Schizophrenia: a study comparing a family therapy group following a paradoxical model plus psychodrugs and a group treated by the conventional clinical approach.

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：:One hundred people with autistic disorder (DSM-III-R) without a known cause who comprised a total population of children with autism were compared with "autistic-like" children, Asperger syndrome and age-matched comparison children from the general population and were examined with regard to month of birth. There was ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gillberg C

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resting and pre-infusion heart rates recorded in 66 panic disorder patients revealed no significant differences between panickers and nonpanickers. There was also no significant difference in pre-fusion heart rates between either lactate or isoproterenol panickers and placebo nonpanickers. There was neither a sensitiz...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Yeragani VK,Pohl R,Rainey JM,Balon R,Ortiz A,Lycaki H,Gershon S

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：:Using a Lovibond flexible fibro-optic tintometer, no differences of skin pigmentation were found between chronic male schizophrenic patients untreated with phenothiazines, and non-schizophrenics. No differences were found between chronic male schizophrenics receiving phenothiazines and those not so treated. This latte...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Patch IC

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The associations between milieu therapists' feelings towards patients and the unit's psychological climate were studied at 21 small treatment homes for severely disturbed psychiatric patients. The milieu therapists filled out self-report instruments where they rated their feelings towards patients on a feeling-word ch...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Holmqvist R,Fogelstam H

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to identify psychopathological factors associated with long-term functional outcome in euthymic bipolar disorder patients and to test new measures of mood instability and symptoms intensity. METHOD:Fifty-five patients with more than 12 months of follow-up were included. In addition ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Strejilevich SA,Martino DJ,Murru A,Teitelbaum J,Fassi G,Marengo E,Igoa A,Colom F

更新日期：2013-09-01 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 3-year urban material of suicides in adolescents and young adults (age 15-29 years) was studied retrospectively by means of interviews with survivors (n = 58). Classification of mental disorders according to DSM-III-R showed that major depression was important as background to suicides in 41%, primary (22%) or secon...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Runeson B

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the long-term effectiveness of the second generation antipsychotics, risperidone and olanzapine on hospitalization, clinical response, and adherence to therapy after switching from conventional antipsychotics or clozapine in a naturalistic setting of schizophrenic patients. METHOD:Data were regis...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Søholm B,Lublin H

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional brain glucose metabolism was investigated in healthy volunteers (n = 10) and in drug free schizophrenic patients (n = 20). The metabolism was determined by positron emission tomography (PET) with 11C-glucose as the tracer. Diagnosis of schizophrenia was made according to RDC and DSM III. Eight patients had th...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Wiesel FA,Wik G,Sjögren I,Blomqvist G,Greitz T,Stone-Elander S

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two groups of former depressed Italian patients comprising 54 bipolars and 52 unipolars completed the Italian version of the EMBU, a Swedish instrument aimed at assessing the experience of parental rearing behaviour. As in a previous study of Swedish depressives, three factors, "rejection", "emotional warmth", and "ov...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Perris C,Maj M,Perris H,Eisemann M

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Bright light therapy in seasonal affective disorder (SAD) has been studied extensively. However, little attention has been given to subsyndromal seasonal affective disorder (SSAD) or the use of bright light in the workplace. Many patients using bright light boxes complain of the inconvenience of use. Much of ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Avery DH,Kizer D,Bolte MA,Hellekson C

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiology behind the abnormalities of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal cortex axis found in patients with major depressive disorder was studied by the use of the vasopressin test. The response of plasma adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) and cortisol to the injection of 10 IU lysine-vasopressin (LVP) was investiga...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Akner G,Ljunggren JG,Kjellman BF,Undén F,Wetterberg L

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between age at onset of schizophrenia diagnosed using DSM-III criteria and the presence or absence of this illness among first-degree relatives was investigated in 2417 patients. The mean age at onset among those with a family history of schizophrenia was slightly and nonsignificantly earlier than that of...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Shimizu A,Kurachi M,Yamaguchi N,Torii H,Isaki K

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate morbidity during long-term follow-up with clinical treatment of affective and schizoaffective disorder subjects followed from hospitalization for first major psychotic episodes. METHODS:We followed adult subjects systematically at regular intervals from hospitalization for first-lifetime episodes...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Salvatore P,Khalsa HK,Tohen M,Baldessarini RJ

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroleptic side-effects adversely affect clinical outcome in schizophrenic patients. Clinicians therefore require an understanding of the impact of such side-effects. This study compared psychiatrists' estimates of the prevalence of neuroleptic side-effects and associated distress with schizophrenic patients' reports...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Day JC,Kinderman P,Bentall R

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports a true prevalence study of demoralization conducted in a kibbutz. This commune, which assures its members all their instrumental needs throughout the individual life span, is probably one of the few of its kind in the world. All adult members (n = 353) of a kibbutz affiliated with the most orthodo...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gilboa S,Levav I,Gilboa L,Ruiz F

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We set forth to build a prediction model of individuals who would develop bipolar disorder (BD) using machine learning techniques in a large birth cohort. METHODS:A total of 3748 subjects were studied at birth, 11, 15, 18, and 22 years of age in a community birth cohort. We used the elastic net algorithm wit...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rabelo-da-Ponte FD,Feiten JG,Mwangi B,Barros FC,Wehrmeister FC,Menezes AM,Kapczinski F,Passos IC,Kunz M

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：:The relationship between patients with acute major depression and chronic affective disorders was investigated in 298 nonpsychotic outpatients. The patients were categorized into 4 groups: major depression only, major depression with dysthymic or cyclothymic disorders, dysthymic or cyclothymic disorder without major d...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Alnaes R,Torgersen S

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 1,040 consecutive male criminals remitted for mental examination nine had the karyotype 47,XYY, one 48,XXYY and eleven 47,XXY. The types of crime in the XYY men were much like those in the XXY men, the proportion of sexual crimes possibly being greater than among other criminal offenders. The reasons for these f...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Schröder J,de la Chapelle A,Hakola P,Virkkunen M

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine whether attributional style is a stable pattern in somatizers, to analyse the sociodemographic and psychopathological characteristics that can modify it, and to study the relationship between attributional pattern and outcome. A total of 147 somatizers and 46 psychologizers from ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： García-Campayo J,Larrubia J,Lobo A,Pérez-Echeverría MJ,Campos R

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within a sample of 88 pregnant women with a history of nonorganic psychosis, mental health characteristics during pregnancy, assessed prospectively through interviews and psychiatric records, were studied in relationship to the development of 25 postpartum psychotic episodes (PPPs) occurring during the first 6 months ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： McNeil TF

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this review is to summarize all data on suicidal behaviour reported in the Bible and to discuss basic implications for medical ethical positions. METHOD:All books of the Jerusalem Bible, including the apocrypha accepted in the Catholic canon, were searched for all cases of suicide, attempted suici...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Koch HJ

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suicide was a crime in England and Wales until 1961. This paper compares the English legal treatment of suicide with that in other Western countries. The delayed English decriminalization of suicide is a likely result of the nature of English common law, rather than a reflection of actual public opinion and medico-leg...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Neeleman J

更新日期：1996-10-01 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：: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: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：OBJECTIVE:To provide a clinically useful analysis of the relationship between selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), in particular fluoxetine and violent or suicidal behaviour. METHOD:All published papers on Medline and other databases linking serotonin, SSRIs and aggression were reviewed. RESULTS:A small p...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Walsh MT,Dinan TG

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00