abstract：:In a retrospective study, 124 patients with depression who were concomitantly receiving ECT and benzodiazepines were compared with patients (matched for age, sex, diagnosis, and laterality of ECT) receiving ECT without benzodiazepines in order to investigate the efficacy of ECT in terms of therapeutic response and len...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jha A,Stein G

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The construction of the clinical category dysmorphophobia (now known as body dysmorphic disorder) resulted from the historical convergence of a neologism (coined by Enrico Morselli), a family of clinical concepts (already available during the late 19th century), and a specifiable behaviour (an 'attitude' towards part ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Berrios GE,Kan CS

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to ascertain whether suicide victims had ever been in contact with a primary health-care centre, a psychiatric out-patient treatment centre or any form of institutional psychiatric care, and whether there had been any change in such patterns over time. The results show an increase in the numb...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hydén LC

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic factors have long been implicated in the aetiology of bipolar disorder (BD). During the past two decades several linkage studies have been carried out with the aim of identifying major genes. However, remarkable discrepancies in results both between and within studies have constituted a major problem. In order...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Turecki G,Rouleau GA,Mari JJ,Morgan K

更新日期：1996-05-01 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：:A total of 440 (50.1%) drinking patients were found in a study of 878 primary care patients in Nigeria, of whom 126 (28.6%) of drinking patients were observed to have alcohol-related problems. Those with alcohol-related problems were significantly more likely to be males, middle-aged and to belong to higher occupation...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Abiodun OA

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The associations between milieu therapists' feelings towards patients and the unit's psychological climate were studied at 21 small treatment homes for severely disturbed psychiatric patients. The milieu therapists filled out self-report instruments where they rated their feelings towards patients on a feeling-word ch...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Holmqvist R,Fogelstam H

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychiatric illness is a significant risk factor for both attempted and completed suicide and psychotropic medications account for 80% of all drug overdoses involving prescription medications. One challenge facing clinicians is to balance the benefit of treatment against the risk of drug overdose. The aim of the prese...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Buckley NA,Dawson AH,Whyte IM,Hazell P,Meza A,Britt H

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ICD-10 and DSM-IV classifications have both given low priority to "reactivity" to acute stress as a classificatory principle for functional psychoses. In Scandinavia, reactivity is still considered an important factor in the development of such psychoses. Reactivity is a complex concept, and its various components...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Guldberg CA,Dahl AA,Bertelsen A,Hansen H,Haslerud J,Hytten K,Narud K

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim was to investigate the relationships between a model of personality based on the concept of defense mechanisms, as articulated by Vaillant, with the psychobiological model of personality, as developed by Cloninger. A total of 128 adults from 11 family pedigrees with at least two alcohol-dependent members compl...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mulder RT,Joyce PR,Sellman JD,Sullivan PF,Cloninger CR

更新日期：1996-02-01 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：:A study sample of 50 patients suffering from schizophrenia was examined at readmission and thereafter every second week until each patient had been interviewed five times i.e. eight weeks in total. Three types of recovery are identified, one with full and two with partial recovery of delusional beliefs. In patients wi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jørgensen P

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We followed the prescription of psychotropic drugs by primary health care physicians over a 3-year period. The material consisted of 1000 randomly selected adult primary health care patients. At least one psychotropic drug was prescribed to one third (n = 307) of the sample during the follow-up period. The most common...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Joukamaa M,Sohlman B,Lehtinen V

更新日期：1995-11-01 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：:The aim of the study was to examine the social and economic variables associated with mental health by means of telephone interviews of a randomly chosen population sample (n = 1557) in Finland in 1993. Mental health was evaluated by means of a 12-item General Health Questionnaire. A mental disorder, indicated by the ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Viinamäki H,Kontula O,Niskanen L,Koskela K

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study of factors predicting readmissions and follow-up treatment was undertaken of all first-ever episodes of inpatient care (age under 65), excluding psychotic and organic mental disorders, during 1987 and 1988 in University Psychiatric Clinic in Turku City Hospital, Finland. The cohort consisted of 6...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Korkeila JA,Karlsson H,Kujari H

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little attention has been payed to the classification of psychotic symptoms in dementia sufferers. This article compares the etiology of delusions, visual hallucinations and delusional misidentification and examines the value of factors generated from principal components analysis as a possible classificatory system i...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ballard CG,Bannister CL,Patel A,Graham C,Oyebode F,Wilcock G,Chung MC

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 289 Greenlanders admitted for the first time to a mental hospital from 1980 to 1983, were followed for 7 years. Thirty-seven patients, 24 men and 13 women, were diagnosed with schizophrenia at least once during the follow-up period. The annual first admission rate per 100,000 was 41 for men and 23 for women...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lynge I,Jacobsen J

更新日期：1995-06-01 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：:The rates of middle ear disease in 70 patients with schizophrenia from a defined catchment population were compared with the rates in 359 nonpsychiatric controls who were matched for age, sex and general practice. A relative risk (odds ratio) of middle ear disease in schizophrenia of 1.92 was found. This was raised to...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mason PR,Winton FE

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parental bonding patterns were studied in 52 female Japanese eating disorder outpatients with and without histories of sexual or physical abuse and with dissociation. Instruments included the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI), the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) and the Dissociative Disorders Interview Schedule (...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Berger D,Ono Y,Saito S,Tezuka I,Takahashi Y,Uno M,Ishikawa Y,Kuboki T,Asai M,Suematsu H

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate women who had first-episode psychosis within 1 year after parturition. The Danish Psychiatric Central Register and the Danish Medical Birth Register were linked to identify all women admitted for the first time to a psychiatric department in Arhus County with a psychotic episod...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Videbech P,Gouliaev G

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1070 men and women aged 65 years and over living in the community in Liverpool were interviewed using the Geriatric Mental State. Diagnoses of depression at case and subcase level were made using the GMS-AGECAT package from an initial interview and at follow-up three years later. Data relating to blood pres...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gilmore C,Green BH,Copeland JR,Dewey ME,Davidson IA,Saunders PA,Sharma V

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major aim of this study was to investigate links between chronic insomnia and mental and personality disorders using the DSM-III-R classification. Of a sample of 2512 general practice attenders, 105 with a chronic insomnia complaint over a 4-month period were evaluated for mental and personality disorders. In addi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Schramm E,Hohagen F,Käppler C,Grasshoff U,Berger M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both the classification based on independent psychiatric categories as well as the concept of an underlying 1-dimensional hierarchy of syndromes are insufficiently valid. At symptom level we previously found 5 factor-analytical components representing 6 dimensions of psychopathology. Rasch analysis based on the preval...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Goekoop JG,Zwinderman AH

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective was to assess the relationship between vulnerability to postpartum depression and perceptual defense evoked by tachistoscopic stimuli alluding to perinatal themes in pregnant women. Tachistoscopic stimuli have been shown to produce different thresholds of conscious identification according to their emoti...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Borgeat F,David H,Saucier JF,Dumont M

更新日期：1994-12-01 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：:Bond's Defense Style Questionnaire was administered to control subjects from the general population (n = 50) and to psychiatric outpatients with neurosis (n = 42), high-level personality disorder (n = 37) and low-level personality disorder (n = 22). Factor analysis yielded 4 defense styles ranging on a continuum from ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Sammallahti P,Aalberg V,Pentinsaari JP

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study a newly developed Self-rating Inventory for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is presented. The instrument consists of 47 items, reflecting DSM-III-R criteria, associated features and items corresponding to the disorder of extreme stress not otherwise specified. All items are phrased in a trauma-indep...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hovens JE,van der Ploeg HM,Bramsen I,Klaarenbeek MT,Schreuder JN,Rivero VV

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the family variables of expressed emotion (EE) and communication deviance (CD) and patient attributes of cognitive functions and clinical symptoms were examined. Eleven schizophrenic patients and their parents were evaluated at the beginning and the end of a 2-year treatment programme. The tes...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rund BR

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Religious patients with generalized anxiety disorder were given religious psychotherapy in addition to supportive psychotherapy anxiolytic drugs. Those receiving religious psychotherapy showed significantly more rapid improvement in anxiety symptoms than those who received supportive psychotherapy and drugs only. Thus...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Azhar MZ,Varma SL,Dharap AS

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our clinical experience that lithium is an agent used infrequently for self-poisoning was investigated. The rate at which such overdoses occurred was determined from hospital records. A retrospective case notes study then compared overdose rates in patients taking lithium versus patients on antidepressant medication. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Waddington D,McKenzie IP

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy Japanese DSM-III-R schizophrenic patients were assessed for 30 clinical symptoms using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) of Kay et al. Principal component analysis was applied to the full item set of this scale and disclosed 5 orthogonal independent symptom groups: negative, hostile/excited, tho...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kawasaki Y,Maeda Y,Sakai N,Higashima M,Urata K,Yamaguchi N,Kurachi M

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A marked proportion of primary care patients have mental disorders and problems that remain unrecognized by the patients and their general practitioners. There is furthermore a great variation in the physicians' ability to detect mental disorders. The aim of the present study was to find out the overall prevalence of ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Joukamaa M,Lehtinen V,Karlsson H,Rouhe E

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 103 Holocaust survivors who suffered from Nazi persecution during their childhood years were interviewed in 1992. The interviews were conducted using a questionnaire specially prepared for statistical studies of Holocaust survivors. The study demonstrated that most survivors in this sample still suffer toda...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Robinson S,Rapaport-Bar-Sever M,Rapaport J

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study 50 of 51 schizophrenic long-term patients treated by a community-based outpatient service were followed-up for 2 years. Factors known to be relevant for rehospitalization were correlated with the rate of hospitalizations 1) in the past, 2) during the last year and 3) during the follow-up period. We were ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hoffmann H

更新日期：1994-03-01 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：:Bright-light therapy is widely regarded as an effective treatment for winter seasonal affective disorder (SAD). We attempted to identify predictors of light therapy response in 54 depressed, drug-free outpatients diagnosed with SAD by DSM-III-R criteria. After a baseline week, patients were treated for 2 weeks with 25...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lam RW

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Services are intended to maintain patients in the community while improving the quality of their lives. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which psychiatric patients' diagnoses, levels of autonomy, objective living conditions and degree of service utilization are associated with their perceived q...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mercier C,King S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dexamethasone suppression test (DST) was administered to 30 inpatients who met the DSM-III-R criteria for chronic schizophrenia and shared similar environments. Four of them (13%) were DST nonsuppressors. The mean and maximum postdexamethasone cortisol levels were correlated with the patient's score on the scale f...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Garyfallos G,Lavrentiadis G,Amoutzias D,Monas K,Manos N

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00