Publications by authors named "Norbert Kriechbaum"

Aims: To compare the efficacy and safety of a novel psychological intervention for smoking cessation called psychodynamic model (PDM) training to an active control condition of sustained-release bupropion.

Design: Randomized controlled clinical trial with allocation concealment.

Setting: Private psychiatric practice.

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Objectives: To assess the evidence for the existence and prevalence of sleep attacks in patients taking dopamine agonists for Parkinson's disease, the type of drugs implicated, and strategies for prevention and treatment.

Design: Review of publications between July 1999 and May 2001 in which sleep attacks or narcoleptic-like attacks were discussed in patients with Parkinson's disease.

Results: 124 patients with sleep events were found in 20 publications.

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