Lithium augmentation in sertraline-resistant depression: a preliminary dose-response study.

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：:Our clinical experience that lithium is an agent used infrequently for self-poisoning was investigated. The rate at which such overdoses occurred was determined from hospital records. A retrospective case notes study then compared overdose rates in patients taking lithium versus patients on antidepressant medication. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Waddington D,McKenzie IP

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attitude of the medical profession to psychiatry carries important implications for the quality of personnel attracted into the specialty and for the treatment, in a general medical setting, of patients with mental disorders. This article examines the components of doctors' attitudes and reviews the literature wit...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Buchanan A,Bhugra D

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There is a high prevalence of depression in south Asian women. We aimed to examine the association between antenatal depression and low birthweight (LBW) in infants in a rural community in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. METHOD:A total of 143 physically healthy mothers with ICD-10 depression in the third trimester of ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rahman A,Bunn J,Lovel H,Creed F

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author describes a 22-year-old male who suffered from chronic severe Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis (OCN) complicated by frequent depressive episodes. Administering the monoamine oxidase inhibitor phenelzine in high dosage led to complete alleviation of his depression in 10 weeks, and 3 weeks afterwards the OCN was...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mahgoub OM

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the capacity of several thyroid-axis measures to distinguish between depressed and control subjects and determined whether these variables were related to antidepressant treatment response. We studied 105 subjects who fulfilled the DSM-III-R criteria for a current major depressive episode and 41 volunt...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Sullivan PF,Wilson DA,Mulder RT,Joyce PR

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The role of baseline severity as effect modifier in various psychiatric disorders is a topic of controversy and of clinical import. This study aims to examine whether baseline severity modifies the efficacy of various antidepressants for major depression through individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Furukawa TA,Maruo K,Noma H,Tanaka S,Imai H,Shinohara K,Ikeda K,Yamawaki S,Levine SZ,Goldberg Y,Leucht S,Cipriani A

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：:A self-assessment scale has been developed and found to be a reliable instrument for detecting states of depression and anxiety in the setting of an hospital medical outpatient clinic. The anxiety and depressive subscales are also valid measures of severity of the emotional disorder. It is suggested that the introduct...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Zigmond AS,Snaith RP

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of recent research reports have reported significant relationships between seasonal mood change (seasonality) and personality. However, some of the results are difficult to interpret because of inherent methodological problems, the most important of which is the use of samples drawn from the southern as oppos...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jang KL,Lam RW,Livesley WJ,Vernon PA

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

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：:Eight panic disorder patients participated in a double-blind placebo-controlled infusion study designed to induce panic-anxiety in the laboratory both before and after treatment with tricyclic antidepressants. Pre-infusion heart rates for the first infusion were significantly higher than baseline both before and after...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Yeragani VK,Rainey JM,Balon R,Berchou R,Lycaki H,Pohl R

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The neurotransmitter serotonin (5-HT) has been linked to the underlying biological processes related to aggressive behaviour. However, only a few studies on this subject involving young people have been published so far. METHOD:We aimed to investigate the effects of acute tryptophan depletion (ATD) on reacti...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kötting WF,Bubenzer S,Helmbold K,Eisert A,Gaber TJ,Zepf FD

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to reveal the relationship between family expressed emotion (EE) and family evaluation for symptoms and social adjustment of schizophrenic patients. Chronic schizophrenic outpatients in offshore islands under stationary therapeutic conditions were studied. For evaluation, the Five Minute S...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Otsuka T,Nakane Y,Ohta Y

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

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：:Screening tests for the detection of physical illness in 650 newly admitted psychiatric patients were examined critically. Almost 17% of these investigations were found to be abnormal and certain high risk groups were identified. These included patients suffering from significant weight loss, substance abuse, disorien...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ferguson B,Dudleston K

更新日期：1986-11-01 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：: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：:Hopelessness has not been adequately studied in first-episode psychotic patients, although it is already present at the early stages, especially in schizophrenic patients. We have studied 96 neuroleptic-naive psychotic patients (49 schizophrenic patients and 47 other non-affective psychotic patients) over a period of ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Aguilar EJ,Haas G,Manzanera FJ,Hernández J,Gracia R,Rodado MJ,Keshavan MS

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergency Psychiatric Service of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Athens is the only referral service for the emergency psychiatric cases coming from the Athens greater area. During 1981 2,169 patients used the Service. The relations of socio-demographic and resource factors of the 26 districts of the...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Vaslamatzis G,Kontaxakis V,Markidis M,Katsouyanni K

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether a 24-week, needs-based cognitive-behaviourally oriented family intervention for patients suffering from schizophrenia led to improved relapse profiles over a 5-year follow-up period. METHOD:The case notes of 60 patients who had participated in a randomized, controlled effectiveness trial...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Sellwood W,Wittkowski A,Tarrier N,Barrowclough C

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Behaviour therapy with exposure and response prevention (ERP) or cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) including ERP are considered the psychological treatments of choice for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), but group CBT/ERP has received relatively little research attention in the treatment of OCD. The aim...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jónsson H,Hougaard E

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：OBJECTIVE:About one-third of patients referred to services for people at high risk for psychosis may have already developed a first episode of psychosis (FEP). We compared clinical outcomes in FEP patients who presented to either high risk or conventional mental health services. METHOD:Retrospective study comparing du...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Fusar-Poli P,Díaz-Caneja CM,Patel R,Valmaggia L,Byrne M,Garety P,Shetty H,Broadbent M,Stewart R,McGuire P

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Review of recent literature with emphasis on growth, development and epidemiology of eating disorders and diabetes reveals many common features of the conditions. Thus we hypothesize more concurrence than would occur by chance alone. At present epidemiological evidence is inconclusive, but prevalence of eating disorde...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nielsen S,Børner H,Kabel M

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is considered a multidimensional disorder, with distinct symptom clusters including re-experiencing, avoidance/numbing, hyperarousal, and most recently depersonalization/derealization. However, the extent of differing intrinsic network connectivity underlying these sympto...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Tursich M,Ros T,Frewen PA,Kluetsch RC,Calhoun VD,Lanius RA

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：:This report aims at alerting the clinician to the existence of rapid cycling depression in adolescence. The importance of integrating psychodynamic, social and pharmacological modalities in evaluation and treatment is emphasized. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Spurkland I,Vandvik IH

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The construction of the clinical category dysmorphophobia (now known as body dysmorphic disorder) resulted from the historical convergence of a neologism (coined by Enrico Morselli), a family of clinical concepts (already available during the late 19th century), and a specifiable behaviour (an 'attitude' towards part ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Berrios GE,Kan CS

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We examine the safety and efficacy of venlafaxine monotherapy in bipolar type II (BP II) patients with major depressive episode (MDE) who were unresponsive to prior lithium monotherapy. We hypothesized that venlafaxine would be superior to lithium with a low hypomanic conversion rate. METHOD:Seventeen patien...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Amsterdam JD,Wang G,Shults J

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00