abstract：:Psychiatry in Scandinavia has a tradition for research and clinical work with people from other countries, especially related to refugees and survivors after the Second World War. In recent years an increasing number of refugees have arrived, especially from the countries of the Middle East. The aim of this study was ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jensen SB,Schaumburg E,Leroy B,Larsen BO,Thorup M

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report aims at alerting the clinician to the existence of rapid cycling depression in adolescence. The importance of integrating psychodynamic, social and pharmacological modalities in evaluation and treatment is emphasized. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Spurkland I,Vandvik IH

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A psychiatric study of 197 children living in villages outside Khartoum was made in 1964-1965. In 1983, 104 randomly chosen subjects were investigated again. All were interviewed by a psychiatrist and somatically examined. The overall psychiatric impairment was 14% (males, 18%; females, 8%) according to the psychiatri...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Cederblad M,Rahim SI

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore and to compare hypothalamic-pituitary-somatotropic (HPS), hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis function in depression, 30 subjects (15 patients with a major depressive episode and individually matched controls) received 50 micrograms growth hormone-releas...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lesch KP,Müller U,Rupprecht R,Kruse K,Schulte HM

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to compare moclobemide and clomipramine in endogenous depression according to the Newcastle II classification. Sixty-two patients were allocated to either 300 mg moclobemide or 150 mg clomipramine, both given in 3 daily doses. Improvements occurred over time but differences between treatm...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Koczkas C,Holm P,Karlsson A,Nagy A,Ose E,Pétursson H,Ulverås L,Wenedikter O

更新日期：1989-06-01 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：: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：: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：:Recent interest in community care of schizophrenic patients has led to publication of a number of studies that deal with patients' rehabilitation in their families. Joint efforts of psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers have produced a number of techniques for collaboration with families of schizophrenic pat...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： el-Islam MF

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Denmark about 11-12 per 100,000 population are diagnosed as schizophrenics for the first time each year. Less than half of these receive this diagnosis at first admission and therefore only 5-6 per 100,000 are included in the official schizophrenia incidence figures. In a cohort (n = 53), predictors for diagnosis o...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Munk-Jørgensen P,Mortensen PB

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:English as the language of publication for articles on suicide in the medical literature increased from 58% of articles in 1966 to 79% in 1986. This increase occurred at the expense of all languages. These changes parallel those for the language of publication of articles on mental disorders and all medical subjects. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Barraclough BM,Noyes R

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Australian death certificate data were analysed to determine whether they can provide useful information on regional differences in the prevalence of dementia. Strong differences between the Australian states were found in the prevalence of dementing disorders at death. However, evidence indicated that death certifica...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jorm AF,Henderson AS,Jacomb PA

更新日期：1989-02-01 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：: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：:Antidepressants are ineffective in about 30% of patients with major depression. Some authors then advise treatment of non-responders with (non-tricyclic) more selective reuptake inhibitors. In a double-blind, partial crossover study, 71 patients were selected for treatment during 4 weeks with oxaprotiline and/or fluvo...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nolen WA,van de Putte JJ,Dijken WA,Kamp JS,Blansjaar BA,Kramer HJ,Haffmans J

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between brain density, measured by computerized tomography (CT), and severity of depression was investigated in 44 patients with a major depressive episode according to DSM-III. In order to limit methodological problems, correlations between both the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) and the Bech-...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Schlegel S

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The promise of adopting a valid and reliable tool for diagnosing addiction-related problems is offered by the Addiction Severity Index (ASI). Socially determined admissions and poor treatment facilities may have biased the representativeness of our sample, though methodological difficulties were minimal. The ASI was u...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bilal AM

更新日期：1988-10-01 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 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：:To evaluate the question of whether "mixed" bipolar disorder is a distinct entity, we compared selected cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biochemical parameters from patients with bipolar disorder, mixed, to those with mania and major depression. Fourteen patients in each category (DSM-III) were studied with regard to CSF HVA...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Tandon R,Channabasavanna SM,Greden JF

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional brain glucose metabolism was determined in 9 male alcohol-dependent inpatients and 12 male healthy controls. All the patients were socially impaired by the alcohol abuse. All the subjects had abstained from alcohol and drugs for more than four weeks before entering the study. Brain glucose metabolism was dete...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Wik G,Borg S,Sjögren I,Wiesel FA,Blomqvist G,Borg J,Greitz T,Nybäck H,Sedvall G,Stone-Elander S

更新日期：1988-08-01 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：:Sleep disturbances commonly occur in the premenstruum in both Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) patients and in women from the general population. Reports on the Post-Sleep Inventory were obtained from a clinic sample of PMS patients and samples from the general population dichotomized into a non-clinic group with and witho...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mauri M,Reid RL,MacLean AW

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebrospinal fluid levels of radioreceptor assayable insulin-like growth factors (RRA-IGFs) and immunoreactive somatomedin B (SMB) (RIA-B) were determined in apparently healthy individuals and in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (AD). The CSF levels of RIA-B and RRA-IGFs did not alter from the healthy con...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Tham A,Sparring K,Bowen D,Wetterberg L,Sara VR

更新日期：1988-06-01 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

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：: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：: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：:Seventy-four myasthenic patients (54 F, 20 M; mean age 49.6 years) were evaluated using the diagnostic criteria of the DSM-III in order to investigate the prevalence of psychiatric disturbances in this order. Fifty-one had had thymectomies, of whom 28 females had hyperplasia, two females and five males had involution ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Magni G,Micaglio GF,Lalli R,Bejato L,Candeago MR,Merskey H,Angelini C

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with major affective disorder are described. In both cases synaesthesia was a prominent and integral feature of the disorder. The discussion considers the relationship of perceptual upset and affective disorders. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： McKane JP,Hughes AM

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 23-year-old male with a history of severe Tourette syndrome refractory to treatment with oral haloperidol is reported. The Tourette symptoms remitted after treatment with haloperidol decanoate. The response has been maintained over 18 months. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Clarke DJ,Ford R

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One stage case-identification method, using the Arabic Version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD) was applied in a pilot study for estimating the prevalence of depressive and anxiety disorders among a group of Saudi primary care attenders. The validity of the Arabic Version of the HAD scale was previou...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： el-Rufaie OE,Albar AA,Al-Dabal BK

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of organic brain syndrome occurring in relation to psychological stress 2 years after a severe head injury is described. Treatment with haloperidol resulted only in slight improvement. A dramatic improvement was achieved with carbamazepine. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bouvy PF,van de Wetering BJ,Meerwaldt JD,Bruijn JB

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Can it be said that history's most outstanding psychiatrists and the various interrelated fields of mental health are to any extent realistically represented within the framework of thematic philately? With regard to the latter theme, five main categories can be distinguished: the mentally handicapped; psychiatric ins...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： van Alphen PJ

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a prospective study of 150 consecutive outpatients who were either married or divorced. Marriage custom in Saudi Arabia is unique to the culture of that country and several different kinds of marriage are identified: arranged marriage of cousins; marriage of a couple who have not met before consummation; marri...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Chaleby K

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on the development and testing of a new Chinese diagnostic instrument--the Adult Diagnostic Interview Schedule-Present (ADIS-P). This instrument uses a selection of items adapted from DIS and SADS. It is administered within approximately 25 min by a trained clinician using a small portable computer ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Zheng Y,Yang W,Phillips MR,Dai C,Zheng H

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of priapism caused by the alpha adrenoreceptor blocking action of a butyrophenone. The problem was solved surgically performing a cavernousspongiosum fistula. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Morera A,Estrada AG,Valenciano R

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonazepam (CLN), a benzodiazepine originally used as an anti-epileptic, was tested in schizophrenia in a double blind comparison in combination with haloperidol (HL). Twenty-four schizophrenic inpatients, diagnosed according to DSM III were treated with HL and CLN (Group 1) or HL and placebo (Group 2) for 4 weeks. Th...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Altamura AC,Mauri MC,Mantero M,Brunetti M

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of 59 depressive in- and outpatients displayed statistically significantly subnormal electrodermal activity (EDA) according to the skin conductance level, the skin conductance response magnitude, the skin conductance response rate, and the index of nonresponding during neutral tone stimulation, compared to 59 ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Thorell LH,Kjellman BF,d'Elia G

更新日期：1987-12-01 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