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  1. Insomnia is a significant risk factor for depression onset, can result in more disabling depressive illness, and is a common residual symptom following treatment cessation that can increase the risk of relapse...

    Authors: Nicole L Cockayne, Helen M Christensen, Kathleen M Griffiths, Sharon L Naismith, Ian B Hickie, Frances P Thorndike, Lee M Ritterband and Nick S Glozier
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:16
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  2. Historically, the focus of Non Communicable Disease (NCD) prevention and control has been cardiovascular disease (CVD), type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), cancer and chronic respiratory diseases. Collectively, t...

    Authors: Adrienne O’Neil, Felice N Jacka, Shae E Quirk, Fiona Cocker, C Barr Taylor, Brian Oldenburg and Michael Berk
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:15
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Psychiatry 2022 22:361

  3. Prenatal depression can negatively affect the physical and mental health of both mother and fetus. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of yoga as an intervention in the management of prena...

    Authors: Hong Gong, Chenxu Ni, Xiaoliang Shen, Tengyun Wu and Chunlei Jiang
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:14
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  4. Suicidal behaviours are major public health concerns worldwide. They are associated with risk factors that vary with age and gender, occur in combination, and may change over time. The aim of our study was to ...

    Authors: Patrizia Zeppegno, Carla Gramaglia, Luigi Mario Castello, Fabrizio Bert, Maria Rosaria Gualano, Francesca Ressico, Isabella Coppola, Gian Carlo Avanzi, Roberta Siliquini and Eugenio Torre
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:13
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  5. Many of the assessment tools used to study depression among older people are adaptations of instruments developed in other cultural setting. There is a need to validate those instruments in low and middle inco...

    Authors: Mariella Guerra, Cleusa Ferri, Juan Llibre, A Matthew Prina and Martin Prince
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:12
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  6. There is limited knowledge about how environmental factors affect the course of bipolar disorder (BD). Cannabis has been proposed as a potential risk factor for poorer course of illness, but the role of cannab...

    Authors: Levi Roestad Kvitland, Ingrid Melle, Sofie Ragnhild Aminoff, Christine Demmo, Trine Vik Lagerberg, Ole Andreas Andreassen and Petter Andreas Ringen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:11
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  7. Depression represents one of the most common psychiatric disorders among older adults. Married couples are affected frequently, and psychiatric problems usually affect marital satisfaction. Despite the frequen...

    Authors: Jae-Hyun Kim, Eun-Cheol Park and Sang Gyu Lee
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:10
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. Behavioral disturbances following chemotherapy with cisplatin are rare. Here, we report a patient with temporary loss of moral behavior in the setting of cisplatin-based chemotherapy for treatment of tonsillar...

    Authors: Kristian Barlinn, Hans Lehrach, Timo Siepmann, David Braeuer, Ulrich Buntrock and Norbert Sassim
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:9
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  9. Although exposure to early life stress is known to affect mental health, the underlying mechanisms of its impacts on depressive symptoms among institutionalized children and adolescents have been little studied.

    Authors: Hanako Suzuki and Akemi Tomoda
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:8
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  10. Depression is a common mental disorder associated with substantial disability. It is inadequately recognised and managed, and clinicians’ attitudes to this condition and its treatment may play a part in this. ...

    Authors: Mark Haddad, Marco Menchetti, Eamonn McKeown, André Tylee and Anthony Mann
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:7
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  11. Several studies have investigated the cognitive profile in patients with Anorexia Nervosa (AN) and Bulimia Nervosa (BN); on the contrary few studies have evaluated it in patients with Binge Eating Disorder (BE...

    Authors: Matteo Aloi, Marianna Rania, Mariarita Caroleo, Antonella Bruni, Antonella Palmieri, Maria Antonella Cauteruccio, Pasquale De Fazio and Cristina Segura-García
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:6
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  13. Resolving the theoretical controversy on the labeling of an increasing number of excessive behaviors as behavioral addictions may also be facilitated by more empirical data on these behavioral problems. For in...

    Authors: Barna Konkolÿ Thege, Erica M Woodin, David C Hodgins and Robert J Williams
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:4
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects many aspects of family life, such as social and economic burden. Little investigation of this phenomenon has been carried out in China. We designed this study to evaluate...

    Authors: Jian-Jun Ou, Li-Juan Shi, Guang-Lei Xun, Chen Chen, Ren-Rong Wu, Xue-Rong Luo, Feng-Yu Zhang and Jing-Ping Zhao
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:3
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  15. Negative attitudes towards patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) may affect their treatment. We aimed to identify attitudes toward patients with BPD.

    Authors: Ehud Bodner, Sara Cohen-Fridel, Mordechai Mashiah, Michael Segal, Alexander Grinshpoon, Tzvi Fischel and Iulian Iancu
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:2
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  16. Non-adherence to antipsychotic medication in schizophrenic patients is common and associated with symptom relapse and poorer long-term outcomes. The risk factors for treatment non-adherence include dosing freq...

    Authors: Pei-Yin Pan, Meei-Shyuan Lee and Chin-Bin Yeh
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:1
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  17. Enhancement of mental health literacy for youth is a focus of increasing interest for mental health professionals and educators alike. Schools are an ideal site for addressing mental health literacy in young p...

    Authors: Alan Mcluckie, Stan Kutcher, Yifeng Wei and Cynthia Weaver
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:379
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  18. The current study was designed to test if an objective measure of both attention and movement would differentiate children with Oral Language Disorders (OLD) from those with comorbid Attention Deficit/Hyperact...

    Authors: Carroll W Hughes, Joyce Pickering, Kristi Baker, Gina Bolanos and Cheryl Silver
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:370
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  19. The Experiences of Therapy Questionnaire (ETQ) is a reliable measure of adverse effects associated with psychotherapy. The measure has not been subject to validity analyses. This study sought to examine the va...

    Authors: Gordon Parker, Amelia Paterson, Kathryn Fletcher, Georgia McClure and Michael Berk
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:369
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  20. Experiencing systematic violence and trauma increases the risk of poor mental health outcomes; few interventions for these types of exposures have been evaluated in low resource contexts. The objective of this...

    Authors: Paul Bolton, Judith K Bass, Goran Abdulla Sabir Zangana, Talar Kamal, Sarah McIvor Murray, Debra Kaysen, Carl W Lejuez, Kristen Lindgren, Sherry Pagoto, Laura K Murray, Stephanie Skavenski Van Wyk, Ahmed Mohammed Amin Ahmed, Nazar M Mohammad Amin and Michael Rosenblum
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:360
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  21. Maltreated children have significant and complex problems which clinicians find difficult to diagnose and treat. Previous US pilot work suggests that Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) may be effective; ...

    Authors: Fiona Turner-Halliday, Nicholas Watson, Nicole RS Boyer, Kathleen A Boyd and Helen Minnis
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:347
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Higher levels of early maladaptive schemas (EMS) and schema modes according to schematherapy by Jeffrey Young are present in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) compared to healthy controls. This study examine...

    Authors: Nicola Thiel, Brunna Tuschen-Caffier, Nirmal Herbst, Anne Katrin Külz, Christoph Nissen, Elisabeth Hertenstein, Ellen Gross and Ulrich Voderholzer
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:362
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  23. Recruitment to mental health research can be challenging. ‘Consent for Contact’ (C4C) is a novel framework which may expedite recruitment and contribute to equitable access to research. This paper discusses st...

    Authors: Constantina Papoulias, Dan Robotham, Gareth Drake, Diana Rose and Til Wykes
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:377
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  24. Treatments of eating disorders result too often in partial psychological and physical remission, chronicization, dropout, relapse and death, with no fully known explanations for this failure. In order to clari...

    Authors: Francesca Brambilla, Federico Amianto, Riccardo Dalle Grave and Secondo Fassino
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:376
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  25. Asperger’s Syndrome (AS) is an autism spectrum disorder that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, and restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior a...

    Authors: Andreas Riedel, Heejung Suh, Verena Haser, Ismene Hermann, Dieter Ebert, Dieter Riemann, Emanuel Bubl, Ludger Tebartz van Elst and Lars P Hölzel
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:374
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  26. We investigated whether beliefs about addiction being a ‘disease’ or ‘brain disease’, and holding certain beliefs about addiction aetiology, are associated with public views about addicted persons and support ...

    Authors: Carla Meurk, Adrian Carter, Brad Partridge, Jayne Lucke and Wayne Hall
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:373
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  28. Several systematic reviews and meta-analyses demonstrated the association between depression and the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), but the previous reviews had some limitations. Moreover, a number of a...

    Authors: Yong Gan, Yanhong Gong, Xinyue Tong, Huilian Sun, Yingjie Cong, Xiaoxin Dong, Yunxia Wang, Xing Xu, Xiaoxu Yin, Jian Deng, Liqing Li, Shiyi Cao and Zuxun Lu
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:371
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  29. The Internet is of great importance in today’s health sector, as most Internet users utilize online functions for health related purposes. Concerning the mental health care sector, little data exist about the ...

    Authors: Sophie Kalckreuth, Friederike Trefflich and Christine Rummel-Kluge
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:368
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Subsyndromal depression (SSD) is considered as a predictor for future depressive disorders, however whether white matter abnormalities are involved in the high-susceptibility of women to depressive disorders d...

    Authors: Xianglan Wang, Jiong Tao, Lingjiang Li, Zhiyong Zhong, Sha Liu, Tianzi Jiang and Jinbei Zhang
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:367
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  31. In view of previous conflicting findings, this meta-analysis was performed to comprehensively determine the overall strength of associations between brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) genetic polymorphis...

    Authors: Zuowei Wang, Zezhi Li, Keming Gao and Yiru Fang
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:366
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  32. Quality of life (QoL) is considered an important outcome in health research. It can be rated by the patient, or by an external assessor. We wished to identify the predictors of any discrepancies between these ...

    Authors: Karen P Hayhurst, Jennifer A Massie, Graham Dunn, Shôn W Lewis and Richard J Drake
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:365
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  34. Some high-risk (HR) mental states for psychosis may lack diagnostic specificity and predictive value. Furthermore, psychotic-like experiences found in young populations may act not only as markers for psychosi...

    Authors: Debra A Russo, Jan Stochl, Michelle Painter, Peter B Jones and Jesus Perez
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:361
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  35. Globally, suicide is an important cause of mortality. In low- and middle income settings, it is difficult to find unequivocal data to establish suicide rates. The objective of this review is to synthesize the ...

    Authors: Mark JD Jordans, Anne Kaufman, Natassia F Brenman, Ramesh P Adhikari, Nagendra P Luitel, Wietse A Tol and Ivan Komproe
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:358
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  36. Refugees and asylum seekers have high rates of risk factors for mental disorders. In recent years, Australia has experienced a rapid increase in asylum seeker arrivals, creating new challenges for services in ...

    Authors: Frances Shawyer, Joanne C Enticott, Anne R Doherty, Andrew A Block, I-Hao Cheng, Sayed Wahidi and Graham N Meadows
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:356
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  37. The concept of cenesthopathy was first introduced by Dupré and Camus in 1907 to describe clinically unexplainable bodily sensations mainly attributed to psychiatric pathology. If it occurs in oral regions, it ...

    Authors: Akihito Uezato, Akira Toyofuku, Yojiro Umezaki, Motoko Watanabe, Akira Toriihara, Makoto Tomita, Naoki Yamamoto, Akeo Kurumaji and Toru Nishikawa
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:1696
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  39. Currently, the mental health issues of traumatized refugees are mainly documented in terms of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. Importantly, there are no reports of the level of psychiatr...

    Authors: Sabina Palic, Michelle Lind Kappel, Monica Stougaard Nielsen, Jessica Carlsson and Per Bech
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:330
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  40. Lithium has been reported in some, but not all, studies to be associated with reduced risks of suicide death or suicidal behavior. The objective of this nonrandomized cohort study was to examine whether lithiu...

    Authors: Eric G Smith, Karen L Austin, Hyungjin Myra Kim, Donald R Miller, Susan V Eisen, Cindy L Christiansen, Amy M Kilbourne, Brian C Sauer, John F McCarthy and Marcia Valenstein
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:357
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  42. Previous studies have indicated that early life adversity, genetic factors and alcohol dependence are associated with reduced brain volume in adolescents. However, data on the interactive effects of early life...

    Authors: Shareefa Dalvie, Dan J Stein, Karestan Koenen, Valerie Cardenas, Natalie L Cuzen, Raj Ramesar, George Fein and Samantha J Brooks
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:328
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  43. Blending online modules into face-to-face therapy offers perspectives to enhance patient self-management and to increase the (cost-)effectiveness of therapy, while still providing the support patients need. Th...

    Authors: Rosalie van der Vaart, Marjon Witting, Heleen Riper, Lisa Kooistra, Ernst T Bohlmeijer and Lisette JEWC van Gemert-Pijnen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:355
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  44. This mixed methods study explored the characteristics of and experiences with perceived discrimination in an ethnically diverse urban sample of adults experiencing homelessness and mental illness.

    Authors: Suzanne Zerger, Sarah Bacon, Simon Corneau, Anna Skosireva, Kwame McKenzie, Susan Gapka, Patricia O’Campo, Aseefa Sarang and Vicky Stergiopoulos
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:353
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  45. Despite the development of various self-management programmes that attempt to ameliorate symptoms of patients with chronic major depressive disorder (MDD), little is known about what these patients perceive as...

    Authors: Rosa A van Grieken, Anneloes CE Kirkenier, Maarten WJ Koeter and Aart H Schene
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:331
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  46. Alterations in rhythmicity and vegetative functions have been reported as correlates of suicidality, particularly in patients with mood disorders. No investigation has addressed their impact on patients with p...

    Authors: Liliana Dell’Osso, Gabriele Massimetti, Ciro Conversano, Carlo Antonio Bertelloni, Mauro Giovanni Carta, Valdo Ricca and Claudia Carmassi
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:352
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  47. While the association between affective disorders and sleep and circadian disturbance is well established, little is known about the neurobiology underpinning these relationships. In this study, we sought to d...

    Authors: Sharon L Naismith, Jim Lagopoulos, Daniel F Hermens, Django White, Shantel L Duffy, Rebecca Robillard, Elizabeth M Scott and Ian B Hickie
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:345
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Chronic pain has a strong association with major depressive disorder (MDD), but there is a relative paucity of studies on the association between chronic multisite pain and bipolar disorder (BD). Such studies ...

    Authors: Barbara I Nicholl, Daniel Mackay, Breda Cullen, Daniel J Martin, Zia Ul-Haq, Frances S Mair, Jonathan Evans, Andrew M McIntosh, John Gallagher, Beverly Roberts, Ian J Deary, Jill P Pell and Daniel J Smith
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:350
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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