Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie

Experiences with dantrolene, bromocriptine and electroconvulsive therapy in the treatment of the neuroleptic malignant syndrome

ISSUE 1988/3

J.G. Goekoop

Case-studies reflecting experiences of the three most effective therapeutic measures in the neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) are compared. The most rapid recovery rates have been found after intravenous treatment with dantrolene and electrocon...

About choosing instruments for classifying, selecting and assessing psychiatric patie

ISSUE 1988/3

C.J. Slooff

Beaten to the choice of instruments for classification or selection one has to take into account reliability, validity, representativeness, coverage and comprehensiveness on the symptom, syndromal and nosological level. Furthermore the strategies ...

Chronic psychiatric distress and the General Health Questionnaire

ISSUE 1988/3

M.W.J. Koeter, W. van den Brink, J. Ormel, R. Giel

This article examines the sensitivity of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) for chronic complaints, and the question whether the alternative scoringprocedure, proposed by Goodchild and Duncan-Jones (CGHQ) provides an improvement in this respec...

A self-rating scale for depression

S. Elsenga

The two parallel versions of the German self-rating scales for depression, the `Befindlichkeitsskala' BF-S and Bf-S', developed by von Zerssen (1976), have been translated into the Dutch language. The purpose of this study is 1) to present a trans...

The missing link: diagnosis in the natural environment

M.W. de Vries, C. Dijkman-Caes, PH. Delespaul

Experience Sampling (ES) is a new psychiatric assessment method that provides a representative sample of moments in a person's daily life. It uses a beeper to signal subjects to fill out self-reports at preselected but randomized time points, thus...

J.N. Ramaer (1817-1887) and the physiological psychiatry

R.H.J. ter Meulen

In the history of Dutch psychiatry an important place is taken by the physician J.N. Ramaer (1817-1887). Ramaer was one of the founders of the Netherlands Association of Psychiatrists and was for some time Inspector for the Insane Asylums. A biogr...

Dementia as burden for the family: assessment and interventions

L.J.M. Peute

A lack of knowledge exists in the Netherlands concerning the problems in family caregiving to the demented elderly. These problems will continue to increase in the near future. The research on dementia as burden for the family and developed interv...

History of psychiatry at Geel: From poor relief to intramural care

H. Ronse

The history of psychiatric care at Geel goes back to the Middle Ages. This type of care has always been wrongly referred to as unique. The care of psychotic patients at Geel is to be compared with the methods practised in other towns. The phenomen...

Speech analysis of three Korsakov-patients under different conditions (Pilot study)

A. Ridderbos, J.J. Diamant

The speech of three Korsakov-patients and three normals is sampled under three conditions: unstructured, semi-structured and structured. The speech samples are analysed syntactically as well as semantically by means of several linguistic variables...

Psychopathology in long stay provisions

A.J. Tholen, R. Giel, H.W. Hoek, A. de Jong, D. Wiersma

Three random samples up to 65 years of age of (1) inpatients of chronic care wards, (2) residents of hostels on the hospital grounds, and (3) residents of hostels in the community were examined with a variety of instruments including the PSE, and ...

Sexual and physical abuse: suicide risk factors for women? The results of an empirical study among 158 female suicide attempters

M. van Egmond, D. Jonker

The authors investigated, as part of a larger study on suicide prediction, the prevalence of physical and sexual abuse among female suicide attempters. 158 women, aged 20 years or older, who were admitted to a general hospital because of a suicide...

The Malignant Neuroleptic Syndrome

E. van Hoof, H. de Cuyper

The Malignant Neuroleptic Syndrome is a relatively unknown, sometimes lethal complication of a treatment with neuroleptics. Based on an extensive study of literature, we present a review of the clinical characteristics and differential diagnosis o...

Pathophysiological and therapeutical aspects of negative symptoms

J.A. den Boer, H.G.M. Westenberg, W.M.A. Verhoeven

A review is given of pathophysiological and etiological theories of negative symptoms. Computer tomography studies and cerebral blood flow studies are briefly reviewed and critically discussed. In addition the neuropathology and neuroendocrinology...

The validity of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) as a state-measure

M.W.J. Koeter, J. Ormel, W. van den Brink, W. Dijkstra, J. Schoenmacker, J. Staal

This article adresses the following issues: (1) can the GHQ be used as a severity measure for psychopathology. In other words, to what extent does it correctly follow changes in psychopathology, (2) does the alternative scoring of the GHQ, propose...

The day hospital-inn model

B.P.R. Gersons, L.N.M. Perquin

6 december 2008

In spite of many political decisions on implementation, deinstitutionalization has hardly been started in The Netherlands, in contrast to Great Britain and the United States. The principal condition for deinstitutionalization, `continuity of care'...

Diagnostic performance of the Dexamethasone Suppression Test and the Thyreotropine Releasing Hormone Test

E. Suy

The thyrotropine releasing hormone (TRH) test and the dexamethasone suppression test (DST) have been carried out in 100 depressive patients, divided into two DSM-III categories: (1) minor depression (dysthymic disorder, 300.40; atypical depression...

Follow-up of patients with an obsessive compulsive neurosis

C.A.L. Hoogduin

The outpatient treatment of obsessive-compulsives is often successful. This article gives the results of the treatment of 60 patients. The success rate, measured after 10 treatment sessions, was 78%. On follow-up, after an average of 21 months, im...

Detection of prefrontal brain damage

M. Douma

Lesions of the brain restricted to the prefrontal area are not necessarily accompanied by overt (behavioural) neurological dysfunctions. Furthermore, some widely used neuropsychological tests are insensitive to prefrontal lesions. Therefore, the o...

Conceptual and methodological problems around the theme: negative symptoms

J.A. den Boer, W.M.A. Verhoeven, H.G.M. Westenberg

6 december 2008

A brief and historical conceptual background for the study of negative symptoms is provided. Since no criterion is available against which scales that have been developed to measure negative symptoms can be validated, conceptual problems are diffi...

ForumDe (on)wetenschappelijkheid van de psychotherapie

J. Cambien

Elke wetenschappelijke onderneming is minimaal te karakteriseren door een nastreven van kennis van de realiteit. Er wordt betoogd dat dit niet het geval is in psychotherapie. Hoewel het zoeken naar De Waarheid een aspect van het psychotherapeutisc...

Back to square one? A clinical view on validity studies of schizoaffective psychoses

C.J. Slooff

The borderland between schizophrenia psychoses and affective disorders has always been ill defined. The findings on the `category' of schizoaffective psychoses conflict on the genetic, biochemical, neurophysiological, psychodynamic, descriptive an...

Developmental language disorders in children with psychiatric disorders

H.M.P. van Leeuwen, J.P.M. Vieijra, E.J. Kappers

Developmental language disorders in children are often associated with psychiatric disorders. Of 71 children, who were hospitalized in a childpsychiatric clinic, 60% showed in some aspects a delay in language development. Several hypotheses derive...

Interrater reliability, retest reliability and discriminative power of the `Nurses Observation Scale for Inpatient Evaluation' (NOSIE-30)

A. Hafkenscheid

Interrater reliability, retest reliability and discriminative power of the `Nurses Observation Scale for Inpatient Evaluation' (NOSIE-30) were assessed in a heterogeneous sample of psychiatric inpatients (68 <= N <= 85). Three pairs of nurses inde...

Heroin addiction-careers. How is the course of time? Does therapy help? Are there prognostic favourable factors?