Neuropsychiatrie : Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Rehabilitation

OBJECTIVE: 59% of Viennese day care children have a first language other than German. Lower proficiency in the second language German might be typical in multilingual settings, but might also be due to language disorder (ICD-10:F80 or comorbid). Diagnostic practise in Austria focuses on second language evaluation. This study describes a group of multilingual children with suspected language impairment at a specialized counselling hour and reflects the role of the first language in language evaluation...

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BACKGROUND: The influence of stressful life events on general cognition and for the first time on financial capacity performance of patients with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and in healthy controls (HC) is assessed. METHODS: A total of 268 participants (122 patients and 146 HCs with similar demographics) were examined with a number of neuropsychological tests, including Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15), and Legal Capacity for Property Law Transactions Assessment Scale (LCPLTAS) for measuring financial capacity...

PURPOSE: Disturbances of sleep have frequently been reported in individuals with migraine. On top of this, an elderly patient with migraine also suffers from sleep disturbances due to changes in physiologic and mental health associated with aging. This study aimed to compare several sleep factors, namely sleep quality, chronotype, and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) risk, between elderly people with and without migraine. METHODS: This was a multicenter cross-sectional study conducted in 10 neurologic clinics located in Tehran, Iran, over 2 years...

BACKGROUND: A link between insomniac symptoms and suicidality has long been suspected and deserves specific attention. OBJECTIVE: We examine the current evidence for this relationship from epidemiology and neurobiology in order to propose a targeted management. MATERIAL AND METHOD: Clinical example and selective Medline-literature research for insomnia symptoms and suicidality. RESULTS: Epidemiological data and statistical analysis show that symptoms of insomnia are independent risk factors for suicidality...

OBJECTIVE: The positive effect of sport and exercise interventions on the treatment of unipolar depressive disorder (UDD) is well documented with respect to aerobic exercise. However, few studies have determined the effectiveness of other types of interventions (e.g., weight training, body and mind oriented, qigong or progressive muscle relaxation). Additionally, the effectiveness of specific combined sport and exercise approaches has rarely been investigated. Therefore, recommendations for the use of sport and exercise therapy to treat UDD have been developed...

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BACKGROUND: Systematic reviews indicated that home treatment is an effective and cost-saving alternative to conventional acute psychiatric treatment options. Treatment success has often been defined as a reduction of hospital admissions. In the current study, symptoms and well-being are assessed regularly during treatment as an indicator for treatment success. Patients' characteristics such as diagnosis, age, substance use, and motivation for treatment were discussed as predictors for treatment success...

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PURPOSE: Nonword repetition tests (NWRT) can be useful tools together with other assessment procedures for diagnosing a developmental learning disorder in bilingual children. Concerning typically developing children, however, the link between NWRT performance and language development is still unclear. The present study contributes to this discussion by investigating the link between language-dependent NWRT performance, language development, and language exposure. METHODS: A total of 20 simultaneously bilingual Russian-German children, aged 4-6 years, were tested with "The Russian language proficiency test for multilingual children (SRUK)" and "Patholinguistische Diagnostik bei Sprachentwicklungsstörungen (PDSS)" as well as language-specific nonwords for Russian and German...

PURPOSE: One cognitive domain impaired in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is visuo-construction. The Vienna Visuo-constructional Test 3.0 Screening (VVT 3.0 Screening) measures this cognitive domain. This study examines how it works in the differentiation of AD from healthy controls (HC) and the prodromal stages subjective cognitive decline (SCD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and also how it performs in prediction of progress compared to the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Sunderland Clock Drawing Test (CDT)...

BACKGROUND: A considerable number of child and adolescent psychiatry inpatient units in Germany suffer from a significant shortage of doctors, which endangers the current system of nation-wide availability of high-quality child and adolescent inpatient services. METHODS: Drawing on recent data, this article pictures the status quo of child and adolescent psychiatry inpatient services in Germany. The authors then discuss the pros and cons of different suggestions of how to cope with the doctor shortage crisis in child and adolescent psychiatry...

Richard Semon (1859-1918) was a student of Ernst Haeckel and began his career as a zoologist with work on sea urchins, starfish, chicken and lung fish, which he collected at the Mediterranean Sea and in Australia. After his return to Germany he was forced to leave Jena and the university due to private reasons, and settled in Munich, where Semon devoted most of his time to the more philosophical aspects of biology, developed the theory of "mneme" (1904), which he extended towards the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1912)...