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F. Van Den Eede, G. Moorkens

New research

Risk factors for inactivity in patients in long-term care with severe mental illness

D.E. Tenback, F. van Kessel, J. Jessurun, Y.J. Pijl, E.R. Heerdink, P.N. van Harten

Summary
background Inactivity is a major problem in long-stay patients with severe mental illness. Very little research has been done into the variables that can predict and explain this inactivity.
aim To find associations between inactivity an...

New research

Assessing aggressive behaviour at the psychiatric emergency service with a checklist: a replication study

E.J.M. Penterman, H.L.I. Nijman, K. Saalmink, S. Rasing, C.P.F. van der Staak

Summary
background In an earlier study it was found that aggressive behaviour by patients treated by the psychiatric emergency service could be predicted by the use of a newly developed instrument, the Checklist of Risks/ Crisis team (crc). In thi...

Review article

The neuropsychology of cognitive functions in alcohol abstinence

S.J.W. Walvoort, A.J. Wester, J.I.M. Egger

Summary
background There is a vast amount of scientific evidence for the negative effects of alcohol on the functioning of the whole human body and particularly of the brain. The literature, however, is unclear about whether these functions can fu...

Review article

Addition of fluvoxamine to clozapine: theory and practice

M.E.H. Wigard, A.R. van Gool, P.F.J. Schulte

Summary
background The addition of fluvoxamine to clozapine induces a rise of plasma concentrations of clozapine. This enables the prescription of a lower number of clozapine tablets, yet it attains sufficient clozapine plasma concentrations, and...

Case report

Folie à famille: a Surinamese-Hindustani family with a shared paranoid delusion and severe undernourishment

A.S. van Amerongen, E.E.J.H. Verheijden, N.M. van Gent, N. Moaddine, R.F.P. de Winter, J.D. Blom

Summary

Folie à famille is a rare psychiatric condition in which several family members develop similar psychotic symptoms. We describe the case of a family of four with a shared paranoid delusion, who all obtained complete remission after being...

Case report

A man with sexual disinhibition caused by paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis

C.L. de Vries, H. Koers

Summary

A 63-year-old man with symptoms of depression and sexual disinhibition was admitted to a psychiatric clinic for the elderly. Because the man’s symptoms rapidly became more severe he was referred to the emergency room. There, his illness w...

Differentiële rol voor HPA-as, inflammatie en metabool syndroom bij atypische versus melancholische depressie

F. Lammers

Verlaging van glucocorticoïdreceptoren verandert functionele integratie van nieuwe zenuwcellen in de hippocampus en verslechtert geheugenvorming

E. Vreugdenhil

Wat is de beste tweede stap na non-respons op gedragstherapie bij de obsessieve-compulsieve stoornis?

A.J.L.M. van Balkom

De invloed van paniekaanvallen op psychiatrische stoornissen

Het risico op suïcidaliteit of psychiatrische opname bij adoptiekinderen van biologische ouders die een suïcidepoging deden

Intermitterende antipsychotische onderhoudsbehandeling van schizofrenie

L. van Diermen, H. Haezaert

Abstract

Verandering in diagnose gedurende tien jaar na eerste opname wegens een stoornis met psychotische kenmerken