Suicide as a crime in the UK: legal history, international comparisons and present implications.

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：OBJECTIVE:The first objective is to detail the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) over a decade of follow-up for those in both study groups. The second is to determine time-to-remission, recurrence, and new onset of PTSD, and the third is to assess the relationship between sexual adversity and the like...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Zanarini MC,Hörz S,Frankenburg FR,Weingeroff J,Reich DB,Fitzmaurice G

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of 430 patients treated for depressive illness, at the Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Aro, Abeokuta, Nigeria, has been reviewed. Psychotherapy particularly with tricyclic antidepressants and electroconvulsive therapy were the main methods of treatment, but neuroleptics and anxiolytics were frequently prescr...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Makanjuola JD,Oyerogba KO

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A psychiatric study of 197 children living in villages outside Khartoum was made in 1964-1965. In 1983, 104 randomly chosen subjects were investigated again. All were interviewed by a psychiatrist and somatically examined. The overall psychiatric impairment was 14% (males, 18%; females, 8%) according to the psychiatri...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Cederblad M,Rahim SI

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a catchment area study of 101 first inceptions of schizophrenia, mania and atypical psychoses, women were significantly more likely to have atypical psychosis and men were more likely to have definite schizophrenia. Negative symptoms such as affective flattening and poverty of speech were already present in many ca...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ring N,Tantam D,Montague L,Newby D,Black D,Morris J

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a 5-year follow-up study of 76 patients in a crisis intervention ward who were suffering from an adjustment reaction (brief or prolonged depressive reaction) according to ICD-9 criteria indicate a rather favorable course and outcome using standardized instruments. Only 17% developed a chronic or severe ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bronisch T

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We describe a case of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) following the use of physical restraint in a patient with a diagnosis of acute delusional psychotic disorder. METHOD:A new case report of DVT and PE associated with prolonged physical restraint is presented. The literature on phys...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Laursen SB,Jensen TN,Bolwig T,Olsen NV

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:419 patients in Sri Lanka, 150 patients in U.K. and 172 patients in Canada who were suffering from "Functional Psychoses" were interviewed using the Present State Examination to elicit Schneider's First Rank Symptoms (FRS). Nationality and ethnicity were found to be significant variables associated with lower prevalen...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Chandrasena R

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Prevalence rates for dissociative disorders among psychiatric in-patients vary widely. The aim of this meta-analysis is to offer an explanation for these differences. METHOD:Prevalence studies using a clinical diagnostic interview among psychiatric in-patients were included. Hypotheses concerning the impact ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Friedl MC,Draijer N,de Jonge P

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isocarboxazide has been used as long-term treatment for a selected group of 20 depressive patients, of whom some 90% (17/19) were non-responders to treatment with tricyclic antidepressants. At the follow-up the median duration of illness was 162 months, and the median duration of treatment was 42 months. Side-effects ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Larsen JK,Rafaelsen OJ

更新日期：1980-11-01 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：:A retrospective study of factors predicting readmissions and follow-up treatment was undertaken of all first-ever episodes of inpatient care (age under 65), excluding psychotic and organic mental disorders, during 1987 and 1988 in University Psychiatric Clinic in Turku City Hospital, Finland. The cohort consisted of 6...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Korkeila JA,Karlsson H,Kujari H

更新日期：1995-08-01 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：: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：:Zuclopenthixol decanoate (ZPT-D) and haloperidol decanoate (HAL-D) were compared in the maintenance treatment of chronic schizophrenic patients. All patients were treated with either ZPT-D or HAL-D for at least 3 months and were then randomly allocated to treatment with either ZPT-D (100-600 mg every 4 weeks) or HAL-D...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Wistedt B,Koskinen T,Thelander S,Nerdrum T,Pedersen V,Mølbjerg C

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify the early signs of mood disorder development, specifically bipolar disorder (BD), in a population at familial risk for BD. METHOD:The sample included 107 Dutch adolescent bipolar offspring (age 12-21) followed into adulthood (age 22-32). Lifetime DSM-IV axis I diagnoses were examined at baseline,...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mesman E,Nolen WA,Keijsers L,Hillegers MHJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between serum cholesterol and a number of measures of impulsiveness and aggression was examined in 38 prepubertal, psychiatrically hospitalized children. Although care was taken to use reports and direct observations of both variables within 2 weeks of admission and 8 weeks later, no consistent relati...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rao U,Carlson GA,Rapport MD

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have suggested that arylsulphatase A (ASA - the biochemical marker of metachromatic leucodystrophy) deficiency may be present in a sizeable proportion of patients with chronic psychosis. This study surveyed leucocyte ASA activity in a group of chronic psychotic patients and compared ASA activity in 3 ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Heavey AM,Philpot MP,Fensom AH,Jackson M,Crammer JL

更新日期：1990-07-01 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：: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：:Fifty-eight consecutive suicides committed between 1984 and 1987 by adolescents and young adults (age 15-29 years) in an urban community were the subject of retrospective investigations by means of interviews with survivors. The outcome of the survivors' crisis reactions and the interviewees' capacity to participate i...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Runeson B,Beskow J

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients receiving lithium who had noticed changes in hair texture since starting that drug, described variously as hair losing its curl or wave, have a greater lithium concentration in hair than patients on lithium with no such complaints. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： McCreadie RG,Farmer JG

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pedigrees of manic-depressive patients in treatment at the Lithium Clinic of the Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Cagliari, were evaluated for linkage between major affective illness and the protan-deutan-glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase region of the X-chromosome. Two informative pedigrees were foun...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Del Zompo M,Bocchetta A,Goldin LR,Corsini GU

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the effects of psychological treatments specifically developed for depression. Promising and durable results have been reported for cognitive and interpersonal psychotherapies but also for behavioral psychotherapy, which has generated less research interest so far. The therapeutic effects seem to ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Stravynski A,Greenberg D

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-five DSM-III-diagnosed schizophrenics and 37 normal and age-matched controls were examined using an oddball paradigm for the generation of P300 and smooth eye-pursuit tasks. Results were compared between groups and related to clinical characteristics, including a family history of psychiatric illness. Group dif...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ebmeier KP,Potter DD,Cochrane RH,Mackenzie AR,MacAllister H,Besson JA,Salzen EA

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Remitted bipolar disorder (BD) patients frequently present with chronic mood instability and emotional hyper-reactivity, associated with poor psychosocial functioning and low-grade inflammation. We investigated emotional hyper-reactivity as a dimension for characterization of remitted BD patients, and clinica...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Dargél AA,Roussel F,Volant S,Etain B,Grant R,Azorin JM,M'Bailara K,Bellivier F,Bougerol T,Kahn JP,Roux P,Aubin V,Courtet P,Leboyer M,FACE-BD Collaborators.,Kapczinski F,Henry C

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There is conflicting data on drug abuse and outcome in severe mental illness. This study aims to investigate if the amount of illicit psychoactive drug use is related to symptom load or premorbid functioning across diagnosis in patients with severe mental illness. METHOD:Symptom load, sociodemographic status...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ringen PA,Melle I,Birkenaes AB,Engh JA,Faerden A,Vaskinn A,Friis S,Opjordsmoen S,Andreassen OA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients attending a clinic were ascertained for psychiatric morbidity by a general practitioner and reascertained by a psychiatrist. The agreement ranged from 84% for neurosis and 60% for psychosis. The differences were mainly due to a lack of the depression category in the general practitioner's classification. One ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Binitie A

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aims of this study were (i) to assess the inter-rater reliability of the latest Italian expanded 24-item version of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, BPRS version 4.0 and (ii) to assess the feasibility of obtaining reliable BPRS 4.0 ratings by reliability training of clinically less experienced trainees...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Roncone R,Ventura J,Impallomeni M,Falloon IR,Morosini PL,Chiaravalle E,Casacchia M

更新日期：1999-09-01 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