Issue

L. van den Reijen, H. Nijman, B. Orobio de Castro, R. Schmitz

Summary
background Many adolescents who have a combination of psychiatric disorders and behavioural problems fail to complete their course of treatment and therefore do not get the treatment they need.
aim To investigate whether gender and the sev...

New research

Mission statements of Dutch mental health institutions; the quality of communication with stakeholders

D.G.H. Krol, J. de Kruif

Summary
background As a result of recent reforms in Dutch health care, healthcare providers are having to operate more and more like commercial organisations and adopt some of the rules prevailing in the profit sector. Because missions statements...

Review article

The nicotine receptor as target for the improvement of cognitive symptoms in schizophrenia

C. Quisenaerts, M. Morrens, B. Sabbe

Summary
background Nicotine receptor agonists are drugs that may be useful for the treatment of cognitive symptoms in schizophrenia.
aim By studying the relevant literature we want to investigate to what extent nicotine enhances cognition in patie...

Review article

Consensus regarding the definition of persons with severe mental illness and the number of such persons in the Netherlands

PH. Delespaul

Summary
background Insurance companies and mental health service planners need to have information about the prevalence of severe mental illness (smi) and about the numbers of persons affected. They require these data in order to be able to devel...

Short report

The need to monitor risk factors relating to patients on antipsychotics

P.G.W.M. Wuisman, M.G.F. Wuisman-Frerker, M.M.B. van Pelt-Halders

Summary
background The use of antipsychotics can lead to the development of obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension and hyperglycemia, risk factors for diabetes mellitus type 2 and cardiovascular diseases.
aim To find out whether patients suffering fr...

Case report

A psychiatrist is not always the one and only specialist needed by patients with psychiatric symptoms

C. Kahlé, R.M.F. Sorel, A.G.M. Borggreve, G.M.F. Ruinemans, R.R. Ploeger

Summary
We present three cases in which psychiatric symptoms were misinterpreted and somatic investigation was incomplete. Some of the symptoms encountered in mental health care such as anxiety, confusion and even attempted suicide, are caused by a...

Dutch-Flemish research

De rol van broers en zussen bij het externaliserende gedrag van adolescenten

I.N. Defoe

Dutch-Flemish research

Wissen van angstreacties: nieuwe inzichten in de plasticiteit van angstgeheugen

M. Kindt

Dutch-Flemish research

Effecten van de cognitieve versterker modafinil op hersennetwerken en cognitieve controle bij alcoholafhankelijke personen

Wanneer kunnen antipsychotica gestaakt worden bij patiënten met de ziekte van Alzheimer?

H. Stokvis, F. M. Bos, P.F.J. Schulte

Abstract

Additie lage dosering lithium bij patiënten met een bipolaire stoornis

W. Elzinga, P.F.J. Schulte

Letter to the editor

Letter to Wim van der Meeren, chairman CZ; Clients of CZ refuse to submit data to Stichting Benchmark GGz.

Reaction on ‘Current routine outcome monitoring undermines valid quality measurement’