Almut Zeeck

..Our study aims at identifying prognostic and prescriptive outcome predictors as well as comparative effectiveness in psychosomatic inpatient and day hospital treatment in depression...

..The strong association of SI with therapist rather than patient characteristics and process ratings indicates the importance of further study of the therapist as a person and participant in psychotherapy...

..In bulimia nervosa, more intense treatments are recommended if outpatient treatment fails. This is the first randomized controlled trial comparing the options of inpatient versus day clinic treatment...

..Further detailed analyses are planned to answer the question of differential indication more comprehensively...

..A cluster analysis revealed four patterns of longitudinal symptom change. Day clinic and inpatient treatment are overall effective. Longitudinal and repeated assessments are necessary to validly measure outcome in BN...

..General practitioners, dentists and gynaecologists should be informed about typical signs of the disorder that is often hidden by the patients...

..Explorative comparison of short term outcomes of day clinic and inpatient treatment for anorexia nervosa...

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..Disgust ratings correlated with the amygdala signal negatively, which points to the complex role of this structure within eating disorders...

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..Cerebral grey matter (GM) reduction has repeatedly been shown in anorexia nervosa (AN). Evidence concerning completeness of GM restitution in recovered patients is contradictory...

..This study is aimed at delineating disorder-specific disturbances of emotional perception in EDP...

..These results show that certain aspects of ISE may serve as early and reliable indicators of long term treatment failure, prompting alternate treatment approaches and opening new directions of research...

..Conclusion: Results give first hints for criteria which are relevant for making a decision between inpatient and day hospital treatment in psychosomatic medicine...

..Cerebral grey matter (GM) reduction has repeatedly been shown in anorexia nervosa (AN). Evidence concerning completeness of GM restitution in recovered patients is contradictory...

..Lower rankings of some symptom oriented components were associated with more overall symptom severity and bulimic pathology and may point to a feeling of being overtaxed with the programme or a lack of motivation to change...

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..Research questions comprised differential effects of therapeutic techniques and settings as well as determining which weight gains could be expected...

..In a prospective, naturalistic 1.5 year follow-up study of N= 114 consecutively admitted day clinic patients efficacy of the program and predictors of outcome are evaluated...

..The aim of this study was to explore deficits in emotional perception in restrictive anorexia nervosa (AN-R) and bulimia nervosa (BN), using visual emotional stimuli...

..The resulting prediction model indicates that treatment status is (approximately) linearly related to some criteria and nonlinearly related to others...

..27≤r(2) ≤0.66) by treatment duration and country. Theoretical, clinical and research implications of the findings are discussed...

..We conducted a randomized controlled trial evaluating an adapted form of individual short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (ASTPP) versus primary care management (TAU). The study focused on FMS patients with psychiatric comorbidity...

..Psychotherapy in bulimic patients with a BPD has to focus not only on eating pathology but also on aspects that are caused by the severe personality disturbance...

..Aim of the study was to identify patient characteristics that distinguish drop outs and completers from in-patient treatment for anorexia nervosa...

..Differences between therapy settings are evident concerning intensity and trajectories of the factor scores over time...

..Previous studies examined individual outpatient settings only. This paper gives an overview over theory, instruments for measurement, previous studies and relevance of inter-session-processes for the field of psychotherapy research...

..Six federal states, however, do not allocate beds for psychotherapeutic medicine in particular, but assign them to the area of psychiatry...

..The combination of an intense therapy program with the daily involvement in the outside reality has substantial advantages for some groups of patients and eases the transition at discharge...