Background Understanding the prevalence of schizophrenia has important implications for
both health service planning and risk factor epidemiology. The aims of this review are to …

Objective: Bipolar disorder (BD) is common in clinical psychiatric practice, and several
studies have estimated its prevalence to range from 0.5 to 5% in community-based samples …

Background: While there is ample evidence that the prevalence rates for major depressive
disorder (MDD) in the general population are higher in women than in men, there is little …

The literature on the lifetime prevalence of the bipolar spectrum suggests rates of 3–6.5%.
The Zurich cohort study identified a prevalence rate up to age 35 of 5.5% of DSM-IV …

Mental health data were gathered at ages 11, 13, 15, 18, and 21 in an epidemiological
sample using standardized diagnostic assessments. Prevalence of Diagnostic and …

Hallucinations are perceptual phenomena involved in many fields of pathology. Although
clinically widely explored, studies in the general population of these phenomena are scant …

OBJECTIVE: The authors sought to determine if greater seafood consumption, a measure of
omega-3 fatty acid intake, is associated with lower prevalence rates of bipolar disorder in …

Context It has been suggested that attenuated psychotic symptoms (APSs) reported by
people who do not have psychotic disorders signal risk for later severe mental illness …

This paper reviews the current state of knowledge about the frequency, natural history, risk
factors and associations of antisocial personality disorder. Important recent developments …

Objective: To review the literature on mental health and psychiatric morbidity in prison
populations and relate findings to a Danish study on remand prisoners. Method: The …