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  1. Thinking about suicide is an indicator of suicide risk. Suicide rates are higher among doctors than in the population. The main aims of this study are to describe the changes in the lifetime prevalence of suic...

    Authors: Judith Rosta and Olaf G Aasland
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:322
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:1

  2. Schizophrenia is a highly heterogeneous disorder with positive and negative symptoms being characteristic manifestations of the disease. While these two symptom domains are usually construed as distinct and or...

    Authors: Lei Chen, Joseph A Johnston, Bruce J Kinon, Virginia Stauffer, Paul Succop, Tiago R Marques and Haya Ascher-Svanum
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:320
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. Substance misuse is a well-recognized co-morbidity to psychosis and has been linked to poor prognostic outcomes in patients. Researchers have yet to investigate the difference in rates and characteristics betw...

    Authors: Melissa A Weibell, Inge Joa, Jørgen Bramness, Jan Olav Johannessen, Patrick D McGorry, Wenche ten Velden Hegelstad and Tor Ketil Larsen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:319
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  4. Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a prevalent and severe disorder. Although effective treatments for MDD are available, many patients remain untreated, mainly because of insufficient treatment capacities in t...

    Authors: Jo Annika Reins, David Daniel Ebert, Dirk Lehr, Heleen Riper, Pim Cuijpers and Matthias Berking
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:318
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  5. It is well established that patients with serious mental disorders have higher mortality than the general population, yet there are few studies on mortality of both natural and unnatural causes in patients wit...

    Authors: Anne Høye, Bjarne K Jacobsen and Vidje Hansen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:317
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Depression and anxiety disorders during adolescence can have detrimental consequences. Both disorders are related to negative outcome in various areas during adolescence and are also predictive of depression a...

    Authors: Sanne PA Rasing, Daan HM Creemers, Jan MAM Janssens and Ron HJ Scholte
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:316
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  7. Day-hospital-based treatment programmes have been recommended for poorly functioning patients with personality disorders (PD). However, more research is needed to confirm the cost-effectiveness of such extensi...

    Authors: Elfrida Hartveit Kvarstein, Espen Arnevik, Vidar Halsteinli, Frida Gullestad Rø, Sigmund Karterud and Theresa Wilberg
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:315
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. Depressive disorders occur in 2 to 5% of the adolescents and are associated with a high burden of disease, a high risk of recurrence and a heightened risk for development of other problems, like suicide attemp...

    Authors: Yvonne Stikkelbroek, Denise HM Bodden, Maja Deković and Anneloes L van Baar
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:314
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  9. In their study ‘Mental Health in the General Population: Images and Realities’ Jean-Luc Roelandt et al. found a huge divide between the French public’s conceptualizations of insanity and depression. The study ...

    Authors: Matthias C Angermeyer, Aurélie Millier, Cécile Rémuzat, Tarek Refaï and Mondher Toumi
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:313
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Mobile phone-based psychological interventions enable real time self-monitoring and self-management, and large-scale dissemination. However, few studies have focussed on mild-to-moderate symptoms where public ...

    Authors: Judith Proudfoot, Janine Clarke, Mary-Rose Birch, Alexis E Whitton, Gordon Parker, Vijaya Manicavasagar, Virginia Harrison, Helen Christensen and Dusan Hadzi-Pavlovic
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:312
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. The dominant diagnostic model of the classification of depression today is unitarian; however, since Kurt Schneider (1920) introduced the concept of endogenous depression and reactive depression, the binary mo...

    Authors: Jin Mizushima, Hitoshi Sakurai, Yuya Mizuno, Masaki Shinfuku, Hideaki Tani, Kadunari Yoshida, Chisa Ozawa, Asako Serizawa, Natsuko Kodashiro, Shinya Koide, Atsumi Minamisawa, Eisaku Mutsumoto, Nobuhiro Nagai, Sachiko Noda, Genichiro Tachino, Tatsuichiro Takahashi…
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:311
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. Disordered eating behavior and body dissatisfaction affect a large proportion of the Dutch population and account for severe psychological, physical and social morbidity. Yet, the threshold for seeking profess...

    Authors: Elke D ter Huurne, Marloes G Postel, Hein A de Haan and Cor AJ DeJong
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:310
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  13. Diabetes is a growing health problem in South Asia. Despite an increasing number of studies exploring causal pathways between diabetes and depression in high-income countries (HIC), the pathway between the two...

    Authors: Kiran Niraula, Brandon A Kohrt, Meerjady Sabrina Flora, Narbada Thapa, Shirin Jahan Mumu, Rahul Pathak, Babill Stray-Pedersen, Pukar Ghimire, Bhawana Regmi, Elizabeth K MacFarlane and Roshni Shrestha
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:309
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. The resumption of menses is an important indicator of recovery in anorexia nervosa (AN). Patients with early-onset AN are at particularly great risk of suffering from the long-term physical and psychological c...

    Authors: Astrid Dempfle, Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann, Nina Timmesfeld, Reinhild Schwarte, Karin M Egberts, Ernst Pfeiffer, Christian Fleischhaker, Christoph Wewetzer and Katharina Bühren
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:308
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Nursing home patients with dementia use psychotropic drugs longer and more frequently than recommended by guidelines implying psychotropic drugs are not always prescribed appropriately. These drugs can have ma...

    Authors: Klaas van der Spek, Debby L Gerritsen, Martin Smalbrugge, Marjorie HJMG Nelissen-Vrancken, Roland B Wetzels, Claudia HW Smeets, Sytse U Zuidema and Raymond TCM Koopmans
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:307
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  16. A diagnosis of diabetes mellitus types 1 or 2 doubles the odds of a comorbid depressive disorder. The combined diseases have a wide range of adverse outcomes, such as a lower quality of life, poorer diabetes o...

    Authors: Stephanie Nobis, Dirk Lehr, David Daniel Ebert, Matthias Berking, Elena Heber, Harald Baumeister, Annette Becker, Frank Snoek and Heleen Riper
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:306
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  18. In European countries, including Switzerland, as well as in many states worldwide, cannabis is the most widely used psychoactive substance after alcohol and tobacco. Although approximately one in ten users dev...

    Authors: Michael P Schaub, Severin Haug, Andreas Wenger, Oliver Berg, Robin Sullivan, Thilo Beck and Lars Stark
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:305
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  19. Debate is ongoing about what role, if any, variation in the serotonin transporter linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) plays in depression. Some studies report an interaction between 5-HTTLPR variation and str...

    Authors: Robert C Culverhouse, Lucy Bowes, Naomi Breslau, John I Nurnberger Jr, Margit Burmeister, David M Fergusson, Marcus Munafò, Nancy L Saccone and Laura J Bierut
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:304
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  20. It is an open question as to whether differential developmental trajectories, potentially representing underlying pathophysiological processes, can form the basis of a more useful typology in young persons who...

    Authors: Ian B Hickie, Daniel F Hermens, Sharon L Naismith, Adam J Guastella, Nick Glozier, Jan Scott and Elizabeth M Scott
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:303
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Group psychoeducation is a cost effective intervention which reduces relapse and improves functioning in bipolar disorder but is rarely implemented. The aim of this study was to identify the acceptability and ...

    Authors: Katharine Coulthard, Dipty Patel, Clare Brizzolara, Richard Morriss and Stuart Watson
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:301
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Clinical and functional studies consider major depression (MD) and vascular depression (VD) as different neurobiological processes. Hypoexcitability of the left frontal cortex to transcranial magnetic stimulat...

    Authors: Carmen Concerto, Giuseppe Lanza, Mariagiovanna Cantone, Manuela Pennisi, Daniela Giordano, Concetto Spampinato, Riccardo Ricceri, Giovanni Pennisi, Eugenio Aguglia and Rita Bella
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:300
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. It is well known that children of parents with mental illness are at greater risk of mental illness themselves. However the patterns of familial mental health problems across multiple generations in families a...

    Authors: Kirsten J Hancock, Francis Mitrou, Megan Shipley, David Lawrence and Stephen R Zubrick
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:299
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. ADHD is diagnosed and treated more often in males than in females. Research on gender differences suggests that girls may be consistently underidentified and underdiagnosed because of differences in the expres...

    Authors: Erik Winther Skogli, Martin H Teicher, Per Normann Andersen, Kjell Tore Hovik and Merete Øie
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:298
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. The anticipation of mental health-related discrimination is common amongst people with mental health problems and can have serious adverse effects. This study aimed to develop and validate a measure assessing ...

    Authors: Jheanell Gabbidon, Elaine Brohan, Sarah Clement, R Claire Henderson and Graham Thornicroft
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:297
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. The prevalence of depression is high and results in huge costs for society. Internet-based cognitive behavioural treatment (ICBT) has been suggested for use in primary care and has been shown to be more effect...

    Authors: Maja Wilhelmsen, Kjersti Lillevoll, Mette Bech Risør, Ragnhild Høifødt, May-Lill Johansen, Knut Waterloo, Martin Eisemann and Nils Kolstrup
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:296
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. Eating disorders (ED) are classified into Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and eating disorder not otherwise specified. Prospectively, the diagnostic instability within ED is high, but it is not clear which ...

    Authors: Gabriella F Milos, Volker Baur, Sabina Muehlebach and Anja Spindler
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:295
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. Current literature on Eating Disorders (EDs) is devoid of evidence-based findings providing support to effective treatments, mostly for anorexia nervosa (AN). This lack of successful guidelines may play a role...

    Authors: Giovanni Abbate-Daga, Federico Amianto, Nadia Delsedime, Carlotta De-Bacco and Secondo Fassino
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:294
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:62

  29. Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a highly life-threatening disorder that is extremely difficult to treat. There is evidence that family-based therapies are effective for adolescent AN, but no treatment has been proven...

    Authors: Thomas R Lynch, Katie LH Gray, Roelie J Hempel, Marian Titley, Eunice Y Chen and Heather A O’Mahen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:293
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Treatment resistance is an omnipresent frustration in eating disorders. Attempts to identify the features of this resistance and subsequently develop novel treatments have had modest effects. This selective re...

    Authors: Katherine A Halmi
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:292
    Content type: Review Published on:

  32. Restoration of weight and nutritional status are key elements in the treatment of anorexia nervosa (AN). This review aims to describe issues related to the caloric requirements needed to gain and maintain weig...

    Authors: Enrica Marzola, Jennifer A Nasser, Sami A Hashim, Pei-an Betty Shih and Walter H Kaye
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:290
    Content type: Review Published on:

  33. Research has shown that eating disorder (ED) patients who abuse substances demonstrate worse ED symptomatology and poorer outcomes than those with EDs alone, including increased general medical complications a...

    Authors: Claire Gregorowski, Soraya Seedat and Gerhard P Jordaan
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:289
    Content type: Review Published on:

  34. Eating Disorders (EDs) are complex psychiatric pathologies characterized by moderate to poor response to treatment. Criteria of remission and recovery are not yet well defined. Simultaneously, personality play...

    Authors: Cristina Segura-García, Dora Chiodo, Flora Sinopoli and Pasquale De Fazio
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:288
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. Individual, family and service level characteristics and outcomes are described for adult and adolescent patients receiving specialist inpatient or day patient treatment for anorexia nervosa (AN). Potential pr...

    Authors: Elizabeth Goddard, Rebecca Hibbs, Simone Raenker, Laura Salerno, Jon Arcelus, Nicky Boughton, Frances Connan, Ken Goss, Bert Laszlo, John Morgan, Kim Moore, David Robertson, Saeidi S, Christa Schreiber-Kounine, Sonu Sharma, Linette Whitehead…
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:287
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. An increasing body of research points to a significant association of obesity to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and deficits in executive functions. There is also preliminary evidence suggesti...

    Authors: Samuele Cortese, Erika Comencini, Brenda Vincenzi, Mario Speranza and Marco Angriman
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:286
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  37. With the imminent publication of the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), there has been a growing interest in the study of the boundaries across the three bulimic ...

    Authors: Zaida Agüera, Nadine Riesco, Susana Jiménez-Murcia, Mohammed Anisul Islam, Roser Granero, Enrique Vicente, Eva Peñas-Lledó, Jon Arcelus, Isabel Sánchez, Jose Manuel Menchon and Fernando Fernández-Aranda
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:285
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Criticisms that generic measures of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are not sensitive to impairment in anorexia nervosa (AN) has spurred the development of disease-specific measures. This study aimed to...

    Authors: Deborah Mitchison, Phillipa Hay, Scott Engel, Ross Crosby, Daniel Le Grange, Hubert Lacey, Jonathan Mond, Shameran Slewa-Younan and Stephen Touyz
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:284
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. While evidence is available that home treatment could be effective for treating severe mental illness, there is a lack of evidence on what exactly makes home treatment effective. The study presented here aims ...

    Authors: Constance Stegbauer, Katja Goetz, Erik Bauer, Beate Bestmann, Thomas Ruprecht, Joachim Szecsenyi and Anke Bramesfeld
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:283
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  41. Accumulating evidence has shown a universality in the temporal organization of activity and rest among animals ranging from mammals to insects. Previous reports in both humans and mice showed that rest bout du...

    Authors: Minako Kawabata, Taro Ueno, Jun Tomita, Junko Kawatani, Akemi Tomoda, Shoen Kume and Kazuhiko Kume
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:281
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Neuropsychiatric symptoms are highly prevalent in nursing home patients with dementia. Despite modest effectiveness and considerable side effects, psychotropic drugs are frequently prescribed for these neurops...

    Authors: Claudia HW Smeets, Martin Smalbrugge, Debby L Gerritsen, Marjorie HJMG Nelissen-Vrancken, Roland B Wetzels, Klaas van der Spek, Sytse U Zuidema and Raymond TCM Koopmans
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:280
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  43. Digital technologies are increasingly directed at improved monitoring, management and treatment of mental health. However, their potential contribution to social networks and self-management support for people...

    Authors: Gavin Daker-White and Anne Rogers
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:279
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. According to previous studies, one of the common problems of everyday life of persons with tattoos is risky behavior. However, direct examination of the decision making process, as well as factors which determ...

    Authors: Semion Kertzman, Alex Kagan, Michael Vainder, Rina Lapidus and Abraham Weizman
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:278
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe psychiatric disorder with high rates of morbidity, comorbidity and mortality, which in a subset of patients (21%) takes on a chronic course. Since an evidence based treatment ...

    Authors: Marloes S Oudijn, Jitschak G Storosum, Elise Nelis and Damiaan Denys
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:277
    Content type: Review Published on:

  46. The Hermansky–Pudlak Syndrome Type 4 (HPS4) gene, which encodes a subunit protein of the biogenesis of lysosome-related organelles complex (BLOC)-3, which is involved in late endosomal trafficking, is associated ...

    Authors: Go Kuratomi, Atsushi Saito, Yuji Ozeki, Takashi Watanabe, Kumiko Fujii, Kazutaka Shimoda, Toshihiko Inukai, Harunobu Mori, Kenichi Ohmori and Kazufumi Akiyama
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:276
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Postpartum anxiety and depression has detrimental effects on the overall mental development of children. This study aims to assess the impact of postpartum anxiety and depression on children’s mental developme...

    Authors: Niloufer Sultan Ali, Sadia Mahmud, Asia Khan and Badar Sabir Ali
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:274
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Depressive Disorders (DD) are a great financial and social burden. Females display 70% higher rate of depression than males and more than 30% of these patients do not respond to conventional medications. Thus ...

    Authors: Eli Iacob, Kathleen C Light, Scott C Tadler, Howard R Weeks, Andrea T White, Ronald W Hughen, Timothy A VanHaitsma, Lowry Bushnell and Alan R Light
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:273
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. People who suffer from psychiatric disorders are burdened with a high prevalence of chronic illnesses and pain, but evidence on pain prevalence among adolescents with psychiatric disorders is scarce. The aim o...

    Authors: Wenche L Mangerud, Ottar Bjerkeset, Stian Lydersen and Marit S Indredavik
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:272
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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