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Flumazenil possibly efficacious in patients in a coma caused by clozapine in combination with benzodiazepines

ISSUE 2004/3
10 maart 2004
J.J. Peetoom, P.F.J. Schulte

summary Two elderly patients and a patient with a hereditary degenerative neurological disease went into a coma after ingesting a first dose of 100 mg clozapine either due to medication errors or during the titration phase of clozapine. All patien...

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Abstract

Minder opnames in de drie jaar na behandeling van persoonlijkheidsstoornissen in een therapeutische gemeenschap

ISSUE 2004/3
10 maart 2004
P.C.A.M. den Boer
Abstract

Cortisol, cognitie en de hippocampus

ISSUE 2004/3
10 maart 2004
M.H.M. van Lier
Abstract

Amfetamines tegen het chronisch-vermoeidheidssyndroom?

ISSUE 2004/3
10 maart 2004
A. van Nispen tot Pannerden
Abstract

Predictie van psychose mogelijk?

ISSUE 2004/3
10 maart 2004
C. Zuketto
Letter to the editor

Reactie op 'Rapportage pro Justitia'

ISSUE 2004/3
10 maart 2004
Letter to the editor

Reactie op 'Een pil tegen vreetbuien met overgewicht?' Termen met verkeerde suggesties

ISSUE 2004/3
10 maart 2004
W. Vandereycken
New research

Short-term residential psychiatric treatment

ISSUE 1990/10
14 maart 2004
W. van Hezewijk, N. Sijben

In this article we review the literature on research on the subject to reducing length of stay. We focus on, especially American, controlled studies of short-term versus standard/long-term hospitalization, other studies (uncontrolled) and Dutch st...

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New research

Psychiatry, phenomenology and the primacy of clinical experience (1900-circa 1925)

ISSUE 1990/10
14 maart 2004
G. Verwey

`Phenomenology; as it came to the fore in psychiatry between 1900 and about 1925, is, methodically speaking, little else than a modified continuation of the (`phenomenological') anti-reductionism, such as, from the beginnings of clinical psychiatr...

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New research

Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

ISSUE 1990/10
14 maart 2004
P.N. van Harten, W. van den Brink

This article provides a description of five different concepts of the narcissistic personality disorder: the psychoanalytic concepts according to Kohut and Kernberg, the atheoretical concept of DSM-III(-R) and two so-called compromise concepts. Th...

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New research

The effect of vitamin B3 on children with behavioural deficits

ISSUE 1990/10
6 december 2008
J. ter Maat-Wytsma, G.B. van den Berg, P.C.M. Molenaar

The amino acid tryptophan is a precursor for serotonin, a neurotransmitter involved in various behaviours. Mal-absorption of tryptophan may thus lead to deficits in serotonin-related behaviour. Vitamin B3 is thought to have a beneficial effect on ...

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New research

Psychiatry and ethics: psychiatry as a moral enterprise

ISSUE 1990/9
14 maart 2004
A.K. Oderwald, J. Rolies

This article deals with the relation between ethics and psychiatry. First we discuss two different views on the nature of ethics: a metonymical and a metaphorical view. Metonymical or practical ethics is the dominant view in the literature about p...

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New research

Feasibility of a day-treatment program for the severely mentally ill; first results of a randomized experiment

ISSUE 1990/9
14 maart 2004
H. Kluiter, R. Giel, F.J. Nienhuis, M. Rüphan

The feasibility of day-treatment for the severily mentally ill was tested by means of a randomized experiment.

Study-design: Longitudinal randomized experiment with blocked allotment in a ration 9 experimentals to 5 controls; follow-up period ...

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New research

Prolonged lithium therapy and dementia

ISSUE 1990/9
14 maart 2004
L. Renier

Based upon clinical impression we hypothesized that prolonged lithium therapy might induce severe cognitive deterioration or even dementia. A literature survey and close examination of our case register showed that our hypothesis was wrong and bas...

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New research

Marital divorce followed by depression...

ISSUE 1990/9
14 maart 2004
M. Hebbrecht, G. Geeraerts

This article presents a case of frontal-subcortical dementia in a young adult with known Behçet's syndrome. Dementia in early adulthood is infrequent. The diagnosis is difficult, especially when depressive features are the predominant symptomatolo...

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New research

Panic: a biological or psychological disorder?

ISSUE 1990/8
14 maart 2004
D. Veltman, R. van Dyck

The DSM-III introduced Panic Disorder as a new diagnostic concept among the anxiety disorders. The justification for this was derived from data from biological psychiatry, especially the work of Donald Klein. In this article his model is criticall...

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New research

Social indicators and the use of inpatient facilities by adults in a predominantly rural area

ISSUE 1990/8
14 maart 2004
S. Sytema, F.G. Brook, R. Giel

An intriguing question is why relatively more people use mental health facilities in one region than in another. Using the Groningen psychiatric case register, admission rates (at least one admission per 1000 of the population during 1986 or 1987)...

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New research

Treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder with antidepressants: A review of the literature

ISSUE 1990/8
14 maart 2004
A.J.L.M. van Balkom, R. van Dyck, J.A. Quaak

In this review all twenty controlled studies, dealing with antidepressant therapy on OCD are discussed. Although many different drugs have been documented best. Using this drug four to eight weeks, about 50% of the patients show a symptom reductio...

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New research

Distance and closeness; training, attitude and typology of psychiatrists

ISSUE 1990/8
14 maart 2004
J. Pols

The relationship between the professional attitude and the character of psychiatrists is reflected upon.

Six different personal styles are being distinguished. This typology strongly suggests a complementarity of on the one hand the dimension ...

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New research

`How aspecific are psychopathological symptoms of primary brain tumors?'

ISSUE 1990/7
8 maart 2004
M. Vegt, T.K. Birkenhäger, A.M. van Hulst

With reference to recent cases the writers of this paper reviewed the literature relating to brain tumors causing psychiatric symptoms. They wondered wether psychiatric symptoms, occuring as a result of a primary brain tumor, could be more specifi...

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New research

Treatment of conversion disorders with hypnosis: a pilot study

ISSUE 1990/7
8 maart 2004
C.A.L. Hoogduin, R. van Dyck, E. de Haan

This article covers the following topics: the DSM-III-R-criteria for conversion disorder, the similarities between conversion disorders and hypnotic phenomena, and the therapeutic application of hypnosis and related suggestive methods for patients...

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New research

From complaint to psychiatric diagnosis.

ISSUE 1990/7
8 maart 2004
J. Pols

Diagnostics comprise a central, characteristic and defining professional activity for most psychiatrists. The starting points of the psychiatric curriculum have as a consequence, that the importance of a systematic training in and study of the dia...

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New research

The application of clonidine in child and adolescent psychiatry

ISSUE 1990/7
6 december 2008
W.B. Gunning, R.F. Ferdinand, J.C. de Vrijer, R.B. Minderaa

At a childpsychiatric outpatient department 96 children ages 2-16 years were treated with clonidine 4 μg/kg/day. These children were diagnosed (DSM-III-R) as Tourette Syndrome (n = 54, 11 non-hyperactive and 43 hyperactive), Attention Deficit Hype...

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New research

The long-term course of the Borderline Disorder

ISSUE 1990/7
6 december 2008
R.J. Teunisse

Guided by a review of follow-up studies concerning the Borderline Personality Disorder, it is shown that the characteristic symptoms of the Borderline Personality Disorder are connected to a certain life-phase, beginning in adolescence and ending ...

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