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Therapeutics

• Review: some universal family-based prevention programmes provide small reductions in alcohol use in youths in the short and long term (2 December, 2011)
• Sertraline and mirtazapine do not reduce severity of depression in people with dementia (17 November, 2011)
• Trauma focused CBT for PTSD in young children is feasible, and may reduce PTSD symptoms (29 November, 2011)
• Review: second-generation antipsychotics improve response in paediatric bipolar disorder, but are associated with adverse events (18 November, 2011)
• Review: psychological and pharmacological treatments reduce depression symptoms in adults with coronary artery disease, but have no effect on mortality or cardiac events (18 December, 2011)
• Review: supportive interventions may improve short-term psychological distress in informal caregivers of patients at the end of life (2 December, 2011)
• Adjunctive cognitive behavioural therapy improves response in children with OCD and partial response to serotonin reuptake inhibitors (18 December, 2011)