E Mix, H L Jenssen, R Lehmitz, K Lakner, B Hitzschke, M Richter, A Heydenreich
{"title":"[Effect of pulsating electromagnetic field therapy on cell volume and phagocytosis activity in multiple sclerosis and migraine].","authors":"E Mix, H L Jenssen, R Lehmitz, K Lakner, B Hitzschke, M Richter, A Heydenreich","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>PEMF treatment was studied in 10 patients with multiple sclerosis and 10 patients with migraine. In both patients' groups a single treatment induced a significant rise of yeast particle uptake by blood granulocytes. The percentage of phagocytizing cells was increased in migraine patients only. In both patients' groups 20 PEMF treatments caused a reduction of particle uptake, whereas the percentage of phagocytizing cells remained unchanged. In migraine patients the opsonic capacity of serum and the mean cell volume of erythrocytes, lymphocytes and granulocytes were initially reduced, but increased during the course of 20 PEMF treatments. The biphasic changes of cell volume and phagocytic activity are interpreted as a result of counter-regulation of the organism in response to the primary PEMF effect.</p>","PeriodicalId":76385,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatrie, Neurologie, und medizinische Psychologie","volume":"42 8","pages":"457-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13399343","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":"[Factors affecting the disease course in multiple sclerosis].","authors":"K Lakner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigate the significance of various data of patient's and family's history according to the disease activity of MS. 350 patients with definitive MS were divided into two groups according to a different clinical course. There was no difference in the frequency of the registered factors between these two groups. Our conclusion is, that the evaluated factors don't have prognostic significance in the course of MS. The results support the model of a phase characteristic course of MS which has been suggested by Fog and Linnemann.</p>","PeriodicalId":76385,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatrie, Neurologie, und medizinische Psychologie","volume":"42 8","pages":"467-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13399344","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":"[Pain and pain perception].","authors":"H J Kmietzyk","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pain is both sensual perception and sense of touch, and it leads to emotional change of health, which has an effect back to a pain perception. Experience of pain is modified by intern and extern influences, and it can appear very multiformly in the chronicity. A part of these factors are described.</p>","PeriodicalId":76385,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatrie, Neurologie, und medizinische Psychologie","volume":"42 8","pages":"508-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13399350","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":"[Psychosocial management of glioma patients treated with combined therapy].","authors":"B Schmidt, B Bauer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Based on an empirical study it is pointed out that psychosocial care of patients with glioma differs in some points from that of other cancer patients. The first essential difference is that the emotional involvement of the care staff is not as intensive as those of other cancer patients. Other differences concern some illness- and therapy related effects such as family problems or monotony problems resulting from the longterm therapy. These specific problems are described in detail.</p>","PeriodicalId":76385,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatrie, Neurologie, und medizinische Psychologie","volume":"42 8","pages":"494-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13399348","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":"[Hypothetical aspects of the preventive effectiveness of controlled reflex and stimulation therapy (exemplified by acupuncture and PuTENS) in migraine].","authors":"A Heydenreich","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>On the basis of lang term therapeutical and experimental experience with acupuncture and punctual transcutaneous electrical nervestimulation (PuTENS) and in connection with the present neurophysiologically knowledge the results of reflextherapy and stimulatory-therapy in migrain are discussed. The established analgetic, vascular, musclerelaxing and reflectory effects of acupuncture may in part explain a causative influence on migraine. Trigger mechanisms siderably reduced and the vegetative state are favourable influenced.</p>","PeriodicalId":76385,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatrie, Neurologie, und medizinische Psychologie","volume":"42 8","pages":"500-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13399349","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":"[Cerebrospinal fluid cytologic diagnosis--possibilities and limits].","authors":"R M Olischer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Findings of functionally active and proliferating cells in CSF, such as granulocytes, macrophages, lymphoid cells and blastoma cells are of diagnostic importance in pathological reactions of meninges. Such findings have a special significance in different phases in the course of meningoencephalitis, subarachnoid haemorrhage and infiltrations of neoplasms with subependymal localization which can not be obtained even by modern methods in neuroradiology. A correct diagnostic assessment is only given by knowledge and in consideration of all clinical and laboratory findings. The diagnostic value is limited in cases of deeply intracerebral localized diseases, of chronic recurrent processes, of cases with previous lesions or of concommitant symptoms because the results are atypical.</p>","PeriodicalId":76385,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatrie, Neurologie, und medizinische Psychologie","volume":"42 8","pages":"473-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13399345","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":"[Results of a study of glucocorticoid receptors in lymphocytes of patients with endogenous depression].","authors":"M Pötzsch, C Schütt, W Nitzsche","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Increased plasma cortisol levels are found not only in patients with Cushing disease but also in patients suffering from endogenous depression. Because patients with endogenous depression fail to show any clinical signs of Cushing disease, it is supposed that the cells of these patients are relatively resistant to increased glucocorticoid levels. To test this hypothesis 20 patients with endogenous depression and 20 healthy controls were examined for plasma cortisol level and modulation of mitogen induced lymphocyte transformation by glucocorticoids. Results point to a relative resistance of patient's T-lymphocyte transformation to the inhibitory effect of glucocorticoids when compared with controls.</p>","PeriodicalId":76385,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatrie, Neurologie, und medizinische Psychologie","volume":"42 8","pages":"479-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13399346","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":"[Results of combined treatment of malignant brain tumors with various cytostatic protocols].","authors":"B Bauer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nowadays best results in the treatment of malignant brain tumors can be obtained with an interdisciplinary combined treatment (operation, radiation, antineoplastic chemotherapy). We treated 83 patients with gliomas after operation with a combined radiation/chemotherapy. Chemotherapy was performed by two different schemas (Israel n = 49, COMP n = 34). Both groups had the same structure concerning the 10 most important prognostic factors. The median survival time was found to be 26.1 months in the Israel-group and 22.8 months respectively in the COMP-group. The number of the long-time survivors is increasing in the COMP-group.</p>","PeriodicalId":76385,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatrie, Neurologie, und medizinische Psychologie","volume":"42 8","pages":"485-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13399347","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":"[Magnetoencephalography--current trends].","authors":"R Cammann, R Bauer, K Langner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The review deals with the method of magnet-encephalography. The physical principles and the most important technical conditions to put into practice this method are mentioned. Comparing with the electroencephalography this method shows various advantages, what leads to its intensive use for the localisation of components of evoked potentials, for the magnet-encephalographic record of the brain activity of the human fetus, and for the localisation of epileptic foci in therapy resistant epileptics.</p>","PeriodicalId":76385,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatrie, Neurologie, und medizinische Psychologie","volume":"42 7","pages":"412-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13388217","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":"[Performance-psychologic cross-sectional study of young schizophrenic patients with a subchronic and chronic disease course].","authors":"U Milech, J Böning, W Classen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>According to ICD-9 and DSM-III-R-criteria 14 subchronic schizophrenic male patients (duration of illness less than 2 years) and 17 chronically ill male schizophrenics (duration of illness between 5 to 12 years) matched for sex, age, education, type of illness, and medication were with the aid of 4 tests investigated with respect to time characteristics of performance parameters. Whereas subchronic patients revealed performance scores within the normal range of reference scores, chronically ill patients showed dissociative variations in performance (high scores in reasoning, low scores in speed factor). This can be interpreted as instability of brain functioning which characterizes schizophrenics suffering from a long duration of illness. Correlations between prolonged reactions to \"crossmodal\" choices and subjective basic symptoms in subchronic patients are hints at well established introspection ability of self regarded complaints.</p>","PeriodicalId":76385,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatrie, Neurologie, und medizinische Psychologie","volume":"42 7","pages":"385-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13388215","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}