Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie

Subjective experiences of patients with schizophrenia related to treatment with antipsychotics

ISSUE 1998/4

C. ten Brink, L. de Haan, H. Knegtering

This article reviews the Subjective Experiences of patients with schizophrenia related to treatment with Antipsychotics (SEA), factors influencing SEA and the relation between SEA and medication compliance and therapeutic outcome. There seems to b...

Editorial

Psychiatrische taalfouten - Onduidelijk of verkeerd gebruik van enkele termen uit de psychopathologie

Traumatic experiences and psychopathology among Somalian refugees in the Netherlands

T.C. Roodenrijs, R.P. Scherpenzeel, J.T.V.M. de Jong

This study was designed to determine the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the co-morbidity of PTSD with depression and anxiety among a sample of 54 Somalian adult refugees in the Netherlands. The study used the Harvard Trauma...

Aspects of pharmacotherapy in ethnic groups

F.A.M. Kortmann, R.C. Oude Voshaar

In old transcultural psychiatry there was a presupposition that men, all over the world, were equal in their biological quality and that differences in the phenomenology of illnesses were the result of cultural and environmental influences. Now th...

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), a possible new method of treatment in psychiatry

E.A.M. Schouten, A.T.F. Beekman, W. van Tilburg

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is used in several research centres since 1985. Nowadays TMS is in common use in clinical neurophysiology departments in hospitals for measuring conduction speed in motorways. Recently some articles have bee...

Kleptomania

B. Groot, E.J. Colon

Kleptomania is a poorly understood phenomenon, in spite of postulation of many psychodynamic theories to explain the motivation for this behaviour. A high comorbidity with other psychiatric disorders has been established, especially with mood diso...

Case report

Arachnoid cyste in a patiënt with psychosis: a coincidence?

J.A. van Waarde, A. Janse, C.A.E. Goris

In a patient who was admitted for a history of schizophrenic symptoms, at neurologic examination a Babinski was found. Neuropsychological assessment showed some cues for cerebral pathology. Computerized-tomography of the brain showed an arachnoid ...

Letter to the editor

Reactie op 'De prevalentie van persoonlijkheidsstoornissen bij ouderen kritisch bekeken'

G.J.J.A. van Engelen, S.P.J. van Alphen

17 februari 2004

Editorial

Science wars

Guido Pieters

State-of-the-art-article

Genetics of psychiatric disorders: Recent developments Part I: Research methodology, genetic counseling, findings of eating disorders, anxiety disorders and alcoholdependence

R. Vonk, B.J.M. van de Wetering, M.F. Niermeijer

The last decade the development of the molecular biology has increased the interest in psychiatric-genetic research. This review describes in two parts the knowledge on the genetics of frequent psychiatric disorders. The contribution of genetic un...

State-of-the-art-article

Genetics of psychiatric disorders: Recent developments Part II: Findings of schizophrenia, mood disorders and Alzheimer's disease

R. Vonk, B.J.M. van de Wetering, M.F. Niermeijer

The first part of this review of the genetic aspects in psychiatry described the methodology of genetic research, the complexity of genetic counseling and the genetic aspects for the eating disorders, anxiety disorders and alcoholdependence.
Here,...

The emerging field of psychiatric ecogenetics: psychosis

J. van Os, M. Marcelis

Psychiatric disorders are thought to arise as a result of interactions between genetic vulnerability and environmental risk factors. However, research methods to actually investigate the pattern of hypothesized interactions have only recently been...

Prader-Willi Syndrome: from gene to behaviour

H. Boer, D.J. Clarke, T. Webb, A.J. Holland, L.M.G. Curfs

This article gives an overview of the behavioural problems and genetic abnormalities of Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS). PWS is associated with an absence of a paternal contribution to a defined area of chromosome 15. The syndrome is characterised by ...

Letter to the editor

Reactie (1) op 'Een gevaarlijke psychiatrie in bloei'

Reactie (2) op 'Een gevaarlijke psychiatrie in bloei'

Redactioneel

Presenting for psychiatric care at two out-patient clinics: what changes in a decade?

F.W. Wilmink, Ph. Spinhoven, A.F.G Leentjens, A.J.W. van der Does, S.G. Sicco Smit, M.A.W. Verwielen, O.M. Voorhoeve

Data on diagnosis at intake are lacking for out-patient clinics of General Psychiatric Hospitals in The Netherlands, and so are longitudinal data. In this study, such data were collected at an out-patient clinic in the North of The Netherlands, an...

New research

Expressed Emotion and psychotic relapse

M.E. Lenior, P.M.A.J. Dingemans

In research concerning Expressed Emotion (EE) families are divided into high and low EE. This very global index neither covers the complex nature of family atmosphere, nor it detects minor changes.
To surmount this problem, a composite scale was d...

The effectiveness of cognitive and interpersonal psychotherapy in the treatment of depression: a metaanalysis

E. Dorrepaal, Ch. van Nieuwenhuizen, A. Schene, R. de Haan

In this article, the results of a meta-analysis determining the effectiveness of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) and Cognitive Therapy (CT) in the treatment of depression, are described. In order to arrive at evidence based conclusions, the effe...

Case report

Presenile dementia and primary hyperparathyroidism, a case study

P. Sienaert, J. Janssens

The case of a 49-years old woman with severe presenile dementia caused by primary hyperparathyroidism is presented. Parathyroidectomy proved to have a beneficial influence both on the clinical picture and on brain-SPECT. Psychiatric symptoms are s...