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Section edited by Morten Hesse
This section encompasses a range of substance related conditions, alongside addiction and impulse control. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, problem/pathological gambling, substance abuse, alcohol and drug disorders, impulsive and antisocial behaviors, cannabis disorders and behavioral economics.
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A randomized controlled study (RCT) recently showed that short-term heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback in addition to standard rehabilitation care for alcohol dependence can reduce craving, anxiety and i...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:325
Published on: 6 September 2017
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This study examined how alcohol use disorder (AUD) patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) differed from those without PTSD in terms of demography, drinking patterns and C-reactive protein, inflamm...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:312
Published on: 29 August 2017
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To analyze, in a multilevel context, the impact of individual-level relationship satisfaction on couples’ mean reports of aggression and agreement about acts of physical and psychological aggression.
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:295
Published on: 15 August 2017
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People with severe mental ill health are more likely to smoke than those in the general population. It is therefore important that effective smoking cessation strategies are used to help people with severe men...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:252
Published on: 14 July 2017
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Polydrug abuse is a known problem among opioid-dependent patients receiving opioid maintenance treatment (OMT). However, improved laboratory diagnostics is required to reveal polydrug abuse in its current scop...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:245
Published on: 6 July 2017
Research article
Families have an important role supporting a family member with problematic substance use (PSU), although this can often be challenging and confronting. Previous research has identified high rates of family ag...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:209
Published on: 2 June 2017
Research article
Prolonged Internet use is often associated with reduced social involvement and comorbid psychopathologies, including depression, anxiety, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and obsessive–compulsive diso...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:201
Published on: 30 May 2017
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A large proportion of individuals with alcohol problems do not seek psychological treatment, but access to such treatment could potentially be increased by delivering it over the Internet. Cognitive behavior t...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:197
Published on: 26 May 2017
Study protocol
The automatic tendency to attend to and focus on substance-related cues in the environment (attentional bias), has been found to contribute to the persistence of addiction. Attentional bias modification (ABM) ...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:193
Published on: 23 May 2017
Research article
Published diagnostic questionnaires for gambling disorder in German are either based on DSM-III criteria or focus on aspects other than life time prevalence. This study was designed to assess the usability of ...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:188
Published on: 18 May 2017
Research article
Excessive alcohol use has been associated with health, social and legal problems. Alcohol-related problems have been studied primarily in problem-drinker patients, with few studies on their family members, par...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:189
Published on: 18 May 2017
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There is little research of psychiatric comorbidity differences among people with different types of drug dependence in Chinese population. We explored demographic and comorbid psychiatric differences among me...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:183
Published on: 12 May 2017
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Studies on alcohol consumption in rural areas in sub-Saharan Africa are scarce. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and determinants of alcohol consumption in rural western Kenya. The study was conduc...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:175
Published on: 10 May 2017
Research article
The aim of this study was to systematically summarize knowledge on the association between exposure to interpersonal trauma and addictive behaviors. Extant reviews on this association focused on a restricted r...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:164
Published on: 4 May 2017
Study protocol
Alcohol use disorder and depression occur commonly in the community. Even though this high-prevalence comorbidity is associated with poorer posttreatment outcomes and greater utilization of costly treatment se...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:153
Published on: 28 April 2017
Research article
Recently, khat chewing has become a common practice among high school, college, and university students. Regular khat chewing is thought to be a predisposing factor for different physical and mental health pro...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:142
Published on: 17 April 2017
Study protocol
Smoking is an important risk factor for mental health-related problems. Numerous studies have supported a bi-directional association between cigarette smoking and depression. Despite the advances in understand...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:134
Published on: 8 April 2017
Research article
Responsible gambling (RG) is defined as gambling for pleasure and entertainment but with an awareness of the likelihood of losing, an understanding of the associated risks and the ability to exercise control o...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:124
Published on: 4 April 2017
Study protocol
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based treatment for PTSD. However, it is unclear whether EMDR shows the same effectiveness in patients with substance use disorders (SUD) and...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:95
Published on: 16 March 2017
Research article
Patient experiences are an important aspect of health care quality, but there is a lack of validated instruments for their measurement in the substance dependence literature. A new questionnaire to measure inp...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:73
Published on: 20 February 2017
