Wetenschappelijk tijdschrift voor psychiaters, artsen in opleiding tot psychiater en andere geïnteresseerden
Edit

Issue

Previous issues

Editorial

Het denken mag zich nooit onderwerpen ...want zich onderwerpen betekent het einde van alle denken (H. Poincaré: wetenschappelijk beginsel van mijn universiteit)

ISSUE 2004/11
10 november 2004
H. D'haenen †
New research

Attempts to stop long-term use of benzodiazepine by means of controlled dose reduction with or without the help of group therapy

ISSUE 2004/11
11 november 2004
R.C. Oude Voshaar, W.J.M.J. Gorgels, A.J.J. Mol, A.J.L.M. van Balkom, E.H. van de Lisdonk, M.H.M. Breteler, H.J.M. van den Hoogen, F.G. Zitman

background Research is needed into ways of reducing patients' dependence on benzodiazepine. So far, dose reduction has never been compared with reduction without intervention. Furthermore, the added value of combining treatment with psychotherapy ...

Read more
New research

Premature termination of short-term in-patient psychotherapy

ISSUE 2004/11
10 november 2004
M.M. Thunnissen, Y.A.H. Remans, R.W. Trijsburg

background Efficient application of psychotherapy is also important with respect to policy making in mental health care. Therefore special attention needs to be given to the reasons for premature termination of treatment.
aim To discover patients'...

Read more
Review article

Serious behavioural problems in mentally handicapped children: the Smith-Magenis syndrome

ISSUE 2004/11
10 november 2004
I.D.C. van Balkom, F.A. Beemer, R.C.M. Hennekam

background The Smith-Magenis syndrome is a genetically determined syndrome that is characterised primarily by unusual behaviour. The syndrome is still insufficiently recognised although it has an incidence of 1:25,000, which is just as high as tha...

Read more
Review article

PANDAS

ISSUE 2004/11
14 december 2004
S.B.A.H.A. Fluitman, H.G.M. Westenberg, D.A.J.P. Denys

background In 1996 a new concept, PANDAS (Paediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections) was introduced into psychiatry. It is a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder and tic disorder which is perceiv...

Read more
Short report

Guidelines in general psychiatric practice

ISSUE 2004/11
10 november 2004
J. Spijker, A.J.A. Kaasenbrood, W.J. de Vries

background Little research has been done into the applicability of guidelines in general psychiatric practice.
aim To determine the applicability of a general guideline regarding the biological treatment of depression in a large institution for me...

Read more
Case report

Treatment resistant depression in the elderly; when is it inadvisable to prescribe tricyclic antidepressants?

ISSUE 2004/11
10 november 2004
R.M. Kok, W.W.A. van Maarschalkerweerd

summary A 74-year old man was admitted to a psychiatric hospital because he had been suffering for 1,5 years from a depressive disorder with psychotic features and had not responded positively to treatment with three selective serotonin reuptake i...

Read more
Case report

A mother refuses to accept her baby. A case study

ISSUE 2004/11
10 november 2004
W.G. Staal, J.J. Wernand, B. van der Goot

summary Little is known about how the attachment between mother and child can be adversely affected be psychiatric illness in the mother. In such situations both mother and child run the risk of developing severe psychopathology. This case study d...

Read more
Abstract

De delayed-onset-hypothese van het effect van antipsychotica: getoetst en verworpen

ISSUE 2004/11
10 november 2004
N. Dekker, L. de Haan
Abstract

Herstel: de visie van patiënten zelf

ISSUE 2004/11
10 november 2004
M. Eneman
Letter to the editor

Reactie op 'Trauma, hippocampus en geheugen: een kritische evaluatie'

ISSUE 2004/11
10 november 2004
E. Geuze, C.S. de Kloet, E. Vermetten
Letter to the editor

Publicatieprijs arts-assistenten 2003

ISSUE 2004/11
10 november 2004
A.J.L.M. van Balkom