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David Forbes

Researcher at University of Melbourne

Publications -  363
Citations -  14968

David Forbes is an academic researcher from University of Melbourne. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 337 publications receiving 12303 citations. Previous affiliations of David Forbes include Alberta Children's Hospital & Princess Margaret Hospital for Children.

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Childhood Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: Child/Adolescent

TL;DR: The Rome III child and adolescent criteria represent an evolution from Rome II and should prove useful for both clinicians and researchers dealing with childhood FGIDs.
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The validity of the PTSD checklist as a measure of symptomatic change in combat-related PTSD.

TL;DR: This study investigated the validity of the posttraumatic stress disorder checklist (PCL) as a measure of symptomatic change following programmatic treatment and supported the use of an overall cut-off score of 50 on the PCL for a diagnosis, and an item score of 3 for symptom criterion, in this population.
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Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of eating disorders

TL;DR: Specific evidence based psychological and pharmacological treatments are recommended for most eating disorders but more trials are needed for specific therapies in anorexia nervosa, and research is urgently needed for all aspects of ARFID assessment and management.
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International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex- and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci

Caroline M. Nievergelt, +213 more
TL;DR: A GWAS from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium is reported in which two risk loci in European ancestry and one locus in African ancestry individuals are identified and it is found that PTSD is genetically correlated with several other psychiatric traits.