{"title":"[Depression: Low-threshold Cardinal Measures as a Complement or Alternative to Pharmacological or Psychotherapeutic Interventions].","authors":"Anna-Maria Selalmazidou, Tom Bschor","doi":"10.1055/a-2169-2120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2169-2120","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The third edition of the German National Clinical Practice Guideline for Depression emphasizes the significance of cardinal measures much more strongly than before. Low-threshold cardinal measures are an indispensable component of every depression treatment, regardless of severity and setting. They are suitable as a standalone treatment for mild and moderate depression. If inadequate improvement is observed, additional therapies should be supplemented. They should be implemented immediately after diagnosis to enhance the success rate.Regarding cardinal measures, among other things, comprehensive patient education in understandable language is essential. Patients with depressive disorders require guidance on structuring their day and building healthy activities. Patients with depression-related sleep disturbances benefit from sleep hygiene rules. Wake therapy constitutes an excellent and low-risk treatment method with immediate effect, which is a standard component of adequate depression treatment. Patients with a seasonal pattern of depression should be advised on light therapy. All patients should be encouraged to engage in regular physical activity with moderate intensity.</p>","PeriodicalId":12353,"journal":{"name":"Fortschritte Der Neurologie Psychiatrie","volume":"91 12","pages":"523-534"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138797267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Stroke-Related Cognitive Dysfunction].","authors":"Peter Kraft, Karl Georg Häusler","doi":"10.1055/a-2176-7862","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2176-7862","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12353,"journal":{"name":"Fortschritte Der Neurologie Psychiatrie","volume":" ","pages":"503-509"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49676092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The Therapy of Anxiety Disorders Around 1900. Hermann Oppenheim (1858-1919) and his Early Innovations].","authors":"Nina C Moenikes, Holger Steinberg","doi":"10.1055/a-2191-2835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2191-2835","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As a teacher and textbook author in psychiatry, Oppenheim initially received high national as well as international scientific recognition. In 1892, with his monograph on traumatic neurosis, which he regarded as the result of organic or molecular changes, his views became increasingly controversial and were met with rejection from the specialists of his time. mainly from German colleagues, probably not least because of his Jewish origin. Less historical attention, however, has been paid to Oppenheim's examination of the phenomenon of anxiety, which at his time was still a poorly elaborated pathological disorder. In his work, Oppenheim considered anxiety disorders to be an etiologically multifactorial disease and a syndrome in their own right. Oppenheim not only oriented himself towards common treatment methods such as dietetics or psychoanalysis but also considered the patient with his multi-dimensional problems as an individual deserving respect. What was more, he also applied self-developed psychotherapeutic treatment methods that show similarities with cognitive behavioral therapy that is predominantly used for anxiety disorders today. Oppenheim's work on anxiety disorders can be considered as highly innovative for his time.</p>","PeriodicalId":12353,"journal":{"name":"Fortschritte Der Neurologie Psychiatrie","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138470179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Prevention of Post-Stroke Depression].","authors":"Erik Simon, Kristian Barlinn, Timo Siepmann","doi":"10.1055/a-2190-9141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2190-9141","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Post-stroke depression (PSD) is a clinically relevant complication of ischemic and hemorrhagic cerebral infarction that affects about 30% of all stroke survivors. It is associated with reduced quality of life as well as delayed recovery from neurological deficits and functional impairment, frequently leading to impeded rehabilitation. Suitable screening methods allow early detection of PSD. Timely initiation of treatment in patients with manifest PSD as well as implantation of effective prevention strategies can help reduce medical and socioeconomic burden associated with the disease. We reviewed the current literature on pharmacological and non-pharmacological prevention of PSD.</p>","PeriodicalId":12353,"journal":{"name":"Fortschritte Der Neurologie Psychiatrie","volume":"91 12","pages":"510-515"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138797272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Stroke in Neurology and Psychiatry].","authors":"Claudia Sommer","doi":"10.1055/a-2175-5846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2175-5846","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12353,"journal":{"name":"Fortschritte Der Neurologie Psychiatrie","volume":"91 12","pages":"492-493"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138797403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Solveig Henneicke, Sven Günther Meuth, Stefanie Schreiber
{"title":"[Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: Advances in Understanding its Pathophysiology].","authors":"Solveig Henneicke, Sven Günther Meuth, Stefanie Schreiber","doi":"10.1055/a-2190-8957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2190-8957","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sporadic cerebral small vessel disease determines age- and vascular-risk-factor-related processes of the small brain vasculature. The underlying pathology develops in a stage-dependent manner - probably over decades - often already starting in midlife. Endothelial and pericyte activation precedes blood-brain barrier leaks, extracellular matrix remodeling and neuroinflammation, which ultimately result in bleeds, synaptic and neural dysfunction. Hemodynamic compromise of the small vessel walls promotes perivascular drainage failure and accumulation of neurotoxic waste products in the brain. Clinical diagnosis is mainly based on magnetic resonance imaging according to the Standards for Reporting Vascular Changes on Neuroimaging 2. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy is particularly stratified according to the Boston v2.0 criteria. Small vessel disease of the brain could be clinically silent, or manifested through a heterogeneous spectrum of diseases, where cognitive decline and stroke-related symptoms are the most common ones. Prevention and therapy are centered around vascular risk factor control, physically and cognitively enriched life style and, presumably, maintenance of a good sleep quality, which promotes sufficient perivascular drainage. Prevention of ischemic stroke through anticoagulation that carries at the same time an increased risk for large brain hemorrhages - particularly in the presence of disseminated cortical superficial siderosis - remains one of the main challenges. The cerebral small vessel disease field is rapidly evolving, focusing on the establishment of early disease stage imaging and biofluid biomarkers of neurovascular unit remodeling and the compromise of perivascular drainage. New prevention and therapy strategies will correspondingly center around the dedicated targeting of, e. g., cellular small vessel wall and perivascular tissue structures. Growing knowledge about brain microvasculature bridging neuroimmunological, neurovascular and neurodegenerative fields might lead to a rethink about apparently separate disease entities and the development of overarching concepts for a common line of prevention and treatment for several diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":12353,"journal":{"name":"Fortschritte Der Neurologie Psychiatrie","volume":"91 12","pages":"494-502"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138797264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Therapies for the Improvement of Stroke Recovery - Assessment of Clinical Trial Results].","authors":"Andreas Rogalewski, Wolf Schäbitz","doi":"10.1055/a-2181-1026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2181-1026","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recovery processes after stroke include restoration or compensation of function initially lost or newly acquired after injury. Therapeutic interventions can either directly improve these processes and/or inhibit processes that impede regeneration. Numerous experimental studies suggested a great opportunity for such treatments, but the results from recent large clinical trials with neuromodulators such as dopamine and fluoxetine have been rather disappointing. The reasons for this are manifold and involve the extrapolation of results from animal models to humans. Given the differences between animals and humans in genetic and epigenetic background, brain size and anatomy, cerebral vascular anatomy, immune system, as well as clinical function, and behavior, direct extrapolation is unlikely to work. Backward blockades include the incompatible adaption of clinical trial objectives and outcomes in clinical trials with regard to previous preclinical findings. For example, the clinical recovery trial design widely varies and has been characterized by the selection of different clinical endpoints, the inclusion a wide spectrum of stroke subtypes and clinical syndromes, and different time windows for treatment initiation after onset of infarction. This review will discuss these aspects based on the results of the recent stroke recovery trials with the aim to contributing to the development of a therapy that improves the functional outcome of a chronic stroke patient.</p>","PeriodicalId":12353,"journal":{"name":"Fortschritte Der Neurologie Psychiatrie","volume":"91 12","pages":"516-522"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138797488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Psychopharmacotherapy with the MAO-inhibitor Tranylcypromine Key Aspects and Trends in Theory and Practice].","authors":"Sven Ulrich, Ute Lewitzka","doi":"10.1055/a-2182-5365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2182-5365","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The irreversible monoamine oxidase inhibitor tranylcypromine has been known as an antidepressant drug for more than 60 years. The aim of this review was to make an assessment of the state of the art and therapy of tranylcypromine. The recent medical-scientific literature is analyzed and discussed with respect to key aspects of and general trends in practical psychopharmacotherapy. Meta-analyses of controlled clinical studies have shown that tranylcypromine is an established approach to treatment-resistant depression. Doses (maximum dose, maintenance dose) are increasingly adapted to the requirements of treatment-resistant depression. Monoamine oxidase is not only the primary pharmacological target of tranylcypromine but determines for the first doses also the pharmacokinetics of tranylcypromine because monoamine oxidase is also an enantioselective drug-metabolizing enzyme of the monoamine oxidase inhibitor. An increased diversity of the antidepressant pharmacotherapy suggests the need to rethink the continuing assessment of tranylcypromine as a therapeutic \"ultima ratio\" in depression. In conclusion, tranylcypromine as a drug of second choice remains a valuable option in antidepressant treatment. Criteria of a switch from other antidepressant drugs to tranylcypromine should be better defined.</p>","PeriodicalId":12353,"journal":{"name":"Fortschritte Der Neurologie Psychiatrie","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138290713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) in Depression].","authors":"Erhan Kavakbasi, Bernhard T Baune","doi":"10.1055/a-2165-7860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2165-7860","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Major depressive disorder is a common mental health disease with a chronic and treatment-resistant course in about one-third of patients. Invasive vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) as a long-term adjunctive treatment option has increasingly been used in the last years. VNS was CE-certified in the European Union for use in chronic and treatment-resistant depression in 2001. Method In this narrative literature review we provide an overview on VNS as a treatment option in patients with depression. We particularly focus on aspects with high clinical relevance. Results Indication to conduct VNS is determined after comprehensive evaluation of the patients' symptoms and psychiatric history. After education of patients and caregivers and obtaining informed consent, a pacemaker-like pulse generator is implanted in the left chest in a short surgical procedure. In the first weeks after implantation, the stimulation is turned on stepwise in an outpatient setting. The left vagal nerve is stimulated for 30 sec. every 5 minutes. Hoarseness during stimulation is the most frequent side-effect. There is a delay in the onset of antidepressant action of about 6-12 months. In a large registry, the cumulative response rate after 5 years was significantly higher (67.6%) in patients treated with VNS plus treatment-as-usual (TAU) than TAU alone (40.9%). Long-term benefits of VNS on quality of life, cognition, morbidity and mortality have been described previously. Conclusion VNS is a long-term safe treatment option in severely affected patients with depression with positive impact on depression severity, quality of life and cognitive function. Increase of monoaminergic transmission and anti-inflammatory effects of VNS are possible mechanisms of action.</p>","PeriodicalId":12353,"journal":{"name":"Fortschritte Der Neurologie Psychiatrie","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92153427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catharina Schmidt, Natalia Anna Seeger, Nathalie Brackmann, Angela Guldimann, Elmar Habermeyer
{"title":"[Correction: Forensic-Psychiatric Consultations in General Psychiatry].","authors":"Catharina Schmidt, Natalia Anna Seeger, Nathalie Brackmann, Angela Guldimann, Elmar Habermeyer","doi":"10.1055/a-2197-7751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2197-7751","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12353,"journal":{"name":"Fortschritte Der Neurologie Psychiatrie","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71479981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}