E A Deisenhammer

..In this phase of therapy information and motivation--besides periodical clinical and drug level checks--in order to establish compliance in patients remain important tasks of treating physicians...

..The results of this study do not clearly favor one of the tested options. The main differences found in this study seem to be dose-related rather than differentiating between oral and intravenous routes of administration...

..A ban of placebos in antidepressant trials as it might be derived from the Declaration of Helsinki should be postponed until antidepressants with a more convincing superiority over placebo have been developed...

..To review the available literature on the association between daily and longer-term weather data and the incidence of attempted and completed suicide...

..To identify weather factors associated with an increased risk of suicide. In a number of prior studies an influence of meteorological conditions on the incidence of suicide or attempted suicide has been suggested...

..In this study, the rates, numbers and lengths of psychiatric hospitalizations of suicide victims during the last year before their suicide commission were assessed...

..Cholesterol levels do not appear to be an appropriate biological marker for suicidality during the first 4 weeks of treatment in patients with a major depressive episode...

..Furthermore we summarize the results from functional MRI experiments, which is a useful tool for noninvasively localizing areas in the brain involved in specific cognitive functions...

..Our data argue against genuine between-sex differences in cerebral activation patterns during lexical verbal fluency activities when confounding factors like performance differences are excluded...

..This study was undertaken to investigate suicide attempters' reports on the length of the period between consideration and accomplishment of a suicide attempt...

..This study investigated potential demographic and clinical risk factors for attempted suicide in alcohol-dependent patients taking serum lipids additionally into consideration...

..In the current study, women adopted a more successful strategy of balancing clustering and switching in the phonemic fluency task...

..The results suggest that rTMS as an "add on" strategy, applied in a unilateral and a bilateral stimulation paradigm, does not exert an additional antidepressant effect...

..Our results point to gender specific differences in the neuropsychological processes involved in mental rotation tasks...

..Taking contact behavior changes into account may increase the chance to identify individuals at risk and thus may contribute to suicide prevention...

..Our findings confirm and extend those of other groups. This should encourage psychiatrists at least in academic settings where most of this research has been done to approach patients to take part in clinical research...

..In contrast to other psychotropic medications inducing weight gain, such as some second-generation antipsychotics, mirtazapine treatment did not influence the glucose homeostasis...