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  1. Dementia is a clinical state characterized by loss of function in multiple cognitive domains. It is a costly disease in terms of both personal suffering and economic loss. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the ...

    Authors: Natalie D Weder, Rehan Aziz, Kirsten Wilkins and Rajesh R Tampi
    Citation: Annals of General Psychiatry 2007 6:15
  2. Some psychotropic drugs are connected with prolongation of QT interval, increased risk of cardiac arrhythmias and greater incidence of sudden death, especially when used in combination. Concomitant use of anti...

    Authors: Jadranka Čulav Sumić, Vesna Barić, Petar Bilić, Miroslav Herceg, Mirna Sisek-Šprem and Vlado Jukić
    Citation: Annals of General Psychiatry 2007 6:13
  3. Clinical trials assessing efficacy and safety of Intramuscular (IM) Olanzapine in acute schizophrenia and acute mania have previously been undertaken in studies required for drug registration in patients who w...

    Authors: Chris J Bushe, Mark Taylor and Mathew Mathew
    Citation: Annals of General Psychiatry 2007 6:11
  4. Suicide is a major cause of death among patients with schizophrenia. Research indicates that at least 5–13% of schizophrenic patients die by suicide, and it is likely that the higher end of range is the most a...

    Authors: Maurizio Pompili, Xavier F Amador, Paolo Girardi, Jill Harkavy-Friedman, Martin Harrow, Kalman Kaplan, Michael Krausz, David Lester, Herbert Y Meltzer, Jiri Modestin, Lori P Montross, Preben Bo Mortensen, Povl Munk-Jørgensen, Jimmi Nielsen, Merete Nordentoft, Pirjo Irmeli Saarinen…
    Citation: Annals of General Psychiatry 2007 6:10
  5. It has been reported for over the past decade that the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI's) may associate with the emergence of apathy. The authors hypothesized that depressed patients treat...

    Authors: Nahathai Wongpakaran, Robert van Reekum, Tinakon Wongpakaran and Diana Clarke
    Citation: Annals of General Psychiatry 2007 6:7
  6. In Morocco, no epidemiological study has been conducted to show the current prevalence of mental disorders in the general population. The aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence and comorbidity o...

    Authors: Nadia Kadri, Mohamed Agoub, Samir El Gnaoui, Soumia Berrada and Driss Moussaoui
    Citation: Annals of General Psychiatry 2007 6:6
  7. Clinicians face everyday the complexity of depression. Available pharmacotherapies and psychotherapies improve patients suffering in a large part of subjects, however up to half of patients do not respond to t...

    Authors: Alessandro Serretti, Raffaella Calati, Osmano Oasi, Diana De Ronchi and Cristina Colombo
    Citation: Annals of General Psychiatry 2007 6:5
  8. It is now estimated that attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) afflicts at least 4% of adults in the United States and is associated with high levels of morbidity and functional impairment. One key a...

    Authors: Joseph Biederman, Ronna Fried, Michael C Monuteaux, Bryan Reimer, Joseph F Coughlin, Craig B Surman, Megan Aleardi, Meghan Dougherty, Steven Schoenfeld, Thomas J Spencer and Stephen V Faraone
    Citation: Annals of General Psychiatry 2007 6:4
  9. Several clinical studies have established the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of long-acting risperidone administered once every 2 weeks in patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. This repo...

    Authors: Georges M Gharabawi, Natalie C Gearhart, Robert A Lasser, Ramy A Mahmoud, Young Zhu, Erik Mannaert, Ineke Naessens, Cynthia A Bossie, Mary Kujawa and George M Simpson
    Citation: Annals of General Psychiatry 2007 6:3
  10. this Italian observational study was aimed at collecting data of psychiatric patients with acute episodes entering General Hospital Psychiatric Wards (GHPWs). Information was focused on diagnosis (DSM-IV), rea...

    Authors: Andrea Ballerini, Roberto Boccalon, Giancarlo Boncompagni, Massimo Casacchia, Francesco Margari, Lina Minervini, Roberto Righi, Federico Russo and Andrea Salteri
    Citation: Annals of General Psychiatry 2007 6:2
  11. Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a rare speech disorder characterized by the appearance of a new accent, different from the speaker's native language and perceived as foreign by the speaker and the listener. I...

    Authors: Stéphane Poulin, Joël Macoir, Nancy Paquet, Marion Fossard and Louis Gagnon
    Citation: Annals of General Psychiatry 2007 6:1
  12. Anecdotal evidence suggests that listening to oneself eating results in a more pleasurable eating experience. Maximising the sensory experience of eating can result in increased oral intake and is potentially ...

    Authors: Kirsty E Amos, Shahram Anari, Charlotte A Buswell, Emma J McNeill, Athanasia Printza, Stephen J Ray and Isam Rustom
    Citation: Annals of General Psychiatry 2006 5:22
  13. Alcohol abuse and addiction are big current problems of the developed world having multivariate causality and multiple effects. Alcohol abuse in young people is a matter of central importance due to its wide r...

    Authors: Georgios Moussas, Leonidas Tzemos, Vassilis Pavlopoulos, Konstantinos Papadimitriou, Vassilis Menoutis and Lefteris Lykouras
    Citation: Annals of General Psychiatry 2006 5:21
  14. We acquired diffusion tensor and structural MRI images on 103 patients with schizophrenia and 41 age-matched normal controls. The vector data was used to trace tracts from a region of interest in the anterior ...

    Authors: Monte S Buchsbaum, Peter Schoenknecht, Yuliya Torosjan, Randall Newmark, King-Wai Chu, Serge Mitelman, Adam M Brickman, Lina Shihabuddin, M Mehmet Haznedar, Erin A Hazlett, Shabeer Ahmed and Cheuk Tang
    Citation: Annals of General Psychiatry 2006 5:19
  15. Self-enucleation or oedipism is a term used to describe self-inflicted enucleation. It is a rare form of self-mutilation, found mainly in acutely psychotic patients. We propose the term incomplete oedipism to ...

    Authors: Maurizio Pompili, David Lester, Roberto Tatarelli and Paolo Girardi
    Citation: Annals of General Psychiatry 2006 5:18
  16. Catatonia is a common syndrome that was first described in the literature by Karl Kahlbaum in 1874. The literature is still developing and remains unclear on many issues, especially classification, diagnosis, ...

    Authors: Heath R Penland, Natalie Weder and Rajesh R Tampi
    Citation: Annals of General Psychiatry 2006 5:14
  17. Alexithymia is highly prevalent among chronic pain patients. Pain is a remarkable cause for high levels of chronic anxiety. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of alexithymia and to det...

    Authors: Feryal Cam Celikel and Omer Saatcioglu
    Citation: Annals of General Psychiatry 2006 5:13
  18. An overview of studies on the issue of dementia in Parkinson's disease shows that, over time, there has been an evolution in the perception of the magnitude of the problem and of its nature. Dementia seems tod...

    Authors: Constantin Potagas and Sokratis Papageorgiou
    Citation: Annals of General Psychiatry 2006 5:12
  19. Postictal psychosis (PIP), an episode of psychosis occurring after a cluster of seizures, is common and may be associated with profound morbidity, including chronic psychosis. Symptoms are often pleomorphic, i...

    Authors: Eric M Morrow, Jennifer M Lafayette, Edward B Bromfield and Gregory Fricchione
    Citation: Annals of General Psychiatry 2006 5:9
  20. The study was performed to investigate the association of psychological stress and quality of life (QOL) among patients with the cardiovascular disease (CVD) of hypertension plus stroke or hypertension only.

    Authors: BT Baune and Y Aljeesh
    Citation: Annals of General Psychiatry 2006 5:6
  21. The Montgomery Ã…sberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) is a frequently used observer-rated depression scale. In the present study, a telephonic rating was compared with a face-to-face rating in 66 primary care ...

    Authors: Marleen LM Hermens, Herman J Adèr, Hein PJ van Hout, Berend Terluin, Richard van Dyck and Marten de Haan
    Citation: Annals of General Psychiatry 2006 5:3
  22. Authors: Antonis Politis, Antonis Maillis, Olga Thomadaki, Maria Passa, Evaggelia Stamouli, Maria Kotrotsou, Konstantinos Kontoaggellos and Constantinos Soldatos
    Citation: Annals of General Psychiatry 2006 5(Suppl 1):S245

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