Search Results - "Westheide, Jens"
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Executive performance of depressed suicide attempters: the role of suicidal ideation
Published in European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience (01-10-2008)“…Objective Suicidal ideation has been related to cognitive rigidity whereas suicidal behaviour itself was associated with specific executive deficits. Yet it…”
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Elevated impulsivity and impaired decision-making cognition in heavy users of MDMA ("Ecstasy")
Published in Psychopharmacology (01-01-2007)“…In animal studies, the common club drug 3,4-methylendioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, "Ecstasy") consistently caused a prolonged loss of presynaptic serotonergic…”
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Sensorimotor Gating and Habituation of the Startle Response in Schizophrenic Patients Randomly Treated With Amisulpride or Olanzapine
Published in Biological psychiatry (1969) (15-03-2006)“…Schizophrenic patients exhibit impairments in prepulse inhibition (PPI) and habituation of the acoustic startle response (ASR). Recent studies suggested that…”
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Neuropsychological performance in partly remitted unipolar depressive patients: focus on executive functioning
Published in European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience (01-10-2007)“…Only few studies have investigated executive impairment in the euthymic phase of unipolar affective disorders, yielding diverging results. The role of…”
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Normal prepulse inhibition and habituation of acoustic startle response in suicidal depressive patients without psychotic symptoms
Published in Journal of affective disorders (01-06-2006)“…Until now, there is a lack of useful biological markers to predict suicidal behavior in depressive patients. However, it is consistently found that suicidality…”
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Cognitive improvement in schizophrenic patients does not require a serotonergic mechanism: Randomized controlled trial of olanzapine vs amisulpride
Published in Neuropsychopharmacology (New York, N.Y.) (01-02-2005)“…Combined serotonin-2A (5-HT(2A)) and dopamine-2 (D2) receptor blockade has been proposed as a candidate mechanism by which second-generation antipsychotics…”
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Prolactin, Subjective Well‐Being and Sexual Dysfunction: An Open Label Observational Study Comparing Quetiapine with Risperidone
Published in Journal of sexual medicine (01-12-2008)“…Sexual dysfunction is a frequent side effect of antipsychotic treatment. Increased prolactin levels are believed to be responsible for this sexual impairment…”
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Attenuation of the prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle response within and between sessions
Published in Biological psychology (01-03-2006)“…Prepulse inhibition (PPI) and habituation of the acoustic startle response (ASR) are widely used biological markers in the study of psychiatric disorders and…”
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Clozapine: Acquittal of the usual suspect
Published in The world journal of biological psychiatry (2009)“…This report concerns the case of a 29-year-old male patient suffering from severe psychotic illness who had been satisfactorily treated with clozapine for 4…”
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Clozapine: Acquittal of the usual suspect
Published in The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry (01-01-2009)“…This report concerns the case of a 29-year-old male patient suffering from severe psychotic illness who had been satisfactorily treated with clozapine for 4…”
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