| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveDatabase Psychological treatment of depression: A meta-analytic database of randomized studies Pim Cuijpers, Annemieke van Straten, Lisanne Warmerdam, and Gerhard Andersson PMCID: PMC2408566 Debates The importance of the concepts of disaster, catastrophe, violence, trauma and barbarism in defining posttraumatic stress disorder in clinical practice Luciana L Braga, Jose P Fiks, Jair J Mari, and Marcelo F Mello PMCID: PMC2533004 Longitudinal population-based studies of affective disorders: Where to from here? John R Beard, Sandro Galea, and David Vlahov PMCID: PMC2561026 Technical Advances What do patients want from their psychiatrist? A cross- sectional questionnaire based exploratory study from Karachi Roomasa Channa and MN Siddiqi PMCID: PMC2275251 Application of microarray outlier detection methodology to psychiatric research Carl Ernst, Alexandre Bureau, and Gustavo Turecki PMCID: PMC2364617 Research Articles Postnatal depression in Southern Brazil: prevalence and its demographic and socioeconomic determinants Leila Tannous, Luciana P Gigante, Sandra C Fuchs, and Ellis DA Busnello PMCID: PMC2265281 Validity of self-reported criminal justice system involvement in substance abusing women at five-year follow-up Irene Jansson, Morten Hesse, and Mats Fridell PMCID: PMC2265279 Evaluating dose response from flexible dose clinical trials Ilya Lipkovich, David H Adams, Craig Mallinckrodt, Doug Faries, David Baron, and John P Houston PMCID: PMC2254403 Factor analysis of the Zung self-rating depression scale in a large sample of patients with major depressive disorder in primary care Irene Romera, Helena Delgado-Cohen, Teresa Perez, Luis Caballero, and Immaculada Gilaberte PMCID: PMC2257949 Frequency, course and correlates of alcohol use from adolescence to young adulthood in a Swiss community survey Hans-Christoph Steinhausen, Susanne Eschmann, Annina Heimgartner, and Christa Winkler Metzke PMCID: PMC2253536 Self-ordered pointing and visual conditional associative learning tasks in drug-free schizophrenia spectrum disorder patients Emilio Sacchetti, Alessandro Galluzzo, Adelaide Panariello, Giovanni Parrinello, and Stefano Francesco Cappa PMCID: PMC2245938 Standardised assessment of personality – a study of validity and reliability in substance abusers Morten Hesse, Joachim Rasmussen, and Mads Kjær Pedersen PMCID: PMC2262879 A 20-year prospective study of mortality and causes of death among hospitalized opioid addicts in Oslo Mari A Bjornaas, Anette S Bekken, Aasa Ojlert, Tor Haldorsen, Dag Jacobsen, Morten Rostrup, and Oivind Ekeberg PMCID: PMC2277385 Evaluating cutpoints for the MHI-5 and MCS using the GHQ-12: a comparison of five different methods Mark J Kelly, Frank D Dunstan, Keith Lloyd, and David L Fone PMCID: PMC2265280 Association study in the 5q31-32 linkage region for schizophrenia using pooled DNA genotyping Irina Zaharieva, Lyudmila Georgieva, Ivan Nikolov, George Kirov, Michael J Owen, Michael C O'Donovan, and Draga Toncheva PMCID: PMC2268687 Training in dual diagnosis interventions (the COMO Study): Randomised controlled trial Elizabeth Hughes, Shamil Wanigaratne, Kevin Gournay, Sonia Johnson, Graham Thornicroft, Emily Finch, Jane Marshall, and Neil Smith PMCID: PMC2277384 Narcissism in patients admitted to psychiatric acute wards: its relation to violence, suicidality and other psychopathology Marit F Svindseth, Jim Aage Nøttestad, Juliska Wallin, John Olav Roaldset, and Alv A Dahl PMCID: PMC2267178 Broad and narrow personality traits as markers of one-time and repeated suicide attempts: A population-based study Jelena Brezo, Joel Paris, Martine Hébert, Frank Vitaro, Richard Tremblay, and Gustavo Turecki PMCID: PMC2294113 Evaluation of patients on sertindole treatment after failure of other antipsychotics: A retrospective analysis Jean-Michel Azorin, Susana Murteira, Karina Hansen, and Mondher Toumi PMCID: PMC2358897 Development of mental health first aid guidelines for suicidal ideation and behaviour: A Delphi study Claire M Kelly, Anthony F Jorm, Betty A Kitchener, and Robyn L Langlands PMCID: PMC2324091 Cost of antipsychotic polypharmacy in the treatment of schizophrenia Baojin Zhu, Haya Ascher-Svanum, Douglas E Faries, Christoph U Correll, and John M Kane PMCID: PMC2364616 Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Gender differences and prevalence in a Pakistani medical student population Ather M Taqui, Mehrine Shaikh, Saqib A Gowani, Fatima Shahid, Asmatullah Khan, Syed M Tayyeb, Minahil Satti, Talha Vaqar, Saman Shahid, Afreen Shamsi, Hammad A Ganatra, and Haider A Naqvi PMCID: PMC2329619 Substance abusers' personality disorders and staff members' emotional reactions Birgitte Thylstrup and Morten Hesse PMCID: PMC2322971 Five-Factor Model personality profiles of drug users Antonio Terracciano, Corinna E Löckenhoff, Rosa M Crum, O Joseph Bienvenu, and Paul T Costa, Jr PMCID: PMC2373294 Risk factors for antenatal depression, postnatal depression and parenting stress Bronwyn Leigh and Jeannette Milgrom PMCID: PMC2375874 Predictors of depression stigma Kathleen M Griffiths, Helen Christensen, and Anthony F Jorm PMCID: PMC2386456 In the aftermath of teenage suicide: A qualitative study of the psychosocial consequences for the surviving family members Per Lindqvist, Lars Johansson, and Urban Karlsson PMCID: PMC2375873 Estimated pre-morbid IQ effects on cognitive and functional outcomes in Alzheimer disease: a longitudinal study in a treated cohort John M Starr and Jane Lonie PMCID: PMC2374779 ADHD and Disruptive behavior scores – associations with MAO-A and 5-HTT genes and with platelet MAO-B activity in adolescents Kerstin Malmberg, Hanna-Linn Wargelius, Paul Lichtenstein, Lars Oreland, and Jan-Olov Larsson PMCID: PMC2383890 Effectiveness of second generation antipsychotics: A systematic review of randomized trials Erik Johnsen and Hugo A Jørgensen PMCID: PMC2386457 Non-adherence to antipsychotic medication, relapse and rehospitalisation in recent-onset schizophrenia Gunnar Morken, Jan H Widen, and Rolf W Grawe PMCID: PMC2390550 Family violence, war, and natural disasters: A study of the effect of extreme stress on children's mental health in Sri Lanka Claudia Catani, Nadja Jacob, Elisabeth Schauer, Mahendran Kohila, and Frank Neuner PMCID: PMC2386780 Incentive motivation in first-episode psychosis: A behavioural study Graham K Murray, Luke Clark, Philip R Corlett, Andrew D Blackwell, Roshan Cools, Peter B Jones, Trevor W Robbins, and Luise Poustka PMCID: PMC2397419 Inter-rater agreement of comorbid DSM-IV personality disorders in substance abusers Morten Hesse and Birgitte Thylstrup PMCID: PMC2396616 Factors associated with post-traumatic stress disorder and depression amongst internally displaced persons in northern Uganda Bayard Roberts, Kaducu Felix Ocaka, John Browne, Thomas Oyok, and Egbert Sondorp PMCID: PMC2397420 Executive function does not predict coping with symptoms in stable patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia Maarten Bak, Lydia Krabbendam, Philippe Delespaul, Karola Huistra, Wil Walraven, and Jim van Os PMCID: PMC2423350 Excess of transmission of the G allele of the -1438A/G polymorphism of the 5-HT2A receptor gene in patients with schizophrenia responsive to antipsychotics Dalila Benmessaoud, Nora Hamdani, Claudette Boni, Nicolas Ramoz, Michel Hamon, Farid Kacha, and Philip Gorwood PMCID: PMC2426688 Relaxation training for anxiety: a ten-years systematic review with meta-analysis Gian Mauro Manzoni, Francesco Pagnini, Gianluca Castelnuovo, and Enrico Molinari PMCID: PMC2427027 First aid strategies that are helpful to young people developing a mental disorder: beliefs of health professionals compared to young people and parents Anthony F Jorm, Amy J Morgan, and Annemarie Wright PMCID: PMC2438354 Validity of a self-reported diagnosis of depression among participants in a cohort study using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID-I) Almudena Sanchez-Villegas, Javier Schlatter, Felipe Ortuno, Francisca Lahortiga, Jorge Pla, Silvia Benito, and Miguel A Martinez-Gonzalez PMCID: PMC2447836 Crisis discharges and readmission risk in acute psychiatric male inpatients Dana JH Niehaus, Liezl Koen, Ushma Galal, Khalid Dhansay, Piet P Oosthuizen, Robin A Emsley, and Esme Jordaan PMCID: PMC2443127 Dopamine transporter 3'UTR VNTR genotype is a marker of performance on executive function tasks in children with ADHD Sherif Karama, Natalie Grizenko, Edmund Sonuga-Barke, Alysa Doyle, Joseph Biederman, Valentin Mbekou, Anna Polotskaia, Marina Ter-Stepanian, Rosherrie De Guzman, Johanne Bellingham, Sarojini Sengupta, and Ridha Joober PMCID: PMC2443797 Reliability and validity of the Thai version of the PHQ-9 Manote Lotrakul, Sutida Sumrithe, and Ratana Saipanish PMCID: PMC2443128 Depression and anxiety in relation to catechol-O-methyltransferase Val158Met genotype in the general population: The Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT) Petter M Bækken, Frank Skorpen, Eystein Stordal, John-Anker Zwart, and Knut Hagen PMCID: PMC2453123 Colombo Twin and Singleton Study (CoTASS): A description of a population based twin study of mental disorders in Sri Lanka Sisira H Siribaddana, Harriet A Ball, Suwin N Hewage, Nick Glozier, Yulia Kovas, DARK Dayaratne, Athula Sumathipala, Peter McGuffin, and Matthew Hotopf PMCID: PMC2475532 Structural brain change in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder identified by meta-analysis Ian Ellison-Wright, Zoë Ellison-Wright, and Ed Bullmore PMCID: PMC2453122 Helpful and hindering factors for remission in dysthymia and panic disorder at 9-year follow-up: A mixed methods study Cecilia Svanborg, Sofie Bäärnhielm, Anna Åberg Wistedt, and Kim Lützen PMCID: PMC2481244 The five-item Brief-Symptom Rating Scale as a suicide ideation screening instrument for psychiatric inpatients and community residents For-Wey Lung and Ming-Been Lee PMCID: PMC2494993 Understanding the explanatory model of the patient on their medically unexplained symptoms and its implication on treatment development research: a Sri Lanka Study Athula Sumathipala, Sisira Siribaddana, Suwin Hewege, Kethaki Sumathipala, Martin Prince, and Anthony Mann PMCID: PMC2474860 Attitudes toward psychopharmacology among hospitalized patients from diverse ethno-cultural backgrounds Gabriel Thorens, Marianne Gex-Fabry, Daniele F Zullino, and Ariel Eytan PMCID: PMC2478676 Perceptions about the cause of schizophrenia and the subsequent help seeking behavior in a Pakistani population – results of a cross-sectional survey Syed Nabeel Zafar, Reema Syed, Sarah Tehseen, Saqib A Gowani, Sana Waqar, Amina Zubair, Wajeeha Yousaf, Akbar J Zubairi, and Haider Naqvi PMCID: PMC2483701 The Sertindole Safety Survey: A retrospective analysis under a named patient use programme in Europe Christophe Lançon, Mondher Toumi, Christophe Sapin, and Karina Hansen PMCID: PMC2496904 Association study of polymorphisms in the neutral amino acid transporter genes SLC1A4, SLC1A5 and the glycine transporter genes SLC6A5, SLC6A9 with schizophrenia Xiangdong Deng, Noriaki Sagata, Naoko Takeuchi, Masami Tanaka, Hideaki Ninomiya, Nakao Iwata, Norio Ozaki, Hiroki Shibata, and Yasuyuki Fukumaki PMCID: PMC2491607 Concordance between Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL-10) and Pakistan Anxiety and Depression Questionnaire (PADQ), in a rural self-motivated population in Pakistan Hammad Raza Syed, Henrik Daae Zachrisson, Odd Steffen Dalgard, Ingvild Dalen, and Nora Ahlberg PMCID: PMC2500013 Psychotherapy mediated by remote communication technologies: a meta-analytic review Penny E Bee, Peter Bower, Karina Lovell, Simon Gilbody, David Richards, Linda Gask, and Pamela Roach PMCID: PMC2496903 Use of antipsychotics and benzodiazepines in patients with psychiatric emergencies: Results of an observational trial Stefan Wilhelm, Alexander Schacht, and Thomas Wagner PMCID: PMC2507712 Development of mental health first aid guidelines for deliberate non-suicidal self-injury: A Delphi study Claire M Kelly, Anthony F Jorm, Betty A Kitchener, and Robyn L Langlands PMCID: PMC2518920 Stress load during childhood affects psychopathology in psychiatric patients Katja Weber, Brigitte Rockstroh, Jens Borgelt, Barbara Awiszus, Tzvetan Popov, Klaus Hoffmann, Klaus Schonauer, Hans Watzl, and Karl Pröpster PMCID: PMC2500014 An approach to measure compliance to clinical guidelines in psychiatric care Tord Forsner, Anna Åberg Wistedt, Mats Brommels, and Yvonne Forsell PMCID: PMC2525637 Identifying patterns in treatment response profiles in acute bipolar mania: a cluster analysis approach Ilya A Lipkovich, John P Houston, and Jonna Ahl PMCID: PMC2515837 Reduced neural synchronization of gamma-band MEG oscillations in first-degree relatives of children with autism Donald C Rojas, Keeran Maharajh, Peter Teale, and Sally J Rogers PMCID: PMC2518921 The incidence and prevalence of diabetes in patients with serious mental illness in North West Wales: Two cohorts, 1875–1924 & 1994–2006 compared Joanna Le Noury, Afshan Khan, Margaret Harris, Winnie Wong, Dawn Williams, Tony Roberts, Richard Tranter, and David Healy PMCID: PMC2518146 Randomised trials relevant to mental health conducted in low and middle-income countries: a survey Rebecca J Syed Sheriff, Clive E Adams, Prathap Tharyan, Mahesh Jayaram, Lelia Duley, and the PRACTIHC Mental Health Group PMCID: PMC2527605 A systematic review of mental disorder, suicide, and deliberate self harm in lesbian, gay and bisexual people Michael King, Joanna Semlyen, Sharon See Tai, Helen Killaspy, David Osborn, Dmitri Popelyuk, and Irwin Nazareth PMCID: PMC2533652 Acute maternal stress in pregnancy and schizophrenia in offspring: A cohort prospective study D Malaspina, C Corcoran, KR Kleinhaus, MC Perrin, S Fennig, D Nahon, Y Friedlander, and S Harlap PMCID: PMC2546388 Costs of treating patients with schizophrenia who have illness-related crisis events Baojin Zhu, Haya Ascher-Svanum, Douglas E Faries, Xiaomei Peng, David Salkever, and Eric P Slade PMCID: PMC2533651 The co-administration of quetiapine or placebo to cognitive-behavior therapy in treatment refractory depression: A preliminary trial Yves Chaput, Annick Magnan, and Alain Gendron PMCID: PMC2553785 Predicting violent infractions in a Swiss state penitentiary: A replication study of the PCL-R in a population of sex and violent offenders Jérôme Endrass, Astrid Rossegger, Frank Urbaniok, Arja Laubacher, and Stefan Vetter PMCID: PMC2542363 Managing deliberate self-harm in young people: An evaluation of a training program developed for school welfare staff using a longitudinal research design Jo Robinson, Sara Gook, Hok Pan Yuen, Patrick D McGorry, and Alison R Yung PMCID: PMC2564929 Weight management in a cohort of Irish inpatients with serious mental illness (SMI) using a modular behavioural programme. A preliminary service evaluation Chris J Bushe, Dermot McNamara, Cliff Haley, Mary Fleming McCrossan, and Pat Devitt PMCID: PMC2551599 Design and methods for a randomized clinical trial treating comorbid obesity and major depressive disorder Kristin L Schneider, Jamie S Bodenlos, Yunsheng Ma, Barbara Olendzki, Jessica Oleski, Philip Merriam, Sybil Crawford, Ira S Ockene, and Sherry L Pagoto PMCID: PMC2556322 Early evaluation of patient risk for substantial weight gain during olanzapine treatment for schizophrenia, schizophreniform, or schizoaffective disorder Ilya Lipkovich, Jennie G Jacobson, Thomas A Hardy, and Vicki Poole Hoffmann PMCID: PMC2566555 A factor analytic investigation of the Tripartite model of affect in a clinical sample of young Australians Joe A Buckby, Sue M Cotton, Elizabeth M Cosgrave, Eoin J Killackey, and Alison R Yung PMCID: PMC2561028 Discontinuation of hypnotics during cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia Lucie Zavesicka, Martin Brunovsky, Milos Matousek, and Peter Sos PMCID: PMC2562375 Early trauma-focused cognitive-behavioural therapy to prevent chronic post-traumatic stress disorder and related symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis Hege Kornør, Dagfinn Winje, Øivind Ekeberg, Lars Weisæth, Ingvild Kirkehei, Kjell Johansen, and Asbjørn Steiro PMCID: PMC2559832 Construction and validation of a dimensional scale exploring mood disorders: MAThyS (Multidimensional Assessment of Thymic States) Chantal Henry, Katia M'Bailara, Flavie Mathieu, Rollon Poinsot, and Bruno Falissard PMCID: PMC2561027 Relative risk of diabetes, dyslipidaemia, hypertension and the metabolic syndrome in people with severe mental illnesses: Systematic review and metaanalysis David PJ Osborn, Christine A Wright, Gus Levy, Michael B King, Raman Deo, and Irwin Nazareth PMCID: PMC2570660 A Japanese version of the Perceived Stress Scale: cross-cultural translation and equivalence assessment Chizu Mimura and Peter Griffiths PMCID: PMC2569029 The experience of admission to psychiatric hospital among Chinese adult patients in Hong Kong Jackie Chi-Kin Fu, Paulina Po-Ling Chow, and Linda Chiu-Wa Lam PMCID: PMC2596108 Putative psychosis genes in the prefrontal cortex: combined analysis of gene expression microarrays Kwang Ho Choi, Michael Elashoff, Brandon W Higgs, Jonathan Song, Sanghyeon Kim, Sarven Sabunciyan, Suad Diglisic, Robert H Yolken, Michael B Knable, E Fuller Torrey, and Maree J Webster PMCID: PMC2585075 Mental health of refugees following state-sponsored repatriation from Germany Ulrike von Lersner, Thomas Elbert, and Frank Neuner PMCID: PMC2596775 Quantitative EEG findings in patients with acute, brief depression combined with other fluctuating psychiatric symptoms: a controlled study from an acute psychiatric department Marte Helene Bjørk, Trond Sand, Geir Bråthen, Olav M Linaker, Gunnar Morken, Brigt M Nilsen, and Arne Einar Vaaler PMCID: PMC2596107 Prompt letters to reduce non-attendance: applying evidence based practice Mahesh Jayaram, Ranganath D Rattehalli, and Ihsan Kader PMCID: PMC2621156 Developing guided self-help for depression using the Medical Research Council complex interventions framework: a description of the modelling phase and results of an exploratory randomised controlled trial Karina Lovell, Peter Bower, David Richards, Michael Barkham, Bonnie Sibbald, Chris Roberts, Linda Davies, Anne Rogers, Judith Gellatly, and Sue Hennessy PMCID: PMC2596776 The association between psychiatric diagnosis and violent re-offending in adult offenders in the community Martin Grann, John Danesh, and Seena Fazel PMCID: PMC2611986 A real-life observational study of the effectiveness of FACT in a Dutch mental health region Marjan Drukker, Myrte Maarschalkerweerd, Maarten Bak, Ger Driessen, Joost à Campo, Arthur de Bie, Giovanni Poddighe, Jim van Os, and Philippe Delespaul PMCID: PMC2629765 Investigation of G72 (DAOA) expression in the human brain Isabel Benzel, James NC Kew, Ramya Viknaraja, Fiona Kelly, Jacqueline de Belleroche, Steven Hirsch, Thirza H Sanderson, and Peter R Maycox PMCID: PMC2630984 Detecting suicidality among adolescent outpatients: evaluation of trained clinicians' suicidality assessment against a structured diagnostic assessment made by trained raters Matti Mikael Holi, Mirjami Pelkonen, Linnea Karlsson, Virpi Tuisku, Olli Kiviruusu, Titta Ruuttu, and Mauri Marttunen PMCID: PMC2628663 Study Protocol Web-based cognitive behavioural therapy (W-CBT) for diabetes patients with co-morbid depression: Design of a randomised controlled trial Kim MP van Bastelaar, Frans Pouwer, Pim Cuijpers, Jos WR Twisk, and Frank J Snoek PMCID: PMC2277386 Treatment of chronically depressed patients: A multisite randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of 'Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy' (CBASP) for chronic depressions versus usual secondary care Jenneke E Wiersma, Digna JF van Schaik, Patricia van Oppen, James P McCullough, Jr, Robert A Schoevers, Jack J Dekker, Marc BJ Blom, Kristel Maas, Johannes H Smit, Brenda WJH Penninx, and Aartjan TF Beekman PMCID: PMC2322972 Design of a placebo-controlled, randomized study of the efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of chronic tinntius Michael Landgrebe, Harald Binder, Michael Koller, Yvonne Eberl, Tobias Kleinjung, Peter Eichhammer, Erika Graf, Goeran Hajak, and Berthold Langguth PMCID: PMC2358898 Protocol: Personality assessment as a support for referral and case-work in treatment for substance use disorders (PASRC-study) Morten Hesse and Mads K Pedersen PMCID: PMC2377244 The Amsterdam Studies of Acute Psychiatry I (ASAP-I); A prospective cohort study of determinants and outcome of coercive versus voluntary treatment interventions in a metropolitan area Louk van der Post, Robert Schoevers, Vincent Koppelmans, Irene Visch, Clemens Bernardt, Niels Mulder, Aartjan Beekman, Lieuwe de Haan, and Jack Dekker PMCID: PMC2413231 Cognitive-behaviour therapy for patients with Abridged Somatization Disorder (SSI 4,6) in primary care: a randomized, controlled study Rosa Magallón, Margalida Gili, Sergio Moreno, Natalia Bauzá, Javier García-Campayo, Miquel Roca, Yolanda Ruiz, and Eva Andrés PMCID: PMC2443798 The effect of improvisational music therapy on the treatment of depression: protocol for a randomised controlled trial Jaakko Erkkilä, Christian Gold, Jörg Fachner, Esa Ala-Ruona, Marko Punkanen, and Mauno Vanhala PMCID: PMC2474861 |
