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Surgical and nonpsychiatric medical treatment of patients with body dysmorphic disorderK A Phillips
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RI, USA
Psychosomatics 42:504-10. 2001..2%). These treatments rarely improved BDD symptoms. Results were similar in children/adolescents. These findings indicate that a majority of patients with BDD receive nonpsychiatric treatment but tend to respond poorly...
The Brown Assessment of Beliefs Scale: reliability and validityJ L Eisen
Butler Hospital, Providence, RI 02906, USA
Am J Psychiatry 155:102-8. 1998..The authors developed and evaluated the reliability and validity of the Brown Assessment of Beliefs Scale, a clinician-administered seven-item scale designed to assess delusions across a wide range of psychiatric disorders...
Delusionality and response to open-label fluvoxamine in body dysmorphic disorderK A Phillips
Butler Hospital and the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence RI 02906, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 62:87-91. 2001..These findings are preliminary and require confirmation in controlled trials. The implications of these findings for other types of delusions requires investigation...
Effectiveness of pharmacotherapy for body dysmorphic disorder: a chart-review studyK A Phillips
Butler Hospital and the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RI 02906, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 62:721-7. 2001..Research on the pharmacotherapy of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is limited. No placebo-controlled, continuation, maintenance, or discontinuation studies have been published. Only one augmentation study has been published...
Patterns of personality pathology in patients with generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder with and without agoraphobia, and social phobiaI R Dyck
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Butler Hospital Brown University, Providence, RI 02906, USA
J Pers Disord 15:60-71. 2001..Whereas some of our findings confirm results from earlier studies, others are somewhat inconsistent with previous results and indicate the need for further investigation...
Body dysmorphic disorder. A guide for dermatologists and cosmetic surgeonsK A Phillips
Butler Hospital, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Am J Clin Dermatol 1:235-43. 2000....
Body dysmorphic disorder and depression: theoretical considerations and treatment strategiesK A Phillips
Ambulatory Services, Butler Hospital, Providence, RI 02906, USA
Psychiatr Q 70:313-31. 1999..This paper discusses the relationship between BDD and depression and discusses practical strategies for recognizing and treating BDD and depressive symptoms in patients with depression...
A screening questionnaire for body dysmorphic disorder in a cosmetic dermatologic surgery practiceR G Dufresne
Department of Dermatology and Butler Hospital and Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Dermatol Surg 27:457-62. 2001..88. CONCLUSIONS: This brief questionnaire was a highly effective screening tool for body dysmorphic disorder in a cosmetic dermatology setting. Use of this questionnaire may help identify patients with this syndrome...
Insight and treatment outcome in obsessive-compulsive disorderJ L Eisen
Butler Hospital and the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RI 02906, USA
Compr Psychiatry 42:494-7. 2001..Degree of insight at baseline did not predict response to sertraline, i.e., patients with poor insight were just as likely to respond to sertraline as patients with good insight...
Delusional versus nondelusional body dysmorphic disorder: clinical features and course of illnessK A Phillips
Butler Hospital, 345 Blackstone Boulevard, Providence, RI 02906, USA
J Psychiatr Res 40:95-104. 2006..Additional studies are needed to examine this issue, which may have relevance for other disorders with both delusional and nondelusional variants in DSM...
