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  1. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common psychiatric disorder in children, with worldwide prevalence of ADHD varying from 5.9 to 7.1 %, depending on the reporter. In case of inadequate respo...

    Authors: Jean Lachaine, Vanja Sikirica and Karine Mathurin
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:11
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  2. The high prevalence of serious mental illness (SMI) in prisons remains a challenge for mental health services. Many prisoners with SMI do not receive care. Screening tools have been developed but better detect...

    Authors: Krishna Pillai, Paul Rouse, Brian McKenna, Jeremy Skipworth, James Cavney, Rees Tapsell, Alexander Simpson and Dominic Madell
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:9
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  3. Previous studies showed functional improvement in stable patients with schizophrenia treated with risperidone long-acting injection (LAI). We therefore re-investigated functional improvement with risperidone LAI ...

    Authors: Elisabeth Giraud-Baro, Daniel Dassa, Florent De Vathaire, Ricardo P. Garay and Joelle Obeid
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:8
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  4. Various paper-based mood charting instruments are used in the monitoring of symptoms in bipolar disorder. During recent years an increasing number of electronic self-monitoring tools have been developed. The o...

    Authors: Maria Faurholt-Jepsen, Klaus Munkholm, Mads Frost, Jakob E. Bardram and Lars Vedel Kessing
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:7
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  5. Providers of psychological therapies are encouraged to offer patients choice about their treatment, but there is very little information about what preferences people have or the impact that meeting these has ...

    Authors: Ryan Williams, Lorna Farquharson, Lucy Palmer, Paul Bassett, Jeremy Clarke, David M. Clark and Mike J. Crawford
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:4
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  6. Efficacy of self-help internet-based cognitive behavior therapy (ICBT) for anxiety disorders has been confirmed in several randomized controlled trials. However, the amount and type of therapist guidance neede...

    Authors: Amalia Maria Ciuca, Thomas Berger, Liviu George Crişan and Mircea Miclea
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:6
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  7. Evidence is accumulating that cognitive remediation therapy (CRT) is an effective intervention for patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. To date there has been no randomised controlled trial...

    Authors: Ken O’Reilly, Gary Donohoe, Danny O’Sullivan, Ciaran Coyle, Ronan Mullaney, Paul O’Connell, Catherine Maddock, Andrea Nulty, Padraic O’Flynn, Carina O’Connell and Harry G Kennedy
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:5
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  8. Knowledge about the prevalence of depressive symptoms among Chinese medical students and its related factors is rather limited. Understanding the correlates of depressive symptoms and the roles that positive p...

    Authors: Meng Shi, Li Liu, Zi Yue Wang and Lie Wang
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:3
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  10. The majority of people experiencing mental-health problems do not seek help, and the stigma of mental illness is considered a major barrier to seeking appropriate treatment. More targeted interventions (e.g. a...

    Authors: Sabine E. Hanisch, Conal D. Twomey, Andrew C. H. Szeto, Ulrich W. Birner, Dennis Nowak and Carla Sabariego
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:1
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  11. Children of parents with a mental illness or substance use disorder (COPMI) have an increased risk of developing social-emotional problems themselves. Fear of stigmatisation or unawareness of problems prevents...

    Authors: Ivon Riemersma, Floor van Santvoort, Jan M. A. M. Janssens, Clemens M. H. Hosman and Karin T. M. van Doesum
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:318
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  12. There has been continuing change in the nature of care homes in the UK with 80 % of residents now living with some form of dementia or memory problem. Caring in this environment can be complex, challenging and...

    Authors: Christine Baker, Peter Huxley, Michael Dennis, Saiful Islam and Ian Russell
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:317
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  13. Autism is associated with impairments that have life-time consequences for diagnosed individuals and a substantial impact on families. There is growing interest in early interventions for children with autism,...

    Authors: Sarah Byford, Maria Cary, Barbara Barrett, Catherine R. Aldred, Tony Charman, Patricia Howlin, Kristelle Hudry, Kathy Leadbitter, Ann Le Couteur, Helen McConachie, Andrew Pickles, Vicky Slonims, Kathryn J. Temple and Jonathan Green
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:316
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  14. Epilepsy is a serious condition which can profoundly affect an individual’s life. While there is some evidence to suggest an association between antidepressant use and epilepsy and seizures it is conflicting a...

    Authors: Trevor Hill, Carol Coupland, Richard Morriss, Antony Arthur, Michael Moore and Julia Hippisley-Cox
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:315
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  15. In Rwanda, many people are still mentally affected by the consequences of the genocide and yet mental health care facilities are scarce. While available literature explains the prevalence and consequences of m...

    Authors: Lawrence Rugema, Gunilla Krantz, Ingrid Mogren, Joseph Ntaganira and Margareta Persson
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:314
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  16. Shared Decision Making (SDM) is a way to empower patients when decisions are made about treatment. In order to be effective agents in this process, patients need access to information of good quality. Routine ...

    Authors: Margot J. Metz, Gerdien C. Franx, Marjolein A. Veerbeek, Edwin de Beurs, Christina M. van der Feltz-Cornelis and Aartjan T. F. Beekman
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:313
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  17. Homicide, an external cause of morbidity and mortality, caused 473,000 deaths worldwide in 2012, a rate of 6.2 per 100,000 inhabitants. The aim of this study was to describe homicide mortality trends in Chile ...

    Authors: Tamara Otzen, Antonio Sanhueza, Carlos Manterola, Monica Hetz and Tamara Melnik
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:312
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:18

  18. Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent psychiatric conditions, and are associated with poor quality of life and substantial economic burden. Cognitive behavioural therapy is an effective treatment to r...

    Authors: Geke Romijn, Heleen Riper, Robin Kok, Tara Donker, Maartje Goorden, Leona Hakkaart van Roijen, Lisa Kooistra, Anton van Balkom and Jeroen Koning
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:311
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  19. The WARM study is a longitudinal cohort study following infants of mothers with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and control from pregnancy to infant 1 year of age.

    Authors: Susanne Harder, Kirstine Davidsen, Angus MacBeth, Theis Lange, Helen Minnis, Marianne Skovsager Andersen, Erik Simonsen, Jenna-Marie Lundy, Maja Nyström-Hansen, Christopher Høier Trier, Katrine Røhder and Andrew Gumley
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:310
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  20. Repeat household surveys are useful to assess change in prevalence over time, but there have been no repeat surveys of common mental disorder (CMD) in Kenya, or indeed sub-Saharan Africa. Therefore a repeat ho...

    Authors: Rachel Jenkins, Caleb Othieno, Linnet Ongeri, Peter Sifuna, Michael Ongecha, James Kingora, David Kiima, Raymond Omollo and Bernhards Ogutu
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:309
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  22. Mental health inpatient wards are stressful places to work and concerns have been raised regarding quality of patient care and staff wellbeing on these wards. Recent research has suggested that robust support ...

    Authors: Himanshu Mistry, William M. M. Levack and Sonia Johnson
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:307
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  23. Depression is a common comorbid psychiatric symptom in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and the prevalence of depression is higher among people with AD compared with healthy older adults. Comorbid depre...

    Authors: Zhongwei Guo, Jiangtao Zhang, Xiaozheng Liu, Hongtao Hou, Yulin Cao, Fuquan Wei, Japeng Li, Xingli Chen, Yuedi Shen and Wei Chen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:306
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  24. Technology is increasingly being used in youth mental healthcare to support service delivery and improve health outcomes. The current study trialed a new electronic psychosocial application (myAssessment) that...

    Authors: Sally Bradford and Debra Rickwood
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:305
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  25. The MindSpot Clinic (MindSpot) provides remote screening assessments and therapist-guided treatment for anxiety and depression to adult Australians. Most patients are self-referred. The purpose of this study w...

    Authors: Olav Nielssen, Blake F. Dear, Lauren G. Staples, Rebecca Dear, Kathryn Ryan, Carol Purtell and Nickolai Titov
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:304
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  26. Psychotropic medications are frequently used to treat challenging behaviour in children with intellectual disabilities, despite a lack of evidence for their efficacy. This systematic review and meta-analysis a...

    Authors: Cheryl McQuire, Angela Hassiotis, Bronwyn Harrison and Stephen Pilling
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:303
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:2

  27. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) usually involves homework, the completion of which is a known predictor of a positive outcome. The aim of the present study was to examine the session-by-session relationship...

    Authors: Y. Hayasaka, T. A. Furukawa, T. Sozu, H. Imai, N. Kawakami and M. Horikoshi
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:302
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  28. Patients admitted to a secure forensic hospital are at risk of a long hospital stay. Forensic hospital beds are a scarce and expensive resource and ability to identify the factors predicting length of stay at ...

    Authors: Mary Davoren, Orla Byrne, Paul O’Connell, Helen O’Neill, Ken O’Reilly and Harry G. Kennedy
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:301
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  29. Although depression is a common problem in caregivers and there are effective cognitive-behavioral interventions for its prevention, the ability of caregivers to attend these treatments is often limited by log...

    Authors: Fernando L. Vázquez, Ángela Torres, Olga Díaz, Patricia Otero, Vanessa Blanco and Elisabet Hermida
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:300
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  30. The relationship between mental illness and violent crime is complex because of the involvement of many other confounding risk factors. In the present study, we analysed psychiatric and neurological disorders ...

    Authors: Tomas Moberg, Marlene Stenbacka, Anders Tengström, Erik G. Jönsson, Peter Nordström and Jussi Jokinen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:299
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  31. The clinical presentation of common symptoms during depressive episodes in bipolar disorder (BD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) poses challenges for accurate diagnosis. Disorder-specific neuroanatomical f...

    Authors: Germaine Fung, Yi Deng, Qing Zhao, Zhi Li, Miao Qu, Ke Li, Ya-wei Zeng, Zhen Jin, Yan-tao Ma, Xin Yu, Zhi-ren Wang, David H. K. Shum and Raymond C. K. Chan
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:298
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  33. Schizophrenia (SC) and bipolar disorder (BD) are among the most devastating diseases worldwide. There are several lines of evidence suggesting that viruses may play significant roles in the etiology of these m...

    Authors: Jila Yavarian, Somaye Shatizadeh Malekshahi, Roya Yavarian, Shaghayegh Yazdani, Leila Janani, Nazanin Zahra Shafiei Jandaghi, Seyed Jalal Kiani and HamidReza Ahamadkhaniha
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:296
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  34. Findings about sex differences in the field of fear conditioning and fear extinction have been mixed. At the psychophysiological level, sex differences emerge only when taking estradiol levels of women into co...

    Authors: Moon Jung Hwang, Rachel G. Zsido, Huijin Song, Edward F. Pace-Schott, Karen Klahr Miller, Kelimer Lebron-Milad, Marie-France Marin and Mohammed R. Milad
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:295
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  35. Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is highly prevalent and was associated with greater morbidity, mortality (including suicide), and healthcare costs. By 2030, MDD will become the leading cause of disability in h...

    Authors: Déborah Ducasse, Philippe Courtet, Maude Sénèque, Catherine Genty, Marie-Christine Picot, Raymund Schwan and Emilie Olié
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:294
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  36. Brain reserve, i.e., the ability of the brain to tolerate age- and disease-related changes in a way that cognitive function is still maintained, is assumed to be based on the lifelong training of various abili...

    Authors: Simon Forstmeier and Andreas Maercker
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:293
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  37. Around the world, maternal psychopathology during pregnancy is associated with a range of negative consequences for mother and child. Nevertheless, in Central America the magnitude of this public health proble...

    Authors: T. Verbeek, R. Arjadi, J. J. Vendrik, H. Burger and M. Y. Berger
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:292
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  38. Mental health literacy has received increasing attention as a useful strategy to promote early identification of mental disorders, reduce stigma and enhance help-seeking behaviors. However, despite the abundan...

    Authors: Yifeng Wei, Patrick J. McGrath, Jill Hayden and Stan Kutcher
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:291
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  39. Interventions for parents of children experiencing emotional and/or behavioural difficulties can help to improve their children’s health, educational and social outcomes. However, the desirability and acceptab...

    Authors: John A. Taylor, Althea Z. Valentine, Edward Sellman, Kate Bransby-Adams, David Daley and Kapil Sayal
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:290
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  40. Human trafficking is a global crime and human rights violation. Although research has demonstrated a high prevalence of mental disorder among trafficked people and that trafficked people are in contact with me...

    Authors: Jill Domoney, Louise M. Howard, Melanie Abas, Matthew Broadbent and Sian Oram
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:289
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  41. The importance of parental involvement in child treatment is well-established. Several child psychiatric clinics have, therefore, set up inpatient family units where children and parents are both actively invo...

    Authors: Elena Ise, Sabine Schröder, Dieter Breuer and Manfred Döpfner
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:288
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  42. Studies demonstrate ethnic variations in pathways to care during first episode psychosis (FEP). There are no extant studies, however, that have statistically examined the influence of culturally mediated illne...

    Authors: Swaran P. Singh, Luke Brown, Catherine Winsper, Ruchika Gajwani, Zoebia Islam, Rubina Jasani, Helen Parsons, Fatemeh Rabbie-Khan and Max Birchwood
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:287
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  43. Mental disorders and suicidal behavior are common in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), they also carry a higher risk of disability pension (DP). Our aim was to investigate if DP and other factors are asso...

    Authors: Charlotte Björkenstam, Petter Tinghög, Philip Brenner, Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz, Jan Hillert, Jussi Jokinen and Kristina Alexanderson
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:286
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  44. Two discourses exist in mental health research and practice. The first focuses on the limitations associated with disability arising from mental disorder. The second focuses on the possibilities for living wel...

    Authors: Mike Slade and Eleanor Longden
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:285
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  45. Suicidal behavior is a major cause of injury and death worldwide, especially among adolescents and young adults. Few studies have tackled this issue in the Arab world. The present study investigated the preval...

    Authors: Btissame Zarrouq, B. Bendaou, S. Elkinany, I. Rammouz, R. Aalouane, B. Lyoussi, S. Khelafa, A. Bout, N. Berhili, H. Hlal, C. Nejjari and K. El Rhazi
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:284
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  47. Sleep deprivation (SD) and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) have been commonly used to treat depression. Recent studies suggest that co-therapy with rTMS and SD may produce better therapeuti...

    Authors: Qing Tang, Guangming Li, Anguo Wang, Tao Liu, Shenggang Feng, Zhiwei Guo, Huaping Chen, Bin He, Morgan A. McClure, Jun Ou, Guoqiang Xing and Qiwen Mu
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:282
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  48. The use of analgesics can lead to cases of drug abuse and dependence. It can also cause pseudo-addiction in patients suffering from pain. What is the actual situation in patients suffering from severe sickle-c...

    Authors: Marie Gérardin, Marie-Laure Couec, Marie Grall-Bronnec, Fanny Feuillet, Laura Wainstein, Morgane Rousselet, Marie-Lyne Pinot, Fanny Perrouin, Olivier Bonnot, Marie-Hélène Drouineau, Pascale Jolliet and Caroline Victorri-Vigneau
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:281
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  49. The proportion of 60+ years with excessive alcohol intake varies in western countries between 6–16 % among men and 2–7 % among women. Specific events related to aging (e.g. loss of job, physical and mental cap...

    Authors: Kjeld Andersen, Michael P. Bogenschutz, Gerhard Bühringer, Silke Behrendt, Randi Bilberg, Barbara Braun, Claus Thorn Ekstrøm, Alyssa Forcehimes, Christine Lizarraga, Theresa B. Moyers and Anette Søgaard Nielsen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:280
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