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Chapter and Conference Paper
On the State of Knowledge in Neurobiological Psychiatry
Our present knowledge of neurobiological mechanisms in psychosomatic disorders or in mental disturbances connected with physical illness is practically nil. This reflects the state of knowledge in biological p...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On Current Research in Affective Disorders
To give a short review of all the excellent papers of the current research in affective disorders in this volume is not an easy task. A lot of new data have emerged since I gave a similar review 3 years ago (Fog ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Effect of Dopamine Antagonists in Spontaneous and Tardive Dyskinesia
Dopamine antagonists are effective in suppressing hyperkinetic symptoms in patients with tardive dyskinesia, spontaneous oral dyskinesia, Huntington’s chorea, and Gilles de la Tourette’s syndrome. These neurol...
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Neuroleptic-induced ‘tardive Tourrette’s syndrome’ and neurotoxicity
Neurological side effects have been associated with neuroleptic drugs since these drugs were introduced in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Acute dystonia and parkinsonism may be seen in the initial pha...
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Amphetamines and psychosis
At the present stage of knowledge it seems reasonable to assume that every normal thought process or normal behaviour has one neuro-biological correlate, and that every abnormal form of function—even if induce...
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Theoretical and Clinical Aspects of the Tourette Syndrome (Chronic Multiple Tic)
In three schizophrenic patients long-term neuroleptic treatment induced Tourette-like symptoms. There seems to be a partial overlap in the pathogenesis of Tourette Syndrome and tardive dyskinesia.
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Stereotyped Behavior and Its Relevance for Testing Neuroleptics
During the early Sixties it became clear that the characteristic clinical effects of neuroleptics (antimanic, antischizophrenic, neurologic) correlated with their ability to antagonize stereotypies elicited in...
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Catecholamines in Activation, Stereotypy, and Level of Mood
Studies of the effects of psychoactive drugs have contributed much to the present knowledge of the role of catecholamines in behavioral physiology. Since drugs are never completely specific, i.e., no drug acts...
