Christian Ruck

..Internet-based CBT, including guidance in the form of minimal therapist contact via email, could be a more accessible treatment, but no study has investigated internet-based CBT for hypochondriasis...

..The Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP) is a self-rated personality inventory. The validity of an observer-rated version of the KSP in unknown...

..The conclusion based on previous KSP findings that the incidence of adverse personality changes following capsulotomy is low and does not increase with time is challenged by the present study...

..Capsulotomy is sometimes used as a treatment of last resort in severe and treatment-refractory cases of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)...

..The second aim of the study was to establish the cost-effectiveness of these interventions...

..We aimed to investigate the acceptability, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of ICBT for IBS using a consecutively recruited sample from a gastroenterological clinic...

..Internet-based CBT (ICBT) with therapist support is a way to increase access to CBT but has not been developed or tested for OCD. The aim of this study was to evaluate ICBT for OCD...

..This study suggests that internet-delivered CBT based on exposure and mindfulness has long-term beneficial effects for IBS-patients...

..We conclude that ICBT can be more cost-effective than CBGT in the treatment of SAD and that both treatments reduce societal costs for SAD...

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..We compared ICBT with internet-delivered stress management (ISM) for IBS to assess whether the effects of ICBT are specific...

..Several trials have demonstrated that Internet-based CBT can be effective for SAD in the shorter term. However, the long-term effects of Internet-based CBT for SAD are less well known...

..The objective of the present study was to evaluate the long-term efficacy and safety of capsulotomy in patients with anxiety disorders...

..The aim of this study was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a new treatment alternative, internet-delivered CBT based on exposure and mindfulness exercises...

..The aims of the present study were to test if the same region was involved in anxiety patients responding to surgery and to examine whether lesion area and site correlated with adverse events and effect on target symptoms...

..Our aim was to investigate if ICBT is at least as effective as CBGT for SAD when treatments are delivered in a psychiatric setting...

..However, a larger randomized controlled trial should be conducted, directly comparing Internet-based CBT with traditionally administered CBT within such a setting...

..03-1.72). Medical and nonmedical costs were substantially lowered. The authors conclude that group-based CBT delivered in a psychiatric setting is an effective and potentially highly cost-effective treatment for hypochondriasis...

..Treatment gains were maintained at follow-up. The results support the use of exposure and mindfulness based strategies in the treatment of IBS, but further randomised studies are needed to confirm the efficacy of the treatment...

..21). We conclude that CBT-based on exposure and mindfulness delivered via the Internet can be effective in treating IBS-patients, alleviating the total burden of symptoms and increasing quality of life...

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..The results could have implications for existing ablative and deep brain stimulation protocols and challenge our current conceptualization of OCD as a unitary diagnostic entity with a single neurobiological substrate...

..Buprenorphine offers lower overdose risk and improved access, but efficacy may be lower. The authors compared adaptive, buprenorphine-based stepped care to optimal methadone maintenance treatment...

..0 (95% CI, 0.9-1.1). The OR for antidepressant use other than SSRI showed a similar pattern. In conclusion, no increased risk of acute pancreatitis remained among users of SSRI after adjusting for confounding factors...