Hans Peter Kapfhammer

..To investigate the etiopathogenesis, multifactorial models are required. For treatment, adapted cognitive-behavioral therapy, possibly accompanied by an antidepressant, is effective...

..The conditional role of early childhood abuse, however, has to be investigated only within a multifactorial biopsychosocial model of psychotic illness...

..Any aetiopathogenetic evaluation may be favourably done within a multifactorial biopsychosocial model. Consequences for medical care will be described...

..A sample of patients with a puerperal psychosis of an early manifestation is investigated in respect of special risks of suicide and infanticide...

..Probably due to the inherent relationships to anxiety, obsessive-compulsive and depressive disorders, both hypochondria and body dysmorphic disorder can be positively treated by serotonergic antidepressants as well...

..SBS must be clearly differentiated from building-related illness. Diagnostic measures and therapeutic implications are discussed...

..The neurobiological underpinnings of somatic symptoms in depression may guide more promising treatment approaches...

..Neurobiological reorganisation and psychosocial transformation are both sides of one developmental process during adolescence and young adulthood...

..This review provides basic knowledge on epidemiology, diagnosis, pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy to enable successful primary care of this important group of patients...

..e., factitious disorders must be differentiated, both showing a complex etiopathogenesis of their somatic symptoms. Patients with somatoform and factitious disorders present a special challenge within the health care system...

..Etiopathogenetically, somatoform disorders may best be considered within a multifactorial model. Some pragmatic guidelines for multimodal treatment of somatoform disorders are outlined...

..In psychiatric care biological and psychological approaches are often combined although the empirical basement of combined treatments still requires further validation...

..In early interventions, substances blocking the norepinephric hyperactivity seem to be promising alternatives. Stress doses of hydrocortisone may be considered as an experimental pharmacological strategy so far...

..The patient's course during a triple pregnancy, postpartum period and early parenthood is described...

..Depressive and cardiological disorders present a major comorbidity. Their manifold interrelations may be best analysed within a biopsychosocial model of disease...

..Psychiatric morbidity and negative effects on health-related quality of life were assessed in long-term survivors of acute respiratory distress syndrome...

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..Clinicans must balance the significant benefits of atypical antipsychotics against the risk of metabolic disturbances. In this article recent findings are reviewed...

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..We propose that the liability to suicidal behavior among suicide attempters susceptible to depressive symptomatology may be related to high harm avoidance and low self-directedness...

..Finally, the possible connection between the observed increased cerebral cell death and tardive dyskinesia, the most threatening side-effect in antipsychotic therapy, is discussed...

..A long-term, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial appears highly warranted for definitively establishing the value of minocycline in HD...

..The TERS therefore may be used routinely...

..We report three genetically confirmed HD patients who improved significantly in several categories of the motor scale of the Unified HD Rating Scale...

..However the mode of action of ECT is still not fully understood. Advances in neuroimaging created new possibilities to understand the functional changes of the human brain...

..The authors have used the examples of Parkinson's disease and epilepsy commonly associated with depression to illustrate how these considerations affect the C-L psychiatrist's choice of an antidepressant in the medically ill...

..The analyses suggest that stalking, in the psychiatric field of activity, is a common and serious phenomenon, and that strategies for the prevention and protection of potentially affected professions have to be developed...

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..Ideational apraxia is apraxia with tool use like cutting with a knife or utilizing a pencil...

..The purpose of this study was to investigate the phenomenology of a newly structured Austrian tertiary - care hospital consultation - liaison (C - L) psychiatry service...

..This study investigated the influence of different risk factors on cognitive performance, emotional state, and convalescence...

..Consequently, the assessment of disgust reactivity should be introduced as a diagnostic tool for this disorder...

..Therapy of MCI is basically like the treatment of Alzheimer's disease: symptomatic treatment with cholinesterase-inhibitors or antioxidants, and compensatory psychological approaches...

..The importance of classification for risk estimation of delinquent behaviour and its significance for providing forensic opinions is discussed...

..CONCLUSIONS: Stress doses of hydrocortisone in patients undergoing CS are associated with a lower intensity of chronic stress and PTSD symptoms at 6 months after CS...

..The study aimed to explore the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) recipients, and to investigate how psychiatric morbidity was linked to health-related quality of life (HRQOL)...

..This article gives an overview of clinical features and treatment approaches in C-L psychiatry settings...

..52, p <.01). CONCLUSIONS: Exposure to high stress in the cardiovascular intensive care unit can have negative effects on HRQL outcomes of cardiac surgery...

..This is a publication of the complete expertise by the project group "Acute In-patient Care for Patients with Psychosomatic Diseases in Bavaria" which has been handed to the Bavarian Ministry of Social Affairs in December 1999...

..Furthermore, lacking side effects of the amino acids resulting also in a better patient compliance may improve the benefit/risk ratio...

..Fine-motor tasks and eye movement did not change significantly. CONCLUSIONS: We suggest that amantadine treatment might be of value to patients with the akinetic-rigid variant of HD...