Objective To review the literature on psychological and biological findings on resilience (ie
the successful adaptation and swift recovery after experiencing life adversities) at the level of …

Criteria for treatment-resistant depression (TRD) and partially responsive depression (PRD)
as subtypes of major depressive disorder (MDD) are not unequivocally defined. In the …

Deep brain stimulation of the thalamus has been proposed as a therapeutic option in patients
with Tourette syndrome who are refractory to pharmacological and psychotherapeutic …

Objective: Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic disabling disease with
profound implications for social functioning. Thirty per cent of all patients with OCD show …

BackgroundThe course of illness in obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) varies significantly
between patients. Little is known about factors predicting a chronic course of illness. The …

In depression, the ability to experience daily life positive affect predicts recovery and reduces
relapse rates. Interventions based on the experience sampling method (ESM‐I) are ideally …

Non-intervention-related effects have long been recognized in an array of medical interventions,
to which surgical procedures like deep-brain stimulation are no exception. While the …

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is among the most disabling chronic psychiatric disorders
and has a significant negative impact on multiple domains of quality of life. For patients …

Background: The goal of this study was to investigate the co-occurrence of depressive disorders
in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and the effect of these disorders on combined …

The human amygdala plays a pivotal role in the processing of socially significant information.
Anatomical studies show that the human amygdala is not a single homogeneous structure …