{"title":"[Epidemiology of violence in psychiatry].","authors":"F Ferrero, J M Kaision","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An overview of the literature indicates that violence in psychiatry is caused by a minority of patients. Despite the lack of precise definition, between 3 and 10% of patients shows an assaultive behaviour, at least once during the hospitalisation, but, fortunately, injuries are exceptional. The authors present some results of a research project evaluating the frequency and the cost of violence.</p>","PeriodicalId":30134,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry","volume":"146 3","pages":"121-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18492516","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":"Course of a clinical cohort of unipolar, bipolar and schizoaffective patients. Results of a prospective study from 1959 to 1985.","authors":"J Angst, M Preisig","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper reports the results of a 27 year prospective study of 186 unipolar depressives and 220 bipolar disorders meeting DSM-III criteria for major depression or mania. Subjects were classified into four diagnostic subgroups, according to polarity and presence or absence of schizophrenic symptoms: unipolar depression, bipolar disorder, unipolar schizoaffective disorder and bipolar schizoaffective disorder. Course parameters were assessed for all samples. As the sequence of subtypes of affective and schizoaffective disorders progresses from unipolar depression, schizodepression, pure affective bipolar disorder to schizobipolar disorder, a systematic decrease in age of onset and length of episode can be observed. When compared to unipolar disorders (unipolar depression and schizodepressive disorder), bipolar (bipolar and schizobipolar) disorders showed more periodicity, characterized by greater number of total episodes, more episodes per year, but with shorter episodes and cycles. Despite the lower age of onset among schizoaffective subjects compared to pure affective disorders, the only difference in course between the two groups was a greater frequency in episodes requiring hospitalization among schizoaffectives.</p>","PeriodicalId":30134,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry","volume":"146 1","pages":"5-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18795533","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":"Gelastic epilepsy: Sturge-Weber syndrome with seizure facilitation.","authors":"W Barnett, P Vieregge, D Kömpf","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A case with Sturge-Weber syndrome and ictal laughter is described. The seizures were facilitated by relaxation and drowsiness. The possible anatomic substrate and interconnections are discussed in the context of the localization of the lesion in this case.</p>","PeriodicalId":30134,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry","volume":"146 2","pages":"61-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18575879","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":"Vigabatrin in unsatisfactory controlled epilepsies. Swiss Vigabatrin Study Group.","authors":"W Russ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One hundred and twenty-seven patients with uncontrolled epilepsy have been treated in an open add-on study with vigabatrin with a mean follow up of ten months. Mean duration of epilepsy prior to treatment was seven-teen years. Patients with partial seizures, with and without secondary generalisation responded best with 44% achieving a greater than 50% reduction in seizure frequency. Adverse events were primarily CNS related and reversible, two patients were withdrawn because of somnolence and eight because of behavioral disturbances. Reduction of concomittant AEDs was difficult in this population with chronic epilepsy.</p>","PeriodicalId":30134,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry","volume":"146 2","pages":"55-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18575878","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":"Outcome of a clinical cohort of unipolar, bipolar and schizoaffective patients. Results of a prospective study from 1959 to 1985.","authors":"J Angst, M Preisig","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a prospective study, 186 unipolar depressives and 220 cases of bipolar disorder meeting DSM-III criteria for major depression or mania were followed up. Subjects were classified according to polarity and the presence or absence of schizophrenic symptoms, into four diagnostic subgroups: unipolar depression, bipolar disorder, unipolar schizoaffective disorder and bipolar schizoaffective disorder. At the last follow-up in 1985, 53% of the patients had deceased. Eleven percent of the sample (17% of all deaths) had committed suicide. The risk of suicide was associated with clinical severity and onset prior to the age of 60. However, there was no difference in suicide rates according to sex or diagnostic subgroup. Late onset of affective illness was associated with chronicity, which occurred in 10 to 19% of cases. Recovery was more frequent among unipolar than among bipolar patients. The 5-year remission rates (i.e. 26% in unipolars, 16% in bipolars) were independent of the number of episodes.</p>","PeriodicalId":30134,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry","volume":"146 1","pages":"17-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18795531","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":"[Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathies. Clinical and molecular genetic aspects].","authors":"J S Lechner-Scott, R J Scott, A J Steck, L Kappos","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hereditary motor sensory neuropathies are a heterogeneous group of inherited diseases of the peripheral nerves. In this review the clinical and genetic differences between the sub-groups of this disease will be discussed. Since the discovery of a 1.5 mb duplication on chromosome 17 p11.2-12 in most patients with a hereditary motor sensory neuropathy and a variety of different mutations on chromosomes 1 and X in other patients with a similar disease profile, Dycks' clinical classification needs to be re-evaluated. In this review Dycks' taxonomy of heridihary neuropathies will be compared to a new genetic classification and a relevant diagnostic procedure proposed when a hereditary neuropathy is suspected.</p>","PeriodicalId":30134,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry","volume":"146 4","pages":"157-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19512752","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":"[Recurrent Miller Fisher syndrome. Significance of anti-GQ1B antibodies].","authors":"A Dewarrat, F Regli, A Steck, T Küntzer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the present report, an unusual case of recurrent Miller Fisher syndrome is described. The patient presented within ten years three similar episodes of ophthalmoplegia, ataxia and areflexia associated with oropharyngeal weakness and signs of mild distal sensory neuropathy. An elevated titer of anti-GQ1b ganglioside antibodies correlated well with the clinical symptoms and signs. The pathogenic role of these antibodies in Miller Fisher syndrome is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":30134,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry","volume":"146 4","pages":"180-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19512755","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":"[Processes of interpretation in psychiatry].","authors":"B Küchenhoff","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article discusses whether the concept, which has been developed by the American philosopher Nelson Goodman in his book \"Ways of Worldmaking\", ist transferable to the field of psychiatry. After a brief review of Goodman's philosophical position the author tries to apply these ideas to methodology, diagnosis and therapy in psychiatry.</p>","PeriodicalId":30134,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry","volume":"146 5","pages":"240-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19634861","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":"[The new graduate education ruling for neurology].","authors":"C W Hess","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30134,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry","volume":"146 6","pages":"251-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19833401","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}