- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Antioxidants, Aging, Portulaca oleracea
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Cancer Risks and Factors
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology
- Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
- Migraine and Headache Studies
Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie
2021
University of Bern
2015-2020
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
2018
University Hospital of Bern
2016-2018
Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
2015
The functional outcome of schizophrenia is heterogeneous and markers the course are missing. Functional associated with social cognition negative symptoms. Gesture performance nonverbal perception critically impaired in schizophrenia. Here, we tested whether gesture or could predict ability to adequately perform relevant skills everyday function (functional capacity) after 6 months. In a naturalistic longitudinal study, 28 patients completed tests communication at baseline follow-up....
Background: The status of a refugee or asylum seeker is only recognised after legal processes. uncertainty these procedures the rejection itself may severely impact mental well-being. Methods: We surveyed patterns psychiatric services used by patients whose applications for had been rejected. In retrospective investigation admissions to University Emergency Department in Bern, Switzerland between 1 March 2012 and 28 February 2017, we studied receiving consultation their primary endpoint was...
Gestures are an important part of communication. Patients with schizophrenia present gesture deficits that tend to deteriorate in the course disease and hamper functional outcome. This deficit has been associated motor abnormalities, cognitive impairment, psychotic symptoms. Unaffected, first-degree relatives patients share some subclinical abnormalities. We aimed investigate, whether performance changes symptomatic improvement patients, test longitudinal unaffected, relatives. In this...
Background: The aim of our study was to assess utilization patterns psychiatric services by asylum seekers. Methods: We included 119 adults who presented themselves at the University Emergency Department between 1 March 2012 and January 2017 for consultation. Descriptive data were compared with a control group non-Swiss individuals warranted residence permits using Mann-Whitney-U chi square (χ2) tests. Results: Patients mainly single, male, residing in reception centers, most frequently due...
Hitzewallungen, Palpitationen, emotionale Labilitat, verminderte Libido – bei vielen Frauen gerat in den Wechseljahren ihr gewohntes Leben aus dem Gleichgewicht. In Anbetracht der bekannten Nebenwirkungen sollte die Indikation zu einer Hormontherapie streng gestellt werden, oft ist diese sogar kontraindiziert. Das Interesse an weiteren Therapieoptionen wachst daher stetig. Uberlieferungen und Schriften traditionellen chinesischen Medizin (TCM), welche teilweise mehrere 1000 Jahre alt sind,...