NEUROPSYCHIATRIEPub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1007/s40211-023-00486-9
{"title":"bericht aus dem ögkjp-vorstand.","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s40211-023-00486-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40211-023-00486-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44560,"journal":{"name":"NEUROPSYCHIATRIE","volume":"37 4","pages":"223-225"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138500699","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 : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1007/s40211-023-00476-x
Stephan Doering
{"title":"Zum Tod von o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Marianne Springer-Kremser (11.11.1940–26.02.2023).","authors":"Stephan Doering","doi":"10.1007/s40211-023-00476-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40211-023-00476-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44560,"journal":{"name":"NEUROPSYCHIATRIE","volume":"37 3","pages":"162-163"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10195153","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 : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1007/s40211-023-00463-2
Brigitte Eisenwort, Maksim Tilis, Carolin Schmid, Gabriela Diendorfer-Radner
{"title":"Erratum to: Bilingual children acquiring Russian and German in Vienna: nonword repetition correlates with stronger but not with weaker language.","authors":"Brigitte Eisenwort, Maksim Tilis, Carolin Schmid, Gabriela Diendorfer-Radner","doi":"10.1007/s40211-023-00463-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40211-023-00463-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44560,"journal":{"name":"NEUROPSYCHIATRIE","volume":"37 3","pages":"145-146"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10491524/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10248254","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 : 2023-09-01Epub Date: 2023-06-30DOI: 10.1007/s40211-023-00473-0
Stefan J Berger, Alex Hofer
{"title":"[Safety aspects during treatment with clozapine. : Monitoring and rechallenge - a narrative review].","authors":"Stefan J Berger, Alex Hofer","doi":"10.1007/s40211-023-00473-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40211-023-00473-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Due to its unique efficacy in treatment-resistant schizophrenia, discontinuation of treatment with clozapine is frequently associated with a significant worsening of symptoms, but also with an increased risk of suicide. Based on the literature, this review aims at summarizing different monitoring recommendations in order to be able to continue this therapy despite the occurrence of side effects. In addition, we provide recommendations when rechallenge of a previously stopped treatment with clozapine can be considered and when a definite discontinuation must take place.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>Medline, the Guideline for the use of clozapine 2013 of the Netherlands Clozapine Collaboration Group, and the S3 Guideline for Schizophrenia of the German Association of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics were searched for relevant literature, the last query dating from April 28th, 2023.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>If agranulocytosis or cardiomyopathy develops, treatment with clozapine must be discontinued and should not be resumed thereafter. In contrast, treatment with clozapine which had to be discontinued due to myocarditis or prolongation of the QTc interval may be continued if left ventricular function is normal or after normalization of the QTc interval. Other side effects are usually not absolute contraindications for rechallenge but often require the adjunctive use of additional pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic measures.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Taking into consideration various monitoring recommendations, cessation of treatment with clozapine can often be prevented or treatment with clozapine that has been discontinued due to side effects can be resumed.</p>","PeriodicalId":44560,"journal":{"name":"NEUROPSYCHIATRIE","volume":"37 3","pages":"130-135"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10491511/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10196635","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 : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1007/s40211-023-00482-z
{"title":"Bericht aus dem Vorstand der ÖGPP.","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s40211-023-00482-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40211-023-00482-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44560,"journal":{"name":"NEUROPSYCHIATRIE","volume":"37 3","pages":"164-165"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10548134","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 : 2023-09-01Epub Date: 2022-10-27DOI: 10.1007/s40211-022-00434-z
Doris Mayerhofer, Gertrude Bogyi, Christine Koska, Regina Rüsch, Judith Thaller, Katrin Skala
{"title":"The nature and nurture of resilience-reactions of trizygotic triplet minors to their father's death.","authors":"Doris Mayerhofer, Gertrude Bogyi, Christine Koska, Regina Rüsch, Judith Thaller, Katrin Skala","doi":"10.1007/s40211-022-00434-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40211-022-00434-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Parental bereavement during childhood is associated with an elevated risk for the development of psychiatric problems. This paper seeks to provide insight into the adjustment process of trizygotic triplets dealing with their father's death, thus, trying to give an impression of the individual nature of grief and resilience.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We examined 11-year-old trizygotic triplets (2 boys and 1 girl) concerning behavioral problems (CBCL/6-18R, YSR/11-18R), posttraumatic stress disorder (UCLA PTSD Index for DSM‑5, UPID), depression (\"Depressionsinventar für Kinder und Jugendliche,\" DIKJ), and fear (\"Phobiefragebogen für Kinder und Jugendliche,\" PHOKI) shortly after their father's death and 6 months later. The girl was developmentally delayed and had moderate intellectual disability, while her brothers' development was age-appropriate.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The triplets showed very different adjustment to the traumatic event. While the boys showed less psychopathological response to their loss shortly after their father's death and adjusted physiologically during the following 6 months, their sister scored high in almost all dimensions and still presented with notable psychopathological symptoms at the 6‑month follow-up.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Outcomes differ distinctly despite objectively equal risk and protective factors. While it is known that above average intellectual abilities represent a protective factor for posttraumatic stress, these results show that intellectual retardation might be a prominent yet understudied risk factor in dealing with postbereavement psychopathology in children.</p>","PeriodicalId":44560,"journal":{"name":"NEUROPSYCHIATRIE","volume":"37 3","pages":"156-161"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10491695/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10190312","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 : 2023-09-01Epub Date: 2023-01-04DOI: 10.1007/s40211-022-00452-x
Abhishek Jaywant, Wolfgang Aulitzky, Jimmy Avari, Anna Buchheim, Marc Dubin, Matyas Galffy, Mohamed Adil Shah Khoodoruth, Guy Maytal, Marta Skelin, Barbara Sperner-Unterweger, John W Barnhill, W Wolfgang Fleischhacker
{"title":"Multinational perspectives on changes to psychiatric care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a survey of practicing psychiatrists.","authors":"Abhishek Jaywant, Wolfgang Aulitzky, Jimmy Avari, Anna Buchheim, Marc Dubin, Matyas Galffy, Mohamed Adil Shah Khoodoruth, Guy Maytal, Marta Skelin, Barbara Sperner-Unterweger, John W Barnhill, W Wolfgang Fleischhacker","doi":"10.1007/s40211-022-00452-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40211-022-00452-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in significant upheaval in psychiatric care. Despite survey data collected from psychiatric patients and broad samples of individuals in single countries, there is little quantitative or qualitative data on changes to psychiatric care from the perspective of mental health providers themselves across developing countries.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>To address this gap, we surveyed 27 practicing psychiatrists from Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Respondents observed a marked increase in anxiety in their patients, with increased (though less prominent) symptoms of depression, somatization, and addiction. They reported largescale changes in the structure of psychiatric treatment, chiefly a decline in psychiatric admissions and closing/repurposing of psychiatric beds. Results supported strong \"buy in\" from clinicians regarding the use of telehealth, though some clinicians perceived a reduction in the ability to connect with, and build alliances with, their patients. Finally, clinicians described an improvement in the image and meaning of psychiatry in society, increased awareness of mental illness, and greater value placed on mental health in the general population.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These changes warrant further empirical study as to their potential long-term ramifications, particularly as the COVID-19 pandemic persists and new waves of infection occur periodically throughout the world. The increased psychiatric burden on the population coupled with the apparent salience of mental health and well-being in the public consciousness represents a global opportunity for psychiatry to advocate for further treatment, research, and education.</p>","PeriodicalId":44560,"journal":{"name":"NEUROPSYCHIATRIE","volume":"37 3","pages":"115-121"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9812354/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10190320","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 : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1007/s40211-023-00481-0
{"title":"Berlinde de Bruyckere. City of Refuge II.","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s40211-023-00481-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40211-023-00481-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44560,"journal":{"name":"NEUROPSYCHIATRIE","volume":"37 3","pages":"171-173"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10566635","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 : 2023-09-01Epub Date: 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1007/s40211-023-00474-z
Stefan J Berger, Alex Hofer
{"title":"[Safety aspects during treatment with clozapine: : Adverse effects, titration, and therapeutic drug monitoring - a narrative review].","authors":"Stefan J Berger, Alex Hofer","doi":"10.1007/s40211-023-00474-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40211-023-00474-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>According to current guidelines, clozapine should be used as a third step in treatment resistant schizophrenia (TRS). In everyday clinical practice, however, it is frequently used at a much later stage, which leads to a significant deterioration of prognosis. The first part of this narrative overview focuses on the most frequent side effects of clozapine, on the relevance of slow titration, and on specific aspects of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM).</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>Medline, the Guideline for the use of clozapine 2013 of the Netherlands Clozapine Collaboration Group, and the S3 Guideline for Schizophrenia of the German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics were searched for relevant literature, the last query dating from April 28th, 2023.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Despite its unique efficacy clozapine is underused in clinical practice and prescription varies between and within countries. Next to hematological, metabolic, and vegetative side effects, clozapine induced inflammation manifesting in the form of pneumonia or myocarditis, which is mainly associated with rapid titration, represents a major clinical challenge with CRP monitoring being of particular relevance. In this context, it also has to be noted that sex, smoking behavior, and ethnic origin impact clozapine metabolism, thus requiring personalized dosing.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Slow titration when possible, TDM, and CYP diagnostics when appropriate increase patient safety during treatment with clozapine and thus the likelihood of early prescription of this compound in TRS.</p>","PeriodicalId":44560,"journal":{"name":"NEUROPSYCHIATRIE","volume":"37 3","pages":"122-129"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10491532/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10557857","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 : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1007/s40211-023-00480-1
{"title":"bericht aus dem ögkjp-vorstand.","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s40211-023-00480-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40211-023-00480-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44560,"journal":{"name":"NEUROPSYCHIATRIE","volume":"37 3","pages":"166-170"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10189209","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}