abstract：:Substantial fluctuations have prevailed in both the rate and particular methods of suicide in the Federal Republic of Germany during the past 40 years. The current study examines the extent to which the availability, attraction and lethality of particular methods of suicide affect suicide rates. A close relationship e...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Wiedenmann A,Weyerer S

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the premenstrual and follicular phases of the menstrual cycle, 41 women who had generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) plus premenstrual syndrome (PMS) were assessed with psychiatric rating scales and compared with 21 GAD patients without PMS and 19 controls. The latter two groups were rated only once, in the typic...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： McLeod DR,Hoehn-Saric R,Foster GV,Hipsley PA

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven patients with DSM-III-R major depression who were treatment-resistant to sertraline were allocated for lithium augmentation therapy. In conjunction with their sertraline, 6 received lithium carbonate 400 mg at night and 5 received 800 mg at night. A total of 7 patients responded within 1 week. The degree of res...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Dinan TG

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the atheoretical approach of the DSM-III-R, the personality disorders have their roots in specific theoretical schools. Due to clinical tradition, analogies with Axis I and the tradition in psychiatry and medicine, the personality disorders are presented as categories although there is more empirical support f...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ekselius L,Lindström E,von Knorring L,Bodlund O,Kullgren G

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP) effect and erythrocyte transketolase activity (ETKA) in a group of 28 patients admitted to a psychiatric emergency ward because of severe alcohol withdrawal syndrome were compared with the TPP effect and ETKA in a control group of 20 healthy nonalcoholic volunteers. The patients were t...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nordentoft M,Timm S,Hasselbalch E,Roesen A,Gammeltoft S,Hemmingsen R

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety men between the ages of 20 to 65 were studied to investigate the relationships between stress, depression and psychogenic pain. Three groups (the coronary heart disease (CHD) group; the left-sided psychogenic chest pain (LPCP) group; and the control group) comprising 30 patients per group, each completed the So...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Naidoo P,Patel CJ

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-one of 50 patients satisfying the NINCDS-ADRDA criteria of probable or possible Alzheimer's disease showed psychotic features during a 2-year observation period. Paranoid delusions were reported in 23 patients, delusional misidentification in 17, visual hallucinations in 16 and auditory hallucinations in 8. All...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Förstl H,Besthorn C,Geiger-Kabisch C,Sattel H,Schreiter-Gasser U

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trained raters from the Liverpool Continuing Health in the Community study interviewed 1070 people over the age of 65 in 1982-1983 using the Geriatric Mental State (GMS) examination. Three years later the cohort was re-interviewed, this time by psychiatrists trained in the GMS, who used the GMS and the History and Aet...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Green BH,Dewey ME,Copeland JR,Saunders PA,Sharma V,Larkin B,Davidson IA,Scott A

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The platelet levels of serotonin and the amino acids aspartic acid, glutamine, glutamic acid and gamma-aminobutyric acid were measured in 18 drug-free autistic (DSM-III criteria) and 14 age-matched healthy children. Serotonin was significantly increased while the amino acids aspartic acid, glutamine, glutamic acid and...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rolf LH,Haarmann FY,Grotemeyer KH,Kehrer H

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to differentiate bipolar II, bipolar I and recurrent unipolar depression by their familial load for affective disorders. Eighty bipolar, 108 unipolar, 80 control subjects and interviewed first-degree relatives were diagnosed according to Research Diagnostic Criteria using the Schedule for Affe...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Heun R,Maier W

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroencephalographic coherence scores in 21 teetotaler first-degree relatives of alcoholics, 27 subjects with alcohol dependence and 21 healthy subjects without a family history of alcohol abuse were compared. The relatives had significantly higher coherence scores in the frontal and parietal leads than the alcohol...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Michael A,Mirza KA,Mukundan CR,Channabasavanna SM

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible hypersecretion involvement of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) in the pathophysiology of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis disturbances in patients with major depressive episode and with an abnormal dexamethasone suppression test (DST) was investigated. The corticotropin (ACTH) and cortisol ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Thalén BE,Kjellman BF,Ljunggren JG,Akner G,Kågedal B,Wahlund B,Wetterberg L

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 103 schizophrenic patients we investigated the extent of practice needed in the use of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) to enable its reliability to be assessed. The agreement level of the 7 raters was analysed. Generally, the lowest mean agreement found was for the negative symptoms of the BPRS schizophre...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Andersen J,Kørner A,Larsen JK,Schultz V,Nielsen BM,Behnke K,Munk-Andersen E,Bjørum N

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An empirical classification of 203 adolescent suicide attempters (mean age 17.3) was achieved using multiple correspondence analysis. The characteristics upon which the classification is based concern sociodemographic as well as psychological variables. Two groups are identified: the first is predominantly characteriz...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kienhorst CW,de Wilde EJ,van den Bout J,van der Burg E,Diekstra RF,Wolters WH

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of psychotherapy in schizophrenic patients, the existence of certain clinical and anamnestic variables, such as persistent auditory hallucinations, was found to correlate with a negative outcome. To test whether these clinical variables could be a sign of organic brain abnormality, the records of 33 schizop...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Cullberg J,Nybäck H

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) has been translated into Swedish and tested in 88 chronic schizophrenic patients. All 4 subscales exhibited a roughly normal distribution. The overall alpha for the positive, negative and general psychopathology subscales were 0.81, 0.58 and 0.63, respectively. The corr...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： von Knorring L,Lindström E

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior reviews indicate that schizophrenics tend to be born in the winter, relative to non-psychiatric controls. This conclusion has been criticized, however, as the association between birth seasonality and schizophrenia may be the result of a statistical artifact, the age-incidence effect. To examine this possibility...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rodrigo G,Lusiardo M,Briggs G,Ulmer A

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first comparative double-blind study of raclopride. Ninety-one patients with acute schizophrenia received either raclopride 2-8 mg twice daily or haloperidol 5-20 mg twice daily for 4 weeks. Both neuroleptics produced clinical improvements. There were no significant between-drug differences in overall effi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors：

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether (reported) parental over involvement and lack of affection identify initially healthy subjects at risk for depression. One thousand subjects from the province of Utrecht, the Netherlands were randomly selected by using telephone addresses and asked to participate in a...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kerver MJ,van Son MJ,de Groot PA

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：:The Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) was administered to 54 adolescent patients with anorexia nervosa. Scores were compared with those of matched groups of normal and of nonanorectic adolescents referred for assessment to an adolescent psychiatric unit. Significant differences between the 3 groups were demonstrated w...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Russell JD,Kopec-Schrader E,Rey JM,Beumont PJ

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Difficulties surrounding the meaning of insight in psychiatry have led to neglect of its assessment in clinical practice. A study is described in which an insight scale was constructed and tested in a sample of 43 patients suffering from schizophrenia or depression. The results showed that the insight instrument was a...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Marková IS,Berrios GE

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a population survey in Stockholm, 224 dementia cases were staged using two scales: the Washington University Clinical Dementia Rating Scale and DSM III-R. Both scales had to be modified by adding additional specifications and, in the case of DSM III-R, a new category of questionable dementia. After modification, th...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Forsell Y,Fratiglioni L,Grut M,Viitanen M,Winblad B

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the effects of psychological treatments specifically developed for depression. Promising and durable results have been reported for cognitive and interpersonal psychotherapies but also for behavioral psychotherapy, which has generated less research interest so far. The therapeutic effects seem to ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Stravynski A,Greenberg D

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1983-1984 the Swedish Committee for the Prevention and Treatment of Depression launched an educational program on the diagnosis and treatment of depressive disorders for all general practitioners on the island of Gotland. The baseline year chosen was 1982 and the immediate effects were evaluated in 1985. In 1988 th...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rutz W,Carlsson P,von Knorring L,Wålinder J

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of the extent of homelessness among 1581 psychiatric patients in Copenhagen found that 342 patients (22%) in contact with the psychiatric services had serious housing problems. A total of 112 (7%) were long-stay patients without a home address, 134 (8%) were in an unstable housing situation and 96 (6%) were ac...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nordentoft M,Knudsen HC,Schulsinger F

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is little information about hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis function in mania, particularly in mixed states. We therefore investigated HPA function and its relationship to clinical state in 19 hospitalized manic patients meeting Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia - Research Diagn...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Swann AC,Stokes PE,Casper R,Secunda SK,Bowden CL,Berman N,Katz MM,Robins E

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven chronic psychiatric patients developed signs of polyneuropathy mainly in the lower limbs after receiving chlorprothixene (500-1800 mg/d) from 3 to more than 24 months. The most prominent electroneuromyographic findings were decreased or not measurable motor conduction velocities of the peroneal nerves. Electromy...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Luisto M

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen consecutive case records of inpatients at a child psychiatric department with the diagnosis anorexia nervosa (AN) (DSM-III-R) were investigated to describe the family interaction pattern. To evaluate the families, the information from the case records was supplemented by interviews of the therapists and final...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Røijen S

更新日期：1992-03-01 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：:In this research we investigated the effects of 4 antipsychotic drugs with different anticholinergic components on different memory functions of schizophrenic patients. Drugs were administered in cumulative doses and memory was tested 90 min after each drug was administered. The results show that chlorpromazine and th...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Eitan N,Levin Y,Ben-Artzi E,Levy A,Neumann M

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:Abnormal glucose tolerance is often found in patients with anorexia nervosa (AN). We attempted to evaluate pancreatic B-cell functioning after intravenous glucagon administration. Fourteen patients with the restricting type of AN (percentage of ideal body weight 71.5 +/- 1.6%, mean +/- SE) and 6 patients with the buli...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kobayashi N,Tamai H,Takii M,Matsubayashi S,Nakagawa T

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a catchment area study of 101 first inceptions of schizophrenia, mania and atypical psychoses, women were significantly more likely to have atypical psychosis and men were more likely to have definite schizophrenia. Negative symptoms such as affective flattening and poverty of speech were already present in many ca...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ring N,Tantam D,Montague L,Newby D,Black D,Morris J

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified version of the revised Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire (PDQ-R), based on DSM-III-R personality disorders (PD), was completed by 74 psychiatric patients. A factor analysis of the scores for each of the PD (i.e. of the number of positive DSM-III-R criteria for each of the PD) yielded 3 factors that defin...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Dowson JH,Berrios GE

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Swedish version of the Camberwell Family Interview (CFI), a psychiatric, semistructured interview schedule for assessing a family's emotional atmosphere, is described. Thirty-two relatives of patients with schizophrenic disorders, according to DSM-III criteria, were interviewed. Eighteen relatives were interviewed t...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Orhagen T,d'Elia G

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1814 patients were studied from the Mississippi State Hospital with a DSM-III diagnosis of schizophrenia and aged 15-39 years at the time of admission. The 634 schizophrenics with a birth date between 1 December and 31 March were compared with the 1180 born between 1 April and 30 November for age of admissi...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rodrigo G,Lusiardo M,Briggs G,Ulmer A

更新日期：1991-10-01 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：:A cohort of 330 Chinese schizophrenic patients below age 40 were interviewed 5, 10 and 15 years later to determine which variables could predict their outcome. There were 189 males (57%) and 141 females (43%). At the end of 15 years, 48 (15%) died (34 (10%) from suicide). At the end of 5, 10 and 15 years, the percenta...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Tsoi WF,Wong KE

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one borderline patients (in accordance with Gunderson) who had committed suicide were compared with matched borderline patients who stayed alive. The suicide group had more frequent childhood loss, lack of treatment contact before hospitalization, longer hospitalization, and they were more frequently discharged...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kjelsberg E,Eikeseth PH,Dahl AA

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00