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Motivational interviewing to improve insight and treatment adherence in schizophreniaNICOLAS RUSCH
Department of Psychiatry, University of Freiburg, Germany
Psychiatr Rehabil J 26:23-32. 2002..Motivational Interviewing can, with specific modifications for persons with schizophrenia, successfully increase their insight and compliance, because it allows them to explore their own goals and to take a more active role in treatment...
[The stigma of mental illness: concepts, forms, and consequences]NICOLAS RUSCH
Abteilung Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Universitat Freiburg
Psychiatr Prax 32:221-32. 2005..Persons with mental illness frequently encounter public stigma and may suffer from self-stigma. We aim to clarify the concept of mental illness stigma and discuss important consequences for people with mental illness...
Mental illness stigma: concepts, consequences, and initiatives to reduce stigmaNICOLAS RUSCH
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, Hauptstrasse 5, D 79104 Freiburg, Germany
Eur Psychiatry 20:529-39. 2005..Well-designed anti-stigma initiatives will help to diminish negative consequences of mental illness stigma...
Self-stigma, empowerment, and perceived legitimacy of discrimination among women with mental illnessNICOLAS RUSCH
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, Germany
Psychiatr Serv 57:399-402. 2006..The authors hypothesized that a high level of perceived discrimination, little sense of identification with the group of people with mental illness, and a high level of perceived legitimacy of discrimination lead to self-stigma...
Self-stigma in women with borderline personality disorder and women with social phobiaNICOLAS RUSCH
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, Germany
J Nerv Ment Dis 194:766-73. 2006..This may reflect intense labeling processes as being mentally ill due to repeated hospitalizations, frequent interpersonal difficulties, and visible scars...
Measuring shame and guilt by self-report questionnaires: a validation studyNICOLAS RUSCH
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, Hauptstrasse 5, D 79104 Freiburg, Germany
Psychiatry Res 150:313-25. 2007..The discriminant validity of the TOSCA-3 to distinguish between shame- and guilt-proneness may be diminished in clinical samples. The measure of state shame (ESS) showed a large overlap with state anxiety...
Predictors of dropout from inpatient dialectical behavior therapy among women with borderline personality disorderNICOLAS RUSCH
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 39:497-503. 2008..Experiential avoidance and anxiety may be associated with dropout in inpatient DBT. Low life-time suicidality and high anger could reflect a subtype at risk for discontinuation of inpatient treatment...
The impact of posttraumatic stress disorder on dysfunctional implicit and explicit emotions among women with borderline personality disorderNICOLAS RUSCH
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
J Nerv Ment Dis 195:537-9. 2007..Self-reported guilt proneness and implicit anxiety may mediate the negative impact of comorbid PTSD on women with BPD...
Shame and implicit self-concept in women with borderline personality disorderNICOLAS RUSCH
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, Hauptstrasse 5, D 79104 Freiburg, Germany
Am J Psychiatry 164:500-8. 2007....
Extraction of prefronto-amygdalar pathways by combining probability mapsTobias Bracht
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
Psychiatry Res 174:217-22. 2009..We believe that our approach provides a promising tool to assess the integrity of specific structural connections in patients with neuropsychiatric disorders...
Frontolimbic glutamate alterations in first episode schizophrenia: evidence from a magnetic resonance spectroscopy studyHans M Olbrich
Section for Experimental NeuroPsychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany
World J Biol Psychiatry 9:59-63. 2008..Absolute-quantification [1H]MRS can reveal glutamatergic abnormalities which might play an important role in the pathogenesis and course of schizophrenia...
Neurochemical alterations in women with borderline personality disorder and comorbid attention-deficit hyperactivity disorderNICOLAS RUSCH
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
World J Biol Psychiatry 11:372-81. 2010..Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with structural and functional brain changes. Recent models and findings refer to alterations of glutamate and total N-acetylaspartate (tNAA) in this condition...
Reduced interhemispheric structural connectivity between anterior cingulate cortices in borderline personality disorderNICOLAS RUSCH
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, Germany
Psychiatry Res 181:151-4. 2010..Decreased interhemispheric structural connectivity between both ACCs may be a structural correlate of BPD...
Small amygdala-high aggression? The role of the amygdala in modulating aggression in healthy subjectsSwantje Matthies
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Centre Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
World J Biol Psychiatry 13:75-81. 2012..In order to better understand the physiological role of the amygdala in modulating aggressive behaviour we investigated the relationship between amygdala volumes and lifetime aggression in healthy subjects...
Corpus callosum abnormalities in women with borderline personality disorder and comorbid attention-deficit hyperactivity disorderNICOLAS RUSCH
Rüsch, Zahn, Ebert, Tebartz van Elst Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, and the South German Brain Imaging Center, Freiburg, Germany
J Psychiatry Neurosci 32:417-22. 2007..Recent models suggest impaired structural and functional connectivity in this condition. To investigate this, we studied the thickness of the corpus callosum, the largest connecting fibre bundle in the human brain...
Time course of anger and other emotions in women with borderline personality disorder: a preliminary studyGitta A Jacob
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg, Hauptstrasse 5, D 79104 Freiburg, Germany
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 39:391-402. 2008..The BPD group showed also stronger negative emotions over the whole experiment. The study is the first to demonstrate prolonged anger reactions in BPD patients in an experimental setting...
Emotional reactions to standardized stimuli in women with borderline personality disorder: stronger negative affect, but no differences in reactivityGitta A Jacob
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg, D 79104 Freiburg, Germany
J Nerv Ment Dis 197:808-15. 2009..Extreme negative affectivity may be a more appropriate description of BPD-related emotional problems than emotional hyperreactivity...
Visual cortex abnormalities in adults with ADHD: a structural MRI studyJohannes Ahrendts
Section for Experimental NeuroPsychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
World J Biol Psychiatry 12:260-70. 2011..The aim of this study was to clarify the involvement of prefronto-striatal and posterior parietal areas in adult ADHD...
Neurochemical and structural correlates of executive dysfunction in schizophreniaNICOLAS RUSCH
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, Germany
Schizophr Res 99:155-63. 2008....
Inferior frontal white matter microstructure and patterns of psychopathology in women with borderline personality disorder and comorbid attention-deficit hyperactivity disorderNICOLAS RUSCH
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, Germany
Neuroimage 35:738-47. 2007....
