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Admission to child and adolescent psychiatry: how do we provide for the right to a confidential advisor?

ISSUE 2018/5
26 april 2018
S. Tremmery
CME-article

Acromegalie, herkenning van een zeldzame ziekte in de psychiatrie

ISSUE 2018/5
26 april 2018
A.J. de Kort, D. Postulart, G.A.A.M. Wetzer, S.H.P.P. Roerink

achtergrond Acromegalie is een zeldzame ziekte die veroorzaakt wordt door een tumor in de voorkwab van de hypofyse die aanzet tot overmatige productie van groeihormoon. Hierdoor worden alle organen en weefsels in het lichaam aangezet tot groei. D...

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New research

Long-term follow-up of psychogenic pseudosyncope

ISSUE 2018/5
26 april 2018
D.P. Saal, M.J. Overdijk, R.D. Thijs, I. M. van Vliet, J.G. van Dijk

background Patients with psychogenic pseudosyncope (pps) are frequently seen by neurologists and psychiatrists. As of yet, there has been no follow-up study of patients with pps after communicating the diagnosis.
aim To determine the outcome of ...

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Review article

Time for cluster C personality disorders: state of the art

ISSUE 2018/5
26 april 2018
J. Hutsebaut, E.M.C. Willemsen, H.L. Van

background Compared to cluster B personality disorders, the assessment and treatment of people with obsessive-compulsive, dependent, and avoidant personality disorders (cluster C) is given little attention in the field of research and clinical pr...

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Review article

N-of-1 trials in child and adolescent psychiatry: a closer look at stimulants

ISSUE 2018/5
26 april 2018
E. Mordijck, M. Danckaerts, P. Onghena

background An N-of-1 trial is a clinical trial studying the response of an individual to a particular intervention or different interventions in an objective, systematic way.
aim To evaluate both the applications and the methodology of N-of-1 tr...

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Essay

The therapeutic alliance in community mental health services

ISSUE 2018/5
26 april 2018
A. Groenendijk, J. Van Hecke

background The treatment of severe mental illnesses is increasingly taking place in a domiciliary setting due to the deinstitutionalisation.
aim Theoretical reflection on the influence of home treatment on the therapeutic alliance.
method...

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Short report

Is psychiatry ready to let patients review their own files? Inventory of initial experiences

ISSUE 2018/5
26 april 2018
S.M.P. van Veen, M. Mostert, L. de Witte, M. Somers

background Dutch patients will be granted the right to digitally access their own medical records, an option already available to the patients at the University Medical Center Utrecht since 2015.
aim To start a conversation about the development...

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Short report

Fragile X syndrome: new therapeutic strategies

ISSUE 2018/5
26 april 2018
S. Zeidler, B. Dierckx, K. Lubbers, A.M. van Eeghen, C.R. Lincke, J.A. Kievit, R. Willemsen, A. Rietman

background Fragile X syndrome (fxs) is the most common hereditary cause of intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorders. Targeted treatment is currently lacking. In the past decades an enormous amount of knowledge has been obtained conce...

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Case report

Autism or personality disorder in older adults? Guidelines for the differential diagnosis

ISSUE 2018/5
26 april 2018
A.C. Videler, E.C.J. Delescen, M.A. Ouwens

Autism spectrum disorders and personality disorders are common, also in the elderly. Differential diagnosis is complex, especially if an undiagnosed autism spectrum disorder or personality disorder is suspected. We discuss two cases and conclude ...

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Opinion

The future of prevention of depression for adolescents: challenges and chances

ISSUE 2018/5
26 april 2018
S.P.A. Rasing, D.H.M. Creemers, Y.A.J. Stikkelbroek, R.C.W.M. Kuijpers, R.C.M.E. Engels
Dutch-Flemish research

Internetinterventie bij subklinische depressie voorkomt het ontstaan van depressieve stoornissen

ISSUE 2018/5
26 april 2018
P. Cuijpers
Psychiatry of the future

VMAT-2-remmers als behandeling voor tardieve dyskinesie

ISSUE 2018/5
26 april 2018
L.E. De Wit, L.D. De Witte