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  1. Agitation episodes are common among patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Oral and intramuscular administration methods are commonly used in pharmacological treatment of acute agitation. Recently, a...

    Authors: Tine Rikke Jørgensen, Charlotte Emborg, Karianne Dahlen, Mette Bøgelund and Andreas Carlborg
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:244
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  2. Longitudinal studies indicate strong associations between school proficiency and indicators of mental health throughout adulthood, but the mechanisms of such associations are not fully elucidated. The Kupol st...

    Authors: Maria Rosaria Galanti, Hanna Hultin, Christina Dalman, Karin Engström, Laura Ferrer-Wreder, Yvonne Forsell, Martin Karlberg, Catharina Lavebratt, Cecilia Magnusson, Knut Sundell, Jia Zhou, Melody Almroth and Elena Raffetti
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:243
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  3. Home treatment for severely mentally ill persons is becoming increasingly popular. This research aims to identify structures and processes in home treatment that impact on patient-related outcomes.

    Authors: E. Bauer, K. Kleine-Budde, C. Stegbauer, P. Kaufmann-Kolle, K. Goetz, B. Bestmann, J. Szecsenyi and A. Bramesfeld
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:242
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  4. Few studies have examined modifiable psychosocial risk factors for mental disorders among university students, and of these, none have employed measures that correspond to clinical diagnostic criteria. The aim...

    Authors: Louise M. Farrer, Amelia Gulliver, Kylie Bennett, Daniel B. Fassnacht and Kathleen M. Griffiths
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:241
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  5. Major depressive disorders (MDD) is a common mental disorder with high prevalence, frequent relapse and associated with heavy disease burden. Heritability, environment and their interaction play important role...

    Authors: Xiaozhen Lv, Tianmei Si, Gang Wang, Huali Wang, Qi Liu, Changqing Hu, Jing Wang, Yunai Su, Yu Huang, Hui Jiang and Xin Yu
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:240
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  6. The Bipolar Depression Rating Scale (BDRS) is a scale for assessment of the clinical characteristics of bipolar depression. The primary aims of this study were to describe the development of the Korean version...

    Authors: Young-Eun Jung, Moon-Doo Kim, Won-Myong Bahk, Young Sup Woo, Jonghun Lee, Sae-Heon Jang, Seunghee Won, Kyung Joon Min, Sangkeun Chung, Young-Joon Kwon, Duk-In Jon, Kwanghun Lee and Bo-Hyun Yoon
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:239
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  7. The objective of this study was to evaluate the risk of benign peripheral persistent vertigo (BPPV) among patients with anxiety disorders by using the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD).

    Authors: Zi-Jun Chen, Cheng-Ho Chang, Li-Yu Hu, Ming-Shium Tu, Ti Lu, Pan-Ming Chen and Cheng-Che Shen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:238
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  8. Family therapy and family-based treatment has been commonly applied in children and adolescents in mental health care and has been proven to be effective. There is an increased interest in economic evaluations...

    Authors: Maartje Goorden, Saskia J. Schawo, Clazien A.M. Bouwmans-Frijters, Evelien van der Schee, Vincent M. Hendriks and Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:237
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  9. Exploration of the information and participation needs of psychiatric inpatients is an important step for the implementation of recovery-oriented mental health service. The objective of this study was to explo...

    Authors: B. W. M. Siu, M. M. Y. Tsang, V. C. K. Lee, A. C. Y. Liu, S. Tse, H. S. M. Luk, N. K. Y. Lo, P. H. Lo and Y. L. Leung
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:236
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  12. Nearly all persons with dementia will experience neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) during the course of their disease. Clinicians and researchers emphasize the need for an evidence-informed standardized approach...

    Authors: Bjørn Lichtwarck, Geir Selbaek, Øyvind Kirkevold, Anne Marie Mork Rokstad, Jūratė Šaltytė Benth, Janne Myhre, Solvor Nybakken and Sverre Bergh
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:233
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  13. The Internet and mobile technology are changing the way people learn about and manage their illnesses. Little is known about online mental health information seeking behaviour by people with psychosis. This pa...

    Authors: Golnar Aref-Adib, Puffin O’Hanlon, Kate Fullarton, Nicola Morant, Andrew Sommerlad, Sonia Johnson and David Osborn
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:232
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  14. Suicide is a leading cause of death in adolescence. Effective strategies are required to prevent suicide. We aimed to assess the prevalence of suicidal ideation in early teens and the relationship between fami...

    Authors: Kentaro Kawabe, Fumie Horiuchi, Marina Ochi, Yasunori Oka and Shu-ichi Ueno
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:231
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  15. Neurosyphilis is caused by the invasion of Treponema pallidum into the central nervous system. General paresis (GP) is a type of neurosyphilis. The main manifestation of general paresis is dementia; however, t...

    Authors: Wang Yanhua, Shi Haishan, Hou Le, Zhong Xiaomei, Chen Xinru, Li Ling, Wu Zhangying, Zheng Dong, Zhang Yuefen, Tan Yan, Luo Xinni, Liu Sha and Ning Yuping
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:230
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  16. Clustering of adolescent self-harming behaviours in the context of health care utilization has not been studied. We identified geographic areas with higher numbers of adolescents who (1) presented to an emerge...

    Authors: Rhonda J. Rosychuk, David W. Johnson, Liana Urichuk, Kathryn Dong and Amanda S. Newton
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:229
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  17. Schizophrenia is a disabling disease that impacts all major life areas. There is a growing need for meeting the challenge of disability from a perspective that extends symptomatic reduction. Therefore, this st...

    Authors: Izabela Nowak, Carla Sabariego, Piotr Świtaj and Marta Anczewska
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:228
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  18. Individuals with a psychotic disorder are at an increased risk of becoming victim of a crime or other forms of aggression. Research has revealed several possible risk factors (e.g. impaired social cognition, a...

    Authors: Elisabeth C. D. van der Stouwe, Bertine de Vries, André Aleman, Johan Arends, Clement Waarheid, Aniek Meerdink, Erwin van der Helm, Jooske T. van Busschbach and Gerdina H. M. Pijnenborg
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:227
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  19. Increasing numbers of patients with elevated anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antibody titers presenting exclusively with psychiatric symptoms have been reported. The aim of the present study was to c...

    Authors: Yoshihito Ando, Haruo Shimazaki, Katsutoshi Shiota, Syuichi Tetsuka, Koichi Nakao, Tatsuhiro Shimada, Kazumi Kurata, Jinichi Kuroda, Akihiro Yamashita, Hayato Sato, Mamoru Sato, Shinkichi Eto, Yasunori Onishi, Keiko Tanaka and Satoshi Kato
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:226
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  20. Mental illness is a common phenomenon at all ages. Various independent studies have shown that psychopathology is often expressed on a continuum from youth to adulthood. The aim of our study was to demonstrate...

    Authors: Martin Fuchs, Georg Kemmler, Hans Steiner, Josef Marksteiner, Christian Haring, Carl Miller, Armand Hausmann and Kathrin Sevecke
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:225
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  21. The reported rates of personality disorder (PD) in subjects with schizophrenia (SZ) are quite varied across different countries, and less is known about the heterogeneity of PD among subjects with SZ. We exami...

    Authors: YanYan Wei, TianHong Zhang, Annabelle Chow, YingYing Tang, LiHua Xu, YunFei Dai, XiaoHua Liu, Tong Su, Xiao Pan, Yi Cui, ZiQiang Li, KaiDa Jiang, ZePing Xiao, YunXiang Tang and JiJun Wang
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:224
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  22. We investigated to what degree environmental exposure (childhood trauma, urbanicity, cannabis use, and discrimination) impacts symptom connectivity using both continuous and categorical measures of psychopatho...

    Authors: Sinan Guloksuz, Martine van Nierop, Maarten Bak, Ron de Graaf, Margreet ten Have, Saskia van Dorsselaer, Nicole Gunther, Roselind Lieb, Ruud van Winkel, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen and Jim van Os
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:223
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  23. The purpose of this study was to explore the barriers and facilitators healthcare professionals experience when managing type 2 diabetes in people with severe mental illness (SMI).

    Authors: Hayley McBain, Kathleen Mulligan, Frederique Lamontagne-Godwin, Julia Jones, Mark Haddad, Chris Flood, David Thomas and Alan Simpson
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:222
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  24. Epidemiological studies suggest that compared with the general population, mood disorders are up to 4.7 times more prevalent in substance dependent samples. Comorbid substance use disorder (SUD) and depression...

    Authors: Joanne Ross, Maree Teesson, Carl Lejuez, Katherine Mills, Sharlene Kaye, Kathleen Brady, Glenys Dore, Katrina Prior, Xanthe Larkin, Joanne Cassar, Philippa Ewer, Sonja Memedovic, Ivana Kihas and Sarah Louise Masters
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:221
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  25. Cognitive models of obsessive-compulsive disorder suggest that changes in obsessive beliefs are a key mechanism of treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Thus, in the present process-outcome study, we t...

    Authors: Alice Diedrich, Philipp Sckopke, Caroline Schwartz, Sandra Schlegl, Bernhard Osen, Christian Stierle and Ulrich Voderholzer
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:220
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  26. Hippocampal/parahippocampal structural changes accompany major depressive disorders in the elderly, but whether subthreshold depression (StD) at an advanced age is also accompanied by similar changes in hippoc...

    Authors: Huixia Zhou, Rui Li, Zhenling Ma, Sonja Rossi, Xinyi Zhu and Juan Li
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:219
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  27. Impaired interpretation of nonverbal emotional cues in patients with schizophrenia has been reported in several studies and a clinical relevance of these deficits for social functioning has been assumed. Howev...

    Authors: Bastian D. Vogel, Carolin Brück, Heike Jacob, Mark Eberle and Dirk Wildgruber
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:218
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  28. The neurological correlates of Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) are not well known, however there is evidence of cortical dysregulation in patients with GAD. The aim of the study was to examine cortical func...

    Authors: Yiming Wang, Fangxian Chai, Hongming Zhang, Xingde Liu, Pingxia Xie, Lei Zheng, Lixia Yang, Lingjiang Li and Deyu Fang
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:217
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  29. Many patients with anxiety or depressive disorders achieve no remission of their symptoms after evidence-based treatment algorithms. They develop a chronic course of the disorder. Current care for these patien...

    Authors: Maringa H. H. Zoun, Bauke Koekkoek, Henny Sinnema, Anna D. T. Muntingh, Anton J. L. M. van Balkom, Aart H. Schene, Filip Smit and Jan Spijker
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:216
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  30. Sleep disturbance and poor sleep quality are major health problems worldwide. One potential risk factor for the development and maintenance of sleep disturbance is the parenting style experienced during childh...

    Authors: Mao Shibata, Toshiharu Ninomiya, Kozo Anno, Hiroshi Kawata, Rie Iwaki, Ryoko Sawamoto, Chiharu Kubo, Yutaka Kiyohara, Nobuyuki Sudo and Masako Hosoi
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:215
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  31. This study examined the association between the type, and cumulative number of lifetime potentially traumatic events (PTEs), and chronic physical conditions, in a South African sample. PTE exposures have been ...

    Authors: Lukoye Atwoli, Jonathan M. Platt, Archana Basu, David R. Williams, Dan J. Stein and Karestan C. Koenen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:214
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  32. The Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ) is widely used to quantify autistic traits, which have been evaluated in the parents of individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and in the general population. This pa...

    Authors: Long Zhang, Yaoting Sun, Fangfang Chen, De Wu, Jiulai Tang, Xiaopeng Han, Jianguo Ye and Kai Wang
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:213
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  33. The Mother-Infant Bonding Questionnaire (MIBQ) has been widely used to assess maternal emotional involvement with infants. Although the reliability and validity of the MIBQ in the postpartum period has been co...

    Authors: Masako Ohara, Takashi Okada, Chika Kubota, Yukako Nakamura, Tomoko Shiino, Branko Aleksic, Mako Morikawa, Aya Yamauchi, Yota Uno, Satomi Murase, Setsuko Goto, Atsuko Kanai, Tomoko Masuda and Norio Ozaki
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:212
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  34. Suicide is a critical public health problem around the globe. Asian populations are characterized by elevated suicide rates and a tendency to seek social support from family and friends over mental health prof...

    Authors: Alan R. Teo, Sarah B. Andrea, Rae Sakakibara, Satoko Motohara, Monica M. Matthieu and Michael D. Fetters
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:211
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  35. Personality disorders are highly comorbid with alcohol misuse and depressive symptomatology; however, few studies have investigated treatment outcomes in this population. The aim of this study was to examine r...

    Authors: Kristen L. McCarter, Sean A. Halpin, Amanda L. Baker, Frances J. Kay-Lambkin, Terry J. Lewin, Louise K. Thornton, David J. Kavanagh and Brian J. Kelly
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:210
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  36. Same sex attracted women (SSAW) are disproportionately affected by depression and anxiety, due to experiences of sexuality and gender based discrimination. They access mental health services at higher rates th...

    Authors: Ruth P. McNair and Rachel Bush
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:209
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  37. Nicotine use has been reported to ameliorate symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Furthermore, adults with ADHD have a relatively high prevalence of cigarette smoking and greater diffic...

    Authors: Michael Liebrenz, Carl Erik Fisher, Romilda Nellen, Anja Frei, Anne-Catherine Biechl, Nina Hiestand, Alice Huber, Anna Buadze and Dominique Eich
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:208
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  39. Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a complex, heritable, and devastating psychiatric disorder. Recent genome-wide association studies have identified a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP; rs10503253) in the CUB and SUSHI...

    Authors: Yansong Liu, Zaohuo Cheng, Jun Wang, Chunhui Jin, Jianmin Yuan, Guoqiang Wang, Fuquan Zhang and Xudong Zhao
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:206
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  40. Government policy encourages increasing involvement of patients in their long-term care. This paper describes the development and pilot evaluation of a ‘Medication Review Tool’ designed to assist people to par...

    Authors: Joanna Moncrieff, Kiran Azam, Sonia Johnson, Louise Marston, Nicola Morant, Katherine Darton and Neil Wood
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:205
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  41. Exposure to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center (WTC) on 9/11/2001 resulted in continuing stress experience manifested as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Symptoms in a minority of the police re...

    Authors: Ralf Schwarzer, James E. Cone, Jiehui Li and Rosemarie M. Bowler
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:201
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  43. Depersonalization-derealization syndrome (DDS) is an underdiagnosed and underresearched clinical phenomenon. In Germany, its administrative prevalence is far below the threshold for orphan diseases, although a...

    Authors: Matthias Michal, Julia Adler, Jörg Wiltink, Iris Reiner, Regine Tschan, Klaus Wölfling, Sabine Weimert, Inka Tuin, Claudia Subic-Wrana, Manfred E. Beutel and Rüdiger Zwerenz
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:203
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  44. It is likely that alcohol use and abuse increase during and after violent conflicts. The most prominent explanation of this phenomenon has been referred to as self-medication hypothesis. It predicts that psych...

    Authors: Verena Ertl, Regina Saile, Frank Neuner and Claudia Catani
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:202
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  45. Within the UK National Health Service (NHS), Spiritual and Pastoral Care (SPC) Services (chaplaincies) have not traditionally embraced research due to the intangible nature of their work. However, small teams ...

    Authors: Julian Raffay, Emily Wood and Andrew Todd
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:200
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  46. Previous studies suggested that the presence of ADHD in children and young adolescents may affect the development of personality. Whether or not the persistence of ADHD in adult life is associated with distinc...

    Authors: Nader Perroud, Roland Hasler, Nicolas Golay, Julien Zimmermann, Paco Prada, Rosetta Nicastro, Jean-Michel Aubry, Stefano Ardu, François R Herrmann, Panteleimon Giannakopoulos and Patrick Baud
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:199
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  47. Amygdala is considered as the core pathogenesis of generalized social anxiety disorder (GSAD). However, it is still unclear whether effective group cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) could modulate the functio...

    Authors: Minlan Yuan, Hongru Zhu, Changjian Qiu, Yajing Meng, Yan Zhang, Jing Shang, Xiaojing Nie, Zhengjia Ren, Qiyong Gong, Wei Zhang and Su Lui
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:198
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  48. Women with schizophrenia are a vulnerable risk group for intimate partner violence (1PV). There are few surveys that highlight the pattern, prevalence and association of IPV with psychopathology in these vulne...

    Authors: Taiwo Opekitan Afe, Thomas Chimezie Emedoh, Olawale Ogunsemi and Abosede Adekeji Adegbohun
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:197
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  50. Conversion Disorders (CD) are prevalent functional disorders. Although the pathogenesis is still not completely understood, an interaction of genetic, neurobiological, and psychosocial factors is quite likely....

    Authors: Markus Boeckle, Gregor Liegl, Robert Jank and Christoph Pieh
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:195
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