Articles

A place for child and adolescent psychiatric training within the future psychiatric residency training?

F. Verheij

summary The question remains whether the members of the Dutch Association of Psychiatry are going to endorse the reality that a majority of the psychiatrists no longer works as generalists and whether they have the courage to convert this reality ...

Forensic psychiatric patients on an admission ward: hard to treat?

C.J. van Gestel, Ch. van Nieuwenhuizen, R.A. Achilles

18 juni 2004

summary Forensic psychiatric patients generally are considered troublesome, though in this study case registration data and case studies (1996) suggest but limited differences in demographics, diagnoses, treatment outcome, manageability and outflo...

Case report

Bipolar disorder: ultra-rapid and ultradian cycling

B. Bourdeau, G. Pieters

summary Following a clinical case the authors summarize and critically appraise the literature on ultrarapid and ultradian cycling bipolar disorder. These subtypings of the rapid cycling bipolar disorder are insufficiently supported by evidence, n...

Letter to the editor

Rectificatie 'Stemmingsstoornissen tijdens de zwangerschap en de postpartumperiode'

Editorial

Biologische psychiatrie

Which patients are seen in emergency psychiatry services?

C.L. Mulder, A.I. Wierdsma

10 juli 2008

background There is insufficient insight in the characteristics of users of psychiatric emergency services (PES) and their patterns of care. This is relevant for identifying crisis sensitive patients and policymaking for this group.
aim To investi...

Psychosis, trauma, and trauma related psychopathology

M. van Gerven, O. van der Hart, E.R.S. Nijenhuis, T. Kuipers

background Traumatic events were a risk factor for the former diagnosis 'hysterical psychosis'. Nowadays psychoses are rarely associated with trauma. Nonetheless research shows a relationship between psychoses and reported trauma.
aim To discuss r...

Ecstasy: psychiatric complications and neurotoxicity

T.M.J. Vreys, B.B.H. van den Bossche

background Ecstasy or 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is a popular party drug with a good reputation in the clubbing and dancing scene. However there is reason to worry. Apart from the sporadic reports about acute, serious and fatal compl...

Genomics and psychiatry: not an easy marriage

J.A. van Waarde, R.H. de Rijk, F.G. Zitman

background Research on the composition and action of the genome ('genomics') can lead to new insights into aetiology, course and treatment of psychiatric disorders. Despite epidemiological evidence for involvement of genetic factors in psychiatric...

A retrospective investigation into the course of judicial authorized admissions in a non-academic psychiatric hospital

J.E. Hovens, S. Spierdijk

summary In a retrospective research the juridical course is investigated in seventy patients who were involuntary admitted with a judicial authorization in a non-academic psychiatric hospital in 1997. Patients with such an authorization had alread...

Case report

Neurosyphilis

P.H. Hilderink, J.G. Eerenberg

summary A female patient, 50 years of age, with a severe dementia due to neurosyphilis is described. Diagnostic problems in this case are being discussed.

Letter to the editor

Reactie op 'Genderspecificiteit in de psychiatrie'

Reactie op 'Stemmingsstoornissen tijdens de zwangerschap en de postpartumperiode'

A. Bakker, E.J.M. Peters

Editorial

Lichtjes in de ogen

Pre-dsm-thinking in a post-dsm-era

J. Van Hecke, S. De Bruyne, B. Sabbe

background Over the past few years the DSM-system was the subject of discussion in several leading journals. Recently, a review of Jongedijk summarised this by putting side by side the different advantages and disadvantages that were discussed in ...

Essay

Ulysses Arrangements: autonomy, coercion or care?

I. Gremmen, A. Beekman, S. Sevenhuijsen, G.A.M. Widdershoven, R. Zuijderhoudt

background The Dutch cabinet considers changing the law in order to provide for the opportunity to make Ulysses arrangements (Ulysses contracts) in psychiatry. A Ulysses arrangement would entail a client's deliberate and freely given consent that,...

Internet-artikel

Suicide and the internet: a discussion of Dutch websites

G. Degraeve, G. Pieters

summary Starting from publications about suicide and the internet, we checked which Dutch sites about suicide are available on the internet. With the use of the meta-search engine Ixquick, 45 different websites were found. These were visited, clas...

Letter to the editor

Reactie op 'Een patiënte met een manische episode na gebruik van een afslankmiddel'

E.A.M. Knoppert-van der Klein, W.A. Nolen

Editorial

Genderspecificiteit in de psychiatrie

N.J. Nicolaï

New research

Gender differences in mental disorders, consequences and service utilisation

M. ten Have, C. Schoemaker, W.A.M. Vollebergh

background Little is known about to what extent the results on gender/sex differences in mental disorders and help seeking behaviour from American and Canadian studies have more general validity to the Netherlands.
aim To determine gender/sex diff...

Depression: gender differences in prevalence, clinical features and treatment response

C.M.T. Gijsbers van Wijk

summary Depression is twice as common in women as in men. Aside from artefactual determinants, this gender difference is caused by biological, psychological and social factors. Clinical features (symptoms, severity, course and comorbidity) differ ...

New research

Gender bias and personality disorders

R. Verheul

background The introduction of the DSM-III in 1980 has resulted in ideological controversy about possible gender biases that might threaten the validity of psychiatric diagnoses, particularly personality disorders .
aim To critically review the sc...

Gender and somatization

A.M.M. Kolk

summary Current opinions on gender and somatization are in need of a critical consideration. After all, prevalence studies are not without gender bias. The idea that women in particular express their emotional problems in somatic complaints is ins...

Mood disorders during pregnancy and post partum period