Personality in unipolar and bipolar manic-malancholic patients.

abstract：:The aim of the study was to differentiate bipolar II, bipolar I and recurrent unipolar depression by their familial load for affective disorders. Eighty bipolar, 108 unipolar, 80 control subjects and interviewed first-degree relatives were diagnosed according to Research Diagnostic Criteria using the Schedule for Affe...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Heun R,Maier W

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Lifetime and 12-month prevalence of traumatic events and DSM-IV post-traumatic stress disorder as well as risk factors and comorbidity patterns were investigated in a representative community sample (n = 3021, aged 14-24 years). METHOD:Traumatic events and PTSD were assessed with the Munich Composite Interna...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Perkonigg A,Kessler RC,Storz S,Wittchen H -U

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Sanfilippo B is a rare autosomal recessive mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS IIIB) caused by a deficiency of N-acetyl-alpha-D-glucosaminidase (NAGLU). METHOD:A mild mentally retarded elderly female patient is described with a slowly progressive dementia who had given birth to a daughter who developed normally. RES...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Verhoeven WM,Csepán R,Marcelis CL,Lefeber DJ,Egger JI,Tuinier S

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the question of whether "mixed" bipolar disorder is a distinct entity, we compared selected cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biochemical parameters from patients with bipolar disorder, mixed, to those with mania and major depression. Fourteen patients in each category (DSM-III) were studied with regard to CSF HVA...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Tandon R,Channabasavanna SM,Greden JF

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EEG and EMG were monitored simultaneously at 72 ECT sessions in 18 patients. When EMG was recorded from the leg the duration of EMG curve convulsions varied between 43 and 89% of the EEG recorded seizure duration of the same fit. The EMG/EEG seizure ratio varied widely among different patients as well as within the si...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Sørensen P,Bolwig TG,Lauritsen B,Bengtson O

更新日期：1981-09-01 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：:The dexamethasone suppression test (DST) was investigated in 45 female anorectic out-patients (cross sectional study) nine of whom were followed serially as in-patients (longitudinal study). DST non-suppression was strongly associated with negative energy balance (low body weight and low Ponderal Index) but there was ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Abou-Saleh MT,Oleesky D,Crisp AH,Lacey JH

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Depression in bipolar disorder (BipD) requires a therapeutic approach that is from treating unipolar major depressive disorder (UniD), but to date, no reliable methods could separate these two disorders. The aim of this study was to establish the clinical validity and utility of a non-invasive functional MRI-...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Li M,Das T,Deng W,Wang Q,Li Y,Zhao L,Ma X,Wang Y,Yu H,Li X,Meng Y,Palaniyappan L,Li T

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one borderline patients (in accordance with Gunderson) who had committed suicide were compared with matched borderline patients who stayed alive. The suicide group had more frequent childhood loss, lack of treatment contact before hospitalization, longer hospitalization, and they were more frequently discharged...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kjelsberg E,Eikeseth PH,Dahl AA

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy Japanese DSM-III-R schizophrenic patients were assessed for 30 clinical symptoms using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) of Kay et al. Principal component analysis was applied to the full item set of this scale and disclosed 5 orthogonal independent symptom groups: negative, hostile/excited, tho...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kawasaki Y,Maeda Y,Sakai N,Higashima M,Urata K,Yamaguchi N,Kurachi M

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between brain density, measured by computerized tomography (CT), and severity of depression was investigated in 44 patients with a major depressive episode according to DSM-III. In order to limit methodological problems, correlations between both the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) and the Bech-...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Schlegel S

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a randomized double-blind study with parallel group design involving 60 anxious psychoneurotic outpatients, the anxiolytic activity of alprazolam was compared with that of oxazepam. Following a 4 to 7-day placebo washout period, both groups showed a similar and significant response to treatment during the 4-week ac...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Väisänen E,Jalkanen E

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature is reviewed on EEG alpha activity in different psychological states, i.e., morbid anxiety, attention and mental relaxation. In the present study, 20 male neurotic inpatients suffering from chronic moderate anxiety were assessed with respect to anxiety level and EEG alpha activity (frequency and per cent...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Siciliani O,Schiavon M,Tansella M

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One stage case-identification method, using the Arabic Version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD) was applied in a pilot study for estimating the prevalence of depressive and anxiety disorders among a group of Saudi primary care attenders. The validity of the Arabic Version of the HAD scale was previou...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： el-Rufaie OE,Albar AA,Al-Dabal BK

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumoencephalography (PEG) was carried out in 50 patients of both sexes consecutively discharged from a psychiatric department with a diagnosis of acute schizophrenia. At clinical follow-up with a mean observation time of 8 years the diagnosis was verified in 38 patients, while 12 were considered to have had a reacti...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Haug JO

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic relationship has been considered an important ingredient of all psychotherapies. In communities in which no familiar conventions of such a relationship are available, the therapeutic encounter poses very different problems from those in the West, where such conventions freely prevail. This study has been c...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Neki JS,Joinet B,Hogan M,Hauli JG,Kilonzo G

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of suicide among the nonnomadic Gypsies in three counties in Hungary revealed that they had a lower completed suicide rate but a higher attempted suicide rate than ethnic Hungarians. The rate of attempted suicide appeared to be higher in the younger, partially assimilated Gypsies as a result of the conflict be...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Zonda T,Lester D

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a sample of the Finnish general population (n=4868), 2.4% of women and 2.3 % of men reported having thought about suicide during the preceding 12 months. The prevalence of parasuicide was correspondingly 0.9% in women and 1.1% in men, higher figures than have previously been found or estimated. Most suicidal indivi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hintikka J,Viinamäki H,Tanskanen A,Kontula O,Koskela K

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)-induced hippocampal volume change (HVC) has been repeatedly described in recent years. The similar time course of HVC and ECT-related cognitive effects suggest a relation, that is to date, understudied. This study investigates whether HVC following ECT predicts the change in me...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Laroy M,Bouckaert F,Vansteelandt K,Obbels J,Dols A,Emsell L,Stek M,Vandenbulcke M,Sienaert P

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article considers the nosology and taxonomy of psychiatric disorders in Sushruta Samhita, an ancient Indian treatise on medicine. Some implications of this treatise for modern psychiatry are discussed. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Haldipur CV

更新日期：1989-08-01 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：: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：:The families of 11 probands with Pick's disease as determined by histopathological examination, were investigated by interview and acquisition of medical records. The estimated morbid risk was 0.25 +/- 0.08 for parents and 0.07 +/- 0.07 for siblings or probands. Further analyses are presented that seek associations be...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Heston LL

更新日期：1978-03-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To examine the risk factors for suicidal behaviour in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive patients. METHOD:HIV substance dependent positive patients who had attempted suicide were compared with HIV substance dependent positive patients who had never attempted suicide for suicide risk factors. RESULT...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Roy A

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Most rating scales for bipolar disorders (BDs) do not encompass the spectrum of symptomatology now established as characterizing the illness. We report the rationale, format, reliability and initial validity studies of the Bipolar Inventory of Symptoms Scale (BISS), a 44-item scale designed to encompass the s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bowden CL,Singh V,Thompson P,Gonzalez JM,Katz MM,Dahl M,Prihoda TJ,Chang X

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Dark-skinned immigrants have a higher risk for schizophrenia and other psychoses than other immigrants. The first British studies reported that first-generation immigrants (FGIs) from the Caribbean presented atypical psychoses. This study examines the characteristics of psychotic episodes in black FGIs to Can...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Dealberto MJ

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficacy and side effects of flurazepam 15 mg, fosazepam 60 mg, and nitrazepam 5 mg were studied in 17 psychogeriatric patients. The drugs were equipotent in maintaining sleep but nitrazepam had more side effects than the other hypnotics, and it induced a rebound insomnia after withdrawal. All hypnotics lost some of t...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Viukari M,Linnoila M,Aalto U

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now generally recognized that dopamine receptors exist in the CNS as different subtypes: D1 receptors, associated with adenylyl cyclase activity, and D2 receptor, uncoupled to a cyclic AMP generating system. In order to understand the role of D1 and D2 receptors in the antipsychotic action of neuroleptics, we ha...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Memo M,Battaini F,Spano PF,Trabucchi M

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00