NervenarztPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-10-14DOI: 10.1007/s00115-024-01756-9
Rebecca Paetow, Thomas Frodl
{"title":"[Long-term courses of major depressive disorder : Characteristics, risk factors and the definitional challenge of treatment response].","authors":"Rebecca Paetow, Thomas Frodl","doi":"10.1007/s00115-024-01756-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00115-024-01756-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The definition of long-term courses of depression is heterogeneous. Chronic and treatment-resistant courses, in particular, represent a high-cost factor and greatly reduce the quality of life. Based on the pharmacotherapeutic treatment-resistant depression (TRD), more and more systemic approaches are becoming important.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This narrative review provides an overview of the long-term course of depressive disorders, including various definitions and influencing factors. In addition, an overview of biomarker research on treatment response with a focus on neuroimaging is presented.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>A selective literature search was conducted in PubMed and Google Scholar for a narrative review. Particular attention was given to larger cohort studies, systematic reviews, meta-analyses and studies on the prediction of treatment response.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Chronic and treatment-resistant courses mean a relevant reduction in the quality of life and increased health risks. The assessment of treatment response is a definitional challenge: An alternative to TRD is the systemically oriented difficult to treat depression (DTD). The focus is thus moving away from symptom reduction towards controlling the level of functioning. Biomarker research for treatment response offers potential but currently mainly serves to gain theoretical knowledge.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Recording the long-term course of depressive illnesses is important, but also complex. Clinical interventions should therefore include a continuous monitoring and the focus on maintaining the quality of life.</p>","PeriodicalId":49770,"journal":{"name":"Nervenarzt","volume":" ","pages":"37-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11772401/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142479158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NervenarztPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-10-22DOI: 10.1007/s00115-024-01749-8
Daniel Richter, Johanna Breilmann, Thomas Becker, Andreas Allgöwer, Reinhold Kilian, Alkomiet Hasan, Peter Falkai, Klemens Ajayi, Theresa Halms, Peter Brieger, Karel Frasch, Stephan Heres, Markus Jäger, Andreas Küthmann, Albert Putzhammer, Steffi G Riedel-Heller, Bertram Schneeweiß, Michael Schwarz, Markus Kösters, Uta Gühne
{"title":"[Self-help offers for people with severe mental illness: who uses which format?]","authors":"Daniel Richter, Johanna Breilmann, Thomas Becker, Andreas Allgöwer, Reinhold Kilian, Alkomiet Hasan, Peter Falkai, Klemens Ajayi, Theresa Halms, Peter Brieger, Karel Frasch, Stephan Heres, Markus Jäger, Andreas Küthmann, Albert Putzhammer, Steffi G Riedel-Heller, Bertram Schneeweiß, Michael Schwarz, Markus Kösters, Uta Gühne","doi":"10.1007/s00115-024-01749-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00115-024-01749-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Self-help can play an important supplementary role in the treatment of people with severe mental illness; however, little is known about the utilization of the various approaches.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study describes the use of various self-help options by patients with severe mental illness and examines potential predictors.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>As part of the observational cross-sectional study on patients with severe mental illness (IMPPETUS, N = 397), trained staff collected sociodemographic, illness-associated and treatment-associated data between March 2019 and September 2019. Binary logistic regression was used to analyze a possible association with the use of self-help.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The participants most frequently reported using self-help literature (n = 170; 45.5%) followed by self-help groups (n = 130; 33.2%), electronic mental health applications (n = 56; 15.5%) and self-management approaches (n = 54; 14.8%). Trialogue seminars (n = 36; 9.9%) were the least used by the participants. The utilization of the various approaches is influenced by sociodemographic and disease-related characteristics (age, education, marital status, migration background, age at onset of initial mental health problems, psychosocial functioning level) but not by factors associated with treatment.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The potential of self-help is not being fully utilized in the sample investigated. The reported use of self-help approaches by the participants ranged between 10% and 46%. The various formats address specific target groups. More targeted information must be provided about the various options and the use of self-help in routine treatment must be actively fostered in order to increase the utilization of self-help.</p>","PeriodicalId":49770,"journal":{"name":"Nervenarzt","volume":" ","pages":"57-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142511800","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}
NervenarztPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-05-15DOI: 10.1007/s00115-024-01669-7
Steffen Müller, Maria Strauß, Holger Steinberg
{"title":"[Are the concepts of \"chronic mania\" in German-speaking psychiatry around 1900 early contributions to the disorder of the adult form of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?]","authors":"Steffen Müller, Maria Strauß, Holger Steinberg","doi":"10.1007/s00115-024-01669-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00115-024-01669-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The adult form of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has increasingly become a focus of adult psychiatry. Despite long-established diagnostic criteria and specific therapeutic approaches for the disorder, the common misconception that ADHD is a \"fad\" has persisted. Examining the history of psychiatry can make an educational contribution by showing that the adult form of ADHD is a continuously existing illness phenomenon. The present study examines the discussion of sometimes prominent authors about \"chronic mania\" in German-speaking psychiatry around 1900. The individual concepts were analyzed for their content and compared with each other and with modern diagnostic manuals for adult ADHD. The aim of this work is to question and discuss whether these \"chronic-manic concepts\" are part of the conceptual history of adult ADHD and whether a gap in the history of this disorder can be filled with their help. It is concluded that in the early twentieth century neurologists reported and discussed about patients who nowadays would almost certainly receive the diagnosis of ADHD. The psychiatrists had difficulty in classifying this disorder into their nosological schemes but their \"chronic-manic concepts\" show clear parallels to the current diagnostic criteria for adult ADHD and its symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":49770,"journal":{"name":"Nervenarzt","volume":" ","pages":"81-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11772466/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140922412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NervenarztPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-12-19DOI: 10.1007/s00115-024-01790-7
Igor Nenadić, Irina Falkenberg, Stephanie Mehl, Tilo Kircher
{"title":"[Long-term courses in schizophrenia : A review of current results and developments].","authors":"Igor Nenadić, Irina Falkenberg, Stephanie Mehl, Tilo Kircher","doi":"10.1007/s00115-024-01790-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00115-024-01790-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite classical conceptions of schizophrenia as a progressive illness with a high chronification, current long-term follow-up studies show a higher proportion of remission, possibly also a higher proportion of recovery than previously assumed. The heterogeneity of clinical courses is also reflected in different trajectories of cognitive and biological (e.g., imaging) variables, in which many of those affected show remission. Early clinical intervention during the first weeks and months following the onset of psychosis are decisive not only for early remission but also possibly for the long-term outcome. The treatment and reduction of somatic comorbidities are promising approaches in addition to a differentiated core treatment to positively influence the course of the illness even years after the disease. The identification of additional predictors, e.g., based on biological parameters, can together with machine learning approaches contribute to optimization of an individualized core treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":49770,"journal":{"name":"Nervenarzt","volume":" ","pages":"5-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11772515/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142856378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Temporobasal meningioma as possible cause of a cognitive disturbance with depression in old age].","authors":"Meret Heibel, Horst Urbach, Katharina Domschke, Sabine Hellwig","doi":"10.1007/s00115-024-01787-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00115-024-01787-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49770,"journal":{"name":"Nervenarzt","volume":" ","pages":"89-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11772459/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142866130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NervenarztPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-12-21DOI: 10.1007/s00115-024-01791-6
Tabea Czempiel, Pavol Mikolas, Michael Bauer, Sabrina Vogel, Philipp Ritter
{"title":"[Long-term courses of bipolar disorders].","authors":"Tabea Czempiel, Pavol Mikolas, Michael Bauer, Sabrina Vogel, Philipp Ritter","doi":"10.1007/s00115-024-01791-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00115-024-01791-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Bipolar disorder (short: BD) is a severe illness with very heterogeneous trajectories. While some of the patients show no or hardly any long-term impairments, other affected individuals show substantial neurocognitive deficits with a clear decline in psychosocial functioning. Which factors influence the course of the disease is the subject of current research efforts.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This review presents the long-term course of bipolar disease and the factors influencing it. In particular, differential trajectory types are discussed. The cognitive and psychosocial functional level as well as the psychopathological characteristics of the disease are elucidated. In addition, biological factors and treatment approaches influencing the course and prognosis are identified.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>Literature search using PubMed focusing on longitudinal studies over several years (see online supplement).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>To date, there are only a few predictors and biomarkers that allow prediction of long-term progression. None have been sufficiently studied to enable clinical use. Appropriate pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatment of those affected is essential to avoid renewed episodes of the disease.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The long-term course of bipolar disorder is highly heterogeneous and multifaceted. Despite intensive research efforts, no predictors have yet been identified that reliably predict the clinical course. This makes further research all the more important in order to offer individualized therapy options, develop new therapies and positively influence the course of the disease at an early stage.</p>","PeriodicalId":49770,"journal":{"name":"Nervenarzt","volume":" ","pages":"15-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11772376/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142873324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NervenarztPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-01-27DOI: 10.1007/s00115-024-01759-6
Steffi Riedel-Heller, Stefan Weinmann, Thomas Becker, Uta Gühne
{"title":"[Introduction to the topic: psychosocial therapy for people with severe mental disorders-What is new from the guideline process?]","authors":"Steffi Riedel-Heller, Stefan Weinmann, Thomas Becker, Uta Gühne","doi":"10.1007/s00115-024-01759-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00115-024-01759-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49770,"journal":{"name":"Nervenarzt","volume":"96 1","pages":"46-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143048643","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}
NervenarztPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1007/s00115-024-01795-2
Sonja Krupp, Bernhard Iglseder
{"title":"[Assessment of cognition: dementia and delirium : In consideration of the AWMF guidelines 038-013 and 084-002LG].","authors":"Sonja Krupp, Bernhard Iglseder","doi":"10.1007/s00115-024-01795-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00115-024-01795-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cognitive disorders are multifaceted and the range of neuropsychological instruments is correspondingly extensive; however, most examiners have to limit themselves to a small selection in order to master them safely. In geriatric patients the various forms and stages of dementia dominate. Delirium must be distinguished from these as an acute life-threatening event. The personal and external medical history as well as clinical observation are the first steps in the assessment of cognition; the selection of test procedures is graduated and bears the patient's benefit in mind. When compiling a toolbox for use in one's own field of work, in addition to instruments focusing on different degrees of severity, alternatives should also be considered for use in the presence of comorbidities that reduce the validity (visual, hearing and fine motor disorders) and the examination situation should be taken into account.</p>","PeriodicalId":49770,"journal":{"name":"Nervenarzt","volume":" ","pages":"97-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142840179","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}