Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica
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Acta Psychiatr Scand · Mar 1987
Left-side preference in holding and carrying newborn infants. A three-year follow-up study.
Observation of maternal infant holding was made during the postnatal week. Among 264 observed mothers 37 were right-holding and 35 could be traced 3 years later. ⋯ Other between group differences were also found illustrating a greater need for support and more anxiety about their children among right-holding mothers. Maternal parity seemed to have a stronger correlation to maternal anxiety about her child than did side preference for holding during the lying-in period.
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Acta Psychiatr Scand · Mar 1987
Case ReportsA successful electroconvulsive treatment of neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
A case of neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) treated successfully with electroconvulsive therapy (ETC) is described. Repeated exposures of the patients to succinylcholine during ECT did not cause malignant hyperthermia. The efficacy of ECT is probably related to its facilitatory effect upon dopamine (DA) activity in CNS.
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This paper shows that the major psychiatric syndromes encountered in the West with the exception of personality disorder and sexual deviation are represented among patients in northern Nigeria. It draws attention to the increasing problem of alcohol and drug (Indian hemp) addiction in a predominantly Moslem society. 17% of the male cases were treated for alcohol or drug addiction.
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Acta Psychiatr Scand · Dec 1985
Identifying children at high somatic risk: possible effects on the parents' views of the child's health and parents' relationship to the pediatric health services.
Country-wide neonatal screening for alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency (ATD) was discontinued due to clinical observations of negative psychological effects on the parents. In a subsequent systematic study, hypotheses of long-term negative effects on the parents' views of the child's health and on the parents' relationship to the pediatric services were tested by comparing these characteristics in parents with a child with ATD versus control parents, studied through interviews in the home. The identification of the ATD was found to have had negatively influenced the parents' view of the child's general health, but no evidence was found of increased parental anxiety regarding the child's current health or emotional dependence on medical personnel, of increased (reported) usage of pediatric services, or of more negative attitudes toward the pediatric services.