Suicidal ideation and parasuicide in the Finnish general population.

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：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：:In 1983-1984 the Swedish Committee for the Prevention and Treatment of Depression launched an educational program on the diagnosis and treatment of depressive disorders for all general practitioners on the island of Gotland. The baseline year chosen was 1982 and the immediate effects were evaluated in 1985. In 1988 th...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rutz W,Carlsson P,von Knorring L,Wålinder J

更新日期：1992-06-01 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:Antidepressants including selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)-associated mania or hypomania has been well documented in the literature but these patients with switch have either mood disorders or various risk factors for bipolar disorder. This case report examines SSRI-induced hypomania in a patient...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mendhekar DN,Gupta D,Girotra V

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between cognitive functioning and survival was studied among 92 people referred to a psychogeriatric assessment unit. A follow-up 4-5 years later showed that the nonsurvivors initially had lower scores on the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) than the survivors. The differences were greatest among ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Berg S,Jeppson L

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The paper provides the first syllabus on the prevalence of mental disorders in old-age focusing on surveys conducted in the 15 countries, which comprised the 'old' European Union. METHOD:A systematic search of the literature published from 1990 onwards was conducted. RESULTS:Mental disorders in old-age are ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Riedel-Heller SG,Busse A,Angermeyer MC

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the reliability of a brief instrument to assess coping with symptoms by patients with psychotic illness. METHOD:A semi-structured interview (MACS) was developed to assess the amounts of distress, control and coping in relation to psychotic symptoms. Two raters interviewed 23 symptomatic but stable...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bak M,van der Spil F,Gunther N,Radstake S,Delespaul P,van Os J

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The follow-up since 1989 of a large sample of multigenerational families of eastern Québec that are densely affected by schizophrenia (SZ) or bipolar disorder (BP) has permitted to look at the rates of DSM diagnoses in the young offspring of a SZ parent (HRSZ) and of a BP parent (HRBP) who had an extremely lo...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Maziade M,Gingras N,Rouleau N,Poulin S,Jomphe V,Paradis ME,Mérette C,Roy MA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine secular trends in the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VD) in a general Japanese population. METHOD:Four cross-sectional examinations were conducted among residents of a Japanese community aged >or=65 in 1985, 1992, 1998 and 2005. RESULTS:The age- and sex-adjusted pre...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Sekita A,Ninomiya T,Tanizaki Y,Doi Y,Hata J,Yonemoto K,Arima H,Sasaki K,Iida M,Iwaki T,Kanba S,Kiyohara Y

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was conducted to survey the prescribing practices of neuroleptic doses in 100 consecutively hospitalized DSM-III-R schizophrenic patients. The relationship between doses and clinical and symptomatological variables was subsequently analyzed. Patients were evaluated through the Positive and Negative Syndrome Sc...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Peralta V,Cuesta MJ,Caro F,Martinez-Larrea A

更新日期：1994-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:Sleep deprivation (SD) is an antidepressant intervention with multiple administration formats that has been investigated primarily with uncontrolled clinical trials and qualitative reviews of the literature. The validity and applicability of these findings to the treatment of bipolar depression (BPD) is unce...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gottlieb JF,Goel N,Chen S,Young MA

更新日期：2020-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Survival analysis of suicide risk by sex and age after attempted suicide was studied in a cohort of 1573 suicide attempters referred to the psychiatric emergency room at the Karolinska Hospital from 1981 to 1988. The time course of suicide risk and the overall prognosis after attempted suicide and, in particular, the ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nordström P,Samuelsson M,Asberg M

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A description of mentally ill parents' experience and points of view concerning professional intervention in relation to their young children is presented in this paper. The results are from an interview survey designed with the purpose of improving the basis for cooperation between mentally ill patients and professio...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Wang AR,Goldschmidt VV

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tardive dyskinesia (TD) is a long-term potential adverse effect of neuroleptic treatment, and older age has been correlated with the development of TD. We conducted a chart review of current out-patients and examined annual Abnormal Inventory Movement Scale (AIMS) evaluations for the period 1987-1995 for 43 patients w...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Labbate LA,Lande RG,Jones F,Oleshansky MA

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty Kenyan 'psychotic' patients were screened using the New Haven Schizophrenic Index (NHSI) and were all studied for hallucinations using standardised definitions. Fifty-one of the patients were NHSI positive and the rest NHSI negative. Sixty-one percent of the NHSI positive had hallucinations in one or more modal...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ndetei DM,Singh A

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To provide meta-analytical evidence of bone mineral density (BMD), fractures, and osteoporosis rates in eating disorders (ED) vs. healthy controls (HCs). METHOD:Three independent authors searched major electronic databases from inception till August 2015 for cross-sectional studies reporting BMD in people wi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Solmi M,Veronese N,Correll CU,Favaro A,Santonastaso P,Caregaro L,Vancampfort D,Luchini C,De Hert M,Stubbs B

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This paper presents a case of chronic mania and reviews the diagnosis with respect to its definition and utility. METHOD:A case of chronic mania is described. RESULTS:Unremitting mania poses a diagnostic and management challenge. CONCLUSION:Persistent mania of this duration is rare, but a diagnosis of chro...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Malhi GS,Mitchell PB,Parker GB

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It seems odd that male suicide rates have decreased in Portugal over the last few years, whereas the opposite has happened in most other countries. In order to investigate the reasons for such a decrease, suicide rates were compared with controversial cases (ICD-9 category E 980-989) and with homicide rates. The resul...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： de Castro EF,Pimenta F,Martins I

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the prevalence of dementia in two different time periods and two different studies. METHOD:Representative, random samples of the elderly (>65 years) in the Zaragoza Study or ZARADEMP-0 (n = 1080) completed the previous decade, and now in Wave I of the ZARADEMP Project or ZARADEMP-I (n = 3715) were...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lobo A,Saz P,Marcos G,Dia JL,De-la-Camara C,Ventura T,Montañes JA,Lobo-Escolar A,Aznar S,ZARADEMP Workgroup.

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated past suicidal behaviour and family history of suicide in 713 inpatients with major depressive illness. A familial history of suicide (mainly violent) significantly increased the frequency of violent suicidal behaviour in depressive women; bipolar patients being more affected than unipolars. In depresse...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Linkowski P,de Maertelaer V,Mendlewicz J

更新日期：1985-09-01 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:Negative symptoms of schizophrenia are a common, enduring, and debilitating component of the psychopathology of schizophrenia. Although efforts thus far to elucidate a distinct schizophrenia subtype based upon negative symptoms have yielded mixed results, there are nevertheless neurobiological correlates of t...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Stahl SM,Buckley PF

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of suicide among the nonnomadic Gypsies in three counties in Hungary revealed that they had a lower completed suicide rate but a higher attempted suicide rate than ethnic Hungarians. The rate of attempted suicide appeared to be higher in the younger, partially assimilated Gypsies as a result of the conflict be...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Zonda T,Lester D

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subjective quality of life (QOL) (i.e. individual evaluation of one's life experiences) has been studied according to a series of different parameters such as resource availability, and sociodemographic and clinical variables, at times yielding contradictory results. Subjective quality of life and standard of life...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Carpiniello B,Lai GL,Pariante CM,Carta MG,Rudas N

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：:Efficacy and side effects of flurazepam 15 mg, fosazepam 60 mg, and nitrazepam 5 mg were studied in 17 psychogeriatric patients. The drugs were equipotent in maintaining sleep but nitrazepam had more side effects than the other hypnotics, and it induced a rebound insomnia after withdrawal. All hypnotics lost some of t...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Viukari M,Linnoila M,Aalto U

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-seven, out of a sample of 100 elderly subjects, all suffering from dementia, were found to have delusions. The delusions were more common in women, in patients with a history of psychiatric illness, and amongst those with higher information subscores (Blessed Scale); and were less common in patients suffering f...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Berrios GE,Brook P

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate factors determining severely mentally ill patients' self-rated quality of life. The study hypothesized that objective life circumstances, personality, self-variables, and psychopathology would be determinants of quality of life. METHOD:A total of 117 individuals with schizophrenia and related ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Eklund M,Bäckström M,Hansson L

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00