Showing papers in "European Psychiatry in 2016"

TL;DR: A comprehensive overview of current psychotherapy for CD is provided to help providers to select psychotherapeutic treatment options for this patient group and to develop more effective treatments for CD.

TL;DR: Besides previously described risk factors such as working hours and younger age, this is the first evidence of negative influence of lack of supervision and not opting for psychiatry as a first career choice on trainees' burnout.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that OCT can be used to detect neurodegeneration in schizophrenia and that the GCL and IPL volumes can also be used in patients with schizophrenia to monitor the progression of neurodegenersation.

TL;DR: A systematic review of the literature examining stigma and self-stigma towards children and adolescents with mental health difficulties confirmed that stigmatization of mental illness is poorly understood due to a lack of evidence and methodological discrepancies.

TL;DR: Attitudes towards a person with mental illness can be improved by providing information on a mental health-mental illness continuum, and the dichotomy intervention decreased continuity beliefs and increased notions of difference, but did not affect social acceptance.

TL;DR: The lack of efficacy of tDCS for treatment of auditory hallucinations and the pronounced response in the sham-treated group in this study contrasts with the previous finding and demonstrates the need for further optimization and evaluation of noninvasive brain stimulation strategies.

TL;DR: Efficacy of remote psychiatric counseling was shown to be not inferior compared to in vivo settings, and high levels of consistency between remote and in vivo psychiatric assessment is reported.

TL;DR: First genome-wide association study of pathological gambling finds genetic overlap between non-substance- and substance-related addictions and pathway analysis suggests shared pathology between Huntington's disease and pathological gambling.

TL;DR: The risk of misclassification of patients with HD in the DPCRR is relatively low, with the exception of the diagnosis of hyperkinetic disorders, unspecified, which was lower and comorbid CD/ODD were under-diagnosed in the sample.

TL;DR: The results suggest that sgACC-amygdala coupling is critically affected during mood episodes, and that FC of sg ACC play a pivotal role in mood normalization through its interactions with the VLPFC and PCC.

TL;DR: Cardiovascular risk factors require special clinical attention among patients with psychiatric disorders, and the effect of antidepressants and antipsychotics on cardiovascular risk factors should be studied.

TL;DR: Simulation of the strength and spatial distribution of the electric field induced in the brain by electroconvulsive therapy and magnetic seizure therapy could help understand the mechanisms of seizure therapies and develop interventions with superior risk/benefit ratio.

TL;DR: Latinos suffering depression, trauma exposure, and immigration stressors are more likely to experience SI, despite differences in country of origin, education, and other demographic factors between countries.

TL;DR: Suicidal behavior was strongly associated with emotional abuse in childhood, even when compared with ideators, suggesting that it is a relevant factor for the progression from ideation to attempts.

TL;DR: These findings suggest that of five anatomical subregions in the STG, the lateral STG is one of the most meaningful regions for brain pathophysiology in schizophrenia.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the association between aggressive behavior and inflammatory markers in schizophrenia inpatients and found that higher PANSS-EC score was associated with elevated C-reactive protein levels.

TL;DR: Suicidality could be analyzed as a severity continuum and patients should be carefully monitored since they present with suicidal ideation, and lower QoL scores, higher scores on the sexual dimension and a family history of suicide attempts should be considered as risk factors for suicideality among OCD patients.

TL;DR: The results suggest that people with IGD show altered modulation in DMN and deficit in executive control function, which might be the reason for why the IGD subjects continue to play online games despite the potential negative consequences.

TL;DR: Being underweight or obese (not overweight) at baseline is significantly associated with future onset of depression, and underweight and obese women at baseline have increased risk of depression onset during the follow-up period compared with normal weight women.

TL;DR: The evidence for non-pharmacological interventions for reducing violence in this population is not conclusive, and long-term outcomes are lacking and good quality RCTs are required to develop a stronger evidence base.

TL;DR: A proof-of-concept study using tooth-matrix biomarker that provides direct measurement of exposure in the fetus and newborn provides support for the role of metal exposure during critical neurodevelopmental periods in psychosis.

TL;DR: The importance of first rank symptoms of schizophrenia may indeed be scaled down to a degree that the occurrence of a single FRS alone should not suffice to diagnose schizophrenia, but, on the other hand, absence of FRS should be regarded as a warning sign that the diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder is not warranted and requires specific care to rule out other causes.

TL;DR: Paliperidone palmitate initiation is associated with a substantial reduction in hospital admissions and days spent in hospital, and the reduction in costs associated with reduced use of health care facilities is likely to exceed the purchase and administration costs of the drug.

TL;DR: Older patients with MUS have a specific personality profile, comparable to MES patients, and health anxiety and somatization may be better indicators of psychopathology than whether a physical symptom is medically explained or not.

TL;DR: Personal space regulation is not generally altered in schizophrenia, however, state paranoid experience has distinct contributions to personal space regulation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the effectiveness of the IDF suicide prevention program, implemented since 2006, and found that there was a 57% decrease in the suicide rate following the administration of the suicidal prevention program.

TL;DR: Eotional Lability is in particular a key BPD feature of the proposed DSM-5 Section III model, whereas Suspiciousness also augments essential BPD features.

TL;DR: In this article, a between-group meta-analysis comparing serum and plasma leptin levels in people with Bipolar disorder in mania, depression or euthymia and healthy controls was conducted.

TL;DR: Comorbid anxiety symptoms appear to be strongly related to both concurrent depressive symptoms and personality characteristics, regardless of principal diagnosis, among psychiatric patients with mood or schizophrenia spectrum disorders.

TL;DR: The PIP condition seems to reduce caregiver burden, and change scores since baseline on the Zarit Burden Interview and the Involvement Evaluation Questionnaire (IEQ).