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Editorial

Childhood trauma and health care: To know is to recognize and to acknowledge

ISSUE 2011/8
8 augustus 2011
F. Van Den Eede
New research

The aftermath of the reduction in inpatient care and treatment; a retrospective study that considers the extent to which a group of chronic psychiatric patients made use of the Amsterdam mental health services

ISSUE 2011/8
8 augustus 2011
J. Peen, J. Theunissen, P. Duurkoop, M. Kikkert, J. Dekker

background The move towards less hospital care and more community care for psychiatric patients began in the eighties. Chronic patients possibly have not really benefited from the new procedures.
aim To find out whether chronic psychiatric patients...

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New research

Medical students and their attitude to psychiatry

ISSUE 2011/8
8 augustus 2011
O.M. den Held, I.R.H.J. Hegge, D.J.F. van Schaik, A.J.L.M. van Balkom

background The attitudes of medical students to psychiatry are important for the future care of patients with psychiatric (co)morbidity. Up till now the attitude of medical students to psychiatry has not been investigated in the Netherlands and th...

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Review article

Body-directed techniques on psychomotor therapy for people with schizophrenia: a review of the literature

ISSUE 2011/8
8 augustus 2011
D. Vancampfort, M. Probst, J. Knapen, H. Demunter, J. Peuskens, M. De Hert

background Patients with schizophrenia frequently undergo a disturbance of body experience. This can occur during an acute psychotic phase or during a period of remission.
aim To investigate the scientific evidence of the effects of introducing bod...

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Essay

Assisted suicide in psychiatry; current situation and notes on a recent case

ISSUE 2011/8
8 augustus 2011
A.P. de Boer, T.I. Oei

background The Dutch legal system grants psychiatric patients the right to assisted suicide but imposes strict conditions. The matter, however, remains controversial. Many psychiatrists are reluctant to become involved in assisted suicide because ...

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Commentary

The ‘good death’ in the Flemish psychiatry

ISSUE 2011/8
8 augustus 2011
J. Vandenberghe
Case report

Peri-orbital oedema and therapy-resistant hypertension: unusual side-effects of clozapine

ISSUE 2011/8
8 augustus 2011
A.J.E. Visscher, D. Cohen

A 49-year-old male, known to have been suffering from paranoid schizophrenia for 10 years, was treated twice with clozapine. Although the clozapine alleviated his psychosis, the patient developed peri-orbital oedema repeatedly. As a result he requ...

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Case report

Vitamin D deficiency and psychiatric patients

ISSUE 2011/8
8 augustus 2011
J.B. Koster, B.A.G. Kühbauch

A poor diet and a lack of exposure to sunlight are common in patients with a psychiatric disorder. Both factors play a major role in the development of vitamin D deficiency. The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency might be higher in psychiatric pat...

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Abstract

Structurele hersenafwijkingen door pesten

ISSUE 2011/8
8 augustus 2011
J.H. Lamberts, H.J.G.M. van Megen
Abstract

Ontwikkeling en validatie van een korte cognitieve test: de Sweet 16

ISSUE 2011/8
8 augustus 2011
N. Haex, F.R.J. Verhey
Letter to the editor

Reaction on ‘“Histrionic personality disorder with regression and conversion”: a meningioma’

ISSUE 2011/8
8 augustus 2011
M.W. Hengeveld