Personality disorders (PD) and substance use disorders (SUD) are highly comorbid conditions. However, their treatment services are often separated. The aims of this study was to investigate how extensive this separation was prior to a Norwegian health reform (2004) that promoted integration, and to discuss clinical challenges for an integrated treatment of PD and SUD. All patients with a diagno...

objective: inconsistent results have been reported regarding the symptom dimensions relevant to psychosis in symptoms check list revised (scl90-r), i.e., “psychoticism” and “paranoid ideation”. therefore, some studies have suggested different factor structures for questions of these two dimensions, and proposed two newly defined dimensions of “schizotypal signs” and “schizophrenia nuclear sympt...

16 cases of affective disorder were studied. 8 patients received carbamazepine and 8 received either chlorpromazine or imipramine. Ratings were carried out on the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, Bech Rafaelsen Mania Rating scale and a side-effects symptom check list. Garbamazepine was found to be an effective treatment for affective disorders, possessing both anti-manic as well as anti-de...

background: gray`s reinforcement sensitivity theory (rst) presupposes individual differences in the sensitivity of basic brain systems that respond to punishing and reinforcing stimuli. these differences are thought to underlie the personality dimensions of anxiety and impulsivity, and to have relevance for psychopathology. the present study aims at studying the relationship between behavioural...