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..The results indicate a considerable need for guideline training and improvement of networking and co-operation between GPs and specialists as well as between inpatient and outpatient settings...

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..This study investigated functional cerebral correlates of craving in alcoholic patients and examined the state/trait characteristics of the regional cerebral network implicated in craving...

..Clinical observations indicate additional influence on emotional behavior...

..The findings indicated signal increases in subcortical-limbic regions, particularly in the amygdala. This region is suggested to be involved in the affective dimension of pain...

..The increases may result from an additional effort put in by these individuals to form negative emotional associations, a pattern of processing that may correspond to their characteristic deviant emotional behavior...

..Results point to differential regional cerebral correlates of emotional experience in males and females, which is suggestive of a more focal and subcortical processing of sadness in men...

..Recognizing that structural abnormalities exist in the amygdala of schizophrenic patients, our results provide new evidence of functional abnormalities in the limbic system...

..This converging evidence supports the potential of fMRI for advancing the understanding of neural substrates for emotional experience in humans...

..Emotion processing deficits in schizophrenia may add to the clinical burden, and merit further examination...

..Results support limbic involvement in regulating emotional states and suggest some reciprocity between subcortical and frontal-temporal regulation of emotional experience...

..The results indicate that women process humor though limbic reactivity, involving appraisal of its emotional features, while men apply more evaluative, executive resources to humor processing...

..Subjects' facial expressions together with self-ratings demonstrate the successful applicability of this standardized mood induction procedure for eliciting happy and sad mood...

..The current study was therefore designed to compare prospectively the relapse preventive efficacy of further maintenance treatment and targeted intermittent treatment in patients with ICD-10-diagnosed first-episode schizophrenia...

..On the other hand, the findings may reflect the neurobiological difference between experimentally induced sad mood and clinical depression...

..Examples for studying brain-behavior-relationships come from research in the context of emotion in healthy subjects as well as in emotional dysfunctions in psychiatric patients...

..Fear and stress were successfully alleviated. Qualified victim support interventions may play an important role in protecting children and adolescents in the courtroom from "secondary victimization"...

..Reasons and implications of these findings considering the methodological limitations are discussed...

..To specify emotion recognition deficits in BPD more closely, the present study implemented two emotion recognition tasks differing in response format...

..This lends further support to the presumed involvement of these regions in processing internally-oriented self-relatedness as distinguished from externally-oriented self-relatedness...

..Psychiatry promises to profit especially from new approaches that combine scientific and clinical expertise in education and professional career...

..In conclusion, efficacy was maintained without compromising safety/tolerability when switching patients with stable schizophrenia from twice-daily quetiapine IR to once-daily quetiapine XR (400-800 mg/day)...

..Throughout the 1990s, educational initiatives were started for implementing guidelines. Evidence-based guidelines on depression have been formulated in many countries...

..Adherence to treatment guidelines enhances treatment outcome. However, in clinical practice many patients with depression do not receive appropriate treatment...

..Findings indicate a compromised ability of adapting brain activation among those suffering form chronic social reward frustration...

..The authors also sought to establish whether the deficit affects sensitivity or specificity of performance...

..The present data indicate a differential effect of negative mood induction on working memory performance in schizophrenia patients and healthy subjects...

..Negative affect seems to be differentially affected, a finding that which may be already evident in the early course of schizophrenia...

..Results confirm the importance of incorporating individual differences in emotion processing and its interaction with cognitive functions in neuroimaging...

..This study aimed at determining changes of mood-related neural correlates under standardized pharmacological therapy in first-episode schizophrenia...

..Results point to a differentiation between trait and state components in cerebral dysfunctions during emotional olfactory processing in schizophrenia...

..Accordingly, the hypothesis of whether 1-year relapse rate in first-episode schizophrenia under maintenance treatment with risperidone is lower compared to haloperidol in low dose was tested...

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..Brain activity was measured during mood induction in patients with schizophrenia and their first-degree nonaffected relatives...

..Effects regarding guideline orientation and implementation of stepped-care treatment are analysed with an intervention/control group design and prepost data measurement...

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..And although the documentation efforts required are quite extensive, this documentation tool provides a suitable basis for external or internal quality assurance as well as patient-oriented case-monitoring...

..70% of the primary care physicians and 50% of the psychiatrists evaluated the usefulness for practice as good or very good...

..The present formulation of the treatment guidelines and the evidence was agreed upon in a consensus process that included all participants...

..This includes focussing on target areas typical of depression as well as improving outcome by controlling process elements during treatment...

..Results suggest to analyse cost of care in depressive patients further and to discuss a more efficient allocation of health budgets in the field...

..This study aims to look at differences and similarities comparing LRD and LURD performed in our centre since the implementation of the German transplant law in 1997...

..Conclusions must be drawn for a specific training of primary care physicians that focuses on the improvement of diagnosis and treatment of depressed patients...

..The cerebellum showed significant activation in all conditions; its part in higher cognitive functions such as memory was thereby confirmed...

..These results provide new insights in gender-specific cerebral mechanisms...

..To evaluate the accuracy of dose calculation algorithms of different planning systems for postoperative tangential radiotherapy in breast cancer...

..The case reported here is a first analysis of the potential complications associated with the use of this meniscal refixation system...

..The current study provides an essential platform for PKHD1 mutation screening in a routine setting that will largely alleviate molecular genetic diagnostics in patients suspected to have ARPKD...

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..To gain a comprehensive understanding of this, psychopathy must be viewed as a multifactorial process involving neurobiological, genetic, epidemiological and sociobiographical factors...

..In addition, we explain how demand-controlled DBS techniques may be applied to the therapy of OCD in those cases that are refractory to behavioral therapies and pharmacological treatment...

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..These findings indicate that the STN and possibly also ponto-cerebellar pathways are involved in psychomotor control and in the modulation of PLC...

..In addition to these symptoms, the patient was affected by multiple coenesthesias, ego disturbances and bizarre delusions of being influenced by external forces. A multi-causal aetiology of delusional pregnancy is discussed...

..This is shown by example, and criteria to quantify differences of data quality between two groups are defined...

..Hence, negative and positive moods reveal distinct cortical activation foci within a common neural network, probably making the difference between qualitatively different emotional feelings...

..05). There were, however, no significant differences between the groups. Moreover both methods showed similar results. Thus, the results support a significant "whitening" effect of all three dentifrices...

..The results are in good agreement with theoretical descriptions of the BOLD sensitivity under the influence of susceptibility gradients...

..PSM was easy to see and remove at reoperation. PSM and ALG are equally effective in preventing epidural scarring associated with postdiscectomy syndrome...

..It was shown that differences in patient case-mix only account for a small percentage of hospital differences in length of stay. Method, effort and benefit of the regression analyses approach are discussed...

..Hence, the study underlines the need for training in criteria-orientated diagnosis and the application of suitable screening instruments for depressive disorders in general practice...

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..The items investigated herein could prove beneficial for future depression screening instruments to improve the detection of depressive disorders in primary care...

..Details of system set up and example control measurements are presented. Further, electronic and mechanical components are described in detail enabling easy reproduction of the system...

..The results are very promising, as 2/3 of the patients could go back to the same work. 87% of the patients showed a good or very good outcome. This operation should thus be recommended if conservative treatment fails...