List of works - Barbara Sperner-Unterweger

A new approach to combining clinical relevance and statistical significance for evaluation of quality of life changes in the individual patient

scientific article

A validated liquid chromatography-high resolution-tandem mass spectrometry method for the simultaneous quantitation of tryptophan, kynurenine, kynurenic acid and quinolinic acid in human plasma

scientific article

Activated immune system and inflammation in healthy ageing: relevance for tryptophan and neopterin metabolism

scientific article published on January 2014

Adherence evaluation of endocrine treatment in breast cancer: methodological aspects.

scientific article

Alcohol and benzodiazepines in falls: an epidemiological view

scientific article published in August 2005

Alcohol and/or benzodiazepine use in injured road users

scientific article

Alcohol and/or benzodiazepine use: different accidents--different impacts?

scientific article published in December 2005

Antidepressants and Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Differentially Reduce the Release of NGF and BDNF from Rat Platelets ⬇️

scientific article published on June 14, 2012

Are gender-associated differences in quality of life in colorectal cancer patients disease-specific?

scientific article published in April 2009

Association between increased serum cholesterol and signs of depressive mood

scientific article published in June 2003

Biological hypotheses of schizophrenia: possible influences of immunology and endocrinology

scientific article

Bioprofiling of platelets in medicated patients with depression.

scientific article published on 28 September 2014

Can intake of extra antioxidants delay the development and progression of atherosclerosis?

scientific article published on 6 September 2012

Can we use gonadotropin plasma concentration as surrogate marker for BMI-related incomplete estrogen suppression in breast cancer patients receiving anastrozole?

scientific article

Coming to your senses: detecting taste and smell alterations in chemotherapy patients. A systematic review

scientific article published on 24 August 2012

Comparison of two quality-of-life instruments for cancer patients: the functional assessment of cancer therapy-general and the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-C30

scientific article published on 01 September 1999

Cross-cultural evaluation of health status using item response theory: FACT-B comparisons between Austrian and U.S. patients with breast cancer

scientific article published in June 2005

Delirium in patients with neurological diseases: diagnosis, management and prognosis

scientific article published in April 2014

Depression in cancer patients

scientific article published on 4 July 2015

Development of a screening tool for the identification of psychooncological treatment need in breast cancer patients

scientific article published in September 2009

Differential changes in platelet reactivity induced by acute physical compared to persistent mental stress.

scientific article published on 17 July 2015

Distress in primary caregivers and patients listed for liver transplantation

scientific article

Does eosinophilia predict clozapine induced neutropenia?

scientific article published on 01 March 1996

Does obesity interfere with anastrozole treatment? Positive association between body mass index and anastrozole plasma levels

scientific article published on 27 December 2013

Effect of alcohol and benzodiazepines on the severity of ski accidents

scientific article published in December 1991

Effect of cannabis use on cognitive functions and driving ability.

scientific article published in June 1999

Effects of clozapine on hematopoiesis and the cytokine system

scientific article published on 01 October 1993

Enhanced tryptophan degradation in patients with ovarian carcinoma correlates with several serum soluble immune activation markers

scientific article published on 19 August 2010

Equating EORTC QLQ-C30 and FACT-G scores and its use in oncological research.

scientific article published on 11 October 2006

Fatigue in ovarian carcinoma patients: a neglected issue?

scientific article published in March 2003

Fructose malabsorption is associated with decreased plasma tryptophan

scientific article published on 01 January 1999

Fructose malabsorption is associated with early signs of mental depression.

scientific article

Getting the whole picture: adding patient-reported outcomes to adjuvant endocrine treatment evaluation in premenopausal breast cancer patients

scientific article published on 08 July 2014

Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) treatment of clozapine-induced agranulocytosis: a case report

scientific article published on 01 July 1992

Health Behavior and Quality of Life Outcome in Breast Cancer Survivors: Prevalence Rates and Predictors.

scientific article published on 18 September 2017

High prevalence of BRCA1 stop mutation c.4183C>T in the Tyrolean population: implications for genetic testing

scientific article

Homocysteine Biochemistry and Cognitive Decline in the Elderly

scientific article published on 26 August 2017

Homocysteine has anti-inflammatory properties in a hypercholesterolemic rat model in vivo

scientific article

Immune activation in autism

scientific article published in April 2006

Immune changes and neurotransmitters: possible interactions in depression?

scientific article published on 17 October 2012

Immune reaction links disease progression in cancer patients with depression

scientific article published on 01 August 2000

Immunological aetiology of major psychiatric disorders: evidence and therapeutic implications

scientific article

Immunometabolism in the Pathogenesis of Depressive Disorders - Therapeutic Considerations

scientific article published on 10 April 2018

Impact of GvHD on quality of life in long-term survivors of haematopoietic transplantation

scientific article

Implementation of an electronic routine outcome monitoring at an inpatient unit for psychosomatic medicine

scientific article published on 13 December 2017

Implementation of computer-based quality-of-life monitoring in brain tumor outpatients in routine clinical practice

scientific article

Increased suicide risk in cancer patients in Tyrol/Austria

scientific article

Indications for liver transplantation in adults : Recommendations of the Austrian Society for Gastroenterology and Hepatology (ÖGGH) in cooperation with the Austrian Society for Transplantation, Transfusion and Genetics (ATX).

scientific article published on 02 September 2016

Inflammatory stimuli reduce survival of serotonergic neurons and induce neuronal expression of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase in rat dorsal raphe nucleus organotypic brain slices ⬇️

scientific article published on April 12, 2011

Influence of mental stress on platelet bioactivity

scientific article published on December 2012

Is higher income and educational status associated with poorer outcome in patients with Hodgkin's disease?

scientific article

Is the toxicity of adjuvant aromatase inhibitor therapy underestimated? Complementary information from patient-reported outcomes (PROs).

scientific article published on 11 February 2011

Isolated psychosis during exposure to very high and extreme altitude - characterisation of a new medical entity

scientific article

Letter to the Editor Re: "Suicide among 915,303 Austrian cancer patients: Who is at risk? Benjamin Vyssoki, Andreas Gleiss, Ian R.H. Rockett, Monika Hackl, Barbara Leitner, Gernot Sonneck, Nestor D. Kapusta [J. Affective Disord. 175 (2015)287-291]".

scientific article published on 6 October 2016

Levels in neurotransmitter precursor amino acids correlate with mental health in patients with breast cancer.

scientific article

Matrix metalloproteinase-2 and epidermal growth factor are decreased in platelets of Alzheimer patients

scientific article published in October 2012

Measurement of tryptophan, kynurenine and neopterin in women with and without postpartum blues

scientific article published in June 2005

Mechanisms of Inflammation-Associated Depression: Immune Influences on Tryptophan and Phenylalanine Metabolisms

scientific article

Monitoring physical and psychosocial symptom trajectories in ovarian cancer patients receiving chemotherapy

scientific article

Multidimensional scaling as a tool for analysing quality of life data.

scientific article

Multilingual translation of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT) quality of life measurement system

scientific article

Neopterin production in acute schizophrenic patients: an indicator of alterations of cell-mediated immunity

scientific article published on 01 May 1992

Neopterin production, tryptophan degradation, and mental depression--what is the link?

scientific article

Normative data for functional assessment of cancer therapy--general scale and its use for the interpretation of quality of life scores in cancer survivors

scientific article

Patients, physicians and nursing personnel in intensive care units: Psychological and psychotherapeutic interventions

scientific article published on 29 February 2016

Preoperative expectations and postoperative quality of life in liver transplant survivors.

scientific article published in January 2001

Psychiatric consultation-liaison interventions: recollection, perception and outcome

scientific article published on 6 July 2013

Psychische Probleme von Patienten unter Knochenmarktransplantation w�hrend der Isolation

scientific article published on 01 September 1996

Psycho-oncology - psychosocial oncology: integration in a concept of oncological treatment ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

Psychosocial outcomes and counselee satisfaction following genetic counseling for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer: A patient-reported outcome study

scientific article published on 8 August 2016

Quality of life in adult hematopoietic cell transplant patients at least 5 yr after treatment: a comparison with healthy controls

scientific article published in April 2005

Quality of life in breast cancer patients--not enough attention for long-term survivors?

scientific article published in March 2001

Quality of life measurement in oncology--a matter of the assessment instrument?

scientific article

Quality of life of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia: results of a longitudinal investigation over 1 yr.

scientific article published in June 2004

Retrospective assessment of quality of life and treatment outcome in patients with Hodgkin's disease from 1969 to 1994.

scientific article

Schizophrenia and psychoneuroimmunology: an integrative view

scientific article published on May 2015

Self-reported sexual health: Breast cancer survivors compared to women from the general population - an observational study

scientific article published on 30 August 2017

Serum phenylalanine concentrations in patients with ovarian carcinoma correlate with concentrations of immune activation markers and of isoprostane-8.

scientific article published on 12 August 2008

Six independent domains are defined by geriatric assessment in elderly cancer patients.

scientific article published on 10 June 2009

Special gender issues in psychiatry

scientific article

Statins to reduce risk of depression

scientific article published on 01 March 2004

Systematic review reveals lack of quality in reporting health-related quality of life in patients with gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours

scientific article

T-cell subsets in schizophrenia: a comparison between drug-naive first episode patients and chronic schizophrenic patients

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

Taste alterations in breast and gynaecological cancer patients receiving chemotherapy: prevalence, course of severity, and quality of life correlates

scientific article published on 30 November 2011

Taste alterations in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy: a neglected side effect?

scientific article published on 28 July 2010

The benefits of using patient-reported outcomes in cancer treatment: an overview

scientific article published on 27 April 2012

The effects of alcohol and benzodiazepines on the severity of ski accidents

scientific article published on 01 October 1992

The impact of hemoglobin levels on fatigue and quality of life in cancer patients

scientific article published in June 2002

The role of alcohol and/or benzodiazepines in occupational accidents compared to accidents due to other causes

scientific article published in October 2004

Time after bone marrow transplantation as an important variable for quality of life: results of a cross-sectional investigation using two different instruments for quality-of-life assessment

scientific article published on 01 July 1998

Towards the Implementation of Quality of Life Monitoring in Daily Clinical Routine: Methodological Issues and Clinical Implication

scientific article

Treatment of severe clozapine-induced neutropenia with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF). Remission despite continuous treatment with clozapine.

scientific article published in January 1998

Use of alternative/complementary therapy in breast cancer patients--a psychological perspective

scientific article published on 01 June 2001

Zotepine in the treatment of schizophrenic patients with prevailingly negative symptoms. A double-blind trial vs. haloperidol

scientific article published on January 1, 1992

[Diagnosis and therapy of cognitive deficits in oncology patients]

scientific article published on 01 March 2015

[Zotepine vs. haloperidol in paranoid schizophrenia: a double-blind study]

scientific article published on 01 September 1991

β-Amyloid induced effects on cholinergic, serotonergic, and dopaminergic neurons is differentially counteracted by anti-inflammatory drugs

scientific article published on 20 September 2012

List of works by Barbara Sperner-Unterweger

A new approach to combining clinical relevance and statistical significance for evaluation of quality of life changes in the individual patient

A validated liquid chromatography-high resolution-tandem mass spectrometry method for the simultaneous quantitation of tryptophan, kynurenine, kynurenic acid and quinolinic acid in human plasma

Activated immune system and inflammation in healthy ageing: relevance for tryptophan and neopterin metabolism

Adherence evaluation of endocrine treatment in breast cancer: methodological aspects.

Alcohol and benzodiazepines in falls: an epidemiological view

Alcohol and/or benzodiazepine use in injured road users

Alcohol and/or benzodiazepine use: different accidents--different impacts?

Antidepressants and Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Differentially Reduce the Release of NGF and BDNF from Rat Platelets ⬇️

Are gender-associated differences in quality of life in colorectal cancer patients disease-specific?

Association between increased serum cholesterol and signs of depressive mood

Biological hypotheses of schizophrenia: possible influences of immunology and endocrinology

Bioprofiling of platelets in medicated patients with depression.

Can intake of extra antioxidants delay the development and progression of atherosclerosis?

Can we use gonadotropin plasma concentration as surrogate marker for BMI-related incomplete estrogen suppression in breast cancer patients receiving anastrozole?

Coming to your senses: detecting taste and smell alterations in chemotherapy patients. A systematic review

Comparison of two quality-of-life instruments for cancer patients: the functional assessment of cancer therapy-general and the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-C30

Cross-cultural evaluation of health status using item response theory: FACT-B comparisons between Austrian and U.S. patients with breast cancer

Delirium in patients with neurological diseases: diagnosis, management and prognosis

Depression in cancer patients

Development of a screening tool for the identification of psychooncological treatment need in breast cancer patients

Differential changes in platelet reactivity induced by acute physical compared to persistent mental stress.

Distress in primary caregivers and patients listed for liver transplantation

Does eosinophilia predict clozapine induced neutropenia?

Does obesity interfere with anastrozole treatment? Positive association between body mass index and anastrozole plasma levels

Effect of alcohol and benzodiazepines on the severity of ski accidents

Effect of cannabis use on cognitive functions and driving ability.

Effects of clozapine on hematopoiesis and the cytokine system

Enhanced tryptophan degradation in patients with ovarian carcinoma correlates with several serum soluble immune activation markers

Equating EORTC QLQ-C30 and FACT-G scores and its use in oncological research.

Fatigue in ovarian carcinoma patients: a neglected issue?

Fructose malabsorption is associated with decreased plasma tryptophan

Fructose malabsorption is associated with early signs of mental depression.

Getting the whole picture: adding patient-reported outcomes to adjuvant endocrine treatment evaluation in premenopausal breast cancer patients

Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) treatment of clozapine-induced agranulocytosis: a case report

Health Behavior and Quality of Life Outcome in Breast Cancer Survivors: Prevalence Rates and Predictors.

High prevalence of BRCA1 stop mutation c.4183C>T in the Tyrolean population: implications for genetic testing

Homocysteine Biochemistry and Cognitive Decline in the Elderly

Homocysteine has anti-inflammatory properties in a hypercholesterolemic rat model in vivo

Immune activation in autism

Immune changes and neurotransmitters: possible interactions in depression?

Immune reaction links disease progression in cancer patients with depression

Immunological aetiology of major psychiatric disorders: evidence and therapeutic implications

Immunometabolism in the Pathogenesis of Depressive Disorders - Therapeutic Considerations

Impact of GvHD on quality of life in long-term survivors of haematopoietic transplantation

Implementation of an electronic routine outcome monitoring at an inpatient unit for psychosomatic medicine

Implementation of computer-based quality-of-life monitoring in brain tumor outpatients in routine clinical practice

Increased suicide risk in cancer patients in Tyrol/Austria

Indications for liver transplantation in adults : Recommendations of the Austrian Society for Gastroenterology and Hepatology (ÖGGH) in cooperation with the Austrian Society for Transplantation, Transfusion and Genetics (ATX).

Inflammatory stimuli reduce survival of serotonergic neurons and induce neuronal expression of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase in rat dorsal raphe nucleus organotypic brain slices ⬇️

Influence of mental stress on platelet bioactivity

Is higher income and educational status associated with poorer outcome in patients with Hodgkin's disease?

Is the toxicity of adjuvant aromatase inhibitor therapy underestimated? Complementary information from patient-reported outcomes (PROs).

Isolated psychosis during exposure to very high and extreme altitude - characterisation of a new medical entity

Letter to the Editor Re: "Suicide among 915,303 Austrian cancer patients: Who is at risk? Benjamin Vyssoki, Andreas Gleiss, Ian R.H. Rockett, Monika Hackl, Barbara Leitner, Gernot Sonneck, Nestor D. Kapusta [J. Affective Disord. 175 (2015)287-291]".

Levels in neurotransmitter precursor amino acids correlate with mental health in patients with breast cancer.

Matrix metalloproteinase-2 and epidermal growth factor are decreased in platelets of Alzheimer patients

Measurement of tryptophan, kynurenine and neopterin in women with and without postpartum blues

Mechanisms of Inflammation-Associated Depression: Immune Influences on Tryptophan and Phenylalanine Metabolisms

Monitoring physical and psychosocial symptom trajectories in ovarian cancer patients receiving chemotherapy

Multidimensional scaling as a tool for analysing quality of life data.

Multilingual translation of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT) quality of life measurement system

Neopterin production in acute schizophrenic patients: an indicator of alterations of cell-mediated immunity

Neopterin production, tryptophan degradation, and mental depression--what is the link?

Normative data for functional assessment of cancer therapy--general scale and its use for the interpretation of quality of life scores in cancer survivors

Patients, physicians and nursing personnel in intensive care units: Psychological and psychotherapeutic interventions

Preoperative expectations and postoperative quality of life in liver transplant survivors.

Psychiatric consultation-liaison interventions: recollection, perception and outcome

Psychische Probleme von Patienten unter Knochenmarktransplantation w�hrend der Isolation

Psycho-oncology - psychosocial oncology: integration in a concept of oncological treatment ⬇️

Psychosocial outcomes and counselee satisfaction following genetic counseling for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer: A patient-reported outcome study

Quality of life in adult hematopoietic cell transplant patients at least 5 yr after treatment: a comparison with healthy controls

Quality of life in breast cancer patients--not enough attention for long-term survivors?

Quality of life measurement in oncology--a matter of the assessment instrument?

Quality of life of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia: results of a longitudinal investigation over 1 yr.

Retrospective assessment of quality of life and treatment outcome in patients with Hodgkin's disease from 1969 to 1994.

Schizophrenia and psychoneuroimmunology: an integrative view

Self-reported sexual health: Breast cancer survivors compared to women from the general population - an observational study

Serum phenylalanine concentrations in patients with ovarian carcinoma correlate with concentrations of immune activation markers and of isoprostane-8.

Six independent domains are defined by geriatric assessment in elderly cancer patients.