Peter R. Joyce

TL;DR: There are striking similarities across countries in patterns of major depression and of bipolar disorder and the differences in rates for major depression across countries suggest that cultural differences or different risk factors affect the expression of the disorder.

TL;DR: Individuals who made serious suicide attempts had high rates of mental disorders and of comorbid disorders, and subjects with high levels of psychiatric comorbridity had markedly high risks of serious suicide attempt.

TL;DR: The rates of major depression for males seem to be rising and for females stabilizing for birth cohorts born after 1945 (World War II), and new data from the National Comorbidity Survey which has younger birth cohorts can directly examine this issue.

TL;DR: The finding that nonspecific supportive clinical management was superior to more specialized psychotherapies was opposite to the primary hypothesis and challenges assumptions about the effective ingredients of successful treatments for anorexia nervosa.

TL;DR: The lifetime prevalence rates for panic disorder ranged from 1.4 per 100 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to 2.9 per cent in Florence, Italy, with the exception of Taiwan, where rates for most psychiatric disorders are low.