W N K A van Mook, N M van Dijk, W C de Jongh, R C Oude Voshaar, R M Marijnissen, J A M Bollen, J A Godschalx-Dekker
{"title":"[Organ donation after euthanasia].","authors":"W N K A van Mook, N M van Dijk, W C de Jongh, R C Oude Voshaar, R M Marijnissen, J A M Bollen, J A Godschalx-Dekker","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In the Netherlands, it is possible for patients to donate organs after having received euthanasia. In many cases of organ donation after euthanasia (ODE), tissues, as well as the liver, heart, kidneys, lungs, and pancreas, can be donated. The procedure for ODE is described in the national guideline for organ donation after euthanasia by the Dutch Transplant Foundation (NTS). In case of suffering due to a psychiatric disorder, the guideline of the Dutch Psychiatric Association is directional. Recently, the Erasmus MC suggested an assessment by an additional local psychiatrist.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To argue that current guidelines on euthanasia and organ donation offer a sufficient foundation for providing careful and conscientious care.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Discussion of the background and practice of euthanasia and organ donation and the guidelines relevant for assessment.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>By following the current Euthanasia Code, the Dutch Psychiatric Association guideline and the NTS ODE guideline, the euthanasia and donation processes are separated and the carefulness of the assessment is guaranteed.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In case of suffering from a psychiatric disorder, extra caution is currently guaranteed by involving a second independent psychiatrist. An structural additional assessment by a local psychiatrist can disrupt both the euthanasia and organ donation assessment procedures, stigmatize psychiatric patients compared to those suffering from somatic disorders, and is unnecessarily burdensome for the patient.</p>","PeriodicalId":23100,"journal":{"name":"Tijdschrift voor psychiatrie","volume":"67 1","pages":"24-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143012015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Pharmacotherapeutic treatment in an adolescent with bipolar disorders].","authors":"L Van de Steen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bipolar disorder (BD) frequently occurs in children and adolescents, but pharmacological treatment in this group presents significant challenges. Clinicians often struggle to find appropriate treatment guidelines due to the primary focus of current guidelines on adults, leaving specific recommendations for the acute and maintenance treatment of BD in children and adolescents either insufficient or entirely absent. This gap is partly due to the lack of targeted studies in this age group, leading practitioners to rely on clinical experience and studies conducted in adults. I describe a case of the treatment of a 14-year-old girl with BD type 1, who received both psychotherapy and psychopharmacotherapy. The combination of aripiprazole, olanzapine, and lithium proved effective for this patient, but formal evidence for this regimen is lacking in the guidelines. This underscores the need for further research and the development of updated guidelines for the pharmacological treatment of BPSS in children and adolescents.</p>","PeriodicalId":23100,"journal":{"name":"Tijdschrift voor psychiatrie","volume":"67 1","pages":"41-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143012022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L M Tak, J De Fruyt, M J Konings, P Bracke, K R Goethals, A Dols
{"title":"[De toekomst die we willen versus de toekomst die we krijgen].","authors":"L M Tak, J De Fruyt, M J Konings, P Bracke, K R Goethals, A Dols","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23100,"journal":{"name":"Tijdschrift voor psychiatrie","volume":"67 2","pages":"65-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143573796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Hope for a future with less psychiatric stigma].","authors":"K C E E R Catthoor, E Thys","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Psychiatric stigma is a destructive and complex social phenomenon that hinders patients with a mental vulnerability from participating and seeking help.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>Exploring possible arguments for a decreasing negative impact of stigma in healthcare, in the media, and among young people.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Discussion of relevant literature and initiatives.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Integrated somatic-psychological healthcare, providing accurate information about mental health issues and advice on empathetic connection to journalists, and the use of social media by young people are successful strategies to address stigma.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Although the negative impact of stigma is still palpable and requires vigilance, there are positive signs of reduced influence that may give rise to hope.</p>","PeriodicalId":23100,"journal":{"name":"Tijdschrift voor psychiatrie","volume":"67 2","pages":"144-147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143573859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J van Weeghel, Ph A E G Delespaul, F Bovenberg, C L Mulder
{"title":"[Promoting citizenship and supporting recovery in severe mental illness].","authors":"J van Weeghel, Ph A E G Delespaul, F Bovenberg, C L Mulder","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The problems of people with a (serious) mental illness are rarely limited to mental health care.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>Exploring whether citizenship can be a guiding concept for providing care to this group.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Reflection based on relevant literature and healthcare practices.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Citizenship brings the social backgrounds and consequences of mental health problems into focus, and connects people with and without such problems. In addition to the relations are rights, roles and resources of great importance. A process of subjectivation of citizenship is underway, which offers perspectives for our target group. Human rights guarantee that everyone is a citizen. Conversely, citizenship provides the institutional framework to implement human rights. Recovery and citizenship are each other’s terms.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Promoting citizenship is a joint task for mental health care, social domain and government.</p>","PeriodicalId":23100,"journal":{"name":"Tijdschrift voor psychiatrie","volume":"67 1","pages":"33-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143012026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S M P van Veen, M M Palm, E Elzinga, L J S Schweren, A T F Beekman
{"title":"[Underexposed consequences of assisted death on psychiatric grounds for mental health care].","authors":"S M P van Veen, M M Palm, E Elzinga, L J S Schweren, A T F Beekman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) on psychiatric grounds is a subject of increasing relevance to Dutch mental health care. In addition to different advantages, there are disadvantages.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To highlight some consequences of MAID on psychiatric grounds and to offer solutions to mitigate these.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Based on an experience story, we highlight some relevant consequences.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Various relevant themes emerge. Firstly, patients can experience pressure to choose MAID. Secondly, psychiatric disorders and suicidality in particular are dynamic and difficult to predict, which conflicts with the static nature of the MAID law. Thirdly, the possibility of MAID is an additional argument to keep the quality of mental health care sufficient, even with increasing scarcity. Finally, we have to stop talking about ‘exhausted treatment options’.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>By recognising and minimising the disadvantages of MAID on psychiatric grounds, we create space for a practice where safety and accessibility are in balance.</p>","PeriodicalId":23100,"journal":{"name":"Tijdschrift voor psychiatrie","volume":"67 1","pages":"20-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143011954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J M van Gaalen, A Ten Hagen, C H Vinkers, J J Luykx
{"title":"[From AI to polygenic risk scores: which innovations will shape the future of psychiatry?]","authors":"J M van Gaalen, A Ten Hagen, C H Vinkers, J J Luykx","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In recent years, developments have been made in various research domains, from treatments with (es)ketamine to large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS).</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To map some of the most promising scientific developments, that may have an impact on clinical practice in psychiatry or are already doing so.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We summarized recent developments in the field of epidemiology, artificial intelligence (AI) and genetics, supported by and illustrated with recent relevant scientific literature.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Triangulation of data and innovative trial designs, such as n=1 trials and platform trials, carry the potential to contribute to more reliable results and developments in precision psychiatry. AI has various possibilities for daily practice: from searching for evidence to applying therapeutic interventions via chatbots. GWAS enable individual genetic risk profile generation with ever-growing precision.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Multifaceted developments in psychiatric research are projected to render clinical psychiatry more efficient and treatment options more personalized. Bolstering (international) collaborations and co-creating with experts by experience are indispensable elements in determining the scientific course in the field for the years ahead.</p>","PeriodicalId":23100,"journal":{"name":"Tijdschrift voor psychiatrie","volume":"67 2","pages":"100-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143573875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Fahr's disease and mania: case report and literature review].","authors":"B Daems, K Noppe, P Sienaert","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fahr’s disease is a rare neurodegenerative disorder characterized by symmetrical calcifications of the basal ganglia. Fahr’s disease is categorized as a neurodegenerative condition due to the pathophysiological effects of calcification. The condition can be associated with a range of neuropsychiatric, motor, and cognitive symptoms. We report a 38-year-old man with mania with psychotic features. Neurological examination showed a bilateral tremor in the hands. Imaging revealed calcifications in the basal ganglia, consistent with Fahr’s disease. He was successfully treated with olanzapine and lithium, but developed extrapyramidal symptoms, which responded well to procyclidine. The risk of extrapyramidal symptoms and neuroleptic malignant syndrome is increased in Fahr’s disease, necessitating cautious use of antipsychotic medications. The complex symptomatology and incomplete penetrance of Fahr’s disease may contribute to underdiagnosis. This case highlights the value of brain imaging in cases of severe atypical psychiatric symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":23100,"journal":{"name":"Tijdschrift voor psychiatrie","volume":"67 4","pages":"238-243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144209602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Family accommodation and an obsessive-compulsive disorder: a meta-analysis and systematic review].","authors":"J De Witz, M Danckaerts","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in youth ≤ 18 years is frequently associated with family accommodation. However, the current literature lacks scientific evidence specifically examining this association.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To clarify the association between family accommodation and OCD symptoms and to define the role of family therapy in the treatment of OCD in youth ≤ 18 years.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A meta-analysis and systematic review focused on the relationship between family accommodation and OCD symptoms in youth ≤ 18 years.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Fourteen studies were included, encompassing a total of 1,263 youth aged ≤ 18years with OCD. A significant association was found with a moderate effect size of r = 0.45 (95% CI: 0.35-0.54; p < 0.001). This association was identified exclusively in the domain of cleaning/contamination. Family accommodation decreased significantly following family therapy, and this reduction was significantly correlated with a decrease in OCD symptoms.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Family therapy focused on family accommodation appears to hold a critical role in the treatment of OCD. This approach can enhance parental alignment to sustain a more structured and boundary-setting parenting style. Future research should explore the impact of (empathetic) boundary-setting on OCD-symptoms, as well as the influence of the broader social context.</p>","PeriodicalId":23100,"journal":{"name":"Tijdschrift voor psychiatrie","volume":"67 4","pages":"225-232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144209603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Hoe kunnen we het tekort aan psychofarmaca oplossen?]","authors":"T K Birkenhäger","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23100,"journal":{"name":"Tijdschrift voor psychiatrie","volume":"67 4","pages":"205-206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144209605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}