Adolescent girls who have borderline personality disorder (BPD) pay more attention to negative facial expressions when they’re in a bad mood, according to this study from Germany. Mood-dependent therapy focusing on attentional issues might well be studied in addition to other interventions for BPD, the authors suggest.
RESULT: Attentional Bias in Later Stages of Emotional Information Processing in Female Adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder
Psychopathology | Nov 6, 2009
Search: personality disorder
Results of a 134-patient trial showing that mentalization-based treatment (MBT) has superior results for outcomes such as self-harm when compared with the structured therapy for BPD recommended by the UK’s National Institute for Clinical Excellence. MBT requires less training for clinicians, according to the authors of this study, and is easier to implement in an outpatient setting.
RESULT: Randomized Controlled Trial of Outpatient Mentalization-Based Treatment Versus Structured Clinical Management for Borderline Personality Disorder
American Journal of Psychiatry | Oct 15, 2009
Search: borderline personality disorder
This new single-blind trial from the University of Toronto suggests that psychiatrists with expertise in BPD can achieve results just as good as those from therapists trained in dialectical behavior therapy, which has been shown to be effective in previous trials.
RESULT: A Randomized Trial of Dialectical Behavior Therapy Versus General Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder
American Journal of Psychiatry | Sep 15, 2009
Search: dialectical behavior therapy
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SEARCH TIP: Related concepts
All three of these related searches, using different terms, occurred on the same day last week.
To be sure you’ve caught everything new on a topic in question, it makes sense to do separate searches using related terms from articles relevant to your topic.
It may also help to look at the list of Related Concepts in the left column.
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OTHER RECENT SEARCHES ON SEARCHMEDICA
Search: Tourette’s syndrome
RESULT: Thalamic deep brain stimulation for treatment-refractory Tourette syndrome: Two-year outcome
Neurology | Oct 27, 2009
A prospective multicenter study from Italy and the UK shows that deep-brain stimulation significantly reduces obsessive-compulsive, anxiety, and depressive symptoms among patients with intractable Tourette syndrome. Also, there was a marked reduction in the severity of tics and (perhaps not surprisingly) quality of life improved.
Search: bipolar disorder and crime
RESULT: A Psychiatrist’s Worst Nightmare? Psychiatrist Stabbing Raises Concerns
Psychiatric Times | Nov 2, 2009
A stabbing by a patient at Massachusetts General Hospital’s bipolar clinic late last month renews concern about the growing problem of violent attacks on psychiatrists. This article includes resources to help you defend yourself against the risk.
Search: alzheimer dementia
RESULT: JAD Volume 18, Number 2
Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease | Oct 2, 2009
There may be some articles on Alzheimer dementia in the collection of abstracts behind this uninformative link title. Unfortunately, you can’t identify them at a glance.
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SEARCH TIP: Journals that complicate your search
Most major journals (including those below) make it easy for a search engine to locate article abstracts individually. Each abstract appears on a separate Web page, with a convenient link to full text.
But some journals behave differently, complicating searches.
Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease is one of the few journals that includes all abstracts for each new issue on a single Web page. Because all of its abstracts contain several instances of the word “Alzheimer,” new pages from this journal will always rise to the top of the list in any search that includes that word. (Regrettably, the software interprets them as both recent and highly relevant.)
To find relevant articles, you need to click on the link and scroll down looking for articles about dementia, much as you would scan the contents page of a print journal. The only solution to this technical problem would be for SearchMedica to exclude journals with this formatting entirely.
But scroll on, and you’ll see:
RESULT: Association of Muscle Strength With the Risk of Alzheimer Disease and the Rate of Cognitive Decline in Community-Dwelling Older Persons
Archives of Neurology | Nov 1, 2009
RESULT: CSF biomarkers predict rate of cognitive decline in Alzheimer disease
Neurology | Oct 27, 2009
RESULT: Effects of Family History and Apolipoprotein E(varepsilon)4 Status on Cognitive Decline in the Absence of Alzheimer Dementia
Archives of Neurology | Nov 1, 2009
