This content is machine translated Schizophrenia symptoms Negative symptoms – diagnostics and therapy For negative symptoms, two main dimensions can be defined: Apathy (reduced drive, social withdrawal, joylessness) and reduced expression (impoverishment of speech, flattening of affect). Negative symptoms severely limit the everyday…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Post-traumatic stress disorder How can the consequences of traumatization be differentiated? Psychological traumatization can be described as a progressive disease [1] that involves three distinct phases: traumatic situation, traumatic response (up to approximately four weeks after the traumatic event), and traumatic…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated 1st Swiss Symposium on Psychosomatics Fatigue – fate of our time? At the 1st Swiss Symposium for Psychosomatics at the Giesserei in Zurich-Oerlikon, the topic was “Exhaustion, Burnout and the Tired Society”. Are we really getting more and more tired and…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated 11th Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Bipolar Disorders Comorbidity between bipolar disorder and addiction Addictive behaviors are more common in patients with bipolar disorder than in the general population. Not only the risk for alcohol and tobacco addiction, but also for behavioral addictions such…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated SGPP - Personalized medicine in psychiatry Expansion of diagnostic spectrum and therapy The more precise the diagnosis, the more successful the therapy. This principle also applies in the field of psychiatry. But the road to a precise diagnosis is still long. Current…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Recurrent depressive disorder Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy instead of antidepressants? Research question: Is mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) superior to maintenance therapy with antidepressant medication in terms of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness?
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated ADHD in adults Update on clarification and treatment options With the introduction of the DSM-5 and the accompanying expansion of the inclusion criteria, the differentiated clinical diagnosis takes on even greater importance. This is against the background of missing…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Mental disorders as causal systems Post-traumatic stress disorder from a network perspective. Purpose: An important goal of McNally and colleagues’ study is to characterize the symptom structure of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using network analyses among survivors of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Performance enhancement with psychotropic drugs Cognitive Enhancement – a critical review of fifteen years of research. The idea of improving the mental performance of healthy people with psychotropic drugs continues to receive a lot of attention. The main focus is on psychostimulants, in particular amphetamine, methylphenidate…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Depression Different preparations with good effect A number of St. John’s wort preparations are registered in Switzerland, which do not differ significantly in composition. Only a minority of them are allowed to be used in the…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Drug therapy options The first-line therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with exposure. Pharmacotherapy comes into play when psychotherapy (KVT) does not work adequately or is rejected. The drugs of…
