Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Edited by:
Povl Munk-Jørgensen

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 22/94 (Psychiatry)
Impact Factor: 3.782

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Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica publishes high-quality, scientific articles in English, representing clinical and experimental work in psychiatry. The journal acts as an international forum for the dissemination of information advancing the science and practice of psychiatry. Original articles are welcomed, especially those that bring new knowledge or extend the present understanding of mental disorders. Equal priority is given to review articles.

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica is a truly international journal which publishes papers of the highest quality from around the world. Published monthly, each issue is designed to ensure that you are kept fully aware of all important developments in both the clinical and research setting, as well as concentrating on their implications for the advancement of the specialty.

TopNews and Announcements

Online Manuscript Submission
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Online Content Now Available Back to Volume 1
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TopHighlights

Physical illness and schizophrenia: a review of the literature
Leucht S et al.
Following the milestone articles about the "Excess mortality of schizophrenia…" by Brown published in the British Journal of Psychiatry in 1997 and the "Excess mortality in mental disordered" by Harris and Barraclough one year after (1998) also in British Journal of Psychiatry, Stefan Leucht and his co-authors have now 10 years later performed a meta-analysis in which they analyse the presence of physical illness in schizophrenia. They find an excess of a long list of physical illnesses. Besides hypothesizing this on account of factors related to schizophrenia and treatment" they dare to suggest that it "…undoubtedly also results from the unsatisfactory organization of health service, from the attitude of medical doctors, and the social stigma ascribed to the schizophrenic patients".

 

Suicidal risks among 2826 Sardinian major affective disorder patients
Tondo L et al.
Tondo, Lepri and Baldessarini report from a follow-up study investigating suicidal ideation, attempts and completed suicides in the almost 3000 patients (bipolar-I, bipolar-II and major depression) taking into treatment over 30 years in a outpatient mood disorder clinic. Normally, rare events like suicide and suicide attempt are investigated from register studies (limited by heterogeneous and low validity diagnosing). The present study by Tondo and colleagues has its strength in being a clinical study from the same centre and therefore basing itself on homogeneous clinical diagnoses. The authors conclude that suicidal behaviour was more prevalent among bipolar disordered patients than among major depressive disorders.

 

Please also see the editorial by Hagop Akiskal in the December issue: Targeting suicide prevention to modifiable risk factors: has bipolar II been overlooked?

 

Stability of executive function deficits into young adult years: a prospective longitudinal follow-up of grown up males with ADHD
J. Biederman et al.
In the August issue 2007 of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Biederman and co-workers report from a study of males with ADHD followed over 7 years into young adulthood. Their major findings are that the majority of subjects maintained Executive Functioning Defects (EFD), and they conclude that "considering the morbidity of EFDs, these findings stress the importance of the early recognition for prevention and early intervention strategies"
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