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The transportability of multisystemic therapy to Sweden: short-term results from a randomized trial of conduct-disordered youthsKnut Sundell
Institute for Evidence Based Social Work Practice, National
J Fam Psychol 22:550-60. 2008..g., rates of poverty, crime, and substance abuse) between the 2 countries may also have moderating effects on the rates of rehabilitation among young offenders. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)...
Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: conceptual issues and research evidenceIlan H Meyer
Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Psychol Bull 129:674-97. 2003In this article the author reviews research evidence on the prevalence of mental disorders in lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals (LGBs) and shows, using meta-analyses, that LGBs have a higher prevalence of mental disorders than ..
The Vietnamese version of the Self Reporting Questionnaire 20 (SRQ-20) in detecting mental disorders in rural Vietnam: a validation studyKim Bao Giang
Faculty of Public Health, Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam
Int J Soc Psychiatry 52:175-84. 2006There is a need to develop instruments to measure mental disorders in developing countries because mental disorders are increasingly being recognised as a major public health problem...- Co-morbid substance misuse and mental health problems: policy and practice in ScotlandAlex Baldacchino
Centre for Addiction Research and Education Scotland, Division of Pathology and Neuroscience, Section of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine, Nursing and Dentistry, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
Am J Addict 16:147-59. 2007.... - Understanding mental health treatment in persons without mental diagnoses: results from the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationBenjamin G Druss
Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:1196-203. 2007..Concerns have been raised that this pattern might represent evidence of misallocation of treatment resources... - Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of DSM-IV disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:593-602. 2005..Little is known about lifetime prevalence or age of onset of DSM-IV disorders... - Default-mode brain dysfunction in mental disorders: a systematic reviewSamantha J Broyd
Institute for Disorders of Impulse and Attention, Developmental Brain Behaviour Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of Southampton, UK
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 33:279-96. 2009..are concerned specifically with the putative role of the default-mode network (DMN) in the pathophysiology of mental disorders. First, we define the DMN concept with regard to its neuro-anatomy, its functional organisation through low .. - No health without mental healthMartin Prince
King s College London, Centre for Public Mental Health, Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Lancet 370:859-77. 2007..to neuropsychiatric disorders, mostly due to the chronically disabling nature of depression and other common mental disorders, alcohol-use and substance-use disorders, and psychoses... - Short screening scales to monitor population prevalences and trends in non-specific psychological distressR C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychol Med 32:959-76. 2002..Routine inclusion of either the K10 or K6 in clinical studies would create an important, and heretofore missing, crosswalk between community and clinical epidemiology... - Costs of nine common mental disorders: implications for curative and preventive psychiatryFilip Smit
Trimbos Institute Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction, P O Box 725, 2500 AS Utrecht, The Netherlands
J Ment Health Policy Econ 9:193-200. 2006b>Mental disorders are highly prevalent and are associated with substantial disease burden, but their economic costs have been relatively less well researched... - NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children Version IV (NIMH DISC-IV): description, differences from previous versions, and reliability of some common diagnosesD Shaffer
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York 10032, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 39:28-38. 2000..The interview is available in both English and Spanish versions... - Screening for serious mental illness in the general populationRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Suite 215, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:184-9. 2003..Public Law 102-321 established a block grant for adults with "serious mental illness" (SMI) and required the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to develop a method to estimate the prevalence of SMI... - The British Child and Adolescent Mental Health Survey 1999: the prevalence of DSM-IV disordersTamsin Ford
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Denmark Hill, London SE58AF, England
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 42:1203-11. 2003..To describe the prevalence of DSM-IV disorders and comorbidity in a large population-based sample of British children and adolescents... - Scale up services for mental disorders: a call for actionD Chisholm
Lancet 370:1241-52. 2007..stakeholders, such as professional bodies and consumer groups, to scale up the coverage of services for mental disorders in all countries, but especially in low-income and middle-income countries... - Smoking and mental illness: A population-based prevalence studyK Lasser
Department of Medicine, Cambridge Hospital, Macht Bldg, 1493 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
JAMA 284:2606-10. 2000..However, recent population-based, nationally representative data are lacking... - Lifetime prevalence of mental disorders in U.S. adolescents: results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication--Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A)Kathleen Ries Merikangas
Genetic Epidemiology Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 49:980-9. 2010To present estimates of the lifetime prevalence of DSM-IV mental disorders with and without severe impairment, their comorbidity across broad classes of disorder, and their sociodemographic correlates. - An examination of premature mortality among decedents with serious mental illness and those in the general populationELIZABETH E PIATT
Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, NortheasternOhio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy, 4209 State Route 44, Rootstown, OH 44272, USA
Psychiatr Serv 61:663-8. 2010.... - The treatment gap in mental health careRobert Kohn
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Bull World Health Organ 82:858-66. 2004b>Mental disorders are highly prevalent and cause considerable suffering and disease burden. To compound this public health problem, many individuals with psychiatric disorders remain untreated although effective treatments exist... - Combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, mental health problems, and barriers to careCharles W Hoge
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, U S Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA
N Engl J Med 351:13-22. 2004.... - Childhood adversities and adult psychiatric disorders in the national comorbidity survey replication I: associations with first onset of DSM-IV disordersJennifer Greif Green
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:113-23. 2010Although significant associations of childhood adversities (CAs) with adult mental disorders have been documented consistently in epidemiological surveys, these studies generally have examined only 1 CA per study... - Size and burden of mental disorders in Europe--a critical review and appraisal of 27 studiesHans Ulrich Wittchen
Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 15:357-76. 2005Epidemiological data on a wide range of mental disorders from community studies conducted in European countries are presented to determine the availability and consistency of prevalence, disability and treatment findings for the EU... - Twelve-month use of mental health services in the United States: results from the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationPhilip S Wang
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:629-40. 2005..Dramatic changes have occurred in mental health treatments during the past decade. Data on recent treatment patterns are needed to estimate the unmet need for services... - Prevalence, severity, and comorbidity of 12-month DSM-IV disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:617-27. 2005Little is known about the general population prevalence or severity of DSM-IV mental disorders. - Serious mental illness and physical health problems: a discussion paperDebbie Robson
Health Services Research Department, King s College London, Section of Psychiatric Nursing, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
Int J Nurs Stud 44:457-66. 2007..There are opportunities for mental health nurses to play a significant role in improving both the physical and mental health of people with serious mental illness... - The DISC locus in psychiatric illnessJ E Chubb
Medical Genetics Section, The Centre for Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Mol Psychiatry 13:36-64. 2008..DISC1 is a hub protein in a multidimensional risk pathway for major mental illness, and studies of this pathway are opening up opportunities for a better understanding of causality and possible mechanisms of intervention... - Prevalence, treatment, and associated disability of mental disorders in four provinces in China during 2001-05: an epidemiological surveyMichael R Phillips
WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Suicide Prevention, Beijing Hui Long Guan Hospital, Beijing, China
Lancet 373:2041-53. 2009..country-specific data for the prevalence, treatment, and associated disability of different types of mental disorders. We therefore estimated these variables from a series of epidemiological studies that were done in four .. - Self-harmKeren Skegg
Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago Medical School, PO Box 913 Dunedin, New Zealand
Lancet 366:1471-83. 2005..Although risk factors for self-harm are well established, aspects that protect people from engaging in self-harm need to be further explored... - Risk for psychopathology in the children of depressed mothers: a developmental model for understanding mechanisms of transmissionS H Goodman
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Psychol Rev 106:458-90. 1999..Relevant issues are discussed, and promising directions for future research are suggested... - The endophenotype concept in psychiatry: etymology and strategic intentionsIrving I Gottesman
Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis 55454, USA
Am J Psychiatry 160:636-45. 2003..The authors discuss the etymology and strategy behind the use of endophenotypes in neuropsychiatric research and, more generally, in research on other diseases with complex genetics... - Clinical factors influencing the prescription of antidepressants and benzodiazepines: results from the European study of the epidemiology of mental disorders (ESEMeD)Koen Demyttenaere
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
J Affect Disord 110:84-93. 2008..To examine factors associated with the use of antidepressants (AD) and benzodiazepines (BZD) in 6 European countries... - All-cause mortality among people with serious mental illness (SMI), substance use disorders, and depressive disorders in southeast London: a cohort studyChin Kuo Chang
King s College London, Section of Epidemiology, Dept of Health Service and Population Research, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
BMC Psychiatry 10:77. 2010..Our aim was to characterize vulnerable groups for excess mortality among people with SMI, substance use disorders, depressive episode, and recurrent depressive disorder... - Prevalence and severity of mental health-related disability and relationship to diagnosisKristy Sanderson
University of New South Wales, St Vincent s Hospital, Darlinghurst, Australia
Psychiatr Serv 53:80-6. 2002..This practice may have led to substantial underestimation of the total impact of mental disorders on community health... - Smoking cessation in severe mental illness: what works?Lindsay Banham
South London and the Maudsley Mental Health Trust, Beckenham, Kent, UK
Addiction 105:1176-89. 2010..Smoking-related illnesses are a major contributor to excess mortality and morbidity. An up-to-date review of the evidence for smoking cessation interventions in SMI is needed to inform clinical guidelines... - Development of lifetime comorbidity in the World Health Organization world mental health surveysRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 68:90-100. 2011Although numerous studies have examined the role of latent variables in the structure of comorbidity among mental disorders, none has examined their role in the development of comorbidity. - The role of circadian clock genes in mental disordersElaine Waddington Lamont
Centre for Study and Treatment of Circadian Rhythms, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada
Dialogues Clin Neurosci 9:333-42. 2007..Sleep and circadian changes associated with dementia due to Alzheimer's disease suggest a functional change in the circadian master clock, which is supported by postmortem studies of clock gene expression in the brain... - The burden of mental disordersWilliam W Eaton
Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Epidemiol Rev 30:1-14. 2008..interest in the burden of chronic and disabling health conditions that are not necessarily fatal, such as the mental disorders. This review systematically summarizes data on the burden associated with 11 major mental disorders of adults... - Management of smoking cessation in patients with psychiatric disordersKarl Fagerström
Smokers Information Centre, Fagerstrom Consulting AB, Helsingborg, Sweden
Curr Med Res Opin 25:511-8. 2009.... - Mental disorders, comorbidity and suicidal behavior: results from the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationM K Nock
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Mol Psychiatry 15:868-76. 2010b>Mental disorders are among the strongest predictors of suicide attempts. However, little is known regarding which disorders that are uniquely associated with suicidal behavior because of high levels of psychiatric comorbidity... - Generalizability studies of the Global Assessment of Functioning-Split versionGeir Pedersen
Department of Personality Psychiatry, Ulleval University Hospital, 0407 Oslo, Norway
Compr Psychiatry 48:88-94. 2007..The study aimed to use the Generalizability Theory to investigate the reliability and precision of the split version of the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF)... - A case for establishing complicated grief as a distinct mental disorder in DSM-VWendy G Lichtenthal
Department of Psychology, 3720 Walnut Street, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 24:637-62. 2004..This paper concludes that CG must be established in the current nosology to address the needs of individuals who are significantly suffering and impaired by this disorder... - Serotonin receptor 2C and mental disorders: genetic, expression and RNA editing studiesKazuya Iwamoto
Laboratory for Molecular Dynamics of Mental Disorders, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama, Japan
RNA Biol 6:248-53. 2009Serotonin receptor 2C (HTR2C) is one of the attractive candidate genes for studying pathophysiology of mental disorders. Here we overviewed the genetic, expression and RNA editing studies suggesting the close relationship between HTR2C .. - Evaluation of outcomes with citalopram for depression using measurement-based care in STAR*D: implications for clinical practiceMadhukar H Trivedi
Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Exchange Park Express, American General Tower, 6363 Forest Park Rd, Suite 1300, Dallas, TX 75390 9119, USA
Am J Psychiatry 163:28-40. 2006.... - Prolonged grief disorder: Psychometric validation of criteria proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11Holly G Prigerson
Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS Med 6:e1000121. 2009.... - The DISC1 pathway modulates expression of neurodevelopmental, synaptogenic and sensory perception genesWilliam Hennah
Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 4:e4906. 2009..There is evidence for genetic interplay between variants in DISC1 and in biologically interacting loci in psychiatric illness. DISC1 also associates with normal variance in behavioral and brain imaging phenotypes... - Failure to improve appropriateness of referrals to adult community mental health services--lessons from a multi-site cluster randomized controlled trialMike Slade
Health Service and Population Research Department HSPRD, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK
Fam Pract 25:181-90. 2008..The aim of this study was to investigate whether introducing a standardized assessment of severity improves agreement on referrals... - School absenteeism and school refusal behavior in youth: a contemporary reviewChristopher A Kearney
Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154 5030, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 28:451-71. 2008.... - Comorbid mental disorders account for the role impairment of commonly occurring chronic physical disorders: results from the National Comorbidity SurveyRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Occup Environ Med 45:1257-66. 2003..We illustrate the implication of this neglect by examining the effects of comorbid mental disorders on role impairment (number of sickness absence and work cut-back days in the past month) among people with .. - A Norwegian psychiatric epidemiological studyE Kringlen
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oslo, Norway
Am J Psychiatry 158:1091-8. 2001..The mean age of the interviewed subjects was 39.3 years. RESULTS: The 12-month prevalence of all mental disorders was 32.8%, and the lifetime prevalence was 52.4%... - Bullying at school--an indicator of adolescents at risk for mental disordersR Kaltiala-Heino
University of Tampere, Tampere School of Public Health, Tampere, Finland
J Adolesc 23:661-74. 2000..Among girls, eating disorders were associated with involvement in bullying in any role, among boys with being bully-victims. Bullying should be seen as an indicator of risk of various mental disorders in adolescence. - Use of mental health services for anxiety, mood, and substance disorders in 17 countries in the WHO world mental health surveysPhilip S Wang
Division of Services and Intervention Research, National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, MD, USA
Lancet 370:841-50. 2007b>Mental disorders are major causes of disability worldwide, including in the low-income and middle-income countries least able to bear such burdens... - Cost-effectiveness of a workplace intervention for sick-listed employees with common mental disorders: design of a randomized controlled trialSandra H van Oostrom
Department of Public and Occupational Health, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Public Health 8:12. 2008..of sick leave and the consequences of sick leave for employees, an early return-to-work of employees with mental disorders is very important... - Epigenetic profiling in schizophrenia and major mental disordersKazuya Iwamoto
Laboratory for Molecular Dynamics of Mental Disorders, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Japan
Neuropsychobiology 60:5-11. 2009..such as DNA methylation and histone modifications are important in the etiology or pathophysiology of mental disorders. Here, we review recent studies on the relationship between DNA methylation and major mental disorders... - Prevalence and development of psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescenceE Jane Costello
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical School, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:837-44. 2003..This longitudinal community study assessed the prevalence and development of psychiatric disorders from age 9 through 16 years and examined homotypic and heterotypic continuity... - How common are common mental disorders? Evidence that lifetime prevalence rates are doubled by prospective versus retrospective ascertainmentT E Moffitt
Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Psychol Med 40:899-909. 2010Most information about the lifetime prevalence of mental disorders comes from retrospective surveys, but how much these surveys have undercounted due to recall failure is unknown... - Mental health of young people: a global public-health challengeVikram Patel
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Lancet 369:1302-13. 2007b>Mental disorders account for a large proportion of the disease burden in young people in all societies. Most mental disorders begin during youth (12-24 years of age), although they are often first detected later in life... - Impact of psychological factors on the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease and implications for therapyA Rozanski
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY 10025, USA
Circulation 99:2192-217. 1999..When they do so, the resultant risk for cardiac events is often substantially elevated, equaling that associated with previously established risk factors for CAD, such as hypertension and hypercholesterolemia... - Supervisory behaviour as a predictor of return to work in employees absent from work due to mental health problemsK Nieuwenhuijsen
Coronel Institute for Occupational and Environmental Health, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DD Amsterdam, Netherlands
Occup Environ Med 61:817-23. 2004..To study supervisory behaviour as a predictive factor for return to work of employees absent due to mental health problems; and to explore the association between conditional factors and supervisory behaviour... - Common mental disorders in Santiago, Chile: prevalence and socio-demographic correlatesR Araya
Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff
Br J Psychiatry 178:228-33. 2001..There have been relatively few surveys in Latin America that have attempted to estimate the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in private households... - Failure of neuronal homeostasis results in common neuropsychiatric phenotypesMelissa B Ramocki
Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Neurology and Developmental Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, MS 225, BCMT T807, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Nature 455:912-8. 2008..Copy-number variation, regulation of gene expression by non-coding RNAs and epigenetic changes are all mechanisms by which altered gene dosage can cause the failure of neuronal homeostasis... - Social inequalities and the common mental disorders: a systematic review of the evidenceTom Fryers
Department of Psychiatry, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 38:229-37. 2003BACKGROUND: Of two large-scale government-commissioned studies of common mental disorders in the UK, one found occupational social class to be the strongest marker of risk while the other showed no clear relationship... - Validity issues in transcultural epidemiologyMark van Ommeren
Br J Psychiatry 182:376-8. 2003 - Representativeness of clinical samples of youths with mental disorders: a preliminary population-based studyS H Goodman
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 106:3-14. 1997In a household community sample of 1,285, 9-17 years-olds with mental disorders who had received outpatient specialty mental health services in the past year were compared with youths with mental disorders who had not received those .. - Research applications of magnetic resonance spectroscopy to investigate psychiatric disordersStephen R Dager
Department of Radiology, Neuroimaging Research Group, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1100 NE 45th Street, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Top Magn Reson Imaging 19:81-96. 2008.... - Age of onset of mental disorders: a review of recent literatureRonald C Kessler
Department of Healthcare Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Curr Opin Psychiatry 20:359-64. 2007The aim of this article is to review recent epidemiological research on age-of-onset of mental disorders, focusing on the WHO World Mental Health surveys. - Global pattern of experienced and anticipated discrimination against people with schizophrenia: a cross-sectional surveyGraham Thornicroft
Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
Lancet 373:408-15. 2009..We aimed to describe the nature, direction, and severity of anticipated and experienced discrimination reported by people with schizophrenia... - Promoting child and adolescent mental health in low and middle income countriesVikram Patel
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Sangath, India
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 49:313-34. 2008..We also consider the role of formal teaching and training programmes, and the role for specialists in CAMH promotion... - Apathy and the functional anatomy of the prefrontal cortex-basal ganglia circuitsRichard Levy
Fédération de Neurologie and INSERM U610, Hopital de la Salpetriere, Paris, France
Cereb Cortex 16:916-28. 2006..In both situations (direct basal ganglia lesions and nigro-striatal dopaminergic loss), the capacity of the frontal cortex to select, initiate, maintain and shift programs of actions is impaired... - The health of UK military personnel who deployed to the 2003 Iraq war: a cohort studyMatthew Hotopf
King s Centre for Military Health Research, King s College London, London, UK
Lancet 367:1731-41. 2006..Concerns have been raised about the mental and physical health of UK military personnel who deployed to the 2003 war in Iraq and subsequent tours of duty in the country... - [Suggestions for utilization of the mini-mental state examination in Brazil]Sonia M D Brucki
Departamento de Clínica Neurológica, Hospital das Clinicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Botucatu, SP, Brasil
Arq Neuropsiquiatr 61:777-81. 2003..Mini-metal state examination (MMSE) is a screening test to detect cognitive impairment. The objectives of the present study are to describe some adaptations for use of MMSE in Brazil and to propose rules for its uniform application... - Mental disorders among persons with diabetes--results from the World Mental Health SurveysElizabeth H B Lin
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
J Psychosom Res 65:571-80. 2008..We assess whether associations of specific mental disorders with diabetes are consistent across diverse countries after controlling for age and gender. - The mental health paradigm and the MacArthur study: emerging issues challenging the competence of juveniles in delinquency systemsDavid R Katner
Juvenile Law Clinic, Tulane Law School, USA
Am J Law Med 32:503-83. 2006 - Characteristics of recent violence among entrants to acute mental health and substance abuse servicesA A Mericle
Dept of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 43:392-402. 2008..and substance abuse treatment settings and to examine differences among incidents involving individuals with mental disorders only (MDO), substance use disorders only (SDO), and co-occurring mental and substance use disorders (COD). - Global burden of disease from alcohol, illicit drugs and tobaccoJurgen Rehm
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Drug Alcohol Rev 25:503-13. 2006..The burden of disease attributable to the use of legal substances clearly outweighed the use of illegal drugs. A large part of the substance-attributable burden would be avoidable if known effective interventions were implemented... - Utilization of mental health and substance abuse care for people living with HIV/AIDS, chronic mental illness, and substance abuse disordersMarcia R Weaver
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 47:449-58. 2008.... - Clinical differences among patients treated for mental health problems in general medical and specialty mental health settings in the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationLisa A Uebelacker
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University and Butler Hospital, Providence, RI 02906, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 28:387-95. 2006..We explored whether differences in the clinical characteristics of patients treated in each sector (GM-only or SMH-only) or in both sectors (GM+SMH) may help to explain this finding... - Psychiatric comorbidity in epilepsy: a population-based analysisJose F Tellez Zenteno
Division of Neurology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Epilepsia 48:2336-44. 2007..We assessed the population-based prevalence of various psychiatric conditions associated with epilepsy using a large Canadian national population health survey... - [Frequency of smoking, drinking, and substance use and their relationship to psychiatric comorbidity in children and adolescents with depression]Eniko Kiss
Szegedi Tudomanyegyetem, Szent Gyorgyi Albert Orvos es Gyogyszeresztudomanyi Kozpont, Gyermekpszichiátriai Onálló Osztály, Szeged, Hungary
Psychiatr Hung 21:219-26. 2006..In our study, we investigated the frequency of smoking, alcohol consumption and substance abuse and their association with psychiatric disorders in a child population affected by depression... - Mental health, health, and substance abuse service needs for the Native American Rehabilitation Association Northwest (NARA NW) in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan areaThomas L Crofoot
Eastern Washington University, School of Social Work 121 Senior Hall Cheney, WA 99007, USA
Am Indian Alsk Native Ment Health Res 14:1-23. 2008..Focus group results suggest the need for crisis care as well as specific needs of children and families, veterans, elders, and adults... - Within-state availability of transition-to-adulthood services for youths with serious mental health conditionsMaryann Davis
Department of Psychiatry, Center for Mental Health Services Research, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
Psychiatr Serv 57:1594-9. 2006..This study describes the existence and nature of services within state child and adult mental health systems that support the transition from adolescence to adulthood... - [Frequency of smoking, drinking, and substance use and their relationship to psychiatric comorbidity in depressed child and adolescent population]Eniko Kiss
Szegedi Tudomanyegyetem, Gyermekpszichiátriai Onálló Osztály, Szeged, Hungary
Psychiatr Hung 21:371-8. 2006..In our study, we investigated the frequency of smoking, alcohol consumption and substance use and their association to psychiatric diagnoses in a child population suffering from depression... - Policy and practice implications of epidemiological surveys on co-occurring mental and substance use disordersH Westley Clark
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD 20857, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 34:3-13. 2008.... - Prevalence, correlates, disability, and comorbidity of DSM-IV alcohol abuse and dependence in the United States: results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related ConditionsDeborah S Hasin
Mailman School of Public Health, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:830-42. 2007..Epidemiologic information is important to inform etiological research and service delivery planning. However, current information on the epidemiology of alcohol use disorders in the United States is lacking... - Caring for children with mental disorders: do state parity laws increase access to treatment?Colleen L Barry
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
J Ment Health Policy Econ 11:57-66. 2008..Yet, among children diagnosed with serious mental health problems, a majority receive no treatment. Improving access to mental health services for children with behavioral and emotional disorders constitutes an important policy concern... - Consumer perceptions of integrated trauma-informed services among women with co-occurring disordersColleen Clark
Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, 13301 Bruce B Downs Blvd, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
J Behav Health Serv Res 35:71-90. 2008.... - Correlates of mental health service use intensity in the National Comorbidity Survey and National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationJon D Elhai
Disaster Mental Health Institute, University of South Dakota, 414 E Clark Street, South Dakota Union 114, Vermillion, SD 57069, USA
Psychiatr Serv 58:1108-15. 2007..This study explored sociodemographic and mental health correlates of intensity of mental health care use in two large-scale surveys, aiming to discover the set of correlates with the greatest predictive capacity... - Mental health for persons with intellectual disability in the post-deinstitutionalization era: experiences from British ColumbiaRobin Friedlander
Clinical Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci 43:275-80. 2006..This paper documents the delivery of mental health care in BC for this population and contrasts the dream versus the reality of community living for people with dual diagnosis (mental illness coupled with an intellectual disability)... - Psychiatric morbidity among convicted male sex offenders at Kamiti Prison, KenyaI M Kanyanya
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, P O Box 19696 00202, Nairobi, Kenya
East Afr Med J 84:151-5. 2007..To determine the prevalence and distribution of psychiatric morbidity among convicted male sex offenders and to establish factors associated with sexual offending... - The economic and social burden of compulsive hoardingDavid F Tolin
The Institute of Living Hartford Hospital, 200 Retreat Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106, USA
Psychiatry Res 160:200-11. 2008..1-3.0% had a child or elder removed from the home. These results suggest that compulsive hoarding represents a profound public health burden in terms of occupational impairment, poor physical health, and social service involvement... - Classes of substance abuse relapse situations: a comparison of adolescents and adultsDanielle E Ramo
San Diego State University University of California, San Diego, CA 92093 0109, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 22:372-9. 2008..Findings are discussed in relation to developmental and clinical considerations in treating clients with substance use disorders and comorbid psychopathology... - Symptoms of ecstasy dependence and correlation with psychopathology in Taiwanese adolescentsCheng Fang Yen
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
J Nerv Ment Dis 195:866-9. 2007..Screening the dependence symptoms of adolescent ecstasy users may help clinicians more thoroughly understand their psychopathology... - Psychiatric and medical health care policies in juvenile detention facilitiesKathleen A Pajer
Columbus Children s Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43205, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:1660-7. 2007..Little is known about policies for the delivery of mental and physical health care in these settings. Our objective was to describe current health care policies in U.S. detention facilities... - Racial disparities in mental health service use by adolescents who thought about or attempted suicideStacey Freedenthal
Graduate School of Social work at the University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 37:22-34. 2007..Results indicate that racial disparities characterize adolescents' mental health service use even when suicide risk increases... - Impact of co-occurring substance use on 6 month outcomes for young people seeking mental health treatmentKathryn D Baker
ORYGEN Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 41:896-902. 2007..The aim of the current study was to examine the impact of co-occurring substance use disorders (SUDs) on 6 month outcomes for young people seeking mental health treatment... - Risk for psychiatric disorder among immigrants and their US-born descendants: evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationJoshua Breslau
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 195:189-95. 2007..This pattern is consistent with either of two causal processes, one involving early socialization in the United States and the other involving postmigration experiences among immigrants who arrive in the United States as adults... - Prevalence, correlates, disability, and comorbidity of DSM-IV drug abuse and dependence in the United States: results from the national epidemiologic survey on alcohol and related conditionsWilson M Compton
Division of Epidemiology, Services, and Prevention Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892 9304, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:566-76. 2007..Current and comprehensive information on the epidemiology of DSM-IV 12-month and lifetime drug use disorders in the United States has not been available... - Have broad-based community and professional education programs influenced mental health literacy and treatment seeking of those with major depression and suicidal ideation?Robert D Goldney
University of Adelaide and Adelaide Clinic, Gilberton, South Australia
Suicide Life Threat Behav 38:129-42. 2008Mental health literacy is the knowledge and beliefs about mental disorders that aid in their recognition, management, or prevention; it is also a determinant of help seeking... - The European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD/MHEDEA 2000) project: rationale and methodsJ Alonso
Health Services Research Unit, Institut Municipal d Investigacio Medica IMIM IMAS, Barcelona, Spain
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 11:55-67. 2002The European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD/MHEDEA 2000) is a new cross-sectional study investigating the prevalence and the associated factors of mental disorders, as well as their effect on health-related quality .. - Suicidal ideation and correlates in Taiwanese adolescent methamphetamine usersCheng-Fang Yen
Department of Psychiatry and Graduate Institute of Behavioral Science, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
J Nerv Ment Dis 193:444-9. 2005..Multiple factors, including family, psychopathology, and personality correlate with suicidal ideation in adolescent MAMP users. Subjects showing these characteristics should be monitored for suicidal ideation... - Failure and delay in initial treatment contact after first onset of mental disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationPhilip S Wang
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:603-13. 2005..An understudied crucial step in the help-seeking process is making prompt initial contact with a treatment provider after first onset of a mental disorder... - Comorbidity of DSM-IV pathological gambling and other psychiatric disorders: results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related ConditionsNancy M Petry
Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 66:564-74. 2005.... - Lifetime use of mental health and substance abuse treatment services by incarcerated women felonsB Kathleen Jordan
Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 2194, USA
Psychiatr Serv 53:317-25. 2002..This study examined the lifetime use of alcohol, drug, and mental health treatment services by recently incarcerated women prison inmates...
Research Grants
- Empirical eating disorder classification and validation using prospective studiesNadia Micali; Fiscal Year: 2010..1-1% have anorexia nervosa and 1-3% have bulimia nervosa. Although the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders-IV (DSM-IV) criteria are widely used to classify individuals, the eating disorder diagnoses were not ..
- Empirical eating disorder classification and validation using prospective studiesALISON E contact FIELD; Fiscal Year: 2011..1-1% have anorexia nervosa and 1-3% have bulimia nervosa. Although the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders-IV (DSM-IV) criteria are widely used to classify individuals, the eating disorder diagnoses were not ..
- Hurricane Katrina Community Advisory GroupRonald C Kessler; Fiscal Year: 2010..the enormous devastation and slow pace of reconstruction after Katrina are likely to lead to delayed-onset mental disorders and slower recovery than in more typical disasters, making it important for needs assessment tracking to be ..
- Genetics, family environment, and neighborhood: impact on mental disordersJAN O SUNDQUIST; Fiscal Year: 2010..This in turn will aid health professionals in the diagnosis, treatment, and counseling of those with psychiatric and substance use disorders, and decision-makers and others in developing more effective public policies. ..
- CONTINUITY OF LIMBIC CIRCUIT THROUGH THE BASAL GANGLIASuzanne Haber; Fiscal Year: 2009b>Mental disorders, including, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), schizophrenia, and drug addiction are linked to pathology in the cortico-basal ganglia (BG), reward circuit...
- TWO TYPES OF MONOAMINE OXIDASEJean Shih; Fiscal Year: 2007..Abnormal levels of MAO activity have been associated with a number of mental disorders. A better understanding of these isoenzymes will allow for the development of more effective treatments for ..
- Development of Amygdala specific monoclonal AntibodiesAndreas Kottmann; Fiscal Year: 2002..structures, which consolidate and express emotions and has been implicated in the pathogenesis of affective mental disorders including depression...
- Adolescent Psychopathology: Implications of Co-MorbidityAnn Vander Stoep; Fiscal Year: 2009..Critical to the Healthy People 2010 objective of reducing the prevalence of mental disorders among young people is a clearer understanding of the developmental processes underlying childhood ..
- MENTAL HEALTH AND NURSE STAFFING IN US NURSING HOMESSarah Myers; Fiscal Year: 2003Using 1998 data, we have estimated persons with mental disorders in U.S. nursing homes may now total approximately 1,000,000, or 67% of all residents...
- Understanding Health Disparities in the Progression of Type 2 DiabetesJAMES SIDNEY JACKSON; Fiscal Year: 2010..studies have consistently found that blacks, in comparison to whites, have the same or lower rates of most mental disorders, even while experiencing higher rates of psychological distress...
- NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF SCHIZOPHRENIAROBERT MC CARLEY; Fiscal Year: 2009..NIMH area of interest - Translational Science: Innovative Targets and Models for Developing Treatments for Mental Disorders. The overall goal is the creation of an in vitro animal model of high frequency (gamma band; approx 40Hz) ..
- THE TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION OF MONOAMINE OXIDASE AJean Shih; Fiscal Year: 2007The long-term objective of this project is to understand the role of monoamine oxidase A (MAO A) in mental disorders. MAO A is the key enzyme, which degrades serotonin (5-HT)...
- Social Aggression: Growth and OutcomesMarion Underwood; Fiscal Year: 2009..the development and consequences of social aggression may clarify the role of gender in emerging mental disorders, because girls engage in more social than physical aggression and social aggression might contribute to ..
- Social Aggression: Growth and OutcomesMarion K Underwood; Fiscal Year: 2010..the development and consequences of social aggression may clarify the role of gender in emerging mental disorders, because girls engage in more social than physical aggression and social aggression might contribute to ..
- Testing a Comorbid PTSD & Substance/Alcohol Use Intervention in Delinquent GirlsAmy E Lansing; Fiscal Year: 2010..in juvenile delinquent populations where 67% - 75% have impairing psychiatric disorders, 20% have severe mental disorders and more than 1/3 need ongoing clinical MHS care- a figure twice the rate of the general adolescent ..
- Where do Eating Disorders belong in the Diagnostic Taxonomy?Kelsie Forbush; Fiscal Year: 2007Recent studies suggest that a dimensional, hierarchical model of mental disorders has clear advantages over a categorical nosology...
- A Multimedia Program to Improve Antidepressant Adherence and Prevent RelapseMARTA MAKARUSHKA; Fiscal Year: 2007Major depression is one of the most prevalent mental disorders to afflict adults. It seriously impacts role functioning and typically takes a recurrent course...
- CONTINUITY OF CARE & OUTCOME OF SEVERE MENTAL DISORDERSRamin Mojtabai; Fiscal Year: 2003..the principal investigator a career in mental health services research with a focus on patients with severe mental disorders. The candidate's long-term research goal is to apply the rigorous methods and analytic tools of epidemiology ..