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Therapeutics

• Review: psychological treatments lead to clinically significant reductions in pain in children and adolescents with chronic pain (9 September, 2010)
• Employment rates for people with severe mental illness in the UK not improved by 1 year's individual placement and support (12 August, 2010)
• The Family Bereavement Program reduces problematic grief in parentally bereaved youths (22 July, 2010)
• Review: mindfulness-based therapies effective for anxiety and depression (22 July, 2010)
• Atorvastatin does not slow cognitive decline in patients with mild to moderate probable Alzheimer's disease who are taking donepezil (20 July, 2010)
• Early school-based screening and intervention programmes for ADHD did not improve children's outcomes at age 10 (28 July, 2010)
• Transference-focused psychotherapy reduces treatment drop-out and suicide attempters compared with community psychotherapist treatment in borderline personality disorder (10 August, 2010)
• Review: bupropion increases abstinence from smoking without affecting mental state in people with schizophrenia (12 August, 2010) Free
• Coordinated multi-component treatment in primary care improves anxiety in adults with multiple anxiety disorders compared with usual care (24 September, 2010)
• Adding aspirin to antipsychotics reduces psychopathology in adults with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (24 September, 2010) Free
• Ten-week comprehensive behavioural intervention for tics decreases tic severity compared to supportive therapy and education (28 October, 2010)
• Review: pharmacological and psychological interventions decrease cannabis use in people with depressive and psychotic disorders in the short term (28 October, 2010)
• CBT, SSRI or both are similarly effective for panic disorder 1-year post-treatment (7 October, 2010)
• Supervised injectable heroin better at reducing street heroin use than supervised injectable methadone or optimised oral methadone (28 October, 2010)
• Review: mood stabilisers monotherapy as effective as combination therapy for treatment of acute bipolar depression in studies with some limitations (28 October, 2010)
• A psychosocial intervention in low birthweight term babies improves performance IQ, visual-spatial memory and behaviour (7 October, 2010)