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Therapeutics

• Universal and targeted cognitive behavioural approaches do not reduce depression in young people at risk of depression (25 October, 2006)
• The Youth-Nominated Support Team for Suicidal Adolescents (version 1) intervention does not reduce suicidal attempts (25 October, 2006)
• Review: psychotherapy plus antidepressant therapy increases response rate in people with panic disorder more than either treatment alone (25 October, 2006)
• Cognitive behavioural therapy does not reduce overall episode recurrence in people with recurrent bipolar disorder (25 October, 2006)
• Major depressive disorder: similar remission rates with bupropion, sertraline, or venlafaxine following treatment switch from citalopram (25 October, 2006)
• Continuing paroxetine treatment reduces recurrence of major depression in the elderly (25 October, 2006)
• Educational workshops and decision support software increase detection of dementia in the elderly in primary care settings (25 October, 2006)
• Training nursing home staff to improve psychosocial care reduces neuroleptic use in people with dementia without an increase in agitation (25 October, 2006)
• Donepezil improves cognitive function and reduces decline in activities of daily living in people with severe Alzheimer’s disease (25 October, 2006)
• Risperidone maintenance treatment increases time to symptom recurrence in young people with disruptive behaviour disorders (25 October, 2006)
• Schizophrenia: risperidone and olanzapine increase time to discontinuation compared with quetiapine and ziprasidone (25 October, 2006)