Published in International journal of psychiatry in clinical practice
Quality of life (QoL) is an assessment going beyond symptom control that investigates positive effects, life satisfaction, well-being, impairment and functioning of a patient. Compared with patients with other common medical disorders, patients with mood (and to a lesser extent) anxiety disorders exhibit an impairment that pervades all dimensions o...
Published in International journal of psychiatry in clinical practice
A variety of agents are currently used to treat the different anxiety disorders. Benzodiazepines, such as diazepam, are still preferred by some for the treatment of acute anxiety, with the advantage of a rapid onset of action, but they are less suitable for long-term treatment due to their potential for memory disturbances, sleepiness, lethargy, ph...
Published in Journal of Neurology
In balance clinic practice, phobic postural vertigo is a term used to define a population with dizziness and avoidance behavior often as a consequence of a vestibular disorder. It has been described as the most common form of dizziness in middle aged patients in dizziness units. Anxiety disorders are common among patients with vestibular disorders....
Published in Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
Fluvoxamine is a selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) that has proved effective in large double-blind, randomized, controlled trials involving patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and panic disorder. Improvements have also been demonstrated in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder, as wel...
Published in Yonsei medical journal
The objective of this study was to develop the Somatic Stress Response Scale (SSRS), and then to use the scale in clinical practice. A preliminary survey was conducted using 109 healthy adults to obtain somatic stress responses. Then, 215 healthy subjects completed a preliminary questionnaire. A comparison was made regarding the somatic stress resp...
Published in Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN
To contribute to the case for a dimensional conceptualization of psychopathology in general and maladaptive personality or personality disorders in particular, the present paper reviews the evidence for a dimensional representation of childhood temperament and personality. The review of temperament and variable-centered as well as person-centered a...
Published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
ObjectiveThis paper extends previous epidemiological findings linking panic attacks with future episodes of depression and examines whether this relationship is independent of the effects of gender and neuroticism.MethodsComposite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) DSM-IV diagnoses from a stratified multi-stage population survey of 10,641 Au...
Published in European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
ObjectiveTo determine the prevalence and clinical characteristics of comorbid obsessive compulsive disorders and syndromes (OCD/OCS), compared with pure OCD/OCS among adults in the community.MethodData were drawn from the Zurich Study, a longitudinal cohort study of 591 adults in the canton of Zurich. Comorbid OCD/OCS was compared with pure OCD/OCS...
Published in Biological Psychiatry
It is commonly thought and taught that most psychiatric disorders other than dementia are much less prevalent among the elderly than among younger adults. This perception is based on a relatively small number of published epidemiologic investigations of the incidence and prevalence of mental illnesses in elderly populations. Most of these studies h...
