Diagnosis of killers seen for psychiatric assessment. A controlled study.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The impact of religious/spiritual activities on clinical outcomes in patients with serious mental illnesses remains controversial, which was addressed in this international cross-sectional study. METHOD:Three-hundred sixty-nine subjects were recruited from Austria (n = 189) and Japan (n = 180), consisting of...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mizuno Y,Hofer A,Frajo-Apor B,Wartelsteiner F,Kemmler G,Pardeller S,Suzuki T,Mimura M,Fleischhacker WW,Uchida H

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-seven, out of a sample of 100 elderly subjects, all suffering from dementia, were found to have delusions. The delusions were more common in women, in patients with a history of psychiatric illness, and amongst those with higher information subscores (Blessed Scale); and were less common in patients suffering f...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Berrios GE,Brook P

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a short, 5-item measure of the core symptoms of depression based on the 16-item Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology - Self-Report (QIDS-SR16 ) and to evaluate psychometric properties of this new measure (Very Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology - Self-Report: VQIDS-SR5 ). METHOD:...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： De La Garza N,John Rush A,Grannemann BD,Trivedi MH

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-blind study was carried out to compare the efficacy and tolerability of nomifensine and amitriptyline in 17 Malaysian patients with moderate to severe depression. The two drugs did not differ with regard to antidepressant effect but nomifensine-treated subjects report fewer side-effects with no complaints of ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ong SB,Lee CT

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonidine (0.15 mg intravenously), an alpha-adrenergic receptor agonist, was administered to 13 male chronic schizophrenics, who had been withdrawn from chronic neuroleptic therapy, and to 18 normal male controls. There was no significant difference in growth hormone (GH) response between the two groups. There was no ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lal S,Nair NP,Thavundayil JX,Monks RC,Guyda H

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To update evidence from studies on family intervention in schizophrenia looking carefully at methodological issues. METHOD:Twenty-five studies were reviewed, using specific outcome criteria, and computing effect sizes whenever possible. RESULTS:Effect on relapse is relatively well assessed, although differe...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Barbato A,D'Avanzo B

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety men between the ages of 20 to 65 were studied to investigate the relationships between stress, depression and psychogenic pain. Three groups (the coronary heart disease (CHD) group; the left-sided psychogenic chest pain (LPCP) group; and the control group) comprising 30 patients per group, each completed the So...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Naidoo P,Patel CJ

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an open study of 12 inpatients who met the DSM-III criteria for a major depressive episode, the effects of clomipramine (CI) on the monoamine metabolites 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA), homovanillic acid (HVA), 4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl glycol (HMPG) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) were measured simultaneously wi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mårtensson B,Wägner A,Beck O,Brodin K,Montero D,Asberg M

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study adult mental health in offspring of mothers who experienced severe puerperal disorder. METHOD:Mothers, followed up a mean of 23 years after puerperal disorder requiring hospitalization, were interviewed regarding adult psychiatric illness, childhood neurotic symptoms and conduct problems of 48 offsp...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Abbott R,Dunn VJ,Robling SA,Paykel ES

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine factors contributing to variance in functional outcome in first-episode psychosis (FEP) following 1 year of treatment. METHOD:Naturalistic 1-year follow-up of a FEP cohort (n = 200), from programs in four university centers in Ontario, Canada. Functional recovery was defined by 'Social and Occupat...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Menezes NM,Malla AM,Norman RM,Archie S,Roy P,Zipursky RB

更新日期：2009-08-01 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 symptom disorder and personality disorder according to DSM-III was studied in 289 consecutive outpatients. It was observed that personality disorders occurred frequently among the chronic affective and anxiety disorders. The "dramatic" personality disorders were observed especially frequently ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Alnaes R,Torgersen S

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of mental disorders in a representative sample of old people in Gothenburg, Sweden, was studied at 70, 75 and 79. The study comprised 392 subjects at 70, 302 subjects at 75 and 203 at 79. A case was defined by cut-off points on symptom and sign rating scales, and diagnoses were defined operationally as ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nilsson LV,Persson G

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of the extent of homelessness among 1581 psychiatric patients in Copenhagen found that 342 patients (22%) in contact with the psychiatric services had serious housing problems. A total of 112 (7%) were long-stay patients without a home address, 134 (8%) were in an unstable housing situation and 96 (6%) were ac...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nordentoft M,Knudsen HC,Schulsinger F

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report examines the comorbidity among three key symptoms associated with suicidal intent, namely hopelessness, depression and unusual thinking. A total of 97 out-patients with suicidal thoughts were assessed using the Beck Hopelessness Scale, the anxious depression and unusual thinking factor scales of the Deroga...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mendonca JD,Holden RR

更新日期：1998-02-01 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:The objective of the European Schizophrenia Outpatient Health Outcomes (SOHO) study is to understand the comparative costs and outcomes of antipsychotic drug treatment, with specific focus on olanzapine. The study will also provide a large database for research into the treatment and outcome of schizophrenia....

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Haro JM,Edgell ET,Jones PB,Alonso J,Gavart S,Gregor KJ,Wright P,Knapp M,SOHO Study Group.

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The follow-up since 1989 of a large sample of multigenerational families of eastern Québec that are densely affected by schizophrenia (SZ) or bipolar disorder (BP) has permitted to look at the rates of DSM diagnoses in the young offspring of a SZ parent (HRSZ) and of a BP parent (HRBP) who had an extremely lo...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Maziade M,Gingras N,Rouleau N,Poulin S,Jomphe V,Paradis ME,Mérette C,Roy MA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Negative symptoms of schizophrenia are a common, enduring, and debilitating component of the psychopathology of schizophrenia. Although efforts thus far to elucidate a distinct schizophrenia subtype based upon negative symptoms have yielded mixed results, there are nevertheless neurobiological correlates of t...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Stahl SM,Buckley PF

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：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：OBJECTIVE:There is ongoing concern about the possible negative impact of ECT on neurocognitive functioning in older patients. In this study, we aimed to characterize the long-term cognitive effects of ECT in patients with late-life depression, using an extensive neuropsychological battery. METHODS:A total of 110 patie...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Obbels J,Verwijk E,Vansteelandt K,Dols A,Bouckaert F,Schouws S,Vandenbulcke M,Emsell L,Stek M,Sienaert P

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Relocations after disasters are known to cause added distress in survivors. This study examined the effects of migration and other factors on psychological status of survivors 4 years after the two severe earthquakes in Turkey. METHOD:Five hundred and twenty-six adult survivors of the 1999 earthquakes curren...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kiliç C,Aydin I,Taşkintuna N,Ozçürümez G,Kurt G,Eren E,Lale T,Ozel S,Zileli L

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date there has been no agreement with regard to the criteria that define refractory schizophrenia. In this study, we intended to clarify the criteria which psychiatrists use to judge schizophrenic patients as being refractory in Japan. Based on 258 schizophrenic in-patients (ICD-10) and their likelihood of discharg...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hori A,Tsunashima K,Takekawa Y,Ishihara I,Terada T,Uno M

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a study of drug treatment of aggressive behavior to be reported separately, we have evaluated the double-blind procedure in a recently completed comparison of the efficacy of lithium carbonate versus placebo in modifying aggressive behavior in nonpsychotic incarcerated delinquents. We conclude that the side...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Marini JL,Sheard MH,Bridges CI,Wagner E

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Case notes of patients from nine different cultural groups admitted to a London hospital were scrutinized for religious background and religious phenomenology. With the exception of preaching behaviour there were no statistically significant cultural differences, but certain trends were apparent. The pattern of religi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ndetei DM,Vadher A

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the prescription of aripiprazole, compared with olanzapine and haloperidol, was associated with a lower frequency of metabolic syndrome (MS) and treatment discontinuation at 1 year. METHOD:Patients were randomly assigned to be treated open-label and according to usual clinical practice w...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Parabiaghi A,Tettamanti M,D'Avanzo B,Barbato A,GiSAS study group.

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological correlates of suicide were explored for the counties of Hungary and the states of the United States. Only one common correlate was identified (divorce rates). The remaining social indicators that were associated with suicide rates in the United States were not associated with suicide rates in Hungary. The i...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lester D,Moksony F

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper an account is given of the effect of single-night sleep deprivation (SD) therapy in 124 depressive patients of different diagnostic groups. Phasic depressives showed a marked improvement after treatment by sleep deprivation. Because these improvements were often of short duration, we repeated the treatme...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Pflug B

更新日期：1976-02-01 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