Annette Schaub

TL;DR: The present findings emphasize that patients with reduced hippocampal volumes show more executive dysfunctions than their counterparts, and the mechanisms resulting in reduced hippocampusal volumes seem to be related to the development of major depression.

TL;DR: Research on illness management for persons with severe mental illness indicates that psychoeducation improves people's knowledge of mental illness; that behavioral tailoring helps people take medication as prescribed; that relapse prevention programs reduce symptom relapses and rehospitalizations; and that coping skills training using cognitive-behavioral techniques reduces the severity and distress of persistent symptoms.

TL;DR: These findings show that psychoeducational interventions in bipolar patients and their relatives improve patients' and their relative' knowledge of the illness and the burden of the disorder as well as high expressed emotions are reduced in relatives at 1-year follow-up.

TL;DR: An intensive care program for severely ill AN patients has been successfully established and besides averting physical harm in the short term, this program was designed to enable these patients to participate in more sophisticated psychotherapeutic programs afterwards.