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| Vladeta Ajdacic-GrossSummaryAffiliation: University of Zurich Country: Switzerland Publications
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Prevalence of exposure to potentially traumatic events and PTSD. The Zurich Cohort StudyUrs Hepp
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital, Culmannstrasse 8, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 256:151-8. 2006..The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence rate of exposure to potentially traumatic events (PTE) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a representative sample of the general population...- How ubiquitous are physical and psychological complaints in young and middle adulthood? A longitudinal perspectiveVladeta Ajdacic-Gross
Psychiatric University Hospital, Militarstr 8, 8004, Zurich, Switzerland
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 41:881-8. 2006..To investigate continuity and change of self-reported physical and psychological complaints in young adults over a period of 20 years... - High prevalence of mental disorders and comorbidity in the Geneva Gay Men's Health StudyJen Wang
Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, Hirschengraben 84, Zurich, Switzerland
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 42:414-20. 2007..Several large surveys have suggested high prevalence of psychiatric disorders among gay men and other men who have sex with men... 
Diversity and change in suicide seasonality over 125 yearsVladeta Ajdacic-Gross
University Psychiatric Hospital Zurich, Research Unit for Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Militarstrasse 8, Postfach 1930, CH 8021 Zurich, Switzerland
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:967-72. 2005..This work investigates the smoothing out of suicide seasonality in Switzerland between the late 19th and the end of the 20th century. It includes analyses by region and by suicide method...- Reduction in the suicide rate during Advent--a time series analysisVladeta Ajdacic-Gross
Research Unit for Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, P O Box 1930, CH 8021 Zurich, Switzerland
Psychiatry Res 157:139-46. 2008..It involves valuable challenges for suicide prevention such as timing of campaigns and enhancement of social networks... - Seasonal associations between weather conditions and suicide--evidence against a classic hypothesisVladeta Ajdacic-Gross
Research Unit for Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Am J Epidemiol 165:561-9. 2007..The results represent a novel minor effect in seasonality of suicide, which is hardly compatible with the hypothesized role of temperature in suicide seasonality... - Changing times: a longitudinal analysis of international firearm suicide dataVladeta Ajdacic-Gross
Research Unit for Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Am J Public Health 96:1752-5. 2006..Legislation and regulatory measures reducing the availability of firearms in private households can distinctly strengthen the prevention of firearm suicides... - Age-period-cohort analysis of Swiss suicide data, 1881-2000Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross
Research Unit for Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, Militarstrasse 8, 8021 Zurich, Switzerland
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 256:207-14. 2006..Birth cohort effects remain an intriguing topic in epidemiology of suicide. A better understanding of birth cohort effects might open new doors to suicide prevention... - Changing incidence of psychotic disorders among the young in ZurichVladeta Ajdacic-Gross
Research Unit for Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Schizophr Res 95:9-18. 2007..However, the rates in the youngest age groups showed a strong increase in the second half of the 1990's. The trend reversal among the youngest age groups coincides with the increased use of cannabis among young Swiss in the 1990's... - Prevalence of mental disorders in the Zurich Cohort Study: a twenty year prospective studyJules Angst
Zurich University Psychiatric Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Epidemiol Psichiatr Soc 14:68-76. 2005..In order to minimise retrospective recall in developing estimates of the prevalence of mental disorders in the general population, we conducted a prospective study of a cohort of youth from Zurich, Switzerland... 
Smoking and psychiatric disorders: have subthreshold disorders been overlooked?Karin Landolt
Research Unit for Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, University of Zurich, Militärstrasse 8 PO Box 1930, 8021 CH Zurich, Switzerland
Nicotine Tob Res 12:516-20. 2010..The present study illustrates the need for differentiating subthreshold psychiatric disorders in the analysis...- Sex differences in sub-clinical psychosis--results from a community study over 30 yearsWulf Rossler
Department of General and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, University of Zurich, Militarstrasse 8, 8004 Zurich, Switzerland
Schizophr Res 139:176-82. 2012..Possibly males and females have separate thresholds for certain symptoms because they are differently vulnerable or exposed to various risk factors... - Sub-clinical psychosis symptoms in young adults are risk factors for subsequent common mental disordersWulf Rossler
Department of General and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, University of Zurich, Militarstrasse 8, 8004 Zurich, Switzerland
Schizophr Res 131:18-23. 2011..However, sub-clinical symptoms may not only indicate a specific risk but also suggest a more general, underlying psychopathology that predisposes one to various common mental disorders... - Seasonality in suicide--a review and search of new concepts for explaining the heterogeneous phenomenaVladeta Ajdacic-Gross
Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Department of Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Militarstr 8, 8004 Zurich, Switzerland
Soc Sci Med 71:657-66. 2010..Just as in the epidemiology of suicide methods, the (seasonal) availability and perceived adequacy of methods emerge as the major driving force beyond the seasonal phenomena in suicide... - Risk factors at the low end of the psychosis continuum: much the same as at the upper end?Wulf Rossler
Department of General and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Psychiatry Res 189:77-81. 2011..If there are different pathways to psychosis characterized by specific symptom dimensions and risk factors, they mostly co-exist and interact at different symptom load levels... - The use of complementary and alternative medicine in the general population: results from a longitudinal community studyWulf Rossler
Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Psychol Med 37:73-84. 2007..We have examined data from the Zurich Study to determine trends and predictors of CAM use in Switzerland... - A new rating scale for adult ADHD based on the Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90-R)Dominique Eich
Zurich University Psychiatric Hospital, Lenggstr 31, 8032, Zurich, Switzerland
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 262:519-28. 2012.... - Reappraisal of the interplay between psychosis and depression symptoms in the pathogenesis of psychotic syndromes: results from a twenty-year prospective community studyWulf Rossler
Department of General and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 261:11-9. 2011..It does not only directly influence subclinical nuclear schizophrenia symptoms but also the symptoms of depression... - Attitudes to antipsychotic drugs and their side effects: a comparison between general practitioners and the general populationJosef Helbling
Research Unit for Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
BMC Psychiatry 6:42. 2006..We aimed measuring general practitioners' attitudes to antipsychotic drugs and their adverse side effects and comparing these with the attitudes of the general population... - Incidence of first-ever ischemic stroke in the Canton Basle-City, Switzerland: a population-based study 2002/2003Michal Gostynski
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Sumatrastrasse 30, 8006, Zurich, Switzerland
J Neurol 253:86-91. 2006..However, giving a major reduction in the age and gender specific stroke incidence over the past years our findings might-alternatively-mirror this favourable trend... - Methods of suicide: international suicide patterns derived from the WHO mortality databaseVladeta Ajdacic-Gross
Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Bull World Health Organ 86:726-32. 2008..Our knowledge of the methods used and their variation across countries and world regions is still limited. The aim of this study was to provide the first comprehensive overview of international patterns of suicide methods... - Adult versus adolescent onset of smoking: how are mood disorders and other risk factors involved?Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross
Psychiatric University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Addiction 104:1411-9. 2009.... - Season of birth in valvular heart diseaseDaniela Bosshardt
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 19:246-52. 2005..Despite the decline of rheumatic heart disease, risk factors causing season of birth effects remain relevant for congenital anomalies... - Death has a preference for birthdays-an analysis of death time seriesVladeta Ajdacic-Gross
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Ann Epidemiol 22:603-6. 2012..To examine the relation between the day of death and the day of birth. To determine whether the "death postponement" hypothesis or the "anniversary reaction" hypothesis is more appropriate... - Linking substance use with symptoms of subclinical psychosis in a community cohort over 30 yearsWulf Rossler
Department of General and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Addiction 107:1174-84. 2012..The aim of the study was to examine the temporal associations between substance use and subclinical psychosis symptoms... - Birth cohort effects in neurological diseases: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosisVladeta Ajdacic-Gross
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Neuroepidemiology 38:56-63. 2012..This study applied APC analysis to selected neurological diseases: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Parkinson's disease (PD) and multiple sclerosis (MS)... - Mental health literacy in an educational elite -- an online survey among university studentsChristoph Lauber
Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
BMC Public Health 5:44. 2005..The aims of this paper are to determine whether a sample of university students recognise different symptoms of depression and schizophrenia and to reveal factors influencing correct recognition... - The generalized anxiety spectrum: prevalence, onset, course and outcomeJules Angst
Zurich University Psychiatric Hospital, Lenggstrasse 31, P O Box 1931, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 259:37-45. 2009.... - Are hypomanics the happier normals?Alex Gamma
Zurich University Psychiatric Hospital, Lenggstrasse 31, CH 8032 Zurich, Switzerland
J Affect Disord 111:235-43. 2008..Not much is known about hypomanic states in subjects free of major and minor depressive mood disorders. Our aim was to identify and characterise a group of such "pure" hypomanics in relation to a normal control group... - Are seasonalities in suicide dependent on suicide methods? A reappraisalVladeta Ajdacic-Gross
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Sumatrastr 30, CH 8006 Zurich, Switzerland
Soc Sci Med 57:1173-81. 2003..Hence, the seasonality of the overall Swiss suicide frequencies is but a compound seasonality. It largely depends on specific suicide methods and different cyclical dynamics... - Historical change of suicide seasonality in the canton of zurich, SwitzerlandVladeta Ajdacic-Gross
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Suicide Life Threat Behav 35:217-26. 2005..The recent period does not show any suicide seasonality at all. The canton of Zurich seems to be ahead of the general trend found in other regions of Switzerland... - Atypical depressive syndromes in varying definitionsJules Angst
Zurich University Psychiatric Hospital, Lenggstrasse 31, PO Box 1931, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 256:44-54. 2006..Using prospective data from a community sample, this paper identifies criteria (and correlates) for an AD syndrome that maximizes the association with female sex and bipolar-II... - The interrelation of needs and quality of life in first-episode schizophreniaKarin Landolt
Department of General and Social Psychiatry, Zurich University Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 262:207-16. 2012..This study suggests that when studying quality of life and needs for treatment, it is crucial to differentiate whether unmet needs disappeared or whether they were met, as the former has a stronger impact on quality of life... - Risk factors for stuttering: a secondary analysis of a large data baseVladeta Ajdacic-Gross
Research Unit for Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Militärstr Zurich, Switzerland
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 260:279-86. 2010..An extensive examination of young adults who were initially assessed in childhood might provide the most promising design... - What about psychiatrists' attitude to mentally ill people?Christoph Lauber
Psychiatric University Hospital, Militarstrasse 8, PO Box 1930, 8021 Zurich, Switzerland
Eur Psychiatry 19:423-7. 2004..Firstly, to assess and, secondly, to compare experts' and lay attitudes towards community psychiatry and the respective social distance towards mentally ill people... - [Prevalence of dementia in the City of Zurich]Michal Gostynski
Institut für Sozial und Präventivmedizin, Universitat Zurich
Soz Praventivmed 47:330-5. 2002..The purpose of the study was to estimate the prevalence rate of dementia (PRD) in relation to age, gender, and ApoE-genotype... - Inconsistency in reporting potentially traumatic eventsUrs Hepp
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Zurich, Culmannstrasse 8, CH 8091 Zurich, Switzerland
Br J Psychiatry 188:278-83. 2006..Research on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) relies mainly on self-reports of exposure to trauma and its consequences... - Epidemiology of aphasia attributable to first ischemic stroke: incidence, severity, fluency, etiology, and thrombolysisStefan T Engelter
Stroke Unit, University Hospital Basle, Switzerland
Stroke 37:1379-84. 2006..In a geographically defined population, we assessed incidence and determinants of aphasia attributable to first-ever ischemic stroke (FEIS)... - Specificity of bipolar spectrum conditions in the comorbidity of mood and substance use disorders: results from the Zurich cohort studyKathleen R Merikangas
Section on Developmental Genetic Epidemiology, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, 1A201 35 Convent Dr, MSC 3720, Bethesda, MD 20892 2670, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:47-52. 2008.... - Is depression a risk factor for heart complaints? Longitudinal aspects in the Zurich studyDominique Eich
Department of Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Zurich University Psychiatric Hospital, Lenggstrasse 31, PO Box 1931, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 257:396-401. 2007..The objective of this longitudinal study was to assess the association between major depression and heart complaints in a population of young and healthy adults... - [Expert's and lay attitudes towards restrictions on mentally ill people]Heidi Zogg
, Forschungsgruppe Sozialpsychiatrie, Switzerland
Psychiatr Prax 30:379-83. 2003..g. abortion in case of pregnancy of a mentally ill woman, and that are not medically required. Thus, they contribute to the fight against the stigma that mentally ill people are faced with...