Articles

J.E. van Horn, M.J. Eisenberg, S. van Kuik, G.M. van Kinderen

Summary
background Offenders with a dual diagnose (dd) are more likely than other offenders to repeat delinquent behavior.
aim To investigate whether male violent offenders with substance-related disorders and co-occurring disorders differed from ...

New research

Homicide committed by psychotic defendants in the Netherlands

M.C.A. Liem, D.J. Vinkers

Summary
background Psychotic patients are 10 to 20 times more likely to commit homicide than persons in the general population. Internationally, the incidence of homicides committed by psychotic defendants is 0.02-0.36 per 100.000 inhabitants. So ...

Neuro-endocrine correlates of burnout

J. Verhaeghe, F. Van Den Eede, H. Van Den Ameele, B.G.C. Sabbe

Summary
background The symptoms of burnout are similar to those of depression on the one hand and chronic fatigue syndrome on the other hand. However, the neuro-endocrine correlates of these two syndromes are the opposite, the former being a hyper...

Chronotherapy for affective disorders

R. Lieverse, R.F. Riemersma-van der Lek, J.M. Voermans, W.J.G. Hoogendijk

background In the literature there is increasing interest in the chronobiology of affective disorders and in the most important chronotherapies for treating these disorders.
aim To discuss the background to and the main features of the most importa...

Essay

ADHD and addiction: a complicated liaison

F. Matthys, S. Tremmery, M. Autrique, P. Joostens, D. Möbius, S. Stes, B.G.C. Sabbe

SUMMARY
background The presence of adhd has been linked to a 100% increase in a person’s chance of developing a substance use disorder. The prevalence of childhood and adult adhd in substance-abusing populations has been estimated to be three tim...

Obsessive compulsive disorder during pregnancy and the postpartum period

A.M.G. de Pender, M.P. Lambregtse-van den Berg, M.E. Raats

Summary
Research into psychiatric illnesses during pregnancy and the postpartum period has focused primarily on mood disorders and psychosis. However, recent reports suggest that during pregnancy and the postpartum period psychiatric patients run a...

The subclinical course of a paracetamol intoxication: pitfall for patient and clinician

W.A. van Leeuwen, J.H.M. Schellens, H.E. Becker, L. de Haan, R. van Westrhenen

Summary
A 24-year-old man took 20 grams of paracetamol during a hospital stay in the department of psychiatry. It was not until 60 hours later that therapy with acetylcysteine was initiated. Paracetamol intoxication has a long latency period. If th...

Some reflections on body dysmorphic disorder by proxy

T. Gofers, I. Verhagen, T.K. Bouman

Summary
Body dysmorphic disorder by proxy is a body image disorder that causes considerable distress and discomfort to the patient and to his or her close relatives and friends. There have been hardly any publications on this topic and little is kn...

Dutch-Flemish research

Vorming en retentie van stimulus-cocaïneassociaties in de hersenen

K. Nelissen

Dutch-Flemish research

Vergelijkbare effectiviteit van elektroconvulsietherapie bij bi- en unipolaire depressie

T. Birkenhäger

Dutch-Flemish research

De toegevoegde waarde van D-cycloserine bij de exposurebehandeling van posttraumatische stressstoornis

Geestelijk ziek en toch niet ongelukkig

W. Soebhag, H. Hovens

Abstract

Antipsychoticagebruik beïnvloedt weefselverlies in de hersenen

S. Roza, N. van Beveren, C. Röder

Abstract

Preventie van paniekaanvallen en paniekstoornis bij COPD

L. De Backer, G. Dom, B. Sabbe

Editorial

The inseparable link between violence and psychiatry

Frontotemporal dementia and schizophrenia in later life: a comparison of executive and general cognitive functioning

F. Sanders, M.M.J. Smeets-Janssen, P.D. Meesters, A.E. van der Vlies, C.J. Kerssens, Y.A.L. Pijnenburg

summary
background Frontotemporal dementia (ftd) is characterised clinically by progressive changes in behaviour and personality; these changes are followed by cognitive disorder. Ftd needs to be differentiated from other forms of dementia and from...

New research

The God image in relation to autistic traits and religious denomination

H. Schaap-Jonker, J. van Schothorst-van Roekel, B. Sizoo

Summary
background Estimates of the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (asd) range from 0.6 to 1.0 per cent of the general population. Among the characteristic traits of asd are qualitative impairments in social reciprocity and in abstract ima...

New research

Can the clinical items of the risk assessment instrument HKT-30 predict to what extent forensic patients will break agreements during the resocialisation phase of treatment?

K. de Vries, M. Spreen

summary
background Up till now, little research has been done into the factors that psychologists use during a patient’s Involuntary Commitment process in order to decide whether the patient should be transferred from the transitional phase of trea...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder from a family perspective; implications for treatment and research

K-J. Nauta, N.M. Batelaan, A.J.L.M. van Balkom

Summary
background Obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) is a chronic, psychiatric disease which can be highly resistant to treatment. Several studies have suggested that family factors may play a role in the etiology and course of ocd.
aim To prov...

Commentary

Psychotherapy and neurobiology in obsessive-compulsive disorders

P. Ooms, A. van Loon, D. Denys

Is there a causal link between idiopathic intracranial hypertension and the use of lithium? A case-study and a review of the literature

P. Callens, P. Sienaert, K. Demyttenaere, J. De Fruyt

Summary
background The first case-study of idiopathic intracranial hypertension (iih) linked to the use of lithium appeared in 1978. Since then several new case-studies have been published sporadically. A recurrent problem for therapists seems to ...

Short report

Symptoms of anxiety in adolescents. Findings from the TRAILS-study

F.V.A. van Oort, J. Ormel, F.C. Verhulst

Summary
background The Dutch TRAILS-study focuses on development from early adolescence into adulthood. An important aspect of this development is the development of anxiety. Hitherto little has been known about typical development of symptoms of...

Patients with an increased risk of developing a first psychotic episode: two cases