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Evidence based mental health, no 2, vol 8, 2005
Prognosis:
More than half the women with a history of psychosis have a psychiatric episode in the first year after childbirth
Salvatore Gentile (commentator) 33
Therapeutics:
Specialised care for early psychosis may reduce number of readmissions Robert B Zipursky (commentator) 34
Review: in people with bipolar disorder, short term antidepressants improve clinical response, although tricyclics risk
inducing mania Prakash Masand and Rajnish Mago (commentator) 35
Fluoxetine improves minor depressive disorders Philip J Cowen (commentator) 36
Continuing fluoxetine treatment may delay relapse in children and adolescents with major depressive disorder Dr Paul
Wilkinson (commentator) 37
Cognitive behaviour therapy reduces long term risk of relapse in recurrent major depressive disorder Zindel V Segal,
Lucio Bizzini, and Guido Bondolfi (commentator) 38
Minimal contact psychotherapy reduces the risk of major depression in people with subthreshold depression Dr Noel
Kennedy and Dr Rafay Sherazi (commentator) 39
Individualised treatment improves depression in people with depression and diabetes Russell E Glasgow and David W
Price (commentator) 40
Rivastigmine modestly improves dementia associated with Parkinson’s disease, but has important adverse effects
Tiffany Chow (commentator) 41
Mirtazapine plus citalopram has short term but not longer term benefits over citalopram alone for the symptoms of
obsessive compulsive disorder Cornelius Schüle and Gregor Laakmann (commentator) 42
Paroxetine improves social anxiety disorder in children and adolescents Katharina Manassis (commentator) 43
Review: self-help interventions improve anxiety and mood disorders Geoffrey Nelson and Colleen Loomis
(commentator) 44
Aetiology:
Review: hippocampal volume is reduced in people with unipolar depression Dr Isabelle M Rosso (commentator) 45
Risk of dementia in people with depressive and bipolar disorders increases with increasing number of prior affective
episodes Robert van Reekum (commentator) 46
Subjective memory deterioration in elderly people is associated with future dementia Mark W Bondi (commentator) 47
Suicidality in pre-adolescence and early adulthood is associated with psychosocial and psychiatric problems in young
adulthood Annette Beautrais (commentator) 48
Relocation puts elderly nursing home residents at risk of stress, although the stress is short lived Allyson M Washburn
(commentator) 49
Prevalence:
Axis I disorders are common in people with severe borderline personality disorder, but decrease with time Robert J
Gregory (commentator) 50
Axis II comorbidities are less common in people with borderline personality disorder who are in remission Ana
González-Pinto (commentator) 51
Rapid cycling is equivalently prevalent in bipolar I and bipolar II disorder, and is associated with female gender and
greater severity of illness Dr Paul Mackin (commentator) 52
Study estimates incidence of suicidal ideation and suggests factors that put people at risk Steven J Garlow
(commentator) 53
Lifetime alcohol abstainers and moderate drinkers have a lower lifetime prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders than
problem drinkers Sami Pirkola (commentator) 54
Long term antipsychotic polypharmacy is common among Medicaid recipients with schizophrenia Jambur Ananth
(commentator) 55
Boys in late adolescence have a low rate of use of mental health services Brett M McDermott and Erica Lee
(commentator) 56
Evidence based mental health, no 3, vol 8, 2005