NEUROPSYCHIATRIEPub Date : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-05-22DOI: 10.1007/s40211-024-00495-2
Alexander Gerschmann, Johann Lehrner
{"title":"Depressive symptoms-Not a predictor for five-year mortality in patients with subjective cognitive decline, non-amnestic and amnestic mild cognitive impairment.","authors":"Alexander Gerschmann, Johann Lehrner","doi":"10.1007/s40211-024-00495-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40211-024-00495-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The main aim of the present study is to evaluate the influence of depressive symptoms on mortality in patients with SCD (subjective cognitive decline), naMCI (non-amnestic mild cognitive impairment), and aMCI (amnestic mild cognitive impairment). Additional factors (age, sex, years of school attendance, and neuropsychological performance) were considered to determine the impact on survival probability. A monocentric retrospective data analysis based on adjusted patient protocols (n = 1221) from the observation period 1998-2021, using the Cox Proportional Hazards model, assessed whether depressivity had an explanatory value for survival, considering SCD as the reference level in relation to naMCI and aMCI. Covariates were included blockwise. Cox regression revealed that depressiveness (Beck Depression Inventory, Geriatric Depression Scale) did not make a significant contribution as a risk factor for mortality in all five model blocks, BDI-II with HR 0.997 [0.978; 1.02] and GDS-15 with HR 1.03 [0.98; 1.08]. Increasing age with HR 1.09 [1.07; 1.11] and male sex with HR (inverted) 1.53 [1.17; 2.00] appeared as risk factors for increased mortality across all five model blocks. aMCI (vs. SCD) with HR 1.91 [1.33; 2.76] showed a significant explanatory value only up to the fourth model block. By adding the six dimensions of the Neuropsychological Test Battery Vienna in the fifth model block, the domains attention and perceptual speed with HR 1.34 [1.18; 1.53], and executive functions with HR 1.24 [1.11; 1.39], showed substantial explanatory values for survival. Accordingly, no tendency can be attributed to depressiveness as a risk factor on the probability of survival, whereas the influence of certain cognitive dimensions, especially attention and perceptual speed, and executive functions, can be seen as protective for survival.</p>","PeriodicalId":44560,"journal":{"name":"NEUROPSYCHIATRIE","volume":" ","pages":"135-144"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11379728/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141080596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Transitional psychiatric needs and identity development of adolescents in Tyrol].","authors":"Kerstin Kunczicky, Ann-Christin Jahnke-Majorkovits, Kathrin Sevecke","doi":"10.1007/s40211-023-00477-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40211-023-00477-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Due to the structural separation of child and adolescent psychiatric treatment and adult psychiatric treatment, a switch between these two systems upon the age of 18 is necessary. Considering the importance of an organized transition, patients from an age of 17 were asked about their transition needs and aspects of their identity development. Thus future improvements in the treatment structures in this sensitive phase should derive.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>With the help of the Transition Readiness and Appropriateness Measure (TRAM), the transition-specific needs of 17 to 24-year-old patients (N = 42) at the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy in Hall in Tirol were surveyed. In addition, the connection between identity development and transition was examined using the Assessment of Identity Development in Adolescence (AIDA).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Almost 80% of the patients stated that they needed further care. 'Patient-related factors' and 'family support' were described as barriers to the willingness to transition. A significant connection was found between identity development and the willingness or need for transition (r = 0.431, p < 0.01), although this was more pronounced in relation to the need for transition (r = 0.821 p < 0.01). In addition, those affected stated that they were frequently and severely burdened by stress, 45% reported self-injurious behavior, 48% suicidal thoughts or behavior in the last six months. In terms of psychopathology, anxiety and depression were among the most common symptoms. In terms of functional impairment, the 'relationships' area was the most affected.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The study provides initial insights into the transition-specific characteristics and needs of patients in transition age. The integration of standardized measuring instruments in institutional care systems, which individually record the transition-related needs, the willingness and need of young people in transition age, can facilitate targeted and needs-based treatment or transition. Interdisciplinary cooperation between child and adolescent psychiatry and adult psychiatry as well as a continuous transfer of the therapeutic relationships in the transition process should also be guaranteed.</p>","PeriodicalId":44560,"journal":{"name":"NEUROPSYCHIATRIE","volume":" ","pages":"111-122"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11379762/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9924459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NEUROPSYCHIATRIEPub Date : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-07-25DOI: 10.1007/s40211-024-00502-6
Katarzyna Grebosz-Haring, Leonhard Thun-Hohenstein
{"title":"Psychobiological responses to choir singing and creative arts activities in children and adolescents with mental disorders: results of a pilot study.","authors":"Katarzyna Grebosz-Haring, Leonhard Thun-Hohenstein","doi":"10.1007/s40211-024-00502-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40211-024-00502-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Children and adolescents living with mental health problems often experience stress and poor mood states, which may influence their quality of life and well-being. Arts interventions may improve mood and well-being and reduce physiological stress in this vulnerable population.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A cohort of patients in child and adolescent psychiatry (N = 42; age range: 12-18 years) participated in one of four arts activities including choir singing (n = 11), textile design (n = 9), drama (n = 16), and clownery (n = 6). They were led by professional artists and delivered through five consecutive 90-min daily afternoon sessions over the course of 1 week. Questionnaires of mood and saliva samples before and after each session served to assess short-term psychobiological changes. In addition, patients reported their quality of life and well-being at the beginning and at the end of the 1‑week program.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results showed that alertness was significantly enhanced after textile design (∆post-pre = 4.08, 95% CI [0.77, 7.39]) and after singing (∆post-pre = 2.20, 95% CI [-0.55, 4.94]). Moreover, mood tended to be positively affected by textile design (∆post-pre = 2.89, 95% CI [-0.39, 6.18]). Quality of life increased significantly after singing (∆post-pre = 5.49, 95% CI [1.05, 9.92]). Arts participation except singing was associated with significant reductions in salivary cortisol (sCort) (textile design ∆post-pre = -0.81 ng/mL, 95% CI [-1.48, -0.14]; drama ∆post-pre = -0.76 ng/mL, 95% CI [-1.28, -0.24]; clownery ∆post-pre = -0.74 ng/mL, 95% CI [-1.47, -0.01]). No significant changes were observed for well-being over the whole program and salivary immunoglobulin A (sIgA) after any of the arts activities.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>These results suggest that arts participation can improve mood state and reduce stress in young people with mental disorders, but there is a need for further studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":44560,"journal":{"name":"NEUROPSYCHIATRIE","volume":" ","pages":"145-155"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11379771/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141761505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NEUROPSYCHIATRIEPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1007/s40211-024-00507-1
{"title":"kultur im kontext.","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s40211-024-00507-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40211-024-00507-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44560,"journal":{"name":"NEUROPSYCHIATRIE","volume":"38 3","pages":"159-161"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142141346","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}
NEUROPSYCHIATRIEPub Date : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2023-11-21DOI: 10.1007/s40211-023-00483-y
Gabriele Kohlboeck, Verena Barbieri, Anna Wenter, Giuliano Piccoliori, Adolf Engl, Kathrin Sevecke, Christian J Wiedermann, Silvia Exenberger
{"title":"Comparative study of children's mental health outcomes in Tyrol, Austria, and South Tyrol, Italy, during the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Gabriele Kohlboeck, Verena Barbieri, Anna Wenter, Giuliano Piccoliori, Adolf Engl, Kathrin Sevecke, Christian J Wiedermann, Silvia Exenberger","doi":"10.1007/s40211-023-00483-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40211-023-00483-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study aimed to compare the mental health outcomes of children in North Tyrol, Austria, and South Tyrol, Italy, during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, considering the sociocultural and contextual differences between the two regions.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The Tyrolean COVID-19 Children's Study (TCCS: n = 401; June 2021 to July 2021) and the Corona and Psyche in South Tyrol 2021 Study (COP‑S; n = 3402; May 2021 to June 2021) were used for data analyses. Both studies employed cross-sectional designs and collected data through online questionnaires completed by children aged 7-13 years and their parents. Various psychosocial assessment tools including the Child and Adolescent Trauma Screening, Children Anxiety Test, Child Behavior Check List, Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders, and Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children were used in the surveys.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The comparison between North Tyrol and South Tyrol revealed no significant differences in perceived threats, trauma, or anxiety among children. Similarly, there were no substantial disparities in psychosomatic complaints, indicating similar manifestations of emotional distress across the two regions.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The comparative analysis of children's mental health outcomes in North Tyrol and South Tyrol during the COVID-19 pandemic confirmed the analogous influence of sociocultural and contextual factors on their wellbeing. Despite presumable variations in pandemic events, management strategies, and healthcare systems, the study suggests comparable resilience among children and highlights the importance of sociocultural factors in shaping their wellbeing. The findings emphasize the need for comprehensive understanding and targeted interventions to support children's mental health during challenging times.</p>","PeriodicalId":44560,"journal":{"name":"NEUROPSYCHIATRIE","volume":" ","pages":"123-134"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11379734/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138292030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NEUROPSYCHIATRIEPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1007/s40211-024-00506-2
{"title":"Bericht aus dem Vorstand der ÖGPP.","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s40211-024-00506-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40211-024-00506-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44560,"journal":{"name":"NEUROPSYCHIATRIE","volume":"38 3","pages":"156"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142141345","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}
NEUROPSYCHIATRIEPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1007/s40211-024-00508-0
{"title":"bericht aus dem ögkjp-vorstand.","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s40211-024-00508-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40211-024-00508-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44560,"journal":{"name":"NEUROPSYCHIATRIE","volume":"38 3","pages":"157-158"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142141344","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}
NEUROPSYCHIATRIEPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s40211-024-00497-0
{"title":"bericht aus dem ögpp-vorstand.","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s40211-024-00497-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40211-024-00497-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44560,"journal":{"name":"NEUROPSYCHIATRIE","volume":"38 2","pages":"102-103"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141181022","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}
NEUROPSYCHIATRIEPub Date : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2023-05-12DOI: 10.1007/s40211-023-00466-z
Dirk Schwerthöffer, Hans Förstl
{"title":"[Insomniac symptoms and suicidality-link and management].","authors":"Dirk Schwerthöffer, Hans Förstl","doi":"10.1007/s40211-023-00466-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40211-023-00466-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>A link between insomniac symptoms and suicidality has long been suspected and deserves specific attention.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>We examine the current evidence for this relationship from epidemiology and neurobiology in order to propose a targeted management.</p><p><strong>Material and method: </strong>Clinical example and selective Medline-literature research for insomnia symptoms and suicidality.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Epidemiological data and statistical analysis show that symptoms of insomnia are independent risk factors for suicidality. Neurobiological factors associated with combined insomnia symptoms and suicidality are: serotonergic dysfunction and circadian rhythm disorder leading to hypofrontality with reduced problem solving capacity and impaired emotional and impulse-control. Social isolation, recurrent rumination, comorbid psychiatric disorders, access to potentially lethal drugs or weapons need urgent evaluation in patients with a combination of suicidality and symptoms of insomnia.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>patients with insomnia and further risk factors for suicide need to be treated resolutely and at an early stage. Modern sleep-promoting antidepressants with low toxicity and antipsychotics must be preferred in the treatment of patients with insomniac sleep disorders and suicidality. Multimodal anti-insomnia and anti-depressive therapy adapted to the circadian rhythm can exert a favorable influence both on depressive-suicidal and insomnia symptoms and their inherent risks.</p>","PeriodicalId":44560,"journal":{"name":"NEUROPSYCHIATRIE","volume":" ","pages":"53-61"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11143018/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9501438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NEUROPSYCHIATRIEPub Date : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2023-06-07DOI: 10.1007/s40211-023-00469-w
Carolin Schmid, Eva Reinisch, Claudia Klier, Brigitte Eisenwort
{"title":"Assessment of first language adds important information to the diagnosis of language disorders in multilingual children.","authors":"Carolin Schmid, Eva Reinisch, Claudia Klier, Brigitte Eisenwort","doi":"10.1007/s40211-023-00469-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40211-023-00469-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>59% of Viennese day care children have a first language other than German. Lower proficiency in the second language German might be typical in multilingual settings, but might also be due to language disorder (ICD-10:F80 or comorbid). Diagnostic practise in Austria focuses on second language evaluation. This study describes a group of multilingual children with suspected language impairment at a specialized counselling hour and reflects the role of the first language in language evaluation.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Linguistic evaluation (typically developed, ICD-10:F80, comorbid language disorder) and sociodemographic parameters of 270 children (time period: 2013-2020) are investigated. Linguistic results are reported according to primary diseases. For children without primary disease the relation between the linguistic evaluation and sociodemographic parameters is assessed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Overall, the children had 37 different first languages (74% were bilingual, 26% multilingual). The percentage of children with typical development and comorbid language development varied according to primary disease. Children without primary disease had higher chances of typical development the older they were at the examination, the earlier they produced first words, and if there was no heredity for ICD-10:F80.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Results suggest that evaluating the children's first language is useful since it contributes to understanding the individual language development at different linguistic levels, despite the heterogeneity of the children, and, thus, allows practitioners to recommend the best possible support.</p>","PeriodicalId":44560,"journal":{"name":"NEUROPSYCHIATRIE","volume":" ","pages":"82-91"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11142998/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9578417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}