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Genomes and GenesSpecies | L V KessingSummaryAffiliation: University of Copenhagen Country: Denmark Publications
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[The course of affective disorders--a registry study]L V Kessing
H S Rigshospitalet, Psykiatrisk afdeling, Københavns Universitet
Ugeskr Laeger 161:1403-6. 1999..The course of severe unipolar and bipolar disorder seems to be progressive in nature despite the effect of treatment...
The effect of episodes on recurrence in affective disorder: a case register studyL V Kessing
Department of Psychiatry, University of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
J Affect Disord 53:225-31. 1999..The risk of recurrence has been found to increase with the number of episodes in both unipolar and bipolar affective disorder. The present study compared the effect of the number of episodes on the risk of recurrence in the two disorders...
The effect of the first manic episode in affective disorder: a case register study of hospitalised episodesL V Kessing
Department of Psychiatry, University of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
J Affect Disord 53:233-9. 1999..It is poorly understood how the course of illness in depressive patients is affected by a manic episode...
Predictors of recurrence in affective disorder--analyses accounting for individual heterogeneityL V Kessing
Department of Psychiatry, University of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej 9, DK 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
J Affect Disord 57:139-45. 2000..These studies did, however, not take the individual liability to recurrence into account...
Increased risk of developing Parkinson's disease for patients with major affective disorder: a register studyF M Nilsson
Department of Psychiatry, 0 6233, Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej 9, University of Copenhagen, , Denmark
Acta Psychiatr Scand 104:380-6. 2001..2 (CI 95% 1.7-2.9) compared with osteoarthritis. CONCLUSION: This study supports the hypothesis of a common aetiology for major affective disorder and Parkinson's disease...
Depressive disorders and anti-parkinson drug treatment: a case register studyM Brandt-Christensen
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Acta Psychiatr Scand 115:466-72. 2007..To estimate the rate of treatment with anti-parkinson drugs (APD) among patients with depression...
Affective disorders in neurological diseases: a case register-based studyF M Nilsson
Department of Psychiatry, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Acta Psychiatr Scand 108:41-50. 2003..To investigate the temporal relationships between a range of neurological diseases and affective disorders...
The prevalence of mixed episodes during the course of illness in bipolar disorderL V Kessing
Department of Psychiatry, University of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Acta Psychiatr Scand 117:216-24. 2008..To investigate the prevalence of mixed episodes during the course of illness in bipolar disorder...
Does the risk of developing dementia increase with the number of episodes in patients with depressive disorder and in patients with bipolar disorder?L V Kessing
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 75:1662-6. 2004..The present study aimed to investigate whether the risk of developing dementia increases with the number of affective episodes in patients with depressive disorder and in patients with bipolar disorder...
Does the impact of major stressful life events on the risk of developing depression change throughout life?L V Kessing
Department of Psychiatry, University of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Psychol Med 33:1177-84. 2003..It is unclear whether there is an interaction of ageing on the association between major life events and onset of depression...
Temporal changes in suicide rates for persons treated and not treated with antidepressants in Denmark during 1995-1999L Søndergård
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Acta Psychiatr Scand 114:168-76. 2006..To compare the temporal changes in suicide rate among patients treated with antidepressants with the change in suicide rate among persons who have not been treated with antidepressants during 1995-1999...
Treatment with antidepressants and lithium is associated with increased risk of treatment with antiparkinson drugs: a pharmacoepidemiological studyM Brandt-Christensen
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej 9, DK 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 77:781-3. 2006..To estimate the risk for persons treated with antidepressants or lithium of subsequent treatment with antiparkinson drugs (APD)...
Increased relative risk of subsequent affective disorders in patients with a hospital diagnosis of obesityA F Thomsen
Department of Psychiatry, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Obes (Lond) 30:1415-21. 2006..To investigate the risk of clinical affective disorders of patients who were hospitalized because of obesity in the study period 1 January 1977 to 31 December 1999...
No association between the -399 C > T polymorphism of the neuropeptide Y gene and schizophrenia, unipolar depression or panic disorder in a Danish populationC Lindberg
Laboratory of Neuropsychiatry, Department of Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Acta Psychiatr Scand 113:54-8. 2006..The objective of this study was to investigate potential associations between the polymorphism and three psychiatric disorders in a Danish population...
The predictive effect of episodes on the risk of recurrence in depressive and bipolar disorders - a life-long perspectiveL V Kessing
Department of Psychiatry, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Acta Psychiatr Scand 109:339-44. 2004..However, very few studies have considered the individual tendency toward recurrence in analyses of the effect of the number of episodes on the risk of subsequent recurrence in affective disorder...
Personality traits in unaffected twins discordant for affective disorderM Vinberg
Department of Psychiatry, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Acta Psychiatr Scand 115:442-50. 2007..To examine whether a high genetic liability to develop affective disorder is associated with specific personality traits...
Enduring increased risk of developing depression and mania in patients with dementiaF M Nilsson
Department of Psychiatry, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 73:40-4. 2002..To investigate the time relation between dementia and major affective disorders (major depression and mania)...
The hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis in major affective disorder: a reviewM V Christensen
Department of Psychiatry, Bispebjerg Hospital, Bispebjerg Bakke 23, DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark
Nord J Psychiatry 55:359-63. 2001..There is a need for prospective studies of larger samples of patients to be followed during successive affective episodes with a combination of measurements of the HPA-axis activity and brain imaging...
The internalising and externalising dimensions of affective symptoms in depressed (unipolar) and bipolar patientsP Bech
Psychiatric Research Unit, Frederiksborg General Hospital, Hillerod, Denmark
Psychother Psychosom 75:362-9. 2006..To analyse the internalising and externalising dimensions of affective states in depressed (unipolar) and bipolar patients approximately 2 years after discharge from psychiatric hospitals in Denmark...
