Improvement of inter-rater reliability of PANSS items and subscales by a standardized rater training.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Antidepressant medications are efficacious overall; however, some individuals experience worsening mood symptoms and increased suicidal ideation (SI) during treatment. We examined the quantitative electroencephalographic (QEEG) cordance biomarker of brain function biomarker in relation to treatment-emergent s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hunter AM,Leuchter AF,Cook IA,Abrams M

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:Serum levels of total L-tryptophan (L-TP) were determined before and during treatment in patients suffering from endogenous depression, who were treated with L-TP, 6 g daily, and unilateral electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). The gaussian curve of initial L-TP concentrations changed into a bimodal distribution during tre...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： d'Elia G,Lehmann J,Raotma H

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to reveal the relationship between family expressed emotion (EE) and family evaluation for symptoms and social adjustment of schizophrenic patients. Chronic schizophrenic outpatients in offshore islands under stationary therapeutic conditions were studied. For evaluation, the Five Minute S...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Otsuka T,Nakane Y,Ohta Y

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine the accuracy of translation and to test the validity of the Greek version of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). In the translation study, the English and the Greek versions of the GHQ were administered to a sample of 50 bilingual respondents. The internal consistency, item...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Garyfallos G,Karastergiou A,Adamopoulou A,Moutzoukis C,Alagiozidou E,Mala D,Garyfallos A

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Depression in bipolar disorder (BipD) requires a therapeutic approach that is from treating unipolar major depressive disorder (UniD), but to date, no reliable methods could separate these two disorders. The aim of this study was to establish the clinical validity and utility of a non-invasive functional MRI-...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Li M,Das T,Deng W,Wang Q,Li Y,Zhao L,Ma X,Wang Y,Yu H,Li X,Meng Y,Palaniyappan L,Li T

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven psychotic inpatients (two women and five men) aged between 18 and 74 years, treated with neuroleptic and antiparkinson drugs, participated in a double-blind study with 1/3 DDD (Defined Daily Dose) of procyclidine, orphenadrine, or trihexyphenidyl hydrochloride against placebo. Euphoric effects were scored on a s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Vågen R,Götestam KG

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attitude of the medical profession to psychiatry carries important implications for the quality of personnel attracted into the specialty and for the treatment, in a general medical setting, of patients with mental disorders. This article examines the components of doctors' attitudes and reviews the literature wit...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Buchanan A,Bhugra D

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug use and psychiatric symptoms were independently assessed in a random sample of 177 adolescents from a junior high school population. Pupils who used cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis, solutions (sniffing), and tranquilizers, all had higher frequencies of psychiatric symptoms than non-users. The use of alcohol was sho...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lavik NJ,Onstad S

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intensive 1-year study was carried out on 41 male patients, mean age 49, mean hospitalization time 49 days, admitted to a special ward of the Beckomberga Hospital with the diagnosis of delirium tremens and 50 concomitant somatic and psychiatric diagnoses (1--9 per capita), and given a standardized treatment. The me...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Stendig-Lindberg G,Rudy N

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to further evaluate the oestrogen hypothesis of schizophrenia, which postulates low oestradiol levels to be a risk factor for these disorders. A possible influence of neuroleptic-induced hyperprolactinaemia was to be addressed. METHOD:Sex hormones were measured and cycle phase asses...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Huber TJ,Borsutzky M,Schneider U,Emrich HM

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Studies from three independent laboratories report varying relationships between electrodermal hyporeactivity and suicidal behavior in depressed patients. The aims of this study were to explain that variation, to assess the discriminative validity of electrodermal hyporeactivity for suicide and suicide attemp...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Thorell LH

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:109 killers, 38 nonviolent offenders and 54 community controls were compared on psychiatric diagnosis, the MMPI, Cattell 16 PF, IQ and clinical neurological results. Killers did not differ from nonviolent offenders on diagnosis or personality in general. Only higher MMPI Hysteria scale scores differentiated the killer...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Langevin R,Paitich D,Orchard B,Handy L,Russon A

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines admission rates for schizophrenia in terms of degree of urbanization. Patient data was obtained from the Dutch psychiatric register. The scale of urbanization used had five categories and was utilized to establish the degree of urbanization in each municipality (n=647). Admission rates showed a s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Peen J,Dekker J

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The symptom of anhedonia, or loss of pleasure, is widely recognized to occur in depression. More recently it has been suggested that this symptom alone might be the basis for a diagnosis of depression in medically ill patients, and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD) has been designed with this in mind. To...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Silverstone PH

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occurrence of pain was investigated in 73 non-psychotic psychiatric inpatients; 75% had been bothered by pain within the last 3 months and about half of these had pain every day. Pain was most frequent in patients with neurosis and personality disorder. The occurrence of pain was significantly associated with unskille...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jensen J

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atypical depression may show lowered rather than raised short-term cortisol levels. Atypical major depressive episodes (A-MDE) may also be more closely linked to environmental factors and show overlap with somatic symptom disorders. Hair specimens allow measuring long-term cortisol levels. METHODS:Twenty-se...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Herane-Vives A,de Angel V,Papadopoulos A,Wise T,Chua KC,Strawbridge R,Castillo D,Arnone D,Young AH,Cleare AJ

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：:The care of mentally ill people at home is being encouraged nowadays. As a result, the family members feel an increased burden of care and find it difficult to cope with the care of a schizophrenic patient at home. We interviewed the relatives of 62 schizophrenics systematically regarding the behaviour of the patients...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gopinath PS,Chaturvedi SK

更新日期：1992-09-01 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：:A 'short family therapy' in schizophrenia, according to a specific systemic model (the 'Elementary Pragmatic Model' or EPM) with a strong paradoxical structure is presented. A total of 38 schizophrenic patients, randomly allocated, were treated according to the EPM model combined with psychotropic drugs (19 cases, eac...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： De Giacomo P,Pierri G,Santoni Rugiu A,Buonsante M,Vadruccio F,Zavoianni L

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy and the safety of moclobemide (400-600 mg/day), a reversible and selective inhibitor of monoamine oxidase-A (RIMA) and of clomipramine (100-150 mg/day) were compared respectively in 98 and 93 nonmelancholic, nonpsychotic out-patients with a DSM-III major depressive episode over 6 weeks and up to 3 months,...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lecrubier Y,Pedarriosse AM,Payan C,Schmid-Burgk W,Stabl M

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Prefrontal cortical dysfunction has been implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia but it is unclear to what extent these are related to changes in symptomatology as well as task demand. METHOD:We examined the neural correlates of symptom change and task demand during a longitudinal functional magne...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Smee C,Krabbendam L,O'Daly O,Prins AM,Nalesnik N,Morley L,Samson G,Shergill S

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few empirical studies have examined the attitudes and ethical beliefs of psychiatrists. In this study, 328 members of the Swedish Psychiatric Association were randomly selected to respond to a questionnaire containing three clinical vignettes examining involuntary hospitalization, other compulsory interventions, and r...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kullgren G,Jacobsson L,Lynöe N,Kohn R,Levav I

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine whether variation at two common polymorphisms, T102C and -1438AG, of the serotonin 2A gene (5HT2A) are involved in the puerperal triggering mechanism of bipolar affective puerperal psychosis. METHOD:A total of 242 parous women diagnosed with bipolar disorder were genotyped for the two polymorphism...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Robertson E,Jones I,Middle F,Moray J,Craddock N

更新日期：2003-11-01 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：:We studied the development of psychosexuality and object relationships in 58 young males who had survived malignancies in childhood. Using a psychodynamically oriented, semistructured psychiatric interview, we formed 13 criteria for comparisons between patients over and under 18 years of age. Of these 13 criteria, 12 ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ropponen P,Siimes MA,Rautonen J,Aalberg V

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the theory of Henry & Short, it was predicted that suicide rates should be higher and homicide rates lower in countries where the quality of life is better. In 1980, for a sample of 43 countries, this prediction was confirmed for some components of the quality of life (psychological well-being) but not for ot...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lester D

更新日期：1990-04-01 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：:It is 9 years since the mental health reform was passed by the Italian Parliament. The author presents a data-based evaluation of the effects of the Italian mental health reform. There are still many problems to be resolved: More than 30,000 inpatients are still in psychiatric hospitals and little is known of the fate...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Crepet P

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00