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  1. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and interpersonal therapy (IPT) are among the most well established therapies for the treatment of depression. However, some major questions remain unanswered. First, it is u...

    Authors: Sanne J. E. Bruijniks, Judith Bosmans, Frenk P. M. L. Peeters, Steven D. Hollon, Patricia van Oppen, Michael van den Boogaard, Pieter Dingemanse, Pim Cuijpers, Arnoud Arntz, Gerdien Franx and Marcus J. H. Huibers
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:137
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  2. Current models of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) propose abnormalities of cortico-striatal circuits that involve the orbitofrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, thalamus and the striatum. Nevertheles...

    Authors: Alexander Glahn, Tino Prell, Julian Grosskreutz, Thomas Peschel and Kirsten R. Müller-Vahl
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:135
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  4. Medically unexplained movement or sensibility disorders, recently defined in DSM-5 as functional neurological symptoms (FNS), are still insufficiently understood. Stress and trauma have been addressed as relev...

    Authors: Astrid Steffen, Johanna Fiess, Roger Schmidt and Brigitte Rockstroh
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:133
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  5. Although anxiety and, to a lesser extent, depression are highly prevalent in children, these problems are, difficult to identify. The Revised Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS) assesses self-reported symptom...

    Authors: Mia P. Kösters, Mai J. M. Chinapaw, Marieke Zwaanswijk, Marcel F. van der Wal and Hans M. Koot
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:132
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  6. Interparental violence is both common and harmful and impacts children’s lives directly and indirectly. Direct effects refer to affective, behavioral, and cognitive responses to interparental violence and psychos...

    Authors: Margreet M. Visser, Machteld D. Telman, J. Clasien de Schipper, Francien Lamers-Winkelman, Carlo Schuengel and Catrin Finkenauer
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:131
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  7. With reports of a high prevalence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults, publication of ADHD diagnostic criteria in DSM-5, and the urgent need for a relevant diagnostic instrument confor...

    Authors: Toshinobu Takeda, Yui Tsuji, Teruhisa Uwatoko and Hiroshi Kurita
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:130
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  8. There is limited research examining mental health-related stigma of undergraduates in non-western developing countries. This study examined stigma of undergraduates in Sri Lanka towards another depressed under...

    Authors: Santushi D. Amarasuriya, Anthony F. Jorm, Nicola J. Reavley and Andrew J. Mackinnon
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:129
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  9. Divorce has been linked with poor physical and mental health outcomes among civilians. Given the unique stressors experienced by U.S. service members, including lengthy and/or multiple deployments, this study ...

    Authors: Lawrence Wang, Amber Seelig, Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Hope McMaster, John E. Alcaraz and Nancy F. Crum-Cianflone
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:128
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  10. Millions of children worldwide suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and other mental health problems due to repeated exposure to war or organized violence. Forms of cognitive-behavioral th...

    Authors: Samuli Kangaslampi, Ferdinand Garoff and Kirsi Peltonen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:127
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  11. Effective interventions for maltreated children are impeded by gaps in our knowledge of the etiopathogenic mechanisms leading from maltreatment to mental disorders. Although some studies have already identifie...

    Authors: Lars O. White, Annette M. Klein, Clemens Kirschbaum, Maria Kurz-Adam, Manfred Uhr, Bertram Müller-Myhsok, Katrin Hoffmann, Susan Sierau, Andrea Michel, Tobias Stalder, Jenny Horlich, Jan Keil, Anna Andreas, Leonhard Resch, Martin J. Binser, Anna Costa…
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:126
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  12. Preventing recurrence of depression forms an important challenge for current treatments. Cognitive control impairments often remain present during remission of depression, putting remitted depressed patients a...

    Authors: Kristof Hoorelbeke, Lien Faelens, Jeffrey Behiels and Ernst H. W. Koster
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:125
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  13. The consequences of caring for a person with a mental illness can impose a substantial burden. Few studies have compared this burden among caregivers of patients with eating disorders and other mental illnesse...

    Authors: Josune Martín, Angel Padierna, Bob van Wijngaarden, Urko Aguirre, Ane Anton, Pedro Muñoz and José M. Quintana
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:124
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  14. Childhood maltreatment is considered an important risk factor for the development of major depression. Research indicates an association between childhood adversity and altered emotion processing. Depression i...

    Authors: Vivien Günther, Udo Dannlowski, Anette Kersting and Thomas Suslow
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:123
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  15. Communication, impulse control and motivation can all be affected by Bipolar Disorder (BD) making consistent parenting more difficult than for parents without mental health problems. Children of parents with B...

    Authors: Steven Jones, Laura D Wainwright, Jelena Jovanoska, Helen Vincent, Peter J Diggle, Rachel Calam, Rob Parker, Rita Long, Debbie Mayes, Matthew Sanders and Fiona Lobban
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:122
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  16. Research is scarce with regard to the role of psychotic and schizotypal symptoms in treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The aim of the current study was to investigate the occurrence and specific...

    Authors: Stian Solem, Kristen Hagen, Christoffer Wenaas, Åshild T. Håland, Gunvor Launes, Patrick A. Vogel, Bjarne Hansen and Joseph A. Himle
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:121
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  17. In outpatient forensic psychiatry, assessment of re-offending risk and treatment needs by case managers may be hampered by an incomplete view of client functioning. The client’s appreciation of his own problem...

    Authors: Rob H. S. van den Brink, Nadine A. C. Troquete, Harry Beintema, Tamara Mulder, Titus W. D. P. van Os, Robert A. Schoevers and Durk Wiersma
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:120
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  18. Life expectancy in patients with schizophrenia is reduced by 20 years for males and 15 years for females compared to the general population. About 60% of the excess mortality is due to physical illnesses, with...

    Authors: Helene Speyer, Hans Christian Brix Nørgaard, Carsten Hjorthøj, Thomas Axel Madsen, Søren Drivsholm, Charlotta Pisinger, Christian Gluud, Ole Mors, Jesper Krogh and Merete Nordentoft
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:119
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  19. People with chronic health conditions are known to have a higher prevalence of depressive disorder. The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) is a widely-used screening tool for depression which has not yet bee...

    Authors: Arvin Bhana, Sujit D Rathod, One Selohilwe, Tasneem Kathree and Inge Petersen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:118
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  20. Lithium has proven suicide preventing effects in the long-term treatment of patients with affective disorders. Clinical evidence from case reports indicate that this effect may occur early on at the beginning ...

    Authors: U. Lewitzka, B. Jabs, M. Fülle, V. Holthoff, G. Juckel, I. Uhl, S. Kittel-Schneider, A. Reif, C. Reif-Leonhard, O. Gruber, B. Djawid, S. Goodday, R. Haussmann, A. Pfennig, P. Ritter, J. Conell…
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:117
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  21. Benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome has been reported following attempts to withdraw even from low or therapeutic doses and has been compared to barbiturate and alcohol withdrawal. This experience is known to d...

    Authors: Michael Liebrenz, Marie-Therese Gehring, Anna Buadze and Carlo Caflisch
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:116
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  22. Behavioral phenotypical continua from health to disease suggest common underlying mechanisms with quantitative rather than qualitative differences. Until recently, autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia w...

    Authors: Anne Kästner, Martin Begemann, Tanja Maria Michel, Sarah Everts, Beata Stepniak, Christiane Bach, Luise Poustka, Joachim Becker, Tobias Banaschewski, Matthias Dose and Hannelore Ehrenreich
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:115
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  24. Children and their parents are at risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following injury due to pediatric accidental trauma. Screening could help predict those at greatest risk and provide an opportunit...

    Authors: Els PM van Meijel, Maj R Gigengack, Eva Verlinden, Brent C Opmeer, Hugo A Heij, J Carel Goslings, Frank W Bloemers, Jan SK Luitse, Frits Boer, Martha A Grootenhuis and Ramón JL Lindauer
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:113
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  25. Autoimmune and inflammatory mechanisms in psychotic disorders have attracted increasing scientific attention in recent years. In this regard, we performed routine cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) basic diagnostics an...

    Authors: Dominique Endres, Evgeniy Perlov, Oliver Stich, Philipp Tobias Meyer, Niklas Lützen and Ludger Tebartz van Elst
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:112
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  26. The validity of applying the construct of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) across cultures has been the subject of contention. Although PTSD symptoms have been identified across multiple cultures, questio...

    Authors: Alvin Kuowei Tay, Susan Rees, Jack Chen, Moses Kareth and Derrick Silove
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:111
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  28. Important social and economic changes accompanying the recent fast rate of urbanization have been considered a major factor in triggering and sustaining urban violence in Brazil. The purpose of this paper is t...

    Authors: Claudia S Lopes, Claudia L Moraes, Washington L Junger, Guilherme L Werneck, Antonio C Ponce de Leon and Eduardo Faerstein
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:109
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  29. The aim of this study was to assess the role of protective factors as mediators and/or moderators of the relationship between coexisting emotional and conduct problems and quality of life (QoL) among adolescen...

    Authors: Jorun Schei, Torunn Stene Nøvik, Per Hove Thomsen, Marit S Indredavik and Thomas Jozefiak
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:108
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  30. Phelan-Mc Dermid syndrome is a contiguous disorder resulting from 22q13.3 deletion implicating the SHANK3 gene. The typical phenotype includes neonatal hypotonia, moderate to severe intellectual disability, absen...

    Authors: Sylvie Serret, Susanne Thümmler, Emmanuelle Dor, Stephanie Vesperini, Andreia Santos and Florence Askenazy
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:107
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  31. Depression is one of the most common disorders in Psychiatric and Primary Care settings and is associated with significant disability and economic costs. Low-intensity psychological interventions applied by In...

    Authors: Adoración Castro, Azucena García-Palacios, Javier García-Campayo, Fermín Mayoral, Cristina Botella, José María García-Herrera, Mari-Cruz Pérez-Yus, Margalida Vives, Rosa M Baños, Miquel Roca and Margalida Gili
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:106
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  33. Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a chronic mental illness which affects an estimated 3% of the Japanese population. Many patients with MDD report painful physical symptoms, and research outside of Japan sugg...

    Authors: Jeffrey Vietri, Tempei Otsubo, William Montgomery, Toshinaga Tsuji and Eiji Harada
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:104
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  34. Few studies have investigated absconding from forensic hospitals and there are no published studies of interventions aimed at reducing these incidents in forensic settings. We present a study of the impact of ...

    Authors: Alexander I F Simpson, Stephanie R Penney, Stephanie Fernane and Treena Wilkie
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:103
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  35. Tourette’s disorder (TD) is a chronic childhood-onset disorder characterized by the presence of multiple motor and vocal tics. Despite strong evidence that the pathophysiology of TD involves structural and fun...

    Authors: Kazuhiko Yamamuro, Toyosaku Ota, Junzo Iida, Yoko Nakanishi, Mitsuhiro Uratani, Hiroki Matsuura, Naoko Kishimoto, Shohei Tanaka, Hideki Negoro and Toshifumi Kishimoto
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:102
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  36. The ethnic minority population in developed countries is increasing over time. These groups are at higher risk of mental illness and demonstrate lower participation in research. Published evidence suggests tha...

    Authors: Waquas Waheed, Adwoa Hughes-Morley, Adrine Woodham, Gill Allen and Peter Bower
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:101
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  37. This study aims for health gain and cost reduction in the care for people with long-term non-psychotic psychiatric disorders. Present care for this population has a limited evidence base, is often open ended, ...

    Authors: Mark van Veen, Bauke Koekkoek, Niels Mulder, Debby Postulart, Eddy Adang, Steven Teerenstra, Lisette Schoonhoven and Theo van Achterberg
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:100
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  38. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy provides a non-invasive technology to study brain metabolite levels in vivo, which can be used to measure biochemical compounds or metabolite concentrations in circumscribed...

    Authors: Yifan Zhang, Yu Han, Yongzhi Wang, Yinfeng Zhang, Li Li, Erhu Jin, Ligang Deng, Brandi Watts, Teresa Golden and Ning Wu
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:99
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  39. Reducing treatment delay and coercive pathways to care are accepted aims for Early Intervention Services (EIS) for people experiencing first episode psychosis but how to achieve this is unclear. A one-year com...

    Authors: Brynmor Lloyd-Evans, Angela Sweeney, Mark Hinton, Nicola Morant, Stephen Pilling, Judy Leibowitz, Helen Killaspy, Sanna Tanskanen, Jonathan Totman, Jessica Armstrong and Sonia Johnson
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:98
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  40. Polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) metabolism abnormalities have been long implicated in the etiology of schizophrenia. Although several randomized clinical trials have been carried out to assess the efficacy o...

    Authors: Tomasz Pawełczyk, Marta Grancow, Magdalena Kotlicka-Antczak, Elżbieta Trafalska, Piotr Gębski, Janusz Szemraj, Natalia Żurner and Agnieszka Pawełczyk
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:97
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  41. Depression is common in primary care and is often unrecognized and untreated. Studies are needed to demonstrate the feasibility of implementing evidence-based depression care provided by primary health care wo...

    Authors: Bibilola D Oladeji, Lola Kola, Taiwo Abiona, Alan A Montgomery, Ricardo Araya and Oye Gureje
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:96
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  42. Specialist services for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adulthood in Hong Kong are yet to be developed. This study aims to explore the experiences of adolescents and young a...

    Authors: Kerry KW Cheung, Ian CK Wong, Patrick Ip, Phyllis KL Chan, Candy HY Lin, Lisa YL Wong and Esther W Chan
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:95
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  43. Major depression can be a serious and debilitating condition. For some patients in a treatment resistant depressive episode, electroconvulsive treatment (ECT) is the only treatment that is effective. Although ...

    Authors: Leif Oltedal, Ute Kessler, Lars Ersland, Renate Grüner, Ole A Andreassen, Jan Haavik, Per Ivar Hoff, Åsa Hammar, Anders M Dale, Kenneth Hugdahl and Ketil J Oedegaard
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:94
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  44. Relapses and, subsequently, readmissions are common in patients with schizophrenia. Psychoeducation has been shown to reduce the number and duration of readmissions. Yet, only little more than 20% of psychiatr...

    Authors: Christian von Maffei, Frauke Görges, Werner Kissling, Wolfgang Schreiber and Christine Rummel-Kluge
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:93
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  45. Only three observational studies investigated whether exposure to antipsychotics is associated with an increased risk of pulmonary embolism, with conflicting results. This study was therefore carried out to es...

    Authors: Valentino Conti, Mauro Venegoni, Alfredo Cocci, Ida Fortino, Antonio Lora and Corrado Barbui
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:92
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  46. GHB dependence is a growing health problem in several western countries, especially the Netherlands. Attempts to stop using GHB are often followed by relapse shortly after successful detoxification. Craving fo...

    Authors: Rama M Kamal, Arnt Schellekens, Cornelis AJ De Jong and Boukje AG Dijkstra
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:91
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  47. Depressive and anxiety disorders are highly prevalent, but only a small percentage (approximately 50%) of patients receive appropriate treatment. Relevant barriers include communication and coordination gaps b...

    Authors: Laura Kivelitz, Holger Schulz, Hanne Melchior and Birgit Watzke
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:90
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  48. Evidence has been accumulating that it may be possible to achieve prevention in psychotic disorders. The aim of the Prevention Of Psychosis (POP) study is to reduce the annual incidence of psychotic disorders ...

    Authors: Inge Joa, Jens Gisselgård, Kolbjørn Brønnick, Thomas McGlashan and Jan Olav Johannessen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:89
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  49. Most women with psychotic disorders and bipolar disorders have children but their pregnancies are at risk of adverse psychiatric and fetal outcome. The extent of modifiable risk factors – both clinical and soc...

    Authors: Clare L Taylor, Robert Stewart, Jack Ogden, Matthew Broadbent, Dharmintra Pasupathy and Louise M Howard
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:88
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  50. Suicide attempts (SA) after psychiatric hospitalization continue to be a major cause of morbidity. Implicit measures may enhance our ability to assess suicide risk. In this context, we describe the first use o...

    Authors: Igor Galynker, Zimri S Yaseen, Jessica Briggs and Fumitaka Hayashi
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:87
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