hKCa3/KCNN3 potassium channel gene: association of longer CAG repeats with schizophrenia in Israeli Ashkenazi Jews, expression in human tissues and …

…, R Kimhi, M Swartz, Y Barak, R Weizman… - Molecular …, 1999 - nature.com
We demonstrate a significant association between longer CAG repeats in the hKCa3/KCNN3
calcium-activated potassium channel gene and schizophrenia in Israeli Ashkenazi Jews. …

Dementia and crime: a forensic psychiatry unit study in Israel

J Heinik, R Kimhi, JP Hes - International Journal of Geriatric …, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
The psychiatric files of the 57 consecutive defendants aged 60+ referred by court for psychiatric
examination at the Forensic Psychiatry Unit at the Y. Abarbanel Mental Health Center in …

[PDF][PDF] Police attitudes toward mental illness and psychiatric patients in Israel

R Kimhi, Y Barak, J Gutman, Y Melamed… - Journal of the American …, 1998 - Citeseer
The attitude of the public toward mental illness and toward psychiatric patients raises a
serious and sensitive issue that indirectly affects the development of community mental health …

First night effect in depression: new data and a new approach

…, R Kimhi, P Indurski, P Sirota, T Mosheva, R Benatov… - Biological …, 1997 - Elsevier
… Clinical evaluation of the depression was performed by using DSM-III-R. Hamilton
Depression Rating Scale was used to score severity of depressive symptoms. In 1 patient, major …

Autistic subjects with comorbid epilepsy: a possible association with viral infections

Y Barak, R Kimhi, D Stein, J Gutman… - Child psychiatry and …, 1999 - Springer
This study evaluates the comorbidity of epilepsy as a variable supporting a viral hypothesis
in Autism. Data covering a 30-year period (1960–1989), including general population live …

Survey of patient satisfaction in adult psychiatric outpatient clinics

Y Barak, H Szor, R Kimhi, E Kam, R Mester, A Elizur - European psychiatry, 2001 - Elsevier
A client satisfaction survey was undertaken in two adult psychiatric outpatient clinics. The
anonymous self-report questionnaire covering demographic, setting and satisfaction with …

Antidepressant-associated mania: a study of anxiety disorders patients

D Levy, R Kimhi, Y Barak, A Aviv, A Elizur - Psychopharmacology, 1998 - Springer
Antidepressants are related to the emergence of manic and hypomanic episodes in mood
disorder patients. This study examined whether antidepressant-associated manic states are …

Word associative production in affective versus schizophrenic psychoses

J Levine, K Schild, R Kimhi, G Schreiber - Psychopathology, 1996 - karger.com
… Patients were diagnosed by at least two senior psychiatrists according to DSM-III-R criteria
and evaluated with the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) using the PANSS manual for …

Side effect profile of azathioprine in the treatment of chronic schizophrenic patients

J Levine, J Gutman, R Feraro, P Levy, R Kimhi… - …, 1997 - karger.com
Various findings suggest auto-immune changes in schizophrenia. We have recently
demonstrated that platelets from schizophrenic patients bear auto-antibodies (PAA) which cross-…

REM sleep in depressed patients: different attempts to achieve adaptation

…, L Kayumov, P Indursky, J Hadjez, R Kimhi… - Journal of …, 1997 - Elsevier
… (r=-0.59, p<0.01), whereas in group II REM sleep duration of the first cycle correlated positively
with EM density in the same cycle (r=… positively with SWS duration (r=0.48; r=0.45). In the …