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Alan Apter
Researcher at Tel Aviv University
Publications - 404
Citations - 20339
Alan Apter is an academic researcher from Tel Aviv University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Suicide prevention. The author has an hindex of 68, co-authored 388 publications receiving 18232 citations. Previous affiliations of Alan Apter include Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya & Clalit Health Services.
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Suicide prevention strategies: a systematic review.
J. John Mann,Alan Apter,José Manoel Bertolote,Annette L. Beautrais,Dianne Currier,Ann Pollinger Haas,Ulrich Hegerl,Jouko Lönnqvist,Kevin M. Malone,Andrej Marusic,Lars Mehlum,George C Patton,Michael R. Phillips,Wolfgang Rutz,Zoltán Rihmer,Armin Schmidtke,David Shaffer,Morton M. Silverman,Yoshitomo Takahashi,Airi Värnik,Danuta Wasserman,Paul S. F. Yip,Herbert Hendin +22 more
TL;DR: Physician education in depression recognition and treatment and restricting access to lethal methods reduce suicide rates, and other interventions need more evidence of efficacy.
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Prevalence of pathological internet use among adolescents in Europe: demographic and social factors
Tony Durkee,Michael Kaess,Vladimir Carli,Peter Parzer,Camilla Wasserman,Camilla Wasserman,Birgitta Floderus,Alan Apter,Judit Balazs,Shira Barzilay,Julio Bobes,Romuald Brunner,Paul Corcoran,Doina Cosman,Padraig Cotter,Romain Despalins,Nadja Graber,Francis Guillemin,Christian Haring,Jean-Pierre Kahn,Laura Mandelli,Dragan Marušič,Gergely Mészáros,George J. Musa,Vita Postuvan,Franz Resch,Pilar A. Saiz,Merike Sisask,Airi Värnik,Marco Sarchiapone,Christina W. Hoven,Danuta Wasserman +31 more
TL;DR: Across a range of countries in Europe, using the Young Diagnostic Questionnaire for Internet Addiction yields a prevalence of 'pathological internet use' of 4.4% among adolescents, but varies by country and gender; adolescents lacking emotional and psychological support are at highest risk.
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Parents as the exclusive agents of change in the treatment of childhood obesity.
TL;DR: Treatment of childhood obesity with parents as the exclusive agents of change was superior to the conventional approach, as indicated by the dropout rate and the percentage weight loss of the children during the 1-y intervention.
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School-based suicide prevention programmes: the SEYLE cluster-randomised, controlled trial
Danuta Wasserman,Christina W. Hoven,Camilla Wasserman,Camilla Wasserman,Melanie M. Wall,Ruth Eisenberg,Gergö Hadlaczky,Ian Kelleher,Marco Sarchiapone,Marco Sarchiapone,Alan Apter,Judit Balazs,Julio Bobes,Romuald Brunner,Paul Corcoran,Doina Cosman,Francis Guillemin,Christian Haring,Miriam Iosue,Michael Kaess,Jean-Pierre Kahn,Helen Keeley,George J. Musa,Bogdan Nemes,Vita Postuvan,Pilar A. Saiz,Stella Reiter-Theil,Airi Värnik,Peeter Värnik,Vladimir Carli +29 more
TL;DR: YAM was effective in reducing the number of suicide attempts and severe suicidal ideation in school-based adolescents, and underline the benefit of this universal suicide preventive intervention in schools.
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Environmental enrichment in mice decreases anxiety, attenuates stress responses and enhances natural killer cell activity.
Noa Benaroya-Milshtein,Nurit Hollander,Alan Apter,Tova Kukulansky,Nava Raz,A. Wilf,Isaac Yaniv,Chaim G. Pick +7 more
TL;DR: EE has a beneficial effect on anxiety‐like behaviour, stress response andNK cell activity, and the effect on NK cell activity is promising, due to the role of NK cells in host resistance.