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Therapeutics

• Cognitive behavioural therapy and interpersonal therapy comparably effective for major depression (25 January, 2008)
• Adding cognitive behavioural therapy to SSRIs does not improve outcomes in adolescents with major depression (25 January, 2008)
• Review: Atypical antipsychotics are effective adjuncts for treatment resistant depression but increase discontinuation due to adverse effects (25 January, 2008) Free
• Adding aripiprazole improves major depressive disorder following incomplete response to antidepressants alone (25 January, 2008)
• Managed depression care reduces mortality in older adults with major depression (25 January, 2008)
• Group interpersonal therapy reduces depression in adolescent survivors of war (25 January, 2008) Free
• Cognitive remediation therapy produces moderate improvements in working memory in people with schizophrenia (25 January, 2008)
• Review: Adding Chinese herbal medicine to antipsychotics may improve some outcomes in schizophrenia, but more high quality trials are needed (25 January, 2008)
• Intensive family-based CBT similarly effective to weekly CBT for paediatric obsessive compulsive disorder (25 January, 2008)
• Review: More high quality studies needed to determine the effects on patient outcomes of psychiatric care guideline implementation (25 January, 2008)
• Brief personalised motivational interviewing reduces frequency of marijuana use in regular users ambivalent to change (25 January, 2008)
• The internet-based My Body, My Life: Body Image Program for adolescent girls improves body image and disordered eating

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• Structured outpatient treatments improve some aspects of borderline personality disorder (25 January, 2008)
• Cognitive therapy improves post-traumatic stress disorder associated with civil conflict in Northern Ireland (25 January, 2008)