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Development of an app for lung cancer survivors (iEXHALE) to increase exercise activity and improve symptoms of fatigue, breathlessness and depression
(2019-11)Objective Exercise‐based self‐management interventions are recommended for lung cancer survivors and can provide physical, psychosocial and emotional relief. Mobile health technologies can encourage self‐management; ... -
Understanding, treating, and renaming grandiosedelusions: A qualitative study
(2019-11)Background.Grandiose delusions are arguably the most neglected psychotic experience in research. Objectives.We aimed to discover from patients: whether grandiose delusions have harmful consequences; the psychological ... -
Violent outcomes in first-episode psychosis: A clinical cohort study
(2019-11)Aim Violence risk is an important part of a comprehensive clinical assessment in first‐episode psychosis. This study addresses limitations of previous violent outcome research in first‐episode psychosis, which has typically ... -
Diagnostic accuracy and clinical impact of natriuretic peptide screening for the detection of heart failure in the community: a protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis [version 2; peer review: awaiting peer review]
(2019-12)Introduction: Patients diagnosed with heart failure in primary care have a better prognosis than those diagnosed in hospital. However, most cases are missed in the community. Recent attention has focussed on the potential ... -
Personalise antidepressant treatment for unipolar depression combining individual choices, risks and big data (PETRUSHKA): rationale and protocol
(2019-10)Introduction: Matching treatment to specific patients is too often a matter of trial and error, while treatment efficacy should be optimised by limiting risks and costs and by incorporating patients’ preferences. Factors ... -
Autoimmune psychosis: an international consensus on an approach to the diagnosis and management of psychosis of suspected autoimmune origin
(2019-10)There is increasing recognition in the neurological and psychiatric literature of patients with so-called isolated psychotic presentations (ie, with no, or minimal, neurological features) who have tested positive for ... -
Withdrawal, dependence and adverse events of antidepressants: lessons from patients and data
(2019-10)Editorial. -
Impulse control disorders in Parkinson disease and RBD
(2019-10)Objective To describe the prevalence, natural history, and risk factors for impulse control behaviors (ICBs) among people with Parkinson disease (PD), those with REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD), and controls. Metho ... -
ENIGMA MDD: Seven Years of Global Neuroimaging Studies of Major Depression through Worldwide Data Sharing
(2019-10)A key objective in the field of translational psychiatry over the past few decades has been to identify the brain correlates common to individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD). Identifying measurable indicators ... -
Supported decision making for people with mental health disorders in clinical practice: a systematic review.
(2019-10)Objectives: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) was adopted at the United Nations Assembly in 2006. The main aim of the convention is to ensure equal rights for people with disabilities including ... -
Predicting motor, cognitive & functional impairment in Parkinson’s
(2019-07)Objective: We recently demonstrated that 998 features derived from a simple 7-minute smartphone test could distinguish between controls, people with Parkinson’s and people with idiopathic Rapid Eye Movement sleep behavior ... -
Variation in spend on young mental health across Clinical Commissioning Groups in England: a cross-sectional observational study
(2019-08)Objectives To investigate whether the rate of spend on child and adolescent mental health is influenced by demand for other competing services in local commissioning decisions. Design Analysis of spend data by Clinical ... -
The Salt Swap intervention to reduce salt intake in people with high blood pressure: protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial
(2019-10)Background: High salt intake is a risk factor for hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Reducing salt intake has been shown to reduce blood pressure. Despite population-level interventions, including product reformulation ... -
Self-reported depression symptoms in haemodialysis patients: Bi-factor structures of two common measures and their association with clinical factors
(2018-08)Objective: To validate the factor structure of two common self-report depression tools in a large sample of haemodialysis (HD) patients and to examine their demographic and clinical correlates, including urine output, ... -
Value of monitoring negative emotional bias in primary care in England for personalised antidepressant treatment: a modelling study
(2019-11)Depressed patients often focus on negative life events. Effective antidepressant therapy reverses this negative emotional bias (NEB) within 1 week. Clinical therapeutic effect usually requires 4–6 weeks. The value of ... -
Treatment for depression comorbid with dementia
(2019-11)Depression is a common comorbidity in dementia. Randomised controlled studies of antidepressants do not show a significant improvement in depressive symptoms in patients with comorbid dementia and are known to lead to an ... -
Ketamine for suicidal ideation in adults with psychiatric disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis of treatment trials
(2019-07)Ketamine may reduce suicidal ideation in treatment-resistant depression. But it is not known how quickly this occurs and how long it persists. We undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the short and ... -
Prevalence of Non-Affective Psychoses in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Systematic Review
(2019-08)Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and non-affective psychoses such as schizophrenia are commonly acknowledged as discrete entities. Previous research has revealed evidence of high comorbidity between these conditions, but ... -
The genomic basis of mood instability: identification of 46 loci in 363,705 UK Biobank participants, genetic correlation with psychiatric disorders, and association with gene expression and function
(2019)Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of psychiatric phenotypes have tended to focus on categorical diagnoses, but to understand the biology of mental illness it may be more useful to study traits which cut across traditional ... -
Is adjunctive CBT really effective for schizophrenia?
(2019-09)Although antipsychotic medication remains the mainstay of treatment for schizophrenia, medications alone are not always successful. Cognitive– behavioural therapy (CBT) is recommended as an adjunct to pharmacological ...
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