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Filter by:The goals of the project are 1) to understand what are the neural mechanisms involved in the psychological treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children/adolescents and adults, 2) to assess potential differences in the neural mechanisms involved in the psychological treatment of OCD between children/adolescents and adults, and 3) to assess the effectiveness of intensive CBT for children/adolescents and adults with OCD.
The investigators hypothesized that add-on memantine (MM) 5 mg/day may reduce chronic inflammation, and subsequently improve neuro-progression process and cognitive function in middle-to-old aged bipolar II disorder (BP-II) patients. In current proposal, the investigators will conduct a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study. The investigators will recruit 100-120 patients with BP-II who are older than 40 years old in three years, and allocate them to add-on MM or placebo plus standard valproic acid treatment in a 1: 1 ratio. The investigators will follow up the participants for 12 weeks and measure the severity of mood symptoms, neuropsychological tests and inflammatory markers to evaluate the therapeutic effects of add-on MM.
The study 'Mindfulness and Relaxation interventions in Individual Training Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents' (MARS-CA) aims to examine the effects of short session-introducing interventions with mindfulness elements (SIIME) on juvenile patients' psychopathological symptomatology and therapeutic alliance at the beginning of the first 24 therapy sessions.
Established evidence base with MBT for treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and/or Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD). Demographic information of United Kingdom prison population highlights large proportion of offenders with PD. There is no agreed universal approach to treatment of PD within Scottish prisons with large variance across the prison estate. MBT pilots in HMP Edinburgh and HMP Cornton Vale have demonstrated positive findings in female offenders which could be replicated in male populations.
This study we will evaluate the benefit of HIV testing in neonates born from HIV-infected mothers in Tanzania and Mozambique. The study will use and evaluate novel point-of-care diagnostic systems, that can provide neonatal HIV test results within 2 hours. We will evaluate if HIV testing at birth followed by immediate neonatal HIV treatment initiation will lead to lesser infant's sickness, HIV progression or even death as compared to the current standard procedure which is infant HIV testing at week 6 after delivery. This will be associated with a cost-effectiveness analysis in order to guide national HIV programs for their guidelines. The study will further evaluate if point-of care viral load testing in mothers at birth will identify high-risk scenarios for HIV transmission from the mother to her child. This should lead to enhanced prophylactic treatments in HIV-exposed infants and we hypothesize that PoC VL monitoring at birth leads to lower transmission rates. The study will be performed at 28 maternity health facilities in Tanzania and Mozambique, half of them will be randomized to provide birth HIV PoC infant and maternal viral load testing, the other half will provide the current standard of care (infant HIV testing at week 6, no PoC VL monitoring at birth for the mother). The study is conducted in public health settings, and some study objectives also focus on how successful modern HIV treatments can be provided to infants, if HIV testing and treatment procedures are feasible for nurses and midwives, and if these procedures can be carried out in a timely manner. This study also includes a basic research component that will investigate how HIV spreads in the body of HIV-infected infants, and if early infant HIV diagnosis and treatment can reduce the spread in cells of HIV-infected individuals.
The PolSenior2 survey is aimed to characterise health status of old and very-old adults in Poland.
Anxiety-related disorders such as panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder are among the most prevalent mental health disorders affecting Canadian adults. Lack of access to evidence-based treatments prevents many people with high levels of anxiety from receiving appropriate care. Evidence shows that exercise is an alternative option for alleviating anxiety that could be appealing to individuals with high levels of anxiety who are unable, or unwilling, to access other evidence-based treatments. Unfortunately, people with high levels of anxiety tend to have a hard time using exercise independently as a strategy to manage their anxiety, in part, because many aspects of exercising can be anxiety-provoking (e.g., physical sensations produced by exercise, opportunities for evaluation by others, crowded exercise environments). Cognitive-behavioral techniques are therapeutic tools that could help these people overcome their anxiety about exercising and support them as they make positive health behavioural changes; however, however, no study to date has explored this possibility. The proposed study will use rigorous experimental techniques to determine whether an exercise-focused cognitive behavioural psychological intervention can support people with anxiety-related disorders to become more physically active and experience the reductions in anxiety that comes from making this lifestyle change.
This study intends to find out the pathogenic genes of bipolar disorder by collecting the two-phase family of Chinese Han population with the large sample using a family cohort study design, combined with the new generation of high-throughput sequencing technology and Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS), Proteomics, bioinformatics analysis, etc., which is expected to be clarified at the genetic level. The pathogenesis of bipolar disorder. At the same time, the investigators will conduct a five-year follow-up of cognitive function, brain function imaging and other major clinical symptoms in patients with bipolar disorder in the core family, and to explore familial bipolar disorder and sporadic biphasic. Differences in the clinical features of the disorder, in order to explore sensitive and specific biomarkers from a multidimensional perspective (cognitive function, brain imaging, genetic features, clinical features, etc.), which may contribute to bipolar disorder in the future. Accurate diagnosis and early identification and prevention have important scientific significance and clinical diagnosis and treatment significance.
A self-designed qualitative questionnaire survey was used to investigate opinions and views among thirty Physiotherapists practising in the UK, who had undertaken formal training in Pilates exercise therapy to treat people with MSK conditions.
The psychoeducation BalancingMySwing (BMS) program has been developed manually and its feasibility has been tested in our previous study. This 3-year research project aimed to further examine the immediate and lasted effects of BMS program for BD, and to assess its knowledge dissemination and the transferability of its evidence-based practice across multiple sites.