Personality Disorders - Drug therapy
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Treatment of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.

6 Jul 2009 BACKGROUND: The Lennox-Gastaut syndrome is an age-specific disorder, characterised by epileptic seizures, a characteristic electroencephalogram (EEG), psychomotor delay and behaviour disorders. It occurs more frequently in males and onset is usually ... Read more...

[Empirical evidence for the use of anticonvulsants in personality disorders]

10 Mar 2009 OBJECTIVE: There is a common practice of polypharmacy and an increased use of mood stabilizers in personality disorders (PD). This paper reviews all randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of anticonvulsants to evaluate the evidence base supporting ... Read more...

Quetiapine dosage across diagnostic categories.

12 Jan 2009 OBJECTIVE: The aim of the current study was to evaluate quetiapine doses used across diagnosis categories in a sample of psychiatric inpatients. METHODS: Discharge letters of all adult inpatients who had received quetiapine between 1999 and 2005 ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Personality Disorders - Drug therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Treatment of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. 6 Jul 2009
• [Empirical evidence for the use of anticonvulsants in personality disorders] 10 Mar 2009
• Quetiapine dosage across diagnostic categories. 12 Jan 2009
• Combination of aripiprazole and other psychopharmacological treatments in resistant and multi-resistant patients. 30 Aug 2008
• [Copper deficiency with SMON-like neurological symptoms and macrocytic anemia] 8 Aug 2008
• [Compulsive buying and psychiatric comorbidity] Jul 2008
• Heterogeneity of violence in schizophrenia and implications for long-term treatment. 26 Jun 2008
• What is a psychosis and where is it located? 30 May 2008
• [Personality disorder] 13 Mar 2008
• [Psychopharmacologic treatment of personality disorders] 28 Feb 2008
• [Psychopharmacologic treatment of personality disorders] 30 Jan 2008
• Effect of pharmacological treatment on temperament and character in panic disorder. 28 Jan 2008
• The use of antipsychotic medication in child and adolescent psychiatric treatment in Denmark. A cross-sectional survey. 30 Dec 2007
• The effectiveness of anticonvulsants in psychiatric disorders. 30 Dec 2007
• Continuation and maintenance use of antidepressants in recurrent depression. 12 Dec 2007
• Repeated creatine kinase elevation under treatment with quetiapine, clozapine, and aripiprazole in an adolescent. 29 Nov 2007
• Limited efficacy of gastrointestinal decontamination in severe slow-release carbamazepine overdose. 29 Jul 2007
• Off-label prescription of quetiapine in psychiatric disorders. 29 Jun 2007
• Factors associated with antipsychotic dosing in psychiatric inpatients: a prospective study. 29 Jun 2007
• Pharmacotherapy in personality disorders. 30 May 2007

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Technical information about 'Personality Disorders'

Definition: A major deviation from normal patterns of behavior.

Descriptor UI: D010554

Alternative terms: Personality Disorders; Personality Disorder; Avoidant Personality Disorder; Avoidant Personality Disorders; Personality Disorder, Avoidant; Personality Disorders, Avoidant; Inadequate Personality; Personality, Inadequate; Narcissistic Personality Disorder; Personality Disorder, Narcissistic; As If Personality; Personality, As If; Impulse-Ridden Personality; Impulse Ridden Personality; Personality, Impulse-Ridden;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.675;

Online Note: use PERSONALITY DISORDERS to search AS IF PERSONALITY 1975-78 & IMPULSE-RIDDEN PERSONALITY & INADEQUATE PERSONALITY 1968-78

History Note: 68; AS IF PERSONALITY was see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1975-78; IMPULSE-RIDDEN PERSONALITY & INADEQUATE PERSONALITY were see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1968-78