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  1. Substance use and abuse is a growing problem among adolescents with mild to borderline intellectual disabilities (ID). Substance use patterns in general population are similar to patterns among non-disabled pe...

    Authors: Esmée P. Schijven, Rutger C.M.E. Engels, Marloes Kleinjan and Evelien A.P. Poelen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:167
  2. Antipsychotic prescription information is commonly derived from structured fields in clinical health records. However, utilising diverse and comprehensive sources of information is especially important when in...

    Authors: Giouliana Kadra, Robert Stewart, Hitesh Shetty, Richard G. Jackson, Mark A. Greenwood, Angus Roberts, Chin-Kuo Chang, James H. MacCabe and Richard D. Hayes
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:166
  3. There is an increasing amount of evidence for the effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions for people with severe mental illness (SMI). In the Netherlands, a rehabilitation methodology that is well known ...

    Authors: Neis A. Bitter, Diana P. K. Roeg, Chijs van Nieuwenhuizen and Jaap van Weeghel
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:165
  4. Disturbances in lipid metabolism have been linked to suicidal behaviour, but little is known about the association between suicide risk and abnormal glucose metabolism in depression. Hyperglycaemia and hyperin...

    Authors: Hannu Koponen, Hannu Kautiainen, Esa Leppänen, Pekka Mäntyselkä and Mauno Vanhala
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:163
  5. Research indicates schizophrenia is a cause of burden for patients and caregivers. This study examined health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and comorbidities experienced by informal schizophrenia caregivers ...

    Authors: Shaloo Gupta, Gina Isherwood, Kevin Jones and Kristel Van Impe
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:162
  6. Although adolescents are often referred to residential treatment centres because of severe externalizing behaviours, a vast majority demonstrated comorbid symptoms of depression and anxiety. Covert internalizi...

    Authors: Martine M. Weeland, Karin S. Nijhof, Ignace Vermaes, Rutger C. M. E. Engels and Jan K. Buitelaar
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:161
  7. Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) in adolescence has been described as comorbid condition in affective or anxiety disorders, as well as borderline personality disorder (BPD) and is a risk factor for later suicide...

    Authors: Rebecca C. Groschwitz, Paul L. Plener, Michael Kaess, Teresa Schumacher, Ramona Stoehr and Isabel Boege
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:160
  8. Patients with a substance use disorder (SUD) and co-occurring attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often start using substances in an attempt to cope with the stres...

    Authors: Linda M. Kronenberg, Peter J.J. Goossens, Jooske van Busschbach, Theo van Achterberg and Wim van den Brink
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:159
  9. Alcohol use is increasing in non-Western countries. However, the effects of this increase on the prevalence of alcohol use disorders (AUD) remains unknown, particularly in South Asia. This study aimed to estim...

    Authors: Helena M.S. Zavos, Sisira Siribaddana, Harriet A. Ball, Michael T. Lynskey, Athula Sumathipala, Frühling V. Rijsdijk and Matthew Hotopf
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:158
  10. Web-based self-help interventions that aim to reduce problematic substance use are able to reach “hidden” consumer groups in the general population who often fear stigmatization and thus avoid institutional ad...

    Authors: Michael P Schaub, Larissa J. Maier, Andreas Wenger, Lars Stark, Oliver Berg, Thilo Beck, Boris B. Quednow and Severin Haug
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:156

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:218

  11. There is a broad literature suggesting that cognitive difficulties are associated with violence across a variety of groups. Although neurocognitive and social cognitive deficits are core features of schizophre...

    Authors: Ken O’Reilly, Gary Donohoe, Ciaran Coyle, Danny O’Sullivan, Arann Rowe, Mairead Losty, Tracey McDonagh, Lasairiona McGuinness, Yvette Ennis, Elizabeth Watts, Louise Brennan, Elizabeth Owens, Mary Davoren, Ronan Mullaney, Zareena Abidin and Harry G Kennedy
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:155
  12. Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a transdiagnostic behaviour that can be difficult to treat; to date no evidence based treatment for NSSI exists. Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) specifically targe...

    Authors: Clare S. Rees, Penelope Hasking, Lauren J. Breen, Ottmar V. Lipp and Cyril Mamotte
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:154
  13. Diagnosis of life threatening childhood illness or injury can lead to significant distress reactions in parents, with many experiencing clinically significant levels of post-traumatic stress symptoms. These sy...

    Authors: Frank Muscara, Kylie Burke, Maria C McCarthy, Vicki A Anderson, Stephen JC Hearps, Simone J Hearps, Anica Dimovski and Jan M Nicholson
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:153
  14. Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) represent one of the most intriguing phenomena in schizophrenia, however, brain abnormalities underlying AVHs remain unclear. The present study examined the association be...

    Authors: Xudong Chen, Shengxiang Liang, Weidan Pu, Yinnan Song, Tumbwene E. Mwansisya, Qing Yang, Haihong Liu, Zhening Liu, Baoci Shan and Zhimin Xue
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:152
  15. The majority of mental health problems are non-psychotic (e.g., depression, anxiety, and phobias). For some people, art therapy may be a more acceptable alternative form of psychological therapy than standard ...

    Authors: Lesley Uttley, Matt Stevenson, Alison Scope, Andrew Rawdin and Anthea Sutton
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:151

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:212

  16. Adolescent non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is associated with altered sensitivity to experimentally induced pain. Adolescents engaging in NSSI report greater pain threshold and pain tolerance, as well as lower...

    Authors: Julian Koenig, Lena Rinnewitz, Marco Warth and Michael Kaess
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:150
  17. Low prevalence of substance-use disorder has been reported in adults with autism. However, on a superficial level, adults with high-functioning autism (HFA) display a ‘normal’ façade when they drink alcohol, w...

    Authors: Laurence Lalanne, Luisa Weiner, Benoit Trojak, Fabrice Berna and Gilles Bertschy
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:149
  18. Depression constitutes a significant public health burden and is associated is with high level of individual suffering. Insufficient human and material resources impede the provision of adequate care for perso...

    Authors: Oye Gureje, Bibilola Damilola Oladeji, Ricardo Araya and Alan A. Montgomery
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:148
  19. There is growing evidence that living conditions at birth play a role in medical conditions later in life. Population-based studies from the Northern Hemisphere have shown that persons born in the spring or su...

    Authors: Karin S Björkstén and Peter Bjerregaard
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:147
  20. Despite evidence that psychological stress is an important risk factor for age-related cognitive loss, little research has directly evaluated psychological and physiological mediators of the relationship betwe...

    Authors: Stacey B. Scott, Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland, Christopher G. Engeland, Joshua M. Smyth, David M. Almeida, Mindy J. Katz, Richard B. Lipton, Jacqueline A. Mogle, Elizabeth Munoz, Nilam Ram and Martin J. Sliwinski
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:146
  21. The collaborative care planning study (COCAPP) is a cross-national comparative study of care planning and coordination in community mental healthcare settings. The context and delivery of mental health care is...

    Authors: Alan Simpson, Ben Hannigan, Michael Coffey, Aled Jones, Sally Barlow, Rachel Cohen, Jitka Všetečková, Alison Faulkner and Mark Haddad
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:145
  22. Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is characterized by profound and disabling fatigue with no known somatic explanation. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has proven to be a successful intervention leading to a r...

    Authors: Marieke E van Der Schaaf, Iris C Schmits, Megan Roerink, Dirk EM Geurts, Ivan Toni, Karin Roelofs, Floris P De Lange, Urs M Nater, Jos WM van der Meer and Hans Knoop
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:144
  23. Multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings are the core mechanism for delivering mental health care but it is unclear which models improve care quality. The aim of the study was to agree recommendations for improvi...

    Authors: Rosalind Raine, Caoimhe Nic a’ Bháird, Penny Xanthopoulou, Isla Wallace, David Ardron, Miriam Harris, Julie Barber, Archie Prentice, Simon Gibbs, Michael King, Jane M. Blazeby, Susan Michie, Anne Lanceley, Alex Clarke and Gill Livingston
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:143
  24. Schizophrenia is a severe and chronic medical condition, characterized by positive and negative symptoms, as well as pervasive social cognitive deficits. Despite the functional significance of the social cogni...

    Authors: Annika Rose, Sophia Vinogradov, Melissa Fisher, Michael F. Green, Joseph Ventura, Christine Hooker, Michael Merzenich and Mor Nahum
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:142
  25. Family work is one of the best researched psychosocial interventions for patients with chronic psychosis. However, family work is less studied for patients with a first episode psychosis and the studies have r...

    Authors: Liv Nilsen, Irene Norheim, Jan C. Frich, Svein Friis and Jan Ivar Røssberg
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:141
  26. In patients with anorexia nervosa (AN), there is evidence that readiness to change is an important predictor of outcome with respect to weight gain and improvement in eating disorder psychopathology. In partic...

    Authors: Simona Hillen, Astrid Dempfle, Jochen Seitz, Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann and Katharina Bühren
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:140
  27. Major depressive disorder (MDD) is projected to rank second on a list of 15 major diseases in terms of burden in 2030. The contribution of MDD to disability and health care costs is largely due to its highly r...

    Authors: Margo de Jonge, Claudi LH Bockting, Martijn J Kikkert, Judith E Bosmans and Jack JM Dekker
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:139
  28. In the clinical setting, a large proportion of children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience anxiety symptoms. Because anxiety is an important cause of impairment for children with an ASD, it is n...

    Authors: Lieke A. M. W. Wijnhoven, Daan H. M. Creemers, Rutger C. M. E. Engels and Isabela Granic
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:138
  29. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and interpersonal therapy (IPT) are among the most well established therapies for the treatment of depression. However, some major questions remain unanswered. First, it is u...

    Authors: Sanne J. E. Bruijniks, Judith Bosmans, Frenk P. M. L. Peeters, Steven D. Hollon, Patricia van Oppen, Michael van den Boogaard, Pieter Dingemanse, Pim Cuijpers, Arnoud Arntz, Gerdien Franx and Marcus J. H. Huibers
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:137
  30. Depression is common among women during perinatal period and is associated with long-term adverse consequences for the mother and infant. In Nigeria, as in many other low- and-middle-income countries (LMIC), p...

    Authors: Oye Gureje, Bibilola Damilola Oladeji, Ricardo Araya, Alan A. Montgomery, Lola Kola, Laurence Kirmayer, Phyllis Zelkowitz and Danielle Groleau
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:136
  31. Current models of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) propose abnormalities of cortico-striatal circuits that involve the orbitofrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, thalamus and the striatum. Nevertheles...

    Authors: Alexander Glahn, Tino Prell, Julian Grosskreutz, Thomas Peschel and Kirsten R. Müller-Vahl
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:135
  32. Medically unexplained movement or sensibility disorders, recently defined in DSM-5 as functional neurological symptoms (FNS), are still insufficiently understood. Stress and trauma have been addressed as relev...

    Authors: Astrid Steffen, Johanna Fiess, Roger Schmidt and Brigitte Rockstroh
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:133
  33. Although anxiety and, to a lesser extent, depression are highly prevalent in children, these problems are, difficult to identify. The Revised Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS) assesses self-reported symptom...

    Authors: Mia P. Kösters, Mai J. M. Chinapaw, Marieke Zwaanswijk, Marcel F. van der Wal and Hans M. Koot
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:132
  34. Interparental violence is both common and harmful and impacts children’s lives directly and indirectly. Direct effects refer to affective, behavioral, and cognitive responses to interparental violence and psychos...

    Authors: Margreet M. Visser, Machteld D. Telman, J. Clasien de Schipper, Francien Lamers-Winkelman, Carlo Schuengel and Catrin Finkenauer
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:131
  35. With reports of a high prevalence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults, publication of ADHD diagnostic criteria in DSM-5, and the urgent need for a relevant diagnostic instrument confor...

    Authors: Toshinobu Takeda, Yui Tsuji, Teruhisa Uwatoko and Hiroshi Kurita
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:130
  36. There is limited research examining mental health-related stigma of undergraduates in non-western developing countries. This study examined stigma of undergraduates in Sri Lanka towards another depressed under...

    Authors: Santushi D. Amarasuriya, Anthony F. Jorm, Nicola J. Reavley and Andrew J. Mackinnon
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:129
  37. Divorce has been linked with poor physical and mental health outcomes among civilians. Given the unique stressors experienced by U.S. service members, including lengthy and/or multiple deployments, this study ...

    Authors: Lawrence Wang, Amber Seelig, Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Hope McMaster, John E. Alcaraz and Nancy F. Crum-Cianflone
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:128
  38. Millions of children worldwide suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and other mental health problems due to repeated exposure to war or organized violence. Forms of cognitive-behavioral th...

    Authors: Samuli Kangaslampi, Ferdinand Garoff and Kirsi Peltonen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:127
  39. Effective interventions for maltreated children are impeded by gaps in our knowledge of the etiopathogenic mechanisms leading from maltreatment to mental disorders. Although some studies have already identifie...

    Authors: Lars O. White, Annette M. Klein, Clemens Kirschbaum, Maria Kurz-Adam, Manfred Uhr, Bertram Müller-Myhsok, Katrin Hoffmann, Susan Sierau, Andrea Michel, Tobias Stalder, Jenny Horlich, Jan Keil, Anna Andreas, Leonhard Resch, Martin J. Binser, Anna Costa…
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:126
  40. Preventing recurrence of depression forms an important challenge for current treatments. Cognitive control impairments often remain present during remission of depression, putting remitted depressed patients a...

    Authors: Kristof Hoorelbeke, Lien Faelens, Jeffrey Behiels and Ernst H. W. Koster
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:125
  41. The consequences of caring for a person with a mental illness can impose a substantial burden. Few studies have compared this burden among caregivers of patients with eating disorders and other mental illnesse...

    Authors: Josune Martín, Angel Padierna, Bob van Wijngaarden, Urko Aguirre, Ane Anton, Pedro Muñoz and José M. Quintana
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:124
  42. Childhood maltreatment is considered an important risk factor for the development of major depression. Research indicates an association between childhood adversity and altered emotion processing. Depression i...

    Authors: Vivien Günther, Udo Dannlowski, Anette Kersting and Thomas Suslow
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:123
  43. Communication, impulse control and motivation can all be affected by Bipolar Disorder (BD) making consistent parenting more difficult than for parents without mental health problems. Children of parents with B...

    Authors: Steven Jones, Laura D Wainwright, Jelena Jovanoska, Helen Vincent, Peter J Diggle, Rachel Calam, Rob Parker, Rita Long, Debbie Mayes, Matthew Sanders and Fiona Lobban
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:122
  44. Research is scarce with regard to the role of psychotic and schizotypal symptoms in treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The aim of the current study was to investigate the occurrence and specific...

    Authors: Stian Solem, Kristen Hagen, Christoffer Wenaas, Åshild T. Håland, Gunvor Launes, Patrick A. Vogel, Bjarne Hansen and Joseph A. Himle
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:121
  45. In outpatient forensic psychiatry, assessment of re-offending risk and treatment needs by case managers may be hampered by an incomplete view of client functioning. The client’s appreciation of his own problem...

    Authors: Rob H. S. van den Brink, Nadine A. C. Troquete, Harry Beintema, Tamara Mulder, Titus W. D. P. van Os, Robert A. Schoevers and Durk Wiersma
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:120
  46. Life expectancy in patients with schizophrenia is reduced by 20 years for males and 15 years for females compared to the general population. About 60% of the excess mortality is due to physical illnesses, with...

    Authors: Helene Speyer, Hans Christian Brix Nørgaard, Carsten Hjorthøj, Thomas Axel Madsen, Søren Drivsholm, Charlotta Pisinger, Christian Gluud, Ole Mors, Jesper Krogh and Merete Nordentoft
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:119
  47. People with chronic health conditions are known to have a higher prevalence of depressive disorder. The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) is a widely-used screening tool for depression which has not yet bee...

    Authors: Arvin Bhana, Sujit D Rathod, One Selohilwe, Tasneem Kathree and Inge Petersen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:118

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