Goodman, R. Meltzer, H. Bailey, V.
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European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
The self-report version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) was administered to two samples of 11–16 year olds: 83 young people in the community and 116 young people attending a mental health clinic. The questionnaire discriminated satisfactorily between the two samples. For example, the clinic mean for the total difficulties scor...
Manev, Radmila Manev, Hari
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BMC Psychiatry
BackgroundRecently, it has been suspected that there is a relationship between therapy with some antibiotics and the onset of autism; but even more curious, some children benefited transiently from a subsequent treatment with a different antibiotic. Here, we speculate how aminoglycoside antibiotics might be associated with autism.PresentationWe hyp...
García-Cabeza, Ignacio Gómez, Juan-Carlos Sacristán, Jose A Edgell, Eric González de Chavez, Manuel
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BMC Psychiatry
BackgroundIn order to compare the effectiveness of different antipsychotic drugs in the treatment of schizophrenia it is very important to evaluate subjective response and compliance in patient cohorts treated according to routine clinical practice.MethodOutpatients with schizophrenia entered this prospective, naturalistic study when they received ...
Naruo, Tetsuro Nakabeppu, Yoshiaki Deguchi, Daisuke Nagai, Nobuatsu Tsutsui, Junko Nakajo, Masayuki Nozoe, Shin-ichi
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BMC Psychiatry
BackgroundIt is possible that psychopathological differences exist between the restricting and bulimic forms of anorexia nervosa. We investigated localized differences of brain blood flow of anorexia nervosa patients using SPECT image analysis with statistic parametric mapping (SPM) in an attempt to link brain blood flow patterns to neurophysiologi...
Fountoulakis, Konstantinos N lacovides, Apostolos Samolis, Stavros Kleanthous, Soula Kaprinis, Stergios G Kaprinis, George St Bech, Per
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BMC Psychiatry
IntroductionThe current study aimed to assess the reliability, validity and psychometric properties of the Greek translation of the Zung Depression Rating Scale (ZDRS).MethodsThe study sample included 40 depressed patients 29.65 ± 9.38 years old and 120 normal comparison subjects 27.23 ± 10.62 years old. In 20 of them (12 patients and 8 comparison ...
Imai, K Harada, S Kawanishi, Y Tachikawa, H Okubo, T Suzuki, T
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BMC psychiatry
The human NOTCH4 gene is a candidate gene for schizophrenia due to its chromosomal location and neurobiological roles. In a British linkage study, NOTCH4 gene polymorphisms were highly associated with schizophrenia. In a Japanese case-control association study, however, these polymorphisms did not show significant associations with schizophrenia. W...
Fountoulakis, Konstantinos Iacovides, Apostolos Kleanthous, Soula Samolis, Stavros Kaprinis, Stergious G Sitzoglou, Konstantinos St Kaprinis, George Bech, Per
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BMC Psychiatry
IntroductionThe aim of the current study was to assess the reliability, validity and psychometric properties of the Greek translation of the Center for Epidemiological Studies- Depression Scale (CES-D).Methods40 depressed patients 29.65 ± 9.38 years old, and 120 normal controls 27.23 ± 10.62 years old entered the study. In 20 of them (12 patients a...
Tountas, Charalambos Sotiropoulos, Alexios Skliros, Stathis A Kotsini, Vasiliki Peppas, Theodoros A Tamvakos, Elias Pappas, Stavros
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BMC Psychiatry
BackgroundOut of 1705 patients hospitalised for various reasons in the 3rd Internal Medicine Department of the Regional General Hospital of Nikaea, in Piraeus, 146(8,5%) persons were admitted for drug intoxication between November 1999 and November 2000.MethodsOn average, these persons [male 50(34,2%) – female 96(65,8%)] were admitted to the hospit...
Imai, Koubun Harada, Shoji Kawanishi, Yoichi Tachikawa, Hirokazu Okubo, Takehito Suzuki, Toshihito
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BMC Psychiatry
BackgroundThe human NOTCH4 gene is a candidate gene for schizophrenia due to its chromosomal location and neurobiological roles. In a British linkage study, NOTCH4 gene polymorphisms were highly associated with schizophrenia. In a Japanese case-control association study, however, these polymorphisms did not show significant associations with schizo...
Jenkins, Jenny Shajahan, Polash M Lappin, Julia M Ebmeier, Klaus P
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BMC Psychiatry
BackgroundPrefrontal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has been used to induce side-specific mood changes in volunteers and patients. To clarify inconsistencies between reports that used different stimulation frequencies, we conducted a controlled study with a low (1 Hz) frequency, comparing left with right-sided stimulationMethod...
