P Lichtenberg

Summary

Affiliation: The Hebrew University
Country: Israel

Publications

  1. ncbi The residential care alternative for the acutely psychotic patient
    Pesach Lichtenberg
    Department of Psychiatry, Herzog Hospital, School of Medicine of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, POB 3900, Jerusalem, 90135, Israel
    Psychiatr Q 82:329-41. 2011
  2. ncbi Reduced prepulse inhibition is associated with increased hypnotizability
    Pesach Lichtenberg
    Department of Psychiatry, Ezrath Nashim Herzog Memorial Hospital, and Hadassah Medical School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
    Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 11:541-5. 2008
  3. ncbi Clinical case management of revolving door patients - a semi-randomized study
    P Lichtenberg
    Department of Psychiatry, Herzog Hospital, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
    Acta Psychiatr Scand 117:449-54. 2008
  4. ncbi Hypnotizability and blink rate: a test of the dopamine hypothesis
    Pesach Lichtenberg
    S Herzog Memorial Hospital and Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
    Int J Clin Exp Hypn 56:243-54. 2008
  5. ncbi Politics and psychopathology in an Arab-Israeli patient
    Pesach Lichtenberg
    Department of Psychiatry, Herzog Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
    Psychiatry 66:360-3. 2003
  6. ncbi Hypnotic susceptibility: multidimensional relationships with Cloninger's Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire, COMT polymorphisms, absorption, and attentional characteristics
    Pesach Lichtenberg
    S Herzog Memorial Hospital, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
    Int J Clin Exp Hypn 52:47-72. 2004
  7. ncbi Israeli norms for the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A
    Pesach Lichtenberg
    S Herzog Memorial Hospital, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
    Int J Clin Exp Hypn 56:384-93. 2008
  8. ncbi Israeli norms for the Stanford hypnotic susceptibility scale, Form C
    Pesach Lichtenberg
    Herzog Hospital and the Hadassah Medical School of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
    Int J Clin Exp Hypn 57:227-37. 2009
  9. ncbi The goals and limitations of Israel's psychiatric case register
    P Lichtenberg
    Mental Health Services Section, Israel Ministry of Health, Jerusalem
    Psychiatr Serv 50:1043-8. 1999
  10. ncbi The ethics of the placebo in clinical practice
    P Lichtenberg
    Herzog Hospital, POB 35300, Jerusalem 91351, Israel
    J Med Ethics 30:551-4. 2004

Detail Information

Publications21

  1. ncbi The residential care alternative for the acutely psychotic patient
    Pesach Lichtenberg
    Department of Psychiatry, Herzog Hospital, School of Medicine of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, POB 3900, Jerusalem, 90135, Israel
    Psychiatr Q 82:329-41. 2011
    ..For most patients requiring psychiatric hospitalization, residential treatment can be a viable alternative to inpatient hospitalization. Issues of cost, therapeutic effectiveness, and long-term outcomes still need to be studied...
  2. ncbi Reduced prepulse inhibition is associated with increased hypnotizability
    Pesach Lichtenberg
    Department of Psychiatry, Ezrath Nashim Herzog Memorial Hospital, and Hadassah Medical School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
    Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 11:541-5. 2008
    ..We conclude that hypnotizability and PPI may be negatively correlated. These findings lend further support for the role of dopaminergic neurotransmission mechanisms in the determination of hypnotizability levels...
  3. ncbi Clinical case management of revolving door patients - a semi-randomized study
    P Lichtenberg
    Department of Psychiatry, Herzog Hospital, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
    Acta Psychiatr Scand 117:449-54. 2008
    ..To assess the effectiveness of psychiatric clinical case management...
  4. ncbi Hypnotizability and blink rate: a test of the dopamine hypothesis
    Pesach Lichtenberg
    S Herzog Memorial Hospital and Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
    Int J Clin Exp Hypn 56:243-54. 2008
    ..The results do not provide evidence for a role of dopamine in determining hypnotizability...
  5. ncbi Politics and psychopathology in an Arab-Israeli patient
    Pesach Lichtenberg
    Department of Psychiatry, Herzog Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
    Psychiatry 66:360-3. 2003
  6. ncbi Hypnotic susceptibility: multidimensional relationships with Cloninger's Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire, COMT polymorphisms, absorption, and attentional characteristics
    Pesach Lichtenberg
    S Herzog Memorial Hospital, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
    Int J Clin Exp Hypn 52:47-72. 2004
    ..1%) and highly (81.5%) hypnotizable groups. These results suggest that highly hypnotizable persons have a more effective frontolimbic attentional system and further suggest the involvement of dopaminergic systems in hypnotizability...
  7. ncbi Israeli norms for the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A
    Pesach Lichtenberg
    S Herzog Memorial Hospital, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
    Int J Clin Exp Hypn 56:384-93. 2008
    ..The author speculates that the slightly lower scores obtained may be due to the larger group of subjects present in each session. Overall, the Israeli data are congruent with the reference samples...
  8. ncbi Israeli norms for the Stanford hypnotic susceptibility scale, Form C
    Pesach Lichtenberg
    Herzog Hospital and the Hadassah Medical School of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
    Int J Clin Exp Hypn 57:227-37. 2009
    ..We conclude that the Hebrew version of the SHSS:C can be used for the assessment of hypnotizability and recommend that the discontinuation criterion be applied...
  9. ncbi The goals and limitations of Israel's psychiatric case register
    P Lichtenberg
    Mental Health Services Section, Israel Ministry of Health, Jerusalem
    Psychiatr Serv 50:1043-8. 1999
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  10. ncbi The ethics of the placebo in clinical practice
    P Lichtenberg
    Herzog Hospital, POB 35300, Jerusalem 91351, Israel
    J Med Ethics 30:551-4. 2004
    ..It is suggested that in select cases, use of the placebo may even be morally imperative. The argument is illustrated by three case vignettes...
  11. ncbi D-serine efficacy as add-on pharmacotherapy to risperidone and olanzapine for treatment-refractory schizophrenia
    Uriel Heresco-Levy
    Ezrath Nashim Herzog Memorial Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel Department of Psychiatry, Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
    Biol Psychiatry 57:577-85. 2005
    ..We assessed the efficacy and safety of D-serine adjuvant treatment for Occidental schizophrenia patients treated with newer atypical antipsychotics...
  12. ncbi Shiatsu as an adjuvant therapy for schizophrenia: an open-label pilot study
    Pesach Lichtenberg
    Department of Psychiatry, Herzog Memorial Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
    Altern Ther Health Med 15:44-6. 2009
    ..Studies have suggested a possible role for shiatsu in treating a variety of mental and physical ailments...
  13. ncbi Very high-dose clozapine and electroconvulsive therapy combination treatment in a patient with schizophrenia
    Shikma Keller
    Department of Psychiatry, Sarah Herzog Memorial Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
    J ECT 25:280-1. 2009
    ..However, adverse effects were limited to mild cognitive disturbances. Our experience adds to other reports suggesting that clozapine and electroconvulsive therapy can be combined without causing excessive adverse effects...
  14. ncbi Enhanced serotonergic responsivity following electroconvulsive therapy in patients with major depression
    B Shapira
    Depression Treatment Unit, Ezrath Nashim Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
    Br J Psychiatry 160:223-9. 1992
    ..These findings suggest that ECT enhances central serotonergic responsivity and extend to depressed patients pre-clinical observations regarding the effect of electroconvulsive shock on serotonergic function...
  15. ncbi Exploratory association study between catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) high/low enzyme activity polymorphism and hypnotizability
    P Lichtenberg
    S Herzog Memorial Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
    Am J Med Genet 96:771-4. 2000
    ..This association was significant for men but not for women. As for all case-control studies, these results need to be interpreted cautiously and require replication. Am. J. Med. Genet. (Neuropsychiatr. Genet.) 96:771-774, 2000...
  16. ncbi Questionnaire survey on use of placebo
    Uriel Nitzan
    Herzog Hospital and Hadassah School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, POB 35300, Jerusalem 91351, Israel
    BMJ 329:944-6. 2004
    ..CONCLUSION: Most practitioners questioned in this study continue to use placebos. Used wisely, placebos might have a legitimate place in therapeutics. Wider recognition of the practice and debate about its implications are imperative...
  17. ncbi Reduction in inpatient length of stay and changes in mental health care in Israel over four decades: a national case register study
    Daphna Levinson
    Mental Health Services, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel
    Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci 40:240-7. 2003
    ..These innovations facilitated the discharge of patients with chronic schizophrenia and altered the case mix of the newly admitted patients...
  18. ncbi AVPR1a and SLC6A4 gene polymorphisms are associated with creative dance performance
    Rachel Bachner-Melman
    Department of Psychology, Mount Scopus, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
    PLoS Genet 1:e42. 2005
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  19. ncbi Effect of transfer of long-stay psychiatric inpatients from hospital to hospital
    Nelly Zilber
    Falk Institute for Mental Health and Behavioral Studies, Kfar Shaul Hospital, Jerusalem French Research Center, C.N.R.S, Jerusalem, Israel
    Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci 40:290-6. 2003
    ..CONCLUSION: Institutional transfer of psychiatric patients can be carried out without harm to the patient's welfare, and may even be beneficial...
  20. ncbi [Hypnosis: clinical applications]
    Noam Weizman
    Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
    Harefuah 143:42-6, 85, 84. 2004
    ..In the other areas reviewed there is also some evidence for the possible clinical value for hypnosis. CONCLUSIONS: Additional research will be necessary to determine the proper place of hypnosis in clinical medical care...
  21. ncbi Psychotic exacerbation in a patient with seizure disorder treated with vagus nerve stimulation
    Shikma Keller
    Department of Psychiatry, Herzog Memorial Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
    Isr Med Assoc J 10:550-1. 2008