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Millenniumkoorts

ISSUE 1999/3
17 februari 2004
Marc De Hert
New research

Assessment of the therapeutic climate in a psychiatric ward and a therapeutic community, using the Ward Atmosphere Scale

ISSUE 1999/3
17 februari 2004
B. Sabbe, M. Cruyt, P. Bauwens, H. Windmolders, H. Vertommen

De Fase is a psychiatric ward of the Psychiatric Center Sint-Norbertus at Duffel (b). It consists of an admission clinic and five units for psychotherapeutic treatment: a motivational unit, a group analytical unit, a cognitive behavioural unit, a ...

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Review article

Continuation and maintenance electroconvulsive therapy

ISSUE 1999/3
17 februari 2004
A.C.M. Vergouwen

The results of continuation/maintenance psychopharmacotherapy after an acute course of ect, given for treatment-refractory depressive disorders, seems to be unsatisfactory. This literature-search tries to find what is known about the efficacy of c...

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State-of-the-art-article

Neuropsychiatric diagnostic procedures in people with learning disabilities

ISSUE 1999/3
17 februari 2004
W.M.A. Verhoeven, S. Tuinier †, L.M.G. Curfs

Description of psychopathological symptoms in mentally retarded subjects is of great heuristic value because of the increasingly observed regular association with a known genetic disorder as well as the heterogenous and atypical phenomenology. In ...

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Short report

Pharmacological treatment of dysthymic disorder

ISSUE 1999/3
17 februari 2004
P.F.J. Schulte

For a long time dysthymic disorder has been regarded as a 'neurotic' disorder. Results of psychopharmacological treatment have been contradictory, mainly because of methodological problems. This article reviews recent research, demonstrating effic...

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Short report

Theses written by psychiatrists

ISSUE 1999/3
17 februari 2004
H.G.M. Rooijmans

As a supplement to a previous article a count is made of the number of psychiatrists and psychiatric residents who have written a thesis. In the last years there is a modest increase in that number, but psychiatry is lagging behind other medical d...

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Case report

Puerperal psychosis in bipolar women taking lithium; two case studies

ISSUE 1999/3
17 februari 2004
A.C. Kosters-Hoek

Some women with bipolar disorder run a substantial risk of developing a puerperal psychosis, in spite of taking lithium; this is illustrated bij two case reports. In addition to well known riskfactors such as giving birth to a first child, a caesa...

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Letter to the editor

erratum

ISSUE 1999/3
5 februari 2004