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) in the pathophysiology of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis disturbances in patients with major depressive episode and with an abnormal dexamethasone suppression test (DST) was investigated. The corticotropin (ACTH) and cortisol ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Thalén BE,Kjellman BF,Ljunggren JG,Akner G,Kågedal B,Wahlund B,Wetterberg L

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate factors determining severely mentally ill patients' self-rated quality of life. The study hypothesized that objective life circumstances, personality, self-variables, and psychopathology would be determinants of quality of life. METHOD:A total of 117 individuals with schizophrenia and related ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Eklund M,Bäckström M,Hansson L

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：: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：: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：:In order to evaluate the effect of training primary health care (PHC) physicians to recognize mental disorders, an intervention randomized controlled trial was conducted. Three categories of PHC physicians were selected: the index group (n = 12 doctors), control group 1 (n = 12) and control group 2 (n = 4). For 1 week...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Al-Faris E,Al-Subaie A,Khoja T,Al-Ansary L,Abdul-Raheem F,Al-Hamdan N,Al-Mazrou Y,Abdul-Moneim H,El Khwsky F

更新日期：1997-12-01 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：:The purpose of the present study is to determine the frequency of polypharmacy among psychiatric patients in Helsinki, and to ascertain whether this practice is supported by clinical trials. The drugs prescribed in 1 day to a sample of patients (n = 694) in mental hospitals and outpatient clinics in Helsinki were stud...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hemminki E

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a highly effective and well-tolerated therapy for severe and treatment-resistant depression. Cognitive side-effects are still feared by some patients and clinicians. Importantly, cognitive impairments are among the most disabling symptoms of depression itself. METHODS:Patie...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Biedermann SV,Bumb JM,Demirakca T,Ende G,Sartorius A

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1983-1984 the Swedish Committee for the Prevention and Treatment of Depression launched an educational program on the diagnosis and treatment of depressive disorders for all general practitioners on the island of Gotland. The baseline year chosen was 1982 and the immediate effects were evaluated in 1985. In 1988 th...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rutz W,Carlsson P,von Knorring L,Wålinder J

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Studies from three independent laboratories report varying relationships between electrodermal hyporeactivity and suicidal behavior in depressed patients. The aims of this study were to explain that variation, to assess the discriminative validity of electrodermal hyporeactivity for suicide and suicide attemp...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Thorell LH

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：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

abstract：:The efficacy and the safety of moclobemide (400-600 mg/day), a reversible and selective inhibitor of monoamine oxidase-A (RIMA) and of clomipramine (100-150 mg/day) were compared respectively in 98 and 93 nonmelancholic, nonpsychotic out-patients with a DSM-III major depressive episode over 6 weeks and up to 3 months,...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lecrubier Y,Pedarriosse AM,Payan C,Schmid-Burgk W,Stabl M

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have repeated, on the average 29.7 years later, Rorschach test in 11 schizophrenic men and 19 schizophrenic women. This work was carried out in the course of a follow-up study of schizophrenics more than 65 years of age. Analysis of the records showed that the only differences between the first and second ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Müller C,Le-Dinh T

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00