abstract：:The effects of the addition of short-term lithium to long-term administration of antidepressants (clomipramine or citalopram) on the levels of 5-HT and 5-HIAA and serotonergic receptors were studied in the rat cortex. The addition of short-term Li to long-term antidepressant treatment potentiated an increase in 5-HIAA...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Okamoto Y,Motohasi N,Hayakawa H,Muraoka M,Yamawaki S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the chronic effects of desipramine and mianserin on increases of intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) induced by noradrenaline (NA), acetylcholine (ACh), or high K+ in cultured neurons of rat frontal cortex, using fluoromicroscopic analysis with Ca(2+)-sensitive dye fura-2. NA- and ACh-induced [Ca2+]...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Shimizu M,Nishida A,Fukuda H,Saito H,Yamawaki S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral abnormalities, jumping reaction, increase in spontaneous activity abnormal violence, and lethargy were observed in long-term ultraviolet A (UVA)-irradiated hairy male Crj:CD-1 mice. The learning ability of 6- and 12-months UVA-irradiated mice was significantly reduced compared to un-irradiated age-matched m...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Hiramoto K,Okada T,Ito M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The early research on an animal (cat) model and biological marker (visual evoked potential augmenting and reducing) of sensation seeking behavior is briefly described. Recent findings with selectively bred lines of rats show that (1) the relationship between sensation seeking behavior and augmenting vs. reducing is al...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Siegel J,Driscoll P

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia is a heterogeneous and multidimensional disorder. The different syndromes or dimensions of this disorder represent distinct pathophysiological processes. Evidence is growing that each of the composite syndromes or dimensions of this disorder is associated with specific validators. This article reviewed n...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Aderibigbe YA,Gureje O

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symptoms of anxiety suggest autonomic dysfunction and most of the psychotropic agents used to treat anxiety and affective disorders have strong autonomic effects. This article describes the utility and importance of analysis of heart rate and blood pressure time series to study cardiac autonomic function in psychiatri...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Yeragani VK

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Past epidemiological and clinical research has identified depression as the most common psychiatric disorder associated with headache. The present study carried out in a neurology headache clinic showed that the major associations were with current anxiety disorders, especially panic and related conditions. These find...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Marazziti D,Toni C,Pedri S,Bonuccelli U,Pavese N,Nuti A,Muratorio A,Cassano GB,Akiskal HS

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to the single-channel dimensional complexity, the global dimensional complexity is calculated from a multichannel EEG. The intention with the method is to measure the spatial distribution of information processing in the brain. The method seems to be of interest in psychopharmacological research, but the i...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Matousek M,Wackermann J,Palus M,Berankova A,Albrecht V,Dvorak I

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carnitine is essential for mitochondrial energy production. Disturbance in mitochondrial function may contribute to or cause the fatigue seen in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients. One previous investigation has reported decreased acylcarnitine levels in 38 CFS patients. We investigated 35 CFS patients (27 female...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Plioplys AV,Plioplys S

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-two female patients with anorexia nervosa, restricted type, 14-35 years old, were treated with a 4-month course of combined cognitive-behavioral therapy, nutritional counselling and antidepressant drugs (nortriptyline for 7, fluoxetine for 15). Patients were monitored for body mass index (BMI), for eating disor...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Brambilla F,Draisci A,Peirone A,Brunetta M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We agree with the conclusions of a recent article in this journal [James, Neuropsychobiology 1994;30:124-125] that studies on the psychoactive effects of caffeine need to take into account the possibility that the results obtained might represent merely the reversal of deleterious effects of caffeine deprivation rathe...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Rogers PJ,Richardson NJ,Dernoncourt C

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that serotonin and norepinephrine are in some way involved in the pathophysiology of anxiety disorders. Urinary levels of the serotonin metabolite 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) and the norepinephrine metabolite vanillylmandelic acid (VMA) were measured in 46 patients with generalized anxiety di...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Garvey MJ,Noyes R Jr,Woodman C,Laukes C

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent findings indicate that the memory-impairing effects of benzodiazepines may preferentially involve the basolateral nucleus of the amygdala. To test this hypothesis we examined the effects on pretrial injection of diazepam into the central as compared to the lateral/basolateral amygdaloid nuclei on memory for a c...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Silva MA,Tomaz C

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between EEG spectral power and alterations of the visual evoked potential (VEP) during different behavioral states and after intraperitoneal application of neuroactive drugs have been investigated in Long-Evans rats. FFT power and field potential maps were made in five behavioral states of the unrestraine...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Bringmann A,Klingberg F

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During interictal periods in 9 patients with partial epilepsy we examined whether there were correlations between the relative power of background EEG (power spectral analysis) and the absolute values of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) measured by 99mTc hexamethylpropylene amine oxime (HMPAO) SPECT in each cerebra...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Jibiki I,Kurokawa K,Fukushima T,Kido H,Yamaguchi N,Matsuda H,Hisada K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol (MHPG) levels in 53 depressed women were compared to current suicidal thoughts or activity. Comparisons were also made between MHPG and past suicide attempts, number of past attempts, and seriousness of the worst attempt. There was a weak trend for current but not past suicidali...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Garvey MJ,Hollon SD,Tuason VB

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible involvement of anxiety and learning/memory processes in escape-directed (struggling) behavior in a two-trial swimming test was investigated in mice, as well as the differential effects that low doses of flumazenil (a benzodiazepine receptor antagonist) could display depending on the animals' anxiety level...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Ferré P,Fernández Teruel A,Escorihuela RM,García E,Zapata A,Tobeña A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative pharmaco-EEG has become a useful technique for determining pharmacodynamic parameters after CNS-active drug administration. Nevertheless, one of the most important problems faced by practitioners of pharmaco-EEG is the difficulty in evaluating drug-specific effects. In this article, a methodology for comp...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Dago KT,Luthringer R,Lengellé R,Rinaudo G,Macher JP

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the effects of cocaine on cognitive tasks. Event-related potentials (ERP) were recorded in 7 cocaine abusers during the performance of the auditory oddball task before and after the intravenous injections of saline and cocaine (60-80 mg). The P3B and slow wave components of the ERP were significa...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Herning RI,Glover BJ,Guo X

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular measurements were used as indicators of autonomic arousal during an orthostatic challenge test without medication and after a test dose of 150 mg perazine in 20 acute schizophrenic patients. Unmedicated schizophrenics showed elevated heart rates and elevated systolic and diastolic blood pressure in comp...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Volz HP,Mackert A,Diefenbacher A,Friedrich A,Gaebel W,Müller H,Stock G,Möller HJ

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Besides their regulation of the pituitary-adrenal and pituitary-thyroidal axis, respectively, the neurohormones CRH and TRH act within the central nervous system to evoke and modulate a number of behavioral and physiological processes. In particular, an increase in the sympathetic nervous system and respiratory activi...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Lehnert H,Nink M,Mann K,Röschke J,Hellhammer DH

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans and several other mammals, a quantitative EEG analysis has been used to study the regulation of sleep-wake behavior. In all mammalian species studied, cortical EEG recorded during non-REM sleep (NREMS) is characterized by the occurrence of spindles and high voltage, slow waves (0.5-4.0 Hz). Furthermore, slow...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Lancel M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The search for specific predepressive personality factors has a long tradition in psychiatry. Studies in which assessments were made prospectively, before the onset of a first-ever episode of the illness, are, however, rare. In the present report from the Lundby Study we have investigated premorbid, mainly personality...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Rorsman B,Gräsbeck A,Hagnell O,Isberg PE,Otterbeck L

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The responses of cortisol to acute administration of saline and of clonidine (2.5 micrograms/kg B.W.) were examined in 10 children and adolescents with major depressive disorder and in 10 age- and sex-matched controls. Clonidine administration did not inhibit cortisol secretion in controls or in patients, contrary to ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Brambilla F,Guareschi-Cazzullo A,Musetti C,Nobile P,Tacchini C

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence from preclinical studies, preliminary clinical reports, pharmacologic challenge studies and a small number of controlled trials suggests that several antiepileptic agents--valproate, carbamazepine, and clonazepam--may have therapeutic effects in the treatment of patients with panic disorder. We review the the...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Keck PE Jr,McElroy SL,Tugrul KC,Bennett JA,Smith JM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative assessment of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was performed in a 22-year-old man with intractable temporal lobe epilepsy on long-term high-dose phenytoin (PHT) therapy, using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with N-isopropyl-(iodine-123)-p-iodoamphetamine. In all the SPECT scans repe...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Jibiki I,Kido H,Yamaguchi N,Matsuda H,Hisada K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Performance on temporal discrimination of time intervals in the range of milliseconds is interpreted by the assumption of an internal clock; the higher the clock rate the better the temporal resolution of the internal clock will be, which is equivalent to more accuracy in timing of brief intervals. Although there is s...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Rammsayer TH,Vogel WH

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents the results of a retrospective analysis of pooled efficacy data from eight studies in which buspirone was compared to placebo in 520 patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). In addition to evaluating overall efficacy in the composite patient data base, four criteria were used to identify ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Gammans RE,Stringfellow JC,Hvizdos AJ,Seidehamel RJ,Cohn JB,Wilcox CS,Fabre LF,Pecknold JC,Smith WT,Rickels K

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 63 depressed patients, the associations between severity of depression, psychomotor retardation, assessed by the Bech-Rafaelsen Melancholia Scale, and EEG spectral analysis were examined. Slow EEG activity (theta 2/alpha 1 bands) was positively and fast activity (alpha 3/beta bands) negatively correlated with the o...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Nieber D,Schlegel S

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No consensus has been obtained about blood electrolyte status, especially about magnesium, in affective disorders. This is mainly due to the lack of information about the distribution of the patients in clinical subgroups, sex, type of treatment and about the severity of their illnesses. Most of these studies concerne...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Widmer J,Bovier P,Karege F,Raffin Y,Hilleret H,Gaillard JM,Tissot R

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma-aminobutyric acid-B (GABAB) binding sites labelled with [3H]GABA were determined in postmortem frontal cortex samples of 20 control subjects and 16 suicides. The suicide group was further subdivided according to the method of suicide and the existence of depressive symptoms prior to death. No significant differe...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Arranz B,Cowburn R,Eriksson A,Vestling M,Marcusson J

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma noradrenaline (NA), adrenaline (Ad), dopamine (DA), platelet serotonin (p5HT), free serotonin (f5HT), glucose, heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) were measured before and after an oral load of glucose (OGTT) in 100 normal humans. One sham-feeding test was performed in every subject 2-3 weeks before OGTT. A...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Lechin F,van der Dijs B,Lechin M,Báez S,Jara H,Lechin A,Orozco B,Rada I,Cabrera A,Jiménez V

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the role of the serotonergic system in limbic and thalamic epileptic activity, we examined the effects of 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP, 20 and 40 mg/kg) on fully kindled seizures from the hippocampus and lateral geniculate nucleus. The intraperitoneal administration of 20 mg/kg 5-HTP exerted no anticonvulsant...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Wada Y,Hasegawa H,Nakamura M,Yamaguchi N

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,927 outpatients were included by 392 general practitioners in an open study in order to evaluate the safety of tianeptine in the ambulatory treatment of depression. The results of 1,858 depressed patients without melancholia and psychotic features, fulfilling DSM III criteria of Major Depressive Episode or Dysthymic...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Guelfi JD,Dulcire C,Le Moine P,Tafani A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical observations have suggested that lithium may exert adverse effects on memory. The difficulty in achieving empirical consensus regarding this issue has reflected several methodological problems: diversity of research designs, heterogeneous samples, lack of control groups and the possible confounding of memory ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Engelsmann F,Ghadirian AM,Grof P

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve healthy male volunteers received pyritinol 600 or 1,200 mg or placebo for 3 days according to a randomised, double-blind crossover design. On the 1st and 3rd days of each of the three treatment periods subjects completed a battery of psychological tests including Critical Flicker Fusion (CFFT), Choice Reaction ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Hindmarch I,Coleston DM,Kerr JS

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen general practitioners treated 21 newly diagnosed insomniac patients with benzodiazepines. In 15 cases, a short-acting benzodiazepine was prescribed without regard to the type, severity, duration and probable cause of insomnia. Sleep-wake ambulatory recordings were made at the respective homes of the patients b...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Wauquier A,Declerck A

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that the tilt aftereffect (TAE) appears to respond to changes in central dopaminergic function. In this study, the TAE was investigated during the preovulatory and the premenstrual phases of the menstrual cycle. Results in the preovulatory phase mimicked those previously found associated with ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Symons E,Calvert JE,Snelgar RS,Harris JP

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supine and standing heart rate (HR) and blood pressure measures were compared among 19 nonsmoking normal controls, 29 smoking patients and 36 nonsmoking patients with panic disorder. The smoking patients had a significantly higher supine HR, standing diastolic blood pressure, standing mean blood pressure and supine an...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Yeragani VK,Pohl R,Balon R,Ramesh C,Glitz D,Sherwood P

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single, 50- and 100-mg oral doses of phenobarbital and a matching placebo were administered double-blind to 8 young, healthy male subjects. Multilead electroencephalographic (EEG) samples were recorded prior to, and at regular intervals within the 2 h following administration. The EEG signal was processed by power spe...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Sannita WG,Balbi A,Giacchino F,Rosadini G

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00