abstract：:This paper presents an analysis of the impact of the psychiatric reform in Italy on health care delivery by the general practitioner. In an urban district of the Veneto region a survey was made on the opinions and assessments of the general practitioner about the new status of psychiatric care, on the psychiatric case...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rizzardo R,Rovea A,Magni G

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For patients dependent on benzodiazepines alone, or in combination with alcohol and/or other legal and illegal drugs, observed mortality rates were compared with the average population, and, in cases of isolated benzodiazepine dependence, also with a control group of non-dependent patients chosen to match each depende...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Piesiur-Strehlow B,Strehlow U,Poser W

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The psychopathological pattern of depression was assessed by means of the Puzyński Inventory Scale for Depression (ISD) in 79 patients with bipolar affective disorders, 45 with unipolar and 42 with undifferentiated type of affective disorders. Four groups of patients showing different psychopathological patterns were ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Parnowski T

更新日期：1986-02-01 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：:A study of monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins was undertaken to assess further the properties of the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI), a self-report measure of parental care and overprotection, to examine for associations between PBI and mood (trait anxiety and depression) scores, and to assess the genetic con...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Parker G

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:302 mentally retarded adults, sampled by epidemiological criteria, were examined with regard to epilepsy and psychiatric disorder. Each of the complications was frequent and related to degree and origin of mental retardation. In 55 (18.2%) epilepsy had occurred at some time during their lives, in 25 (8.3%) of these in...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lund J

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of an autopsied patient with hypophyseal prolactinoma and dermatozoic delusions is reported, and the mechanism of onset of this special form of delusion is discussed from the neuroendocrinological view point, including response to medications, and neuropathological and pituitary hormonal studies. The subject ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Takeda M,Tanino S,Nishinuma K,Matsubayashi T,Yamashita S,Nishimura T

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients receiving lithium who had noticed changes in hair texture since starting that drug, described variously as hair losing its curl or wave, have a greater lithium concentration in hair than patients on lithium with no such complaints. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： McCreadie RG,Farmer JG

更新日期：1985-10-01 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：: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：:Two groups of former depressed Italian patients comprising 54 bipolars and 52 unipolars completed the Italian version of the EMBU, a Swedish instrument aimed at assessing the experience of parental rearing behaviour. As in a previous study of Swedish depressives, three factors, "rejection", "emotional warmth", and "ov...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Perris C,Maj M,Perris H,Eisemann M

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Time trends for suicide, homicide and accident mortality among the Finnish population 65 years or over in 1951-1979 are presented. From 1951 to 1967 suicide, motor-vehicle accident mortality and overall accident mortality among elderly males tended to follow more or less similar patterns. In 1951-1979 male suicide rat...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kivelä SL

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remoxipride, a novel substituted benzamide, was given for 4 weeks to 18 florid schizophrenics in an open study. The mental state of the majority improved as measured by the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale. Remoxipride itself did not appear to cause troublesome extrapyramidal effects. There were no significant adverse e...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： McCreadie RG,Morrison D,Eccleston D,Gall RG,Loudon J,Mitchell MJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Case notes of patients from nine different cultural groups admitted to a London hospital were scrutinized for religious background and religious phenomenology. With the exception of preaching behaviour there were no statistically significant cultural differences, but certain trends were apparent. The pattern of religi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ndetei DM,Vadher A

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic relationship has been considered an important ingredient of all psychotherapies. In communities in which no familiar conventions of such a relationship are available, the therapeutic encounter poses very different problems from those in the West, where such conventions freely prevail. This study has been c...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Neki JS,Joinet B,Hogan M,Hauli JG,Kilonzo G

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal function was examined in 153 manic-depressive patients treated with lithium for more than 5 years, mean 10 years. No significant change was detectable in plasma creatinine. Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) decreased slightly, but significantly, and not until after 17 years of treatment did the regression line re...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Løkkegaard H,Andersen NF,Henriksen E,Bartels PD,Brahm M,Baastrup PC,Jørgensen HE,Larsen M,Munck O,Rasmussen K

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is based on intensive interviews made with 75 Turkish migrant women living in Denmark. The interviews were conducted in the women's own homes, in their own language, and special care was taken to establish an atmosphere of confidence. The methodological problems involved in this kind of research are discu...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mirdal GM

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The validity of a questionnaire developed to assess negative attitudes towards drug therapy by relatives of schizophrenic patients is examined. The questionnaire items are tested against the statement: "Patients should not take drugs, they can only be helped by good advice". The prejudice of relatives of schizophrenic...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mantonakis J,Markidis M,Kontaxakis V,Liakos A

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A representative selection of 2,283 persons, 18-65 years old in "former" Stockholm County were examined by psychiatrists in 1970-71. The total non-response was 12%. The 12-month prevalence of mental disorders in relation to social class (I-III), marital status and immigration was estimated. The "psychiatric diagnoses ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Halldin J

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study comprises a retrospective evaluation of the case records of 49 first-admission patients with acute reactive paranoid psychosis and of the subsequent follow-up almost 10 years later, with special reference to clinical and social course and outcome. Ten of the 41 followed-up patients were diagnosed schizophren...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jørgensen P

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequencies of auditory, visual and olfactory hallucinations as defined by Wing et al. were studied in schizophrenic patients of various groups treated in the same hospital. The diagnosis of schizophrenia was made by the use of the Syndrome Check List. It was found that there were some cultural differences in the ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ndetei DM,Vadher A

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital, Lund, is in possession of systematic clinical ratings from 1949 to 1969 based on a multi-dimensional diagnostic schedule. All 1312 first-admitted patients (120 women) from the county who were rated as "chronic alcohol intoxication" were followed up until 31 December, ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Berglund M

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-five cases of stupor referred to a psychiatric teaching hospital over 15 years are reviewed. Ten cases presented with a depressive syndrome, four cases with catatonic phenomena and a further 10 cases with established organic aetiology; one case was considered to be psychogenic in origin. The overall mortality w...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Johnson J

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS) a subscale for depression has been derived in the course of a study of depression in which 209 patients took part. The subscale presented in this article comprises 28 items from the original pool and two additional items constructed later. The scale has a h...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Perris C,Eisemann M,von Knorring L,Perris H

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pedigrees of manic-depressive patients in treatment at the Lithium Clinic of the Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Cagliari, were evaluated for linkage between major affective illness and the protan-deutan-glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase region of the X-chromosome. Two informative pedigrees were foun...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Del Zompo M,Bocchetta A,Goldin LR,Corsini GU

更新日期：1984-09-01 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：:The prevalence of mental disorders in a representative sample of old people in Gothenburg, Sweden, was studied at 70, 75 and 79. The study comprised 392 subjects at 70, 302 subjects at 75 and 203 at 79. A case was defined by cut-off points on symptom and sign rating scales, and diagnoses were defined operationally as ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nilsson LV,Persson G

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fear of strangers ( FOS ) during the infant's first year was studied in 46 "high-risk" offspring of index mothers with a history of nonorganic psychosis and in 80 demographically similar control offspring. FOS was measured in the home by a standardized test at 1 year of age and by repeated interviews with the mother d...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Näslund B,Persson-Blennow I,McNeil T,Kaij L,Malmquist-Larsson A

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The affect of 20 chronic schizophrenic in-patients was assessed by two psychiatrists using two rating scales. The interview recordings were reviewed three times--firstly with the auditory information only (the "audio review"), secondly with the visual information only (the "visual review") and thirdly with both (the "...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kitamura T,Kahn A,Kumar R

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The leisure activities of 110 depressed patients and of 98 non-psychiatric controls were studied. The following aspects of leisure behaviour were taken into account: quantity, type (active, passive), frequency, presence of other people, place and satisfaction. In addition, possible relationships between personality an...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Eisemann M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a review article parental losses (PL) of children in different age and sex groups are psycho-analytically examined from the view point of the triangular family relationship, cognitive development of the children and their ability to mourn, delinquency, schizophrenia and affective illnesses, and lastly the controver...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Laajus S

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multi-variate multiple regression analysis was carried out to screen the crucial characteristics of alcohol abusers immediately prior to pension in order to indicate their subsequent trends. Stepwise multiple regression analyses were performed in the younger and older subgroups, as well as in 56 first-time pension a...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hörnquist JO,Elton M,Ostlund R

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By means of a psychiatric case register the total psychiatric population in the Nacka region (75,000 inhabitants) was analysed during a 2-year period with regard to the amount of psychotherapy consumed in different social groups. Among the patients, the utilization of psychotherapy was 60% for social group I compared ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Cullberg J,Stefansson CG

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the framework of the multifactorial-polygenic model of inheritance, multiple threshold strategy was applied to a large set of pedigree data to examine the clinico-genetical position of some subtypes within the ICD-9 classification of schizophrenic psychoses. It appeared highly probable that the ICD-9 subtypes e...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ungvári G

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By record linkage of a discharge diagnosis registry and a medical birth registry we identified 350 women with manic-depressive disease who had born a child. The total delivery outcome was poorer than expected with a high perinatal death rate and a high malformation rate. Further studies revealed a high rate of perinat...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Källén B,Tandberg A

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonidine (0.15 mg intravenously), an alpha-adrenergic receptor agonist, was administered to 13 male chronic schizophrenics, who had been withdrawn from chronic neuroleptic therapy, and to 18 normal male controls. There was no significant difference in growth hormone (GH) response between the two groups. There was no ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lal S,Nair NP,Thavundayil JX,Monks RC,Guyda H

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective study a number of women and their husbands were interviewed early on in the pregnancy, in the week after delivery and again 4 months later. The couvade syndrome, in which the father-to-be suffers from somatic symptoms of psychogenic origin connected in some way with his wife's pregnancy, was investiga...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bogren LY

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A self-assessment scale has been developed and found to be a reliable instrument for detecting states of depression and anxiety in the setting of an hospital medical outpatient clinic. The anxiety and depressive subscales are also valid measures of severity of the emotional disorder. It is suggested that the introduct...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Zigmond AS,Snaith RP

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 8-week multidimensional program of behavioral management, cognitive restructuring, and assertiveness training was administered to depressed outpatients either individually with a single therapist (n = 12), in two small groups (n = 11), or one large group (n = 11), or as bibliotherapy (n = 12). A randomly assigned w...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Schmidt MM,Miller WR

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dexamethasone suppression test (DST) and thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) stimulation test were performed in 34 patients with endogenous depression. Compared with 33 psychiatric controls (limit of discrimination for serum cortisol of 275 nmol/l = 10 micrograms/100 ml) the specificity of the DST was 91% and the sens...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Aggernaes H,Kirkegaard C,Krog-Meyer I,Kijne B,Larsen JK,Laursen AL,Lykke-Olesen L,Mikkelsen PL,Rasmussen S,Bjørum N

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00