Showing papers in "European Psychiatry in 2008"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the relationship between online game addiction and aggression, self-control, and narcissistic personality traits, which are known as the psychological characteristics linked to "at-risk" populations for Online Game addiction.

TL;DR: Autism may result from abnormalities in specific brain regions and a global lack of integration due to brain enlargement, and some regions may show abnormal growth trajectories.

TL;DR: Longitudinal studies are needed to describe mental health adjusting for life conditions in Europe to identify those factors which imply an increased risk of psychiatric disorders and influence help seeking for psychosocial care.

TL;DR: This study aims to identify previous and current definitions of SMI used in published research and to propose a set of criteria that may help increase SMI's predictive power of future cognitive decline.

TL;DR: The association with smoking was strongest in comorbid anxiety depression, followed by anxiety, and only marginal in depression, and no decline in anxiety or depression was found with time since cessation.

TL;DR: The findings support the construct validity of a multidimensional model of schizotypy and the use of psychometric inventories to assess these dimensions, which were differentially related to psychopathology, personality, and social impairment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated associations between a medical history of depression, its comorbidities and cytokine plasma levels in the Bavarian Nutrition Survey II (BVS II) study sample and in patients suffering from an acute depressive episode.

TL;DR: The prescribing of antidepressants varies by country, and the type of antidepressant chosen is influenced by physician- as well as patient-related factors, which is strongly influenced by the previous use of antidepressants.

TL;DR: It seems that a subgroup of ADHD children could be vulnerable to developing dependence upon video games, and these children presented a greater intensity of the disorder than the other ADHD children.

TL;DR: The basic principles of DTI, its roots and the contribution of European centres in its development are discussed, and the findings from DTI studies in schizophrenia are reviewed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether decrease of prefrontal quantitative EEG (QEEG) cordance value after 1 week of venlafaxine treatment predicts clinical response to Vaxine in resistant patients.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined subtype differences in the clinical presentation of ADHD-symptoms, related psychopathological features, psychosocial functioning and comorbid psychiatric disorders in adults with ADHD.

TL;DR: The efficacy of agomelatine in treating depression has been shown in three short-term, pivotal, randomized, placebo–controlled studies, and four studies have shown the positive effect of agosene on sleep continuity and quality and shortening of sleep latency.

TL;DR: The results indicate that regional abnormalities in brain structure may offer an account for some impaired cognitive domains in patients with schizophrenia, while other cognitive domains may remain relatively less affected by volumetric alterations.

TL;DR: Age at onset is associated with specific comorbidity patterns in OCD patients, and more prominent differences are obtained when analyzing age at onset as an absolute value.

TL;DR: In this article, the occurrence and predictors of medical students' mental health problems that required treatment were studied and a third of the students reported problems during the first three years of their studies.

TL;DR: It is suggested that there are trait abnormalities in dorsal and ventral PFC function in BD that may be more pronounced during tasks that rely on ventral–dorsal PFC interaction.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on three main questions. First, are brain volume abnormalities static or progressive in nature? Secondly, can brain volume abnormities in schizophrenia be explained (in part) by genetic influences? Finally, what environmental factors are associated with the brain volume anomalies in schizophrenia?

TL;DR: The findings show a bias towards misattributing fearful and angry facial emotions and the propensity for fear-as-anger misattribution biases increases as the length of time that the disorder is experienced increases and a more rigid style of information processing is used.

TL;DR: Although research is in its infancy, there are increasing indications that cultural competence can improve key aspects of the psychiatric treatment of immigrant and minority group patients.

TL;DR: Cognitive performances of schizoaffective subjects with those of subjects with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are compared, suggesting that, for some deficits, there may be a continuum between SZ, SZAff and affective disorders, whereas Szaff patients most closely resemble SZ patients for other deficits.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored in 51 patients with a first episode of psychosis the neurocognitive correlates of cognitive insight as assessed with the Beck Cognitive Insight Scale (BCIS) and found significant associations between the BCIS Composite Index and the verbal learning and memory.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between the val 158 met polymorphism and cognitive function as well as personality traits in 522 healthy individuals (mean age: 24.75 years, SD=5.84, mean years of education: 15.59 and SD=2.65).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used sandwich-ELISA-technique to ascertain GDNF concentration and assay for overall protein levels in post-mortem brain tissue of 7 patients with recurrent depressive disorder and 14 individuals without any neurological or psychiatric diagnoses.

TL;DR: This study shows that the AES-C measures more than one dimension, and the main factor, the Apathy subscale, can be used to assess apathy in first episode psychosis patients in the ongoing work of refining the subdomains of the negative syndrome.

TL;DR: Migrants from Poland and Vietnam have a higher general score of complaints of physical ill-health and higher anxiety and depression values than Germans and further analytical studies are needed to clarify health differences between these groups.

TL;DR: Findings of NPY increase and CRH decrease were similar to those following chronic treatment with citalopram, indicating that these changes might constitute one of the common underpinnings of antidepressant treatment modalities.

TL;DR: Through neuropsychological tests, the OCD children showed cognitive strength and weakness similar to those of OCD adults that were reported in previous research, supporting the frontal-striatal dysfunction hypothesis of OCD in children as well as in adults.

TL;DR: The present observations extend the findings observed previously in people with schizophrenia to people with high psychosis-proneness, providing support to continuum theories of psychosis with implications for understanding trait-related neural deficits in schizophrenia.