Residents' surgical performance during the laboratory years: an analysis of rule-based errors.

Background: Nearly one-third of surgical residents will enter into academic development during their surgical residency by dedicating time to a research fellowship for 1-3 y. Major interest lies in understanding how laboratory residents' surgical skills are affected by minimal clinical exposure during academic development. A widely held concern is that the time away from clinical exposure results in surgical skills decay.

Treatment outcome of 18-month, day hospital mentalization-based treatment (MBT) in patients with severe borderline personality disorder in the Netherlands.

Psychoanalytically oriented day hospital therapy, later manualized and named mentalization-based treatment (MBT), has proven to be a (cost-) effective treatment for patients with severe borderline personality disorder and a high degree of psychiatric comorbidity (BPD) in the United Kingdom (UK). As to yet it has not been shown whether manualized day hospital MBT would yield similar results when conducted by an independent institute outside the UK. We investigated the applicability and treatment outcome of 18-month, manualized day hospital MBT in the Netherlands by means of a prospective cohort study with 45 Dutch patients with severe BPD and a high degree of comorbid Axis I and Axis II disorders.

Motivation for treatment in patients with personality disorders.

The primary objective of the present study is to investigate the association between DSM-IV personality disorders and motivation for treatment in a large sample of patients admitting for a variety of psychotherapeutic programs (n = 1083). Second, we examine whether and to what extent this association is accounted for by other relevant patient variables (i.e.

Prevalence of respiratory disorders in first-degree relatives of panic disorder patients.

Background: Panic Disorder (PD) patients often report a history of respiratory pathology, such as asthma. It is known that both PD and respiratory disorders, like asthma, run in families. A common diathesis for PD and some respiratory disorders may be present both in PD patients and their first-degree relatives.

Anxiety sensitivity and modulation of the serotonergic system in patients with PD.

Anxiety sensitivity, i.e., the fear of anxiety-related bodily sensations, is one of the most studied cognitive variables in panic disorder (PD).

Vulnerability to 35% CO2 of panic disorder patients with a history of respiratory disorders.

Patients with panic disorder often report a history of respiratory pathology. Furthermore, panic disorder patients are vulnerable to CO2 challenges. The increased CO2 vulnerability displayed by panic disorder patients may be related to lifetime respiratory pathology.