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Therapeutics

• Review: antidepressant plus antipsychotic increases clinical response rates in psychotic depression (25 January, 2007) Free
• Review: atypical antipsychotics are effective for treating bipolar mania (25 January, 2007)
• Combined olanzapine plus fluoxetine modestly improves symptoms of acute bipolar I depression compared to lamotrigine (25 January, 2007)
• Continuing aripiprazole after stabilisation of a manic or mixed episode of bipolar I disorder delays relapse (25 January, 2007)
• Review: aripiprazole for schizophrenia—more high quality research required (25 January, 2007)
• Risperidone improves symptoms in people who are hospitalised during an acute exacerbation of schizophrenia (25 January, 2007)
• Mirtazapine and nortriptyline similarly effective third-line treatments for depression (25 January, 2007)
• Higher dose venlafaxine may improve response compared with standard doses in people with major depressive disorder and intolerance or non-responsiveness to SSRIs (25 January, 2007)
• Dialectic behaviour therapy reduces suicide attempts compared with non-behavioural psychotherapy in women with borderline personality disorder (25 January, 2007)
• Psychiatric telephone contact following emergency department discharge reduces suicide re-attempts in people originally admitted for attempted suicide (25 January, 2007)
• Review: antidepressant use increases the risk of suicidal behaviour and ideation in children (25 January, 2007)
• Interventions targeting joint attention and symbolic play can improve aspects of these skills in young children with autism (25 January, 2007)
• Bibliotherapy is more effective than waiting list for reducing childhood anxiety disorder, but not as effective as group cognitive behavioural therapy (25 January, 2007)
• Pregabalin and venlafaxine improve symptoms of generalised anxiety disorder (25 January, 2007)
• Review: antipsychotic augmentation is effective for people with obsessive-convulsive disorder who are receiving, but not responding to, serotonin reuptake inhibitor monotherapy (25 January, 2007)
• Group cognitive behavioural therapy increases complete remission of obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms compared with sertraline, but not response (25 January, 2007)
• Light therapy and fluoxetine similarly effective for improving seasonal affective disorder (25 January, 2007)
• Homocysteine-lowering vitamin B supplements do not improve cognitive performance in healthy older adults after two years (25 January, 2007)