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  1. In the year 2020, depression will cause the second highest amount of disability worldwide. One quarter of the population will suffer from depression symptoms at some point in their lives. Mental health service...

    Authors: Jesús Montero-Marín, José Miguel Carrasco, Miquel Roca, Antoni Serrano-Blanco, Margalida Gili, Fermin Mayoral, Juan V Luciano, Yolanda Lopez-del-Hoyo, Barbara Olivan, Francisco Collazo, Ricardo Araya, Rosa Baños, Cristina Botella and Javier García-Campayo
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:64
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  2. Measuring satisfaction with treatment has proved useful to ascertain the treatment features that are most important to the patients, and to explain increased treatment compliance. However, there are few studie...

    Authors: Jesús López-Torres, Ignacio Párraga, José M Del Campo and Alejandro Villena
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:65
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  3. Despite high rates of self-reported crime victimisation, no study to date has compared official victimisation records of people with severe mental illness with a random community sample. Accordingly, this stud...

    Authors: Tamsin B R Short, Stuart Thomas, Stefan Luebbers, Paul Mullen and James R P Ogloff
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:66
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  4. Reducing the duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) is an aspiration of international guidelines for first episode psychosis; however, public health initiatives have met with mixed results. Systematic reviews s...

    Authors: Charlotte Connor, Max Birchwood, Colin Palmer, Sunita Channa, Nick Freemantle, Helen Lester, Paul Patterson and Swaran Singh
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:67
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  6. Screening scales for bipolar disorder including the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) and Bipolar Spectrum Diagnostic Scale (BSDS) have been plagued by high false positive rates confounded by presence of borde...

    Authors: Toshihiko Nagata, Hisashi Yamada, Alan R Teo, Chiho Yoshimura, Yuya Kodama and Irene van Vliet
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:69
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  7. Evidence from animal and human studies imply the amygdala as the most critical structure involved in processing of fear-relevant stimuli. In phobias, the amygdala seems to play a crucial role in the pathogenes...

    Authors: Melanie S Fisler, Andrea Federspiel, Helge Horn, Thomas Dierks, Wolfgang Schmitt, Roland Wiest, Dominique J-F de Quervain and Leila M Soravia
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:70
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  8. Treatment of patients with acute mania remains a considerable medical challenge since onset of action of antimanic medication is delayed for several days. Psychostimulants could have an earlier onset of action...

    Authors: Michael Kluge, Ulrich Hegerl, Christian Sander, Jens Dietzel, Roland Mergl, Istvan Bitter, Koen Demyttenaere, Ricardo Gusmão, Ana Gonzalez-Pinto, Victor Perez-Sola, Eduard Vieta, Georg Juckel, Ulrich S Zimmermann, Michael Bauer, Pascal Sienaert, Sónia Quintão…
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:71
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  9. White matter abnormalities can cause network dysfunction that underlies major depressive disorder (MDD). Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is used to examine the neural connectivity and integrity of the white mat...

    Authors: Hong-jun Peng, Hui-rong Zheng, Yu-ping Ning, Yan Zhang, Bao-ci Shan, Li Zhang, Hai-chen Yang, Jun Liu, Ze-xuan Li, Jian-song Zhou, Zhi-jun Zhang and Ling-jiang Li
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:72
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  10. Increasing incidences of dementia necessitate the improvement of supportive measures for patients suffering from this disease and their proxies. Clinicians without psychiatric backgrounds and others involved i...

    Authors: Claudia Schiffczyk, Barbara Romero, Christina Jonas, Constanze Lahmeyer, Friedemann Müller and Matthias W Riepe
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:73
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  11. There is little research on the process of transition between child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) and adult mental health services (AMHS). More recently, there is growing recognition that Atten...

    Authors: Katie D Swift, Charlotte L Hall, Vic Marimuttu, Lucy Redstone, Kapil Sayal and Chris Hollis
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:74
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  12. The objective of this epidemiological study was to evaluate the effect of length of sunlight exposure on interleukin 6 (IL-6) levels in depressive and non-depressive subjects.

    Authors: Rosa Levandovski, Bianca Pfaffenseller, Alicia Carissimi, Clarissa S Gama and Maria Paz Loayza Hidalgo
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:75
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  13. Relative to intentional memory encoding, which quickly declines in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD), incidental memory for emotional stimuli appears to deteriorate more slowly. We h...

    Authors: Mario A Parra, Vivek Pattan, Dichelle Wong, Anna Beaglehole, Jane Lonie, Hong I Wan, Garry Honey, Jeremy Hall, Heather C Whalley and Stephen M Lawrie
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:76
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  14. Circadian theories for major depressive disorder have suggested that the rhythm of the circadian pacemaker is misaligned. Stable phase relationships between internal rhythms, such as temperature and rest/activ...

    Authors: Cláudia Ávila Moraes, Trinitat Cambras, Antoni Diez-Noguera, Regina Schimitt, Giovana Dantas, Rosa Levandovski and Maria Paz Hidalgo
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:77
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  15. This study identifies a set of psychosocial difficulties that are associated with short term changes in health outcomes across a heterogeneous set of brain disorders, neurological and psychiatric.

    Authors: Alarcos Cieza, Cristina Bostan, Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos, Cornelia Oberhauser, Jerome Bickenbach, Alberto Raggi, Matilde Leonardi, Eduard Vieta and Somnath Chatterji
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:78
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  16. One of the major issues in clinical practice is the accurate differential diagnosis between mixed states and depression, often leading to inappropriate prescriptions of antidepressants in mixed states, and as ...

    Authors: Chantal Henry, Amandine Luquiens, Christophe Lançon, Hélène Sapin, Marcel Zins-Ritter, Stephanie Gerard, Elena Perrin, Bruno Falissard and Michael Lukasiewicz
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:79
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  18. Evidence suggests that neurotropic infectious agents might be involved in bipolar disorder. So far, few have been written for the association between parasitic infection and bipolar disorder. Filariasis is a p...

    Authors: Nora Hamdani, Raphaël Doukhan, Aline Picard, Ryad Tamouza and Marion Leboyer
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:81
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  19. The aim of this paper was to delineate the impact of gender on premorbid history, onset, and 18 month outcomes of first episode psychotic mania (FEPM) patients.

    Authors: Sue M Cotton, Martin Lambert, Michael Berk, Benno G Schimmelmann, Felicity J Butselaar, Patrick D McGorry and Philippe Conus
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:82
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  20. Systematic screening for depression in high-risk patients is recommended but remains controversial. The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of such screening in everyday clinical practice on depr...

    Authors: Irene Romera, Ángel L Montejo, Enric Aragonés, José Ángel Arbesú, Celso Iglesias-García, Silvia López, José Antonio Lozano, Sireesha Pamulapati, Belen Yruretagoyena and Inmaculada Gilaberte
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:83
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  21. Recent functional imaging studies on chronic pain of various organic etiologies have shown significant alterations in both the spatial and the temporal dimensions of the functional connectivity of the human br...

    Authors: Alexander Otti, Harald Guendel, Afra Wohlschläger, Claus Zimmer and Michael Noll-Hussong
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:84
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  22. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) involves debilitating symptoms that can disrupt cognitive functioning. The emotional Stroop has been commonly used to examine the impact of PTSD on attentional control, bu...

    Authors: Victoria Ashley, Nikki Honzel, Jary Larsen, Timothy Justus and Diane Swick
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:86
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  23. Patients with severe mental illness are at increased risk of developing metabolic disorders. The risk of metabolic syndrome in the Hong Kong general population is lower than that observed in western countries;...

    Authors: Daniel T Bressington, Jolene Mui, Eric F C Cheung, Joel Petch, Allan B Clark and Richard Gray
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:87
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  24. Most neuroimaging studies investigating sexual arousal in paedophilia used erotic pictures together with a blocked fMRI design and long stimulus presentation time. While this approach allows the detection of s...

    Authors: Benedikt Habermeyer, Fabrizio Esposito, Nadja Händel, Patrick Lemoine, Markus Klarhöfer, Ralph Mager, Volker Dittmann, Erich Seifritz and Marc Graf
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:88
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  25. Although correctional officers (COs) clearly suffer from depression, positive resources for combating depression have been rarely studied in this population. The purpose of the study was to examine the associa...

    Authors: Li Liu, Shu Hu, Lie Wang, Guoyuan Sui and Lei Ma
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:89
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  26. To investigate attitudes of professionals working in mental health care outpatient clinics in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) (for children and adolescents aged 0–18 years) and District Psychiatric Centr...

    Authors: Astrid Berge Norheim, Tine Kristin Grimholt and Øivind Ekeberg
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:90
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  27. The PHQ-15 is widely used as an open access screening instrument for somatization syndromes in different health care settings, thus far, normative data from the general population are not available. The object...

    Authors: Rüya-Daniela Kocalevent, Andreas Hinz and Elmar Brähler
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:91
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  28. An important issue concerning the worldwide fight against stigma is the evaluation of psychiatrists’ beliefs and attitudes toward schizophrenia and mental illness in general. However, there is as yet no consen...

    Authors: Alexandre Andrade Loch, Francisco Bevilacqua Guarniero, Fabio Lorea Lawson, Michael Pascal Hengartner, Wulf Rössler, Wagner Farid Gattaz and Yuan-Pang Wang
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:92
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  29. The prevalence of substance use in people acutely admitted to in-patient psychiatric wards is high and the patients` duration of stay is limited. Motivational interviewing is a method with evidence based effec...

    Authors: Gunnhild Bagøien, Johan Håkon Bjørngaard, Christine Østensen, Solveig Klæbo Reitan, Pål Romundstad and Gunnar Morken
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:93
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  30. In an effort to establish the lowest effective dose of desvenlafaxine (administered as desvenlafaxine succinate), we assessed the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of 10- and 50-mg/day desvenlafaxine vs place...

    Authors: Michael R Liebowitz, Karen A Tourian, Eunhee Hwang and Linda Mele
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:94
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  31. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a tool to measure the risk for mental disorders in children. The aim of this study is to describe the diagnostic efficiency and internal structure of the S...

    Authors: Manuel Gómez-Beneyto, Andreu Nolasco, Joaquín Moncho, Pamela Pereyra-Zamora, Nayara Tamayo-Fonseca, Mikel Munarriz, José Salazar, Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos and Manuel Girón
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:95
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  32. Currently a large number of atypical antipsychotics available in the market are endorsed as better option for treating schizophrenia than the typical antipsychotics. Information regarding the utilization patte...

    Authors: Indrajit Banerjee, Bedanta Roy, Brijesh Sathian, Indraneel Banerjee, Prasanta Kumar Chakraborty and Archana Saha
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:96
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  33. Previous studies in bipolar disorder investigating childhood trauma and clinical presentations of the illness have mainly focused on physical and sexual abuse. Our aim was to explore further the relationship b...

    Authors: Sara Larsson, Monica Aas, Ole Klungsøyr, Ingrid Agartz, Erlend Mork, Nils Eiel Steen, Elizabeth A Barrett, Trine V Lagerberg, Jan Ivar Røssberg, Ingrid Melle, Ole A Andreassen and Steinar Lorentzen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:97
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  34. Little data is available on the real-world socio-economic burden and outcomes in schizophrenia. This study aimed to assess persistence, compliance, costs and Health-Related Quality-of-Life (HRQoL) in young pat...

    Authors: Paolo A Cortesi, Claudio Mencacci, Ferrannini Luigi, Elvezio Pirfo, Patrizia Berto, Miriam CJM Sturkenboom, Fabiana L Lopes, Maria G Giustra, Lorenzo G Mantovani and Luciana Scalone
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:98
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  35. The Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation - Outcome Measure (CORE-OM) is a 34-item instrument developed to monitor clinically significant change in out-patients. The CORE-OM covers four domains: well-being, ...

    Authors: Ingunn Skre, Oddgeir Friborg, Sigmund Elgarøy, Chris Evans, Lars Henrik Myklebust, Kjersti Lillevoll, Knut Sørgaard and Vidje Hansen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:99
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  36. Depression can be treated in an outpatient, inpatient or day hospital setting. In the German health care system, episodes of inpatient or day hospital treatment are common, but there is a lack of studies evalu...

    Authors: Almut Zeeck, Joern von Wietersheim, Heinz Weiss, Manfred Beutel and Armin Hartmann
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:100
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  37. Although suicide has been postulated as a result of social breakdown, relatively little attention has been paid to the association between social relationships and non-fatal self-harm. We sought to investigate...

    Authors: Chia-Yi Wu, Chin-Kuo Chang, Hui-Chun Huang, Shen-Ing Liu and Robert Stewart
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:101
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  39. Owing to the policy of extramuralization of care in most Western countries older people with severe mental illness have to rely more and more on informal caregivers for daily care. Caregivers themselves are of...

    Authors: Marian I Zegwaard, Marja J Aartsen, Mieke HF Grypdonck and Pim Cuijpers
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:103
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  40. Despite the widespread application of Symptom Checklist 90-R (SCL-90-R), its psychometric weaknesses have repeatedly been noted. This study aimed to comparatively assess the psychometric properties of the SCL-...

    Authors: Ulrich Prinz, Detlev O Nutzinger, Holger Schulz, Franz Petermann, Christoph Braukhaus and Sylke Andreas
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:104
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  41. The literature on the neuropsychological profiles in Bipolar disorder (BD) depression is sparse. The aims of the study were to assess the neurocognitive profiles in treatment-resistant, acutely admitted BD dep...

    Authors: Ute Kessler, Helle K Schoeyen, Ole A Andreassen, Geir E Eide, Åsa Hammar, Ulrik F Malt, Ketil J Oedegaard, Gunnar Morken, Kjetil Sundet and Arne E Vaaler
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:105
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  42. Depressive symptoms are common in patients with first episode psychosis (FEP) and have serious consequences for them. The main aims of this study were to examine the course of depression in FEP patients and ex...

    Authors: Nasrettin Sönmez, Kristin Lie Romm, Ole A Andreasssen, Ingrid Melle and Jan Ivar Røssberg
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:106
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  43. The expression of μ-opioid receptor has important role in cognitive dysfunction in Schizophrenia (SZ). The results of studies about the association of polymorphisms of μ-opioid receptor gene (OPRM1) with SZ we...

    Authors: Saidan Ding, Bicheng Chen, Yong Zheng, Qin Lu, Leping Liu and Qǐ-Chuan Zhuge
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:107
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  44. Obesity is becoming more prevalent and thus growing as a public health concern in patients with schizophrenia. This investigation evaluated the relationship between body weight and the self-reported quality of...

    Authors: Norio Sugawara, Norio Yasui-Furukori, Yasushi Sato, Manabu Saito, Hanako Furukori, Taku Nakagami, Shuhei Kudo and Sunao Kaneko
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:108
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  45. Studies have reported that up to 60% of individuals with schizophrenia are overweight or obese. This study explored the relationship between obesity and cognitive performance in Chinese patients with schizophr...

    Authors: Xiaofeng Guo, Zhanchou Zhang, Qinling Wei, Hailong Lv, Renrong Wu and Jingping Zhao
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:109
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  47. Anorexia nervosa (AN) is associated with high rates of chronicity and relapse risk is a considerable therapeutic challenge in the disorder. The aim of the present study was to investigate the association of st...

    Authors: Johannes Mander, Martin Teufel, Katharina Keifenheim, Stephan Zipfel and Katrin Elisabeth Giel
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:111
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  48. While pain is frequently associated with unipolar depression, few studies have investigated the link between pain and bipolar depression. In the present study we estimated the prevalence and characteristics of...

    Authors: Inmaculada Failde, Maria Dueñas, Luis Agüera-Ortíz, Jorge A Cervilla, Ana Gonzalez-Pinto and Juan A Mico
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:112
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  49. Depression is a major cause of disability worldwide, and computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (CCBT) is expected to be a more augmentative and efficient treatment. According to previous meta-analyses of ...

    Authors: Mirai So, Sosei Yamaguchi, Sora Hashimoto, Mitsuhiro Sado, Toshi A Furukawa and Paul McCrone
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:113
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  50. The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) was introduced in 2007 to protect vulnerable individuals who lack capacity to make decisions for themselves and to provide a legal framework for professionals to assess incap...

    Authors: Penelope F Brown, Alex D Tulloch, Charlotte Mackenzie, Gareth S Owen, George Szmukler and Matthew Hotopf
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:115
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