Incidence of melancholic depression by age of onset and gender in the Lundby population, 1947-1997.

Whether melancholic depression is a distinct syndrome or not has long been debated. There are few studies providing information about the epidemiology of melancholic depression. In this study, we investigate the incidence rates, overall as well as by gender and age of onset of melancholic depression according to Taylor and Fink and corresponding DSM-IV disorders: major depressive disorder (MDD) with melancholic specifier, MDD with psychotic features, MDD with postpartum debut and bipolar depression in the Lundby population.

Experiences of becoming widowed in old age - a cross-countries study with qualitative interviews from Denmark and quantitative measures of association in a Swedish sample.

: Becoming widowed is a stressful health-threatening event causing major life changes. We explored how widowed people experience becoming widowed and examined if these experiences are quantitatively associated with widowhood. : A multi-methods study using an exploratory sequential mixed-methods approach including a qualitative descriptive study with widowed people from Denmark and a Swedish cohort study.

Remission from Alcohol Use Disorder among Males in the Lundby Cohort during 1947-1997.

Background: Alcohol use disorders are a major health problem, often with a chronic course. Studies on remission from alcohol use disorders are sparse.

Objective: The aim of this study was to analyse the rate of remission from AUD and the possible influence of other mental disorders and sociodemographic factors on the remission in the Lundby Cohort.

Risk factors for recurrence in depression in the Lundby population, 1947-1997.

Background: Depression is a common disorder in both men and women, and the recurrence rate is high. The aim of this study was to identify risk factors for recurrence in depression in the Lundby Study.

Methods: The Lundby Study is a community-based longitudinal study with focus on mental health.

Q-space trajectory imaging for multidimensional diffusion MRI of the human brain.

This work describes a new diffusion MR framework for imaging and modeling of microstructure that we call q-space trajectory imaging (QTI). The QTI framework consists of two parts: encoding and modeling. First we propose q-space trajectory encoding, which uses time-varying gradients to probe a trajectory in q-space, in contrast to traditional pulsed field gradient sequences that attempt to probe a point in q-space.

Relationship of SOC with sociodemographic variables, mental disorders and mortality.

Background: SOC is associated with wellbeing and health. The Lundby Study is a cohort study of an unselected population (n=3563) in whom mental health and personality traits have been assessed since 1947, with follow ups in 1957, 1972, and 1997.

Aim: To describe the relationship of Antonovsky's 29-item sense of coherence scale (SOC) and its three subscales (comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness) to mental health and mortality in an unselected middle-aged and elderly community cohort, controlling for gender, age, marital status, and socioeconomic status.

Correspondence between clinical diagnoses of depressive and anxiety disorders and diagnostic screening via the Hopkins Symptom Check List-25 in the Lundby Study.

Aim: To compare clinical assessments of mental disorders with the Hopkins Symptom Check List-25 (HSCL-25) in a population-based sample consisting of middle-aged and elderly subjects.

Background: The Lundby Study is a prospective cohort study that evaluated mental disorders and personality traits in an unselected Swedish population. The study commenced in 1947, with follow-ups in 1957, 1972 and 1997 (n = 3563).

Incidence of alcoholism in the revisited Lundby population, 1947-1997.

Objective: The Lundby Study is a prospective longitudinal study of an unselected population consisting of 3,563 subjects. The Lundby Study started in 1947, and follow-ups were carried out in 1957, 1972, and in 1997.

Method: In all four surveys, semistructured interviews were performed by psychiatrists.

Incidence of psychotic disorders in the 50 year follow up of the Lundby population.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to analyse first incidence of psychotic disorders in the Lundby population during a 50 year period by comparing male and female age at onset, overall incidence rates and age-specific incidence rates.

Method: The Lundby Study is a prospective study of the mental health of a complete community population (n = 3563), which was followed from 1947 to 1997. Data from interviews, registers, case files and key informants were accumulated via four waves of field work (1947 1957, 1972 and 1997).

How common are psychotic and bipolar disorders? A 50-year follow-up of the Lundby population.

Background: The purpose was to present the prevalence of all psychotic and bipolar (BP) disorders in a total general population (n=3563), which has been followed from 1947 to 1997.

Materials And Methods: Best-estimate consensus DSM-IV diagnoses, supported by data from interviews, case notes, registers and key-informants, were assessed. The period prevalence from 1947 to 1997 and the lifetime prevalence (LTP) in 1997, respectively, was calculated.

Predictors of psychosis: a 50-year follow-up of the Lundby population.

Behavioural and neuropsychological vulnerability have been associated with an increased risk of psychosis. We investigated whether certain clusters of premorbid behavioural and personality-related signs and symptoms were predictors of nonaffective and/or affective psychosis and schizophrenia, respectively, in a 50-year follow-up of an unselected general community population. Total population cohorts from the same catchment area in 1947 (n = 2,503) and 1957 (n = 3,215) that had been rated for behavioural items and enduring symptoms were followed up to 1997 regarding first-incidence of DSM-IV nonaffective and/or affective psychosis.

Risk of mental disorders in subjects with intellectual disability in the Lundby cohort 1947-97.

The Lundby Study is a prospective cohort study, which has followed a Swedish unselected community sample between 1 July 1947 and 1 July 1997. The aim was to study the risks of mental morbidity and different DSM-IV disorders in subjects with intellectual disability (ID) in the Lundby cohort between 1 July 1947 to 30 June 1997. The diagnosis of ID was re-evaluated according to DSM-IV in subjects who had been considered to have ID between 1947 and 1997.

Risk factors for depressive disorders in the Lundby cohort--a 50 year prospective clinical follow-up.

Background: Depressive disorders are common and disabling. The Lundby Study is a prospective study of a community sample that started in 1947 (N=2550). In 1957, 1013 newcomers were added.

Lundby revisited: first incidence of mental disorders 1947-1997.

Objective: To investigate how first incidence of various mental disorders changed between the periods of 1947-1972 to 1972-1997 in the Lundby cohort.

Method: First-incidence rates of mental disorders were calculated for two 25 year periods and ten 5 year periods.

Results: From 1947-1972 to 1972-1997 a decrease in almost all age- and sex-specific incidences of neurotic and organic brain disorders was observed, whereas incidence rates of psychotic disorders increased consistently in male subjects but decreased in most age intervals in female subjects.

Point prevalence of neurosis in the Lundby Study 1947-1997.

The objective of this article is to report and discuss the changing point prevalence rate of neurosis 1947-1997 in the Lundby cohort. The Lundby Study is a prospective longitudinal study of a geographically defined total population in the south of Sweden. Field investigations were performed in 1947, 1957, 1972 and in 1997, with psychiatrists interviewing the probands in a semi-structured way.

The long-term course of depressive disorders in the Lundby Study.

Background: The Lundby Study is a longitudinal cohort study on a geographically defined population consisting of 3563 subjects. Information about episodes of different disorders was collected during field investigations in 1947, 1957, 1972 and in 1997. Interviews were carried out about current health and past episodes since the last investigation; for all subjects information was also collected from registers, case-notes and key informants.

First incidence depression in the Lundby Study: a comparison of the two time periods 1947-1972 and 1972-1997.

Background: The Lundby Study is a prospective, longitudinal study on a total population consisting of 3563 subjects during 50 years. This study compares first incidence rates of depression and cumulative probabilities for developing a depression over the two time periods 1947-1972 and 1972-1997.

Method: The Lundby Study started in 1947.