Articles

A.J. Fouwels, W. van den Brink, H.F.A. Schalken

background Very little is known about the prevalence of alcohol use disorders among patients of Dutch mental health services and about the recognition and treatment of these disorders by mental health care professionals.
aims To estimate the preva...

Psychiatric diagnostics and the dsm-system

R.A. Jongedijk

background dsm-iv (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders, fourth edition) has obtained a dominant position within mental health care. The diagnostic system is considered to be a standard in psychiatric diagnostic classification. On...

Binge eating disorder

A.E. Dingemans, M.J. Bruna, E.F. van Furth

background Binge eating disorder is a 'new' disorder of which the research criteria were added to the dsm-iv in 1994.
aims This paper aims to improve the knowledge of this new eating disorder. An overview of its characteristics, diagnostic criteri...

Attachment and psychopathology: an overview

N. Nicolaï

background In John Bowlby's work a relation was proposed between early attachment experiences and psychopathology in adulthood. Attachment experiences in childhood become internalised as mental representations or internal working models. These can...

A psychiatric perspective of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

G. Meynen, W.J.G. Hoogendijk, W.A. van Gool

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterised by a rapidly progressing dementia and early neurological symptoms. Recently it was established that exposure to meat contaminated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (bse) m...

Accuracy and appropriateness of references in the 'Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie'

G. Pieters, E. Ceysens, E. de Heyn

background The prevalence of errors in reference citations in the psychiatric literature is not as well documented as in other medical fields. We don't know of any research on this topic in our language field.

aim To determine the number of erro...

Case report

Hoarding; a case-report

A.J. Fouwels, B.C. Appelhof

The phenomenon of hoarding is discussed on the basis of a case description and relevant literature. According to dsm-iv criteria hoarding is classified within the spectrum of obsessive-compulsive Disorder (ocd). However, in contrast to ocd, hoardi...

Editorial

Psychotherapeuten op zoek naar een beschermde titel

Social functioning and the course of recent-onset schizophrenia

M.E. Lenior, P.M.A.J. Dingemans, D.H. Linszen, L. de Haan, A.H. Schene

background Since treatment of schizophrenic patients has shifted from long term hospital admissions to community services, the research on social functioning has become increasingly important, because schizophrenia implies severe social impairment...

Saccadic paradigms and cognition: a review

A. Broerse, T.J. Crawford, J.A. den Boer

background Saccade studies became increasingly popular. This popularity might have been due to the fact that saccade paradigms can be used for the study of various cognitive functions. For most of the paradigms, the brain mechanisms involved are v...

Determinants of mental ill-health: implications for research and policy

J. Ormel, J. Neeleman, D. Wiersma

background Mental ill-health is an important public health problem. Effective public mental health policies will benefit from good knowledge about the determinants of mental illness and mental health . aims Drawing from our background study 'Menta...

Rehabilitation of conventional antipsychotics

L. de Haan, J.M. van Bruggen, J. Lavalaye, W.F. Scholte, L. Wouters, J. Storosum, D.H. Linszen

background Assessment of the place of the new generation antipsychotic drugs (atypical antipsychotics, nga) in the treatment of schizophrenia patients is necessary.

aim To present a practical overview of meta-analyses concerning efficacy, side e...

Involuntary admissions and addiction: Research into the application of the Dutch law for involuntary psychiatric admissions

M.F.A.M. van Rooij, C.M.M. Vleugels, F.A.M. Kortmann, H.A.M.J. ten Have, F.C.B. van Wijmen

23 januari 2004

This article describes compulsory admissions in the intramural institutes for addiction care for the period 1997-1998. By means of a survey study the number of involuntary admissions was investigated as well as the factors that influence this numb...

Case report

Permanent cerebellar sequelae after intoxication at therapeutic lithium levels

I.M. van der Steenstraten, R.A. Achilles

Permanent cerebellar sequelae are infrequent severe side effects of treatment with lithium, even at therapeutic lithium levels (lower than 1.2 mmol/l). Unfamiliarity with this phenomenon can lead to a wrong diagnosis such as conversion, as will be...

Letter to the editor

Reactie op 'Geweld en psychotische ziekte'

H.L.I. Nijman, H.W. Cuperus, M.A. Polak

3 februari 2004

Editorial

Weten en vergeten

Overstrain: A sea of complaints or a source of research?

A.J.M. Smith

background In literature many symptoms are related to overstrain or 'surmenage'. Moreover, these symptoms refer to many different diagnoses. This is in sharp contrast with the increasing sophistication of psychiatric classification, making the use...

Essay

From danger to risk: Managing instead of warning

H.J.C. van Marle

Assessing risk before leave and termination of forensic treatment is very important because of the big consequences for society and the patient himself. The usual clinical examination by a psychiatrist or a psychologist depends very much on the se...

Gender differences in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics

A.H. Veefkind

background There is a lack of information about differences in the treatment responses of men and women to drugs because hitherto women have been underrepresented in clinical trials. It is becoming increasingly clear that the recommended dosage of...

Fitting Medical Care

Paul Hodiamont

background In medicine guidelines are considered important tools for quality improvement that might also attribute to cost control.
aims This hypothesis was tested in the research project 'Fitting Medical Care' of the Royal Dutch Medical Society. ...

Differences in psychiatric illness between first en second generation Turks applying for treatment in a psychiatric outpatient clinic in the Netherlands

Y. Güzelcan, M.W.J. Koeter, R.H.H. Lanting

A group of Turkish outpatients who sought treatment for mental health problems in a general psychiatric hospital were divided into first and second generation Turks. Based on their medical records, we compared their intragenerational and intergene...

Case report

A man with amnestic disorder and psychotic symptoms caused by Behç;ets's disease

A.L.C. de Vries, I.M. van Vliet

A young man with amnestic disorder and psychotic symptoms of unknown origin was found to be suffering from Behçet's disease. This is a multi-organ disease in which oral aphtae occur together with vasculitis-like defects in several other organs. If...

Letter to the editor

Reactie op 'Vaardigheden en zorgvuldigheid bij alternatieven voor hulp bij zelfdoding'

Reactie op Tholen naar aanleiding van 'Vaardigheden en zorgvuldigheid bij alternatieven voor hulp bij zelfdoding'