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Christer Allgulander - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Suicide and Mortality Patterns in Anxiety Neurosis and Depressive Neurosis
Archives of general psychiatry, 1994Co-Authors: Christer AllgulanderAbstract:Background: The diverging views on suicide risk in patients with morbid anxiety called for a sufficiently large study to estimate the suicide risk in patients with anxiety Neurosis and depressive Neurosis. Methods: The identities of all 9912 patients with anxiety Neurosis and all 38 529 patients with depressive Neurosis in the national Psychiatric Case Register in Sweden between 1973 and 1983, without any other psychiatric diagnoses, were matched with the national Cause-ofDeath Register. The observed causes of death among the 9910 patients who died in 1990 or earlier were compared with those expected in the general population. Results: There were 1481 determined and 265 undetermined suicides among the patients; ie, 18% of all deaths. The standardized mortality ratio of suicide before the age of 45 years among men and women with anxiety Neurosis was 6.7 and 4.9, respectively; for depressive Neurosis, 12.6 and 15.7, respectively. The suicide risk was much higher within 3 months of leaving the hospital. Standardized mortality ratios of death caused by ischemic heart disease and traumatic injury were marginally elevated among men in both diagnostic groups. Women in both categories were at increased risk for death caused by alcohol abuse and cirrhosis of the liver. Obstructive pulmonary disease was another notable cause of death, reflecting the aggravation of anxiety-depressive symptoms by airway obstruction or the effects of tobacco smoking. Conclusions: The risk of completed suicide among former inpatients with primary anxiety Neurosis was higher than in previous, smaller studies and higher yet in patients with depressive Neurosis. This hazard may hopefully be reduced by optimizing immediate and longterm treatment for the severely affected.
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Causes of death among 936 elderly patients with ‘pure’ anxiety Neurosis in Stockholm County, Sweden, and in patients with depressive Neurosis or both diagnoses
Comprehensive Psychiatry, 1993Co-Authors: Christer Allgulander, Philip W. LavoriAbstract:Abstract The survival probability and distribution of causes of death were estimated among all 255 male and 685 female inpatients with "pure" anxiety Neurosis in Stockholm County between 1969 and 1986 who had survived until 71 years of age. When controlling for sex, age, time period, and catchment area, we found three determined suicides among the men ( v 0.8 expected) and four suicides among the women ( v 1.1 expected). The shift in the distribution of causes of death was significant in women ( P = .024). There were 55 heart deaths among the men versus 46.1 expected. Among 2,331 patients with depressive Neurosis and among 1,641 patients with both anxiety and depressive neuroses, suicides were more common than expected in both elderly men and women.
Meng Xian - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Control Study of the Psychological Defensive Mechanism in Patients with Schizophrenia and Patients with Neurosis
Chinese journal of clinical psychology, 2005Co-Authors: Meng XianAbstract:Objective: To explore whether patients with schizophrenia and patients with Neurosis have different psychological defense mechanisms. Methods: 48 patients with schizophrenia, 64 patients with Neurosis and 129 normal controls were tested with defense styles questionnaire (DSQ). Results: Compared with normal controls, patients with schizophrenia and patients with Neurosis use more immature defense mechanisms and less mature defense mechanisms; patients with schizophrenia, compared with patients with Neurosis, use more splitting, and have less difference in other defense mechanisms; patients with Neurosis have less concealment. Conclusion: Patients with schizophrenia and patients with Neurosis have different psychological defense mechanisms as compared with normal controls, patients with schizophrenia and patients with Neurosis, have no significantly different defense mechanisms.
J. Jensen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder: admission patterns and diagnostic stability. A case-register study.
Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1994Co-Authors: P. H. Thomsen, J. JensenAbstract:All first-time admissions from 1970 to 1986 with obsessive-compulsive Neurosis (OCD) (ICD-8 diagnosis number 300.39) or obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) (ICD-8 diagnosis number 301.49) were analyzed based on an extract from the nationwide Psychiatric Case Register in Denmark. All patients with secondary diagnoses other than neurotic disorders or personality disorders (including "neuroses characterogenes") were excluded from the study. A total of 284 patients were first-time admitted with a main diagnosis of OCD during the period. The sex ratio was 0.67 (males/females). A total of 126 were first-time admitted with a diagnosis of OCPD, with a sex ratio of 1.18 (males/females). Seventy-seven percent of the readmitted patients with a first-time diagnosis of OCD kept a diagnosis within the "emotional spectrum" at the last admission. About half kept OCD as a main diagnosis, whereas only 15% shifted to a severe psychiatric diagnosis such as schizophrenia or manic-depressive psychosis. Of the readmitted patients with OCPD, 13% later developed a diagnosis of manic-depressive psychosis.
Gwen Jacobs - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Neurosys
Neuroinformatics, 2003Co-Authors: Sandy Pittendrigh, Gwen JacobsAbstract:The inherent complexity of traditional relational database systems is a key obstacle to more widespread use of database technology in the neuroscience community. As an alternative to relational technology, we propose a simpler semistructured data model for documenting laboratory procedures and results. The semistructured data model allows researchers to document their data in an organized, regularly formatted, machine-readable, and network accessible manner, without requiring the services of database professionals. We present proof-of-concept software, consisting of an HTML interface that communicates with a remotely located, semistructured database. We also discuss the importance of standardized terminology and the importance of building flexible data description systems that are more easily adapted and reconfigured to conform with standardized terminologies as they evolve.
P. H. Thomsen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder: admission patterns and diagnostic stability. A case-register study.
Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1994Co-Authors: P. H. Thomsen, J. JensenAbstract:All first-time admissions from 1970 to 1986 with obsessive-compulsive Neurosis (OCD) (ICD-8 diagnosis number 300.39) or obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) (ICD-8 diagnosis number 301.49) were analyzed based on an extract from the nationwide Psychiatric Case Register in Denmark. All patients with secondary diagnoses other than neurotic disorders or personality disorders (including "neuroses characterogenes") were excluded from the study. A total of 284 patients were first-time admitted with a main diagnosis of OCD during the period. The sex ratio was 0.67 (males/females). A total of 126 were first-time admitted with a diagnosis of OCPD, with a sex ratio of 1.18 (males/females). Seventy-seven percent of the readmitted patients with a first-time diagnosis of OCD kept a diagnosis within the "emotional spectrum" at the last admission. About half kept OCD as a main diagnosis, whereas only 15% shifted to a severe psychiatric diagnosis such as schizophrenia or manic-depressive psychosis. Of the readmitted patients with OCPD, 13% later developed a diagnosis of manic-depressive psychosis.