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Sixty‐four chronic stabilised schizophrenics were studied for 18 months in order to assess the possible difference in therapeutic effects and side effects between flupenthixol decanoate and fluphenazine decanoate. Although certain differences in the BPRS sub‐scores in favour of flupenthixol were present at various stages in the study, there was no significant difference between the two drugs in the overall antipsychotic scores at the end of the assessment period; however, more patients on fluphenazine required additional therapy for depression or anxiety during the trial per

ISSN:0001-690X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1979.tb00281.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1979

数据来源: WILEY

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The clinical course of six alcoholics with Korsakoff's psychosis was compared with 23 patients with hydrocephalic dementia before and after shunt operation. The initial clinical state as well as the symptom improvement showed important similarities between the Korsakoff group and the hydrocephalic dementia group, who improved after shunt operation. Fantastic confabulation and apraxia were only observed in the hydrocephalic dementia group. Psychometrically, both groups showed a similar degree of improvement of the initially impaired verbal memory while only the hydrocephalic dementia group showed impairment of spatial abilities indicating a constructional apraxia. It is suggested that the similarities of the two conditions are related to dysfunction of diencephalic and temporal‐limbic structures. The constructional and general apraxia as well as the fantastic confabulation in hydrocephalic dementia indicate a cortical, especially frontal cortical, dysfunction in this disorde

ISSN:0001-690X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1979.tb00282.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1979

数据来源: WILEY

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The psycho‐social backgrounds of 69 amphetamine‐addicted mothers were investigated in order to find indicators which might be applicable in predicting the addicted women's chances of adaptation to motherhood. Of these 69 women, 17 stopped taking drugs in the first months of gestation when they realized that they were pregnant (Group 1). The remaining 52 women continued taking drugs throughout pregnancy (Group 2). There was no difference between the groups as to number of years of addiction, or other drugs used except that more women in Group 2 abused alcohol at the same time.A large proportion of the women in both Groups 1 and 2 were, as children, known to the local social welfare agencies because of their unsatisfactory home conditions. In Group 2, psychiatric illness and drug abuse were more common among parents and siblings than in Group 1. In spite of this, the women in Group 2 had, on the average, been placed in a foster home at a significantly older age. Significantly more women in Group 2 also had a poorer educational background and a criminal record including more serious crimes.At the time of their current pregnancy the women in Group 1 had a more stable social situation with regard to permanent dwelling, work and relationship with non‐addicted fr

ISSN:0001-690X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1979.tb00283.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1979

数据来源: WILEY

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Recently, provisional research criteria for “schizo‐affective” and related psychoses were published by the St. Louis Group. These rigorous criteria were modified and expanded for purposes of the present study in order to analyze the case records of 83 first admissions of Schneider‐positive schizophrenics, that is, those with first rank symptoms, hospitalized in a strongly Schneider‐oriented German University Clinic during the period 1962–1971. Research diagnosable “schizo‐affective” disorder was thus found in 27.7 % (23 cases) of these patients; 12 of the 23 satisfied “full” affective research criteria for depression or mania, whereas 11 fulfilled “adjusted” affective criteria geared to cover more “labile” mixed mood states. Moreover, 48.2 % (40 cases) and 25.3 % (21 cases) of the sample were research‐positive for “schizophreniform” illness and “atypical schizophrenia” respectively. Findings such as these suggest that “first rank” schizophrenia, as routinely diagnosed in Germany, may no

ISSN:0001-690X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1979.tb00284.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1979

数据来源: WILEY

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A standardised survey of prevalence has been carried out in a general population. The epidemiological method employed is innovative in its use of two established instruments, the GHQ and the PSE, harnessed together in a two‐phase design. 756 persons were interviewed, giving a response rate of 85 % in phase 1. 157 were then interviewed with the PSE in phase 2 within a few days, giving a response rate of 92 % in this weighted subsample.The point prevalence of non‐psychotic morbidity, based on the distribution of GHQ scores, is higher than elsewhere in Australia, the excess being in Canberra males. The PSE data weighted back to represent the total population, show a distribution of morbidity in women which is remarkably similar to that in the very different population of Camberwell. The overall point prevalence of threshold and definite cases is 9.0 % 3.2. Case rates did not vary significantly with age or sex, but were higher in the separated, the single and the widowed.This study represents an advance in the reliable and economical detection of psychiatric morbidity at specified levels of severity in general populati

ISSN:0001-690X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1979.tb00285.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1979

数据来源: WILEY

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Suicidal behaviour in Eskimo populations has changed in pattern and quantity over the last decades. Rates have more than quadrupled and performers now are mainly young persons with obscure motivation. In a study from Greenland's major township all cases of attempted or completed suicide among Greenlanders are analysed for social, emotional, somatic, and environmental predisposing factors in comparison with a non‐psychiatric, never‐suicidal, matching group.Almost two per thousand of the adult population committed suicide yearly while attempts at suicide were five times as frequent. A quarrelsome, drinking, childhood home background was often found, at least as regards the attempters, who themselves frequently suffered from emotional conflicts with close contacts, alcohol affliction, criminality, and instability at work. Neither bereavement, cross‐cultural exposure, broken homes, nor meteorological factors seemed to exert a significant influence.The results are discussed in relation to the social and cultural evolution of the Greenlandic so

ISSN:0001-690X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1979.tb00286.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1979

数据来源: WILEY

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Book Reviewed in this article:Shopsin, B.(ed.): Manic illness.

ISSN:0001-690X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1979.tb00287.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1979

数据来源: WILEY