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Editorial

Frailty: the heart of elderly psychiatry

ISSUE 2011/2
8 februari 2011
R.C. Oude Voshaar
New research

Flanders versus the Netherlands: focus on differences between depressive symptoms in men and women measured on the basis of CES-D8

ISSUE 2011/2
8 februari 2011
S. Van de Velde, K. Levecque, P. Bracke

summary
background A consistent finding in international research is the higher prevalence of depression in women than in men, but it is not known to what extent this gender difference is robust in population research.
aim In this study we focus o...

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Review article

Risk assessment with intellectual disabled forensic psychiatric patients: how useful are risk assessment instruments?

ISSUE 2011/2
8 februari 2011
J.W. van den Berg, V. de Vogel

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background Instruments for assessing the risk of violent behaviour have proved their  worth in the field of forensic psychiatry. However, it is not certain whether such instruments provide an accurate assessment of recidivism when used wit...

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Review article

Depot antipsychotics in the year 2011

ISSUE 2011/2
8 februari 2011
H. Knegtering, H. Oolders, M.A. Ruijsink, A.E.G.M. van der Moolen

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background People suffering from a psychotic disorder show limited compliance with the prescribed regimen of antipsychotics. Insufficient compliance and insufficient insight into their illness are important contributing factors predicting ...

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Review article

Typical and atypical antipsychotics: Is there a difference in their influence on neurocognition?

ISSUE 2011/2
8 februari 2011
G. Faber, A.R. van Gool, H.G.O.M. Smid, D. Wiersma, R.J. van den Bosch

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background Neurocognitive dysfunction is a core feature of schizophrenia and is related to the functional outcome of the illness. It has been suggested that the so-called atypical antipsychotics may have a more favourable influence on neur...

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Short report

Development of a fidelity scale for function assertive community treatment (FACT)

ISSUE 2011/2
8 februari 2011
M.D. van Vugt, J.R. van Veldhuizen, M. Bähler, PH. Delespaul, N. Huffels, C.L. Mulder, G. Nijboer, M. Overdijk, H. Kroon

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background Assertive community treatment (act) is one of the most important models for the care and treatment, in the community, of people with severe mental illness (smi). act is concerned primarily with smi-patients who have the most com...

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Case report

Neurosyphilis: unexpected reunion with an old acquaintance

ISSUE 2011/2
8 februari 2011
I. Lens-Daey Ouwens, M.P. Heijstra, L. Timmerman

summary A 45-year-old man was admitted to a psychiatric hospital with confusion and disorientation; he was suspected of having Korsakoff syndrome. He was known to have a history of alcohol abuse, complicated by epileptic fits, and to have had a re...

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Abstract

Antidepressieve combinatietherapie als eerste keuze?

ISSUE 2011/2
8 februari 2011
A. Neven
Abstract

Antipsychotica en acute hartdood: risicomanagement

ISSUE 2011/2
8 februari 2011
J.C.A. Koning, P.F.J. Schulte
Letter to the editor

Reaction on ‘Awareness of illness in patients with schizophrenia: theoretical insights and a proposal for treatment’

ISSUE 2011/2
8 februari 2011
J.E. Hovens, G.J. van der Ploeg