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Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7(Suppl 1):S92
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Is breakaway training effective? An audit of one medium secure unit
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7(Suppl 1):S88 -
Internet-based treatment for adults with depressive symptoms: the protocol of a randomized controlled trial
Depression is a highly prevalent condition, affecting more than 15% of the adult population at least once in their lives. Guided self-help is effective in the treatment of depression. The purpose of this study...
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Anosognosia and schizophrenia: the ethical intersection of insight, treatment and coercion
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Alternatives to inpatient treatment in the acute phase
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7(Suppl 1):S16 -
Coercive treatment in psychiatry: a comprehensive review. Reflections on the Dresden WPA Thematic Conference, June 2007
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7(Suppl 1):I1 -
Coercion and cooperation and psychiatry for the person
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Measuring cognitive insight in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: a comparative study
Beck Cognitive Insight Scale (BCIS) has been designed for assessment of self-reflection on patients' anomalous experiences and interpretations of own beliefs. The scale has been developed and validated for pat...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:71 -
Sensitization of catastrophic cognition in cognitive-behavioral therapy for panic disorder
Cognitive model of panic disorder have proposed that panic attacks result from the catastrophic misinterpretation of certain bodily sensations. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for panic disorder aims to cha...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:70 -
Group cognitive behavior therapy for Japanese patients with social anxiety disorder: preliminary outcomes and their predictors
A number of studies have provided strong evidence for the use of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) in the treatment of social anxiety disorder (SAD). However, all of the previous reports were from Europe and No...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:69 -
Understanding animal fears: a comparison of the cognitive vulnerability and harm-looming models
The Cognitive Vulnerability Model holds that both clinical and sub-clinical manifestations of animal fears are a result of how an animal is perceived, and can be used to explain both individual differences in ...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:68 -
Suicidal ideation and associated factors among school-going adolescents in rural Uganda
Mental health is a neglected area of health research and practice in most of sub-Saharan African countries where the largest burden of morbidity is from infectious diseases. This even occurs despite the fact t...
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Item response analysis of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale
Statistical models based on item response theory were used to examine (a) the performance of individual Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) items and their options, (b) the effectiveness of various su...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:66 -
Folate Augmentation of Treatment – Evaluation for Depression (FolATED): protocol of a randomised controlled trial
Clinical depression is common, debilitating and treatable; one in four people experience it during their lives. The majority of sufferers are treated in primary care and only half respond well to active treatm...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:65 -
Psychiatric assessment of suicide attempters in Japan: a pilot study at a critical emergency unit in an urban area
The incidence of suicide has increased markedly in Japan since 1998. As psychological autopsy is not generally accepted in Japan, surveys of suicide attempts, an established risk factor of suicide, are highly ...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:64 -
Auditory target processing in methadone substituted opiate addicts: The effect of nicotine in controls
The P300 component of the auditory evoked potential is an indicator of attention dependent target processing. Only a few studies have assessed cognitive function in substituted opiate addicts by means of evoke...
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Does bright light have an anxiolytic effect? - an open trial
The aim of this open trial was to examine the influence of acute bright light exposure on anxiety in older and young adults.
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:62 -
Correlations between fMRI activation and individual psychotic symptoms in un-medicated subjects at high genetic risk of schizophrenia
It has been proposed that different types of psychopathology in schizophrenia may reflect distinguishable pathological processes. In the current study we aimed to address such associations in the absence of co...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:61 -
An examination of the temporal and geographical patterns of psychiatric emergency service use by multiple visit patients as a means for their early detection
Frequent users of the psychiatric emergency service (PES) place a heavy burden upon the mental health care delivery system. The aim of this study was to identify distinct temporal or geographical patterns of P...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:60 -
Psychiatric rating scales in Urdu: a systematic review
Researchers setting out to conduct research employing questionnaires in non-English speaking populations need instruments that have been validated in the indigenous languages. In this study we have tried to re...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:59 -
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy versus Short Psychodynamic Supportive Psychotherapy in the outpatient treatment of depression: a randomized controlled trial
Previous research has shown that Short Psychodynamic Supportive Psychotherapy (SPSP) is an effective alternative to pharmacotherapy and combined treatment (SPSP and pharmacotherapy) in the treatment of depress...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:58 -
Depression in the elderly: Does family system play a role? A cross-sectional study
The most common geriatric psychiatric disorder is depression. The role of family systems in depression among the elderly has not been studied extensively. It has been suggested that urbanization promotes nucle...
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Altered oscillatory brain dynamics after repeated traumatic stress
Repeated traumatic experiences, e.g. torture and war, lead to functional and structural cerebral changes, which should be detectable in cortical dynamics. Abnormal slow waves produced within circumscribed brai...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:56 -
Accuracy of telepsychiatric assessment of new routine outpatient referrals
Studies on the feasibility of telepsychiatry tend to concentrate only on a subset of clinical parameters. In contrast, this study utilises data from a comprehensive assessment. The main objective of this study...
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Lack of cortisol response in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) undergoing a diagnostic interview
According to DSM-IV, the diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) requires the experience of a traumatic event during which the person's response involved intense fear, helplessness, or horror. In ord...
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Does Interpersonal Psychotherapy improve clinical care for adolescents with depression attending a rural child and adolescent mental health service? Study protocol for a cluster randomised feasibility trial
Depression amongst adolescents is a costly societal problem. Little research documents the effectiveness of public mental health services in mapping this problem. Further, it is not clear whether usual care in...
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An investigation of factors associated with psychiatric hospital admission despite the presence of crisis resolution teams
Crisis resolution teams (CRTs) provide a community alternative to psychiatric hospital admission for patients presenting in crisis. Little is known about the characteristics of patients admitted despite the av...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:52 -
Victimization and PTSD-like states in an Icelandic youth probability sample
Although adolescence in many cases is a period of rebellion and experimentation with new behaviors and roles, the exposure of adolescents to life-threatening and violent events has rarely been investigated in ...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:51 -
Clinical utility of the Mood and Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire (MASQ) in a sample of young help-seekers
The overlap between Depression and Anxiety has led some researchers to conclude that they are manifestations of a broad, non-specific neurotic disorder. However, others believe that they can be distinguished d...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:50 -
Comparative acute efficacy and tolerability of OROS and immediate release formulations of methylphenidate in the treatment of adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
The main aim of this study was to compare the safety and efficacy of IR MPH administered three times daily to those of once daily OROS-MPH.
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:49 -
The assessment of depression awareness and help-seeking behaviour: experiences with the International Depression Literacy Survey
Depression causes substantial disease burden in both developed and developing countries. To reduce this burden, we need to promote understanding of depression as a major health condition. The International Dep...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:48 -
Presence of depression and anxiety before and after coronary artery bypass graft surgery and their relationship to age
Scientific literature on depression and anxiety in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) consistently reports data of elevated anxiety and depression scores indicating clinically relevant quantities of th...
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Inflammation-related genes up-regulated in schizophrenia brains
Multiple studies have shown that brain gene expression is disturbed in subjects suffering from schizophrenia. However, disentangling disease effects from alterations caused by medication is a challenging task....
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Variety in mental health research data: when does more become too much?
Institutes for mental health care consider scientific research an important activity. A good way to stimulate research is by simplifying data collection. Creating a minimal data set for research purposes would...
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Abnormal oscillatory brain dynamics in schizophrenia: a sign of deviant communication in neural network?
Slow waves in the delta (0.5–4 Hz) frequency range are indications of normal activity in sleep. In neurological disorders, focal electric and magnetic slow wave activity is generated in the vicinity of structu...
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Duloxetine in the treatment of major depressive disorder: an open-label study
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a chronic and highly disabling condition. Existing pharmacotherapies produce full remission in only 30% to 40% of treated patients. Antidepressants exhibiting dual reuptake i...
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Greater incidence of depression with hypnotic use than with placebo
Although it has been claimed that insomnia causes an increased risk for depression, adequate controlled trials testing this hypothesis have not been available. This study contrasted the incidence of depression...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:42 -
Diagnostic stability among chronic patients with functional psychoses: an epidemiological and clinical study
Diagnostic stability and illness course of chronic non-organic psychoses are complex phenomena and only few risk factors or predictors are known that can be used reliably. This study investigates the diagnosti...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:41 -
Atypical antipsychotics in bipolar disorder: systematic review of randomised trials
Atypical antipsychotics are increasingly used for treatment of mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and considered to have fewer extrapyramidal effects than older antipsychotics.
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Sensitivity and specificity of the Major Depression Inventory in outpatients
The Major Depression Inventory (MDI) is a new, brief, self-report measure for depression based on the DSM-system, which allows clinicians to assess the presence of a depressive disorder according to the DSM-IV...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:39 -
A controlled trial of the Litebook light-emitting diode (LED) light therapy device for treatment of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Recent research has emphasized that the human circadian rhythm system is differentially sensitive to short wavelength light. Light treatment devices using efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) whose output is...
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Five-factor model personality traits in opioid dependence
Personality traits may form a part of the aetiology of opioid dependence. For instance, opioid dependence may result from self-medication in emotionally unstable individuals, or from experimenting with drugs i...
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Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire data on alcoholic violent offenders: specific connections to severe impulsive cluster B personality disorders and violent criminality
The validity of traditional categorical personality disorder diagnoses is currently re-evaluated from a continuous perspective, and the evolving DSM-V classification may describe personality disorders dimensio...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:36 -
Statistical validation of the criteria for symptom remission in schizophrenia: Preliminary findings
Published methods for assessing remission in schizophrenia are variable and none have been definitively validated or standardized. Andreasen et al (2005) suggest systematic operational criteria using eight PAN...
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Illness causal beliefs in Turkish immigrants
People hold a wide variety of beliefs concerning the causes of illness. Such beliefs vary across cultures and, among immigrants, may be influenced by many factors, including level of acculturation, gender, lev...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:34 -
The management of bipolar mania: a national survey of baseline data from the EMBLEM study in Italy
Although a number of studies have assessed the management of mania in routine clinical practice, no studies have so far evaluated the short- and long-term management and outcome of patients affected by bipolar...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:33 -
Disability in major depression related to self-rated and objectively-measured cognitive deficits: a preliminary study
Although major depression (MD) is associated with high levels of disability, the relationships between cognitive dysfunction and self-rated disability are poorly understood. This study examined the relationshi...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:32 -
Risky use of alcohol, drugs and cigarettes in a psychosis unit: a 1 1/2 year follow-up of stability and changes after initial screening
Co-morbidity with substance use disorders negatively influences overall functioning in patients with psychosis. However, frequencies and courses of risky use of alcohol, drugs and cigarettes are rarely investi...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:31 -
Schizophrenia and psychotic symptoms in families of two American Indian tribes
The risk of schizophrenia is thought to be higher in population isolates that have recently been exposed to major and accelerated cultural change, accompanied by ensuing socio-environmental stressors/triggers,...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:30 -
Axis I and II disorders as long-term predictors of mental distress: a six-year prospective follow-up of substance-dependent patients
A high prevalence of lifetime psychiatric disorders among help-seeking substance abusers has been clearly established. However, the long-term course of psychiatric disorders and mental distress among help-seek...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2007 7:29
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