Admission rates for schizophrenia in The Netherlands: an urban/rural comparison.

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：OBJECTIVE:Lycanthropy is an unusual psychiatric syndrome involving the delusion of being an animal. Cotard's syndrome is another rare condition in which the patient has nihilistic delusions and ideation of immortality. We report a psychiatric patient who had both syndromes simultaneously. METHOD:A single case was repo...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nejad AG,Toofani K

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological correlates of suicide were explored for the counties of Hungary and the states of the United States. Only one common correlate was identified (divorce rates). The remaining social indicators that were associated with suicide rates in the United States were not associated with suicide rates in Hungary. The i...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lester D,Moksony F

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The existence of cannabis-induced psychosis (CP) remains controversial, partly because of methodological problems. We hypothesize that acute schizophrenia (AS) and CP can have distinct demographic, premorbid and clinical features. METHOD:We compared 26 patients with CP to 35 with AS, after their cannabis-con...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Núñez LA,Gurpegui M

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of confiding persons both within and outside the household has been investigated in a series of 110 depressed patients and of 98 non-psychiatric controls. The depressive sample has been classified into diagnostic subgroups of unipolar, bipolar, reactive-neurotic and unspecified type of depression. The...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Eisemann M

更新日期：1984-08-01 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：: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:Lithium-neuroleptics induced encephalopathy is a rare drug interaction. Here I am reporting a patient who developed reversible encepatholopathy with lithium-risperidone combination. METHOD:A single case report. RESULT:A patient of bipolar disorder, who presented with manic symptoms with psychotic feature, s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Boora K,Xu J,Hyatt J

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine factors increasing the risk for onset and persistence of subthreshold mania and depression. METHOD:In a prospective cohort community study, the association between risk factors [a family history of mood disorders, trauma, substance use, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and temperame...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Tijssen MJ,Van Os J,Wittchen HU,Lieb R,Beesdo K,Wichers M

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is a predictor analysis of the screening procedure followed by a psychiatric service for a period of 1 year preceding and a period of 1 year following the introduction of community psychiatry. Throughout this period, the psychiatric service consisted of a local service within the catchment area and a centra...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Søgaard HJ,Søndergaard I

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A marked proportion of primary care patients have mental disorders and problems that remain unrecognized by the patients and their general practitioners. There is furthermore a great variation in the physicians' ability to detect mental disorders. The aim of the present study was to find out the overall prevalence of ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Joukamaa M,Lehtinen V,Karlsson H,Rouhe E

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

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：:The clinical effect of a sustained release preparation of amitriptyline has been compared with that of conventional amitriptyline tablets in a double-blind cross-over study with 24 patients suffering from endogenous depression. The sustained release preparation was given in a single evening dose (9 p.m.) of two thirds...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Liisberg P,Mose H,Amdisen A,Jørgensen A,Petersen HE

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study comprised 26 patients with somatic symptoms indicating a hernia-reflux syndrome referred to a university hospital ear, nose and throat department. The aim was to throw light on the hypothesis that this syndrome is largely a psychosomatic problem. The patients were divided into two groups: subjects with and w...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nielzén S,Pettersson KI,Regnéll G,Svensson R

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of previously published CSF monoamine data has revealed statistical evidence for a biological subtype of depression, characterized by abnormally low CSF-5HIAA and CSF HVA. Using maximum likelihood gaussian mixture analysis we were able to resolve the empirical frequency distributions of both CSF HVA and CSF 5...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gibbons RD,Davis JM

更新日期：1986-07-01 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：:The ICD-10 and DSM-IV classifications have both given low priority to "reactivity" to acute stress as a classificatory principle for functional psychoses. In Scandinavia, reactivity is still considered an important factor in the development of such psychoses. Reactivity is a complex concept, and its various components...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Guldberg CA,Dahl AA,Bertelsen A,Hansen H,Haslerud J,Hytten K,Narud K

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Speech recordings were made of 16 depressed patients during depression and after clinical improvement. The recordings were analyzed using a computer program which extracts acoustic parameters from the fundamental frequency contour of the voice. The percent pause time, the standard deviation of the voice fundamental fr...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nilsonne A

更新日期：1987-09-01 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：:In 103 schizophrenic patients we investigated the extent of practice needed in the use of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) to enable its reliability to be assessed. The agreement level of the 7 raters was analysed. Generally, the lowest mean agreement found was for the negative symptoms of the BPRS schizophre...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Andersen J,Kørner A,Larsen JK,Schultz V,Nielsen BM,Behnke K,Munk-Andersen E,Bjørum N

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there are 22 Arab countries in the Arab League, the mental health services provided in those countries show several forms of variation. Economic, political, social and cultural factors seem to play a major role in determining the state of the psychiatric profession and the access of the service to citizens. T...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Okasha A,Karam E

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recurrent psychoses, rather than, as Kraepelin supposed, constituting 2 major entities, manic depressive illness and schizophrenia, as separate diseases, may be distributed along a continuum that extends from unipolar depressive illness through bipolar and schizoaffective psychosis to schizophrenia with increasing...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Crow TJ

更新日期：1990-05-01 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：: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：:The Montgomery-Asberg Depression Scale was evaluated in 44 depressed inpatients. All items of the scale occurred frequently in the sample; the scale exhibited construct validity (internal homogeneity) and concurrent validity relative to the Hamilton Depression Scale and the concepts of endogenous and nonendogenous dep...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Davidson J,Turnbull CD,Strickland R,Miller R,Graves K

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An indepth study was carried out over 1 year on all instances of overt heterosexual interactions among acute psychiatric patients on mixed-sex intensive treatment units. Sixteen of the 1060 patients treated on the units were involved in nine instances of overt heterosexual interactions. Analysis of the interactions sh...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Modestin J

更新日期：1981-11-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Literature suggests that childhood trauma increases vulnerability for schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, including schizotypal personality disorder (SPD). Yet, it remains unexplored whether childhood trauma predicts symptom load and the level of neurocognitive functioning in SPD. METHOD:We included 225 indivi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Velikonja T,Velthorst E,McClure MM,Rutter S,Calabrese WR,Rosell D,Koenigsberg HW,Goodman M,New AS,Hazlett EA,Perez-Rodriguez MM

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

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：:Repeated doses of 5 mg nitrazepam, 15 mg flurazepam, and 1 mg flunitrazepam improved subjective assessments of the ease of getting to sleep and the perceived quality of induced sleep in a population of 30 healthy volunteers. The subjective reports of improved sleep inducement were related to a perceived difficulty in ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hindmarch I

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00