Mental health delivery-systems and post-treatment performance in Nigeria.

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：OBJECTIVE:The primary aim of the study was to compare the effectiveness of group and individual cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). METHOD:One hundred and ten out-patients with OCD were randomly assigned to 15 sessions of either group CBT or individual CBT. Outcome measures were ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jónsson H,Hougaard E,Bennedsen BE

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mild form of neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) in a schizophrenic patient who was receiving a depot neuroleptic is described and beneficial response to oral diazepam 50 mg daily is reported. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kontaxakis VP,Christodoulou GN,Markidis MP,Havaki-Kontaxaki BJ

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebrospinal fluid levels of radioreceptor assayable insulin-like growth factors (RRA-IGFs) and immunoreactive somatomedin B (SMB) (RIA-B) were determined in apparently healthy individuals and in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (AD). The CSF levels of RIA-B and RRA-IGFs did not alter from the healthy con...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Tham A,Sparring K,Bowen D,Wetterberg L,Sara VR

更新日期：1988-06-01 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：:Psychological autopsies are an important research tool in establishing risk factors associated with suicide. We report the results of a validity study comparing psychological autopsy-generated DSM-III-R diagnoses in suicides and non-suicides with chart diagnoses generated by clinicians who had treated the subjects pri...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kelly TM,Mann JJ

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bond's Defense Style Questionnaire was administered to control subjects from the general population (n = 50) and to psychiatric outpatients with neurosis (n = 42), high-level personality disorder (n = 37) and low-level personality disorder (n = 22). Factor analysis yielded 4 defense styles ranging on a continuum from ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Sammallahti P,Aalberg V,Pentinsaari JP

更新日期：1994-10-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to relate measures of psychoanalytically derived personality traits to descriptive diagnosis and psychopathology in severe mental disorders. METHOD:Sixty-one consecutive first-episode patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and severe major depression were interviewed. Persona...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Heikkilä J,Karlsson H,Taiminen T,Lauerma H,Ilonen T,Leinonen KM,Wallenius E,Virtanen H,Heinimaa M,Kaljonen A,Salokangas RK

更新日期：2004-03-01 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

abstract：OBJECTIVE:'Crisis cards' state patients' treatment details and preferences in anticipation of a later occasion when the patient might be too ill to express them directly. We assessed the feasibility of introducing 'crisis cards', or a collaborative form of them, 'joint crisis plans', into a sectorized community psychia...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Sutherby K,Szmukler GI,Halpern A,Alexander M,Thornicroft G,Johnson C,Wright S

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify the population-level first- and second-order effects among candidate correlates of labour force activity by people with ICD-10 depression and anxiety disorders. METHOD:Australian Bureau of Statistics multistage sampling strategies obtained a household sample of 37,580 individuals. Analyses were c...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Waghorn G,Chant D

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven patients with DSM-III-R major depression who were treatment-resistant to sertraline were allocated for lithium augmentation therapy. In conjunction with their sertraline, 6 received lithium carbonate 400 mg at night and 5 received 800 mg at night. A total of 7 patients responded within 1 week. The degree of res...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Dinan TG

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the renal function (urine volume, glomerular filtration rate, urinary osmolality and proteinuria) of 50 patients chronically treated with lithium carbonate for major affective disorder. No patient had any alteration in the parameters considered. No relationship was found between any of the parameters s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Conte G,Vazzola A,Sacchetti E

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There has been increasing concern about extensions to the definition of 'clinical' depression, but little evident investigation as to how clinical and non-clinical depressive states might best be differentiated. This review considers the potential of many candidate symptom and non-symptom parameters. METHOD:...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Parker G,Paterson A

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This multicenter, multinational, cross-sectional study aimed to investigate clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes associated with augmentation/combination treatment strategies in major depressive disorder (MDD). METHOD:Sociodemographic, clinical, and treatment features of 1410 adult MDD patients we...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Dold M,Bartova L,Mendlewicz J,Souery D,Serretti A,Porcelli S,Zohar J,Montgomery S,Kasper S

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Research suggests that group psychotherapy for adults with a history of child sexual abuse (CSA) is generally beneficial. Only few studies have included random assignment. This study compared the effects of analytic (A) and systemic group psychotherapy (S) on CSA. METHOD:One hundred and fifty-one women with ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lau M,Kristensen E

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify risk factors associated with cycle acceleration (CA), that is, progressive decrease in duration of syndrome-free intervals between affective episodes, in acutely admitted patients with bipolar disorder (BD). METHOD:All patients (n = 210) with BD I (67%) and BD II (33%) (DSM-IV) acutely admitted t...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Finseth PI,Morken G,Malt UF,Andreassen OA,Vaaler AE

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent discussions on euthanasia the question about mercy killing without consent of mentally ill persons has turned up, particularly in cases of hopeless suffering among senile or chronically insane patients. Possible analogies to the actions under the German Nazi-regimen and relations to the concept of Social Dar...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lauter H,Meyer JE

更新日期：1982-02-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To date only five reports of neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) related to olanzapine exist. The first case report was published in November 1998. METHOD:We report the case of a 78-year-old woman suffering from chronic schizophrenia who developed a NMS while being treated with olanzapine and levomepromazin...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Järventausta K,Leinonen E

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Difficulties surrounding the meaning of insight in psychiatry have led to neglect of its assessment in clinical practice. A study is described in which an insight scale was constructed and tested in a sample of 43 patients suffering from schizophrenia or depression. The results showed that the insight instrument was a...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Marková IS,Berrios GE

更新日期：1992-08-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Renewed insight into dose-related effects of sertindole and haloperidol was sought by re-analysing published data for antipsychotic effect, extrapyramidal effect, and patient wellbeing - i.e., the important pharmacopsychometric triangle domains. METHOD:Selected Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) su...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bech P,Tanghøj P,Andreasson K,Overø KF

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To combine the results of earlier comparison studies of in-patient aggression to quantitatively assess the strength of the association between patient factors and i) aggressive behaviour,ii) repetitive aggressive behaviour. METHOD:A systematic review and meta-analysis of empirical articles and reports of com...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Dack C,Ross J,Papadopoulos C,Stewart D,Bowers L

更新日期：2013-04-01 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:In the last decade, several studies have suggested that depression is accompanied by increased oxidative stress and decreased antioxidant defenses. We tested the hypothesis that high levels of the antioxidant uric acid are associated with lower risk of hospitalization with depression and use of prescription a...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Wium-Andersen MK,Kobylecki CJ,Afzal S,Nordestgaard BG

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Cognitive reserve (CR) refers to the brain's capacity to cope with pathology in order to minimize the symptoms. CR is associated with different outcomes in severe mental illness. This study aimed to analyze the impact of CR according to the diagnosis of first-episode affective or non-affective psychosis (FEP)...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Amoretti S,Cabrera B,Torrent C,Mezquida G,Lobo A,González-Pinto A,Parellada M,Corripio I,Vieta E,de la Serna E,Butjosa A,Contreras F,Sarró S,Penadés R,Sánchez-Torres AM,Cuesta M,Bernardo M,PEPsGroup.

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the 1980's literature on gender differences in schizophrenia outcome. Neuroleptic response, long-term course, and housing, appear to be superior in women. Mortality ratios are advantageous to schizophrenic men. After menopause, women may require higher neuroleptic doses than men and are more at ri...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Seeman MV

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Case of an interstitial deletion of the long arm of chromosome 21 presenting with first episode of psychosis. METHOD:A case report. RESULTS:A 16-year-high school student of Somalian origin presented with a first episode of psychosis, mild mental retardation and dysmorphic features. Chromosome analysis revea...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Takhar J,Malla AK,Siu V,MacPherson C,Fan YS,Townsend L

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00