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  1. Prolactin elevations occur in people treated with antipsychotic medications and are often much higher in women than in men. Hyperprolactinemia is known to cause amenorrhea, oligomenorrhea, galactorrhea and gyn...

    Authors: Deanna L Kelly, Heidi J Wehring, Amber K Earl, Kelli M Sullivan, Faith B Dickerson, Stephanie Feldman, Robert P McMahon, Robert W Buchanan, Dale Warfel, William R Keller, Bernard A Fischer and Joo-Cheol Shim
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:214
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  2. To ascertain whether factors of the family environment and gestational period are associated with the appearance of ADHD in children, as reported by various different informants (mothers and teachers).

    Authors: Thiago de Oliveira Pires, Cosme Marcelo Furtado Passos da Silva and Simone Gonçalves de Assis
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:215
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  3. This study focuses on people with complex and severe mental health problems who require inpatient rehabilitation. The majority have a diagnosis of schizophrenia whose recovery has been delayed due to non-respo...

    Authors: Helen Killaspy, Sarah Cook, Tim Mundy, Thomas Craig, Frank Holloway, Gerard Leavey, Louise Marston, Paul McCrone, Leonardo Koeser, Maurice Arbuthnott, Rumana Z Omar and Michael King
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:216
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  4. There is a lack of empirical studies of patients’ level of humiliation during the hospital admission process and its implications for the clinical setting. We wanted to explore associations between self-rated ...

    Authors: Marit F Svindseth, Jim A Nøttestad and Alv A Dahl
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:217
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  5. Olfactory function tests are sensitive tools for assessing sensory-cognitive processing in schizophrenia. However, associations of central olfactory measures with clinical outcome parameters have not been simu...

    Authors: Anne Kästner, Dörthe Malzahn, Martin Begemann, Constanze Hilmes, Heike Bickeböller and Hannelore Ehrenreich
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:218
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  6. Methylphenidate (MPH) has been shown to be effective in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children. The overall population of children and adolescents with ADHD may comprise d...

    Authors: Christopher Hautmann, Aribert Rothenberger and Manfred Döpfner
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:219
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  7. Inadequate discharge planning following inpatient stays is a major issue in the provision of a high standard of care for patients who receive psychiatric treatment. Studies have shown that half of patients who...

    Authors: Agnes von Wyl, Gisela Heim, Nicolas Rüsch, Wulf Rössler and Andreas Andreae
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:220
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  8. Among schizophrenia patients relapsed on an oral antipsychotic (AP), this study compared the impact of switching to atypical AP long-acting injectable therapy (LAT) versus continuing oral APs on hospitalizatio...

    Authors: Marie-Hélène Lafeuille, François Laliberté-Auger, Patrick Lefebvre, Christian Frois, John Fastenau and Mei Sheng Duh
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:221
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  9. A number of characteristics associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are over-represented among patients with Anorexia Nervosa (AN) as well as among relatives of these patients. Yet the co-occurrence of...

    Authors: Annaig Courty, Anne Solène Maria, Christophe Lalanne, Damien Ringuenet, Christine Vindreau, Coralie Chevallier, Lydia Pouga, François Pinabel, Anne Philippe, Jean-Louis Adrien, Caroline Barry and Sylvie Berthoz
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:222
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  10. Growing evidence suggests that abdominal obesity is a more important risk factor for the prognosis of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases than BMI. Somatic-affective symptoms of depression have also been lin...

    Authors: Jörg Wiltink, Matthias Michal, Philipp S Wild, Isabella Zwiener, Maria Blettner, Thomas Münzel, Andreas Schulz, Yvonne Kirschner and Manfred E Beutel
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:223
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  11. Hospitalization is a costly and distressing event associated with relapse during schizophrenia treatment. No information is available on the predictors of psychiatric hospitalization during maintenance treatme...

    Authors: Haya Ascher-Svanum, Diego Novick, Josep Maria Haro, Jordan Bertsch, David McDonnell and Holland Detke
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:224
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  12. Acute behavioural disturbance (ABD) is a common problem in psychiatry and both physical restraint and involuntary parenteral sedation are often required to control patients. Although guidelines are available, ...

    Authors: Leonie Calver, Vincent Drinkwater and Geoffrey K Isbister
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:225
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  13. In recent decades, increasing attention has been paid to the subjective dimension of cancer, especially to psychosocial screening procedures, major psychiatric disorders but also psychological and psychosocial...

    Authors: Juan Valdes-Stauber, Eva Vietz and Reinhold Kilian
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:226
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  14. Severe mental disorders have a chronic course associated with a high risk for co-morbid somatic illnesses and premature mortality and oral health is critical for overall systemic health. But general health car...

    Authors: Valerie Bertaud-Gounot, Viviane Kovess-Masfety, Catherine Perrus, Gilda Trohel and Frederique Richard
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:227
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  15. Depression is one of the most common neuropsychiatric complications of HIV disease, and in turn it is associated with worse HIV-related outcomes. Data on depression among HIV-infected patients in Cameroon are ...

    Authors: Rodrigue Minya L’akoa, Jean Jacques N Noubiap, Yixin Fang, Félicien Enyime Ntone and Christopher Kuaban
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:228
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  16. The Scale to Assess Unawareness in Mental Disorder (SUMD) is widely used in clinical trials and epidemiological studies but more rarely in clinical practice because of its length (74 items). In clinical practi...

    Authors: Pierre Michel, Karine Baumstarck, Pascal Auquier, Xavier Amador, Rémy Dumas, Jessica Fernandez, Christophe Lancon and Laurent Boyer
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:229
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  17. Clinician responses to patients have been recognized as an important factor in treatment outcome. Clinician responses to suicidal patients have received little attention in the literature however, and no quant...

    Authors: Zimri S Yaseen, Jessica Briggs, Irina Kopeykina, Kali M Orchard, Jessica Silberlicht, Hetal Bhingradia and Igor I Galynker
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:230
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  18. Prescription and use of antidepressants and benzodiazepines are common in the general population. Prescription of psychotropic drugs is a complex process: patient, physician and healthcare characteristics medi...

    Authors: Mythily Subramaniam, Vincent YF He, Janhavi A Vaingankar, Edimansyah Abdin and Siow Ann Chong
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:231
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  19. Mental health consequences of disasters are frequently studied. However, few studies have investigated symptom improvement in victims after natural disasters. This study aimed to identify predictors of 6 month...

    Authors: Ajmal Hussain, Lars Weisæth and Trond Heir
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:232
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  20. Identifying children with childhood-onset neurodevelopmental problems (NDPs, defined here as autism spectrum disorders [ASDs], attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder [AD/HD], tic disorders [TDs], learning di...

    Authors: Tomas Larson, Sebastian Lundström, Thomas Nilsson, Eva Norén Selinus, Maria Råstam, Paul Lichtenstein, Clara Hellner Gumpert, Henrik Anckarsäter and Nóra Kerekes
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:233
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  22. This study aims to compare severity criteria defined by the Remission in Schizophrenia Working Group (RSWGcr) with other criteria in relation to functional and neurocognitive outcome.

    Authors: Federica Pinna, Massimo Tusconi, Marta Bosia, Roberto Cavallaro and Bernardo Carpiniello
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:235
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  23. The prevalence of depression is not well studied among women with pelvic floor disorders. Hence, this study aimed to determine the prevalence of depression and its associated factors among women with pelvic fl...

    Authors: Berihun Megabiaw Zeleke, Tadesse Awoke Ayele, Mulatu Adefris Woldetsadik, Telake Azale Bisetegn and Akilew Awoke Adane
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:236
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  24. The stimulant methylphenidate (MPH) has been a mainstay of treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for many years. Owing to the short half-life and the issues associated with multiple dai...

    Authors: David Coghill, Tobias Banaschewski, Alessandro Zuddas, Antonio Pelaz, Antonella Gagliano and Manfred Doepfner
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:237
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  25. Individuals diagnosed with serious mental illnesses are at increased risk of obesity- and cardiovascular-related morbidity and early mortality. Lifestyle interventions aimed at weight loss, even those adapted ...

    Authors: Bobbi Jo H Yarborough, Michael C Leo, Scott Stumbo, Nancy A Perrin and Carla A Green
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:238
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  26. Depressive disorders are among the leading causes of worldwide disability with mild to moderate forms of depression being particularly common. Low-intensity treatments such as online psychological treatments m...

    Authors: Jan Philipp Klein, Thomas Berger, Johanna Schröder, Christina Späth, Björn Meyer, Franz Caspar, Wolfgang Lutz, Wolfgang Greiner, Martin Hautzinger, Matthias Rose, Viola Gräfe, Fritz Hohagen, Gerhard Andersson, Eik Vettorazzi and Steffen Moritz
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:239
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  27. Most previous studies on the efficacy of antipsychotic medication for the treatment of delirium have reported that there is no significant difference between typical and atypical antipsychotic medications. It ...

    Authors: Hyung-Jun Yoon, Kyoung-Min Park, Won-Jung Choi, Soo-Hee Choi, Jin-Young Park, Jae-Jin Kim and Jeong-Ho Seok
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:240
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  28. Hallucinations are prevalent in schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders and may have severe consequences for the affected patients. Antipsychotic drug trials that specifically address the anti-hallucinat...

    Authors: Erik Johnsen, Igne Sinkeviciute, Else-Marie Løberg, Rune A Kroken, Kenneth Hugdahl and Hugo A Jørgensen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:241
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  29. Group therapies are routinely provided for patients with severe mental illness. The factors important to the group experience of patients are still poorly understood and are rarely measured. To support further...

    Authors: Rosangela Caruso, Luigi Grassi, Bruno Biancosino, Luciana Marmai, Luciano Bonatti, Maria Moscara, Marco Rigatelli, Catherine Carr and Stefan Priebe
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:242
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  30. It is desirable to establish evidence for the selection of antipsychotics from the viewpoint of recovery of social activity in individual patient with schizophrenia receiving medication. From this perspective,...

    Authors: Jun Ishigooka, Kazuyuki Nakagome, Tetsuro Ohmori and Nakao Iwata
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:243
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  31. The appropriateness of use of generic instead of brand-name medication remains unresolved and controversial in several areas of medicine. Some evidence suggestive of variations in bioavailability and clinical ...

    Authors: Rani Samuel, Azizah Attard and Marinos Kyriakopoulos
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:244
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  32. Schizotypy, or the set of personality traits related to schizophrenia, is considered an endophenotypic manifestation that is more represented in first-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia than in th...

    Authors: Maria Chiara Torti, Antonino Buzzanca, Chiara Squarcione, Carla Salerno, Alessia Mirigliani, Fabio Di Fabio and Massimo Biondi
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:245
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  33. This study aimed to assess antipsychotic adherence patterns and all-cause and schizophrenia-related health care utilization and costs sequentially during critical clinical periods (i.e., before and after schiz...

    Authors: Michael Markowitz, Sudeep Karve, Jessica Panish, Sean D Candrilli and Larry Alphs
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:246
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  34. Major depressive disorders (MDD) are a debilitating and pervasive group of mental illnesses afflicting many millions of people resulting in the loss of 110 million working days and more than 2,500 suicides per...

    Authors: Cindy C Hagan, Julia ME Graham, Barry Widmer, Rosemary J Holt, Cinly Ooi, Adrienne O van Nieuwenhuizen, Peter Fonagy, Shirley Reynolds, Mary Target, Raphael Kelvin, Paul O Wilkinson, Edward T Bullmore, Belinda R Lennox, Barbara J Sahakian, Ian Goodyer and John Suckling
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:247
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  35. Antipsychotic drugs can be used to help treat a wide variety of psychiatric disorders. However, specific antipsychotic drugs for any particular patient may need to be changed for a number of different reasons,...

    Authors: David Linton, Ric M Procyshyn, Dean Elbe, Lik Hang N Lee and Alasdair M Barr
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:248
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  36. With a rapidly ageing population and increasing life expectancy, programs directed at improving the mental health and quality of life (QOL) of older persons are extremely important. This issue may be particula...

    Authors: Joanna Atkins, Sharon L Naismith, Georgina M Luscombe and Ian B Hickie
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:249
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  37. A ruminative style of responding to low mood is associated with subsequent high depressive symptoms and depressive disorder in children, adolescents and adults. Scores on self-report rumination scales correlat...

    Authors: Paul O Wilkinson, Tim J Croudace and Ian M Goodyer
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:250
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  38. Foulds’ Delusions-Symptoms-State Inventory (DSSI) has been purported to be a reliable, systematic categorical measure to assess the patients with schizophrenia according to the degree of illness. However, furt...

    Authors: Samuel Suk-Hyun Hwang, Yeni Kim, Jae Seung Chang, Da Young Yun, Yong Sik Kim and Hee Yeon Jung
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:251
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  40. This study examined the effects of lisdexamfetamine dimesylate (LDX) on quality of life (QOL) in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and clinically significant executive function defici...

    Authors: Lenard A Adler, Bryan Dirks, Patrick Deas, Aparna Raychaudhuri, Matthew Dauphin, Keith Saylor and Richard Weisler
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:253
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  41. Malingering detection has emerged as an important issue in clinical and forensic settings. The Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms-2 (SIRS-2) was designed to assess the feigned symptoms in both clinical ...

    Authors: Chang Liu, Zhening Liu, Helen FK Chiu, Tam Wai-Cheong Carl, Huiran Zhang, Peng Wang, Guowei Wu, Tumbewene E Mwansisya, Longlong Cao, Aimin Hu, Yu Wang and Zhimin Xue
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:254
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  42. To investigate whether schizophrenia patients with both suicide attempts and non-suicidal self-harm have earlier age of onset of psychotic and depressive symptoms and higher levels of clinical symptoms compare...

    Authors: Erlend Mork, Fredrik A Walby, Jill M Harkavy-Friedman, Elizabeth A Barrett, Nils E Steen, Steinar Lorentzen, Ole A Andreassen, Ingrid Melle and Lars Mehlum
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:255
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  44. Despite the recent increase of research interest in involuntary treatment and the use of coercive measures, gender differences among coerced schizophrenia patients still remain understudied. It is well recogni...

    Authors: Alexander Nawka, Lucie Kalisova, Jiri Raboch, Domenico Giacco, Libor Cihal, Georgi Onchev, Anastasia Karastergiou, Zahava Solomon, Andrea Fiorillo, Valeria Del Vecchio, Algirdas Dembinskas, Andrzej Kiejna, Petr Nawka, Francisco Torres-Gonzales, Stefan Priebe, Lars Kjellin…
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:257
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  46. Mental health problems are common in the work force and influence work capacity and sickness absence. The aim was to examine self-assessed mental health problems and work capacity as determinants of time until...

    Authors: Gunnel Hensing, Monica Bertilsson, Gunnar Ahlborg Jr, Margda Waern and Marjan Vaez
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:259
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  47. Diabetic patients with depression are often inadequately treated within primary care. These comorbid conditions are associated with poor outcomes. The aim of this systematic review was to examine whether colla...

    Authors: Yafang Huang, Xiaoming Wei, Tao Wu, Rui Chen and Aimin Guo
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:260
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  48. The research goal is to better understand prescriber, patient, and caregiver perspectives about long-acting injectable (LAI) antipsychotic therapy and how these perspectives affect LAI use. Addressing these pe...

    Authors: Steven Potkin, Rimal Bera, Donna Zubek and Gina Lau
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:261
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  49. Opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) is associated with reduced crime among heroin users, but little is known about how crime changes during different phases of treatment. The aim of this study was to investigat...

    Authors: Anne Bukten, Jo Røislien, Svetlana Skurtveit, Helge Waal, Michael Gossop and Thomas Clausen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:262
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  50. Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality is increased in individuals with severe mental illnesses.

    Authors: Fiona Gaughran, Daniel Stahl, Khalida Ismail, Zerrin Atakan, John Lally, Poonam Gardner-Sood, Anita Patel, Anthony David, David Hopkins, Bee Harries, Philippa Lowe, Diana Orr, Maurice Arbuthnot, Robin M Murray, Kathryn E Greenwood and Shubulade Smith
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:263
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