LANÇON , Christophe

Objective The objectives are to determine the rate of potentially ă inappropriate psychotropic (PIP) prescription at discharge in the ă elderly psychiatric inpatients and to determine whether PIP is ă associated with lowered functioning outcomes. ă Methods Sociodemographic, clinical, and treatment data for all ă inpatients aged >= 65 years...

The aim of this study was to investigate the functional brain substrate ă of quality of life (QoL) in patients with schizophrenia. Participants ă comprised 130 right-handed patients with schizophrenia who underwent ă whole-brain single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with ă Tc-99m-labeled ethylcysteinate dimer (Tc-99m-ECD) for...

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Background: Successful interventions have been developed for smoking ă cessation, but the success of smoking relapse prevention interventions ă has been limited. In particular, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) has ă been hampered by a high relapse rate. Because relapses can be due to the ă presence of conditions associated with tobacco...

The assessment of co-existing psychological and psychiatric disorders is ă advocated in the Standards of Care for the health of transsexual people. ă This study aimed to determine the psychopathological characteristics of ă transsexuals based on a large sample of French individuals and to ă identify whether these characteristics differed...

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The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy and ă tolerability/acceptability of 6 anesthetic agents in ECT for depressive ă disorders. We systematically reviewed 14 double-blind randomized ă controlled trials (610 participants). Efficacy was measured by the mean ă scores on validated depression scales at 6 ECT (or the nearest score if ă...

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Objective: This study aimed to analyse the relationships among psychotic ă symptoms, depression, neurocognition and functioning as determinants of ă quality of life (QoL) in patients with schizophrenia. ă Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we evaluated QoL with the ă Schizophrenia Quality of Life 18-item scale (S-QoL 18), neurocognition ă...

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