[Undersupply of child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient clinics in Austria that can meet minimum requirements].

This article is intended to provide an overview of the supply situation with independent outpatient clinics and dislocated Hospital ambulances for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, taking into account minimum professional standards. The level of care, the mandate to provide care, requirements, structural quality criteria and implementation recommendations are described. 13 outpatient clinics and dislocated Hospital ambulances are described in a data matrix.

Psychiatry training in 42 European countries: A comparative analysis.

Psychiatry qualifications are automatically recognized among European Union (EU) countries despite differences in national training programs. A widening gap between the number of psychiatrists, their competencies and the growing burden of mental illnesses in Europe has renewed calls for international standardization of training. Comprehensive information about training programs is missing, which limits thorough comparisons and undermines development of an actionable strategy to improve and harmonize psychiatry training.

Diffusion-weighted MRI in transient global amnesia and its diagnostic implications.

Objective: To analyze how the evidence of hippocampal diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) lesions may support the clinical diagnosis of transient global amnesia (TGA).

Methods: In this retrospective observational study, 390 consecutive patients with isolated TGA were analyzed, who were evaluated at our institution between July 1999 and August 2018. The size, location, and number of lesions and time-dependent lesion detectability were examined.

Psychiatrists' emotional reactions: Useful for precise diagnosis in adolescence?

Therapist response (countertransference) can be defined as the range of emotions a clinician experiences when interacting with a patient. Previous research has shown that this reaction plays an important role in the establishment of the therapeutic relationship, and that certain psychiatric disorders are systematically related to strong countertransference reactions in clinicians. For this study, 30 videotaped sessions were retrospectively analyzed by one observer using the Therapist Response Questionnaire (TRQ).

Efficacy and tolerability of the ketogenic diet in Dravet syndrome - Comparison with various standard antiepileptic drug regimen.

Unlabelled: There is strong evidence for the use of the ketogenic diet (KD) in Dravet syndrome (DS). The purpose of this study was to evaluate both effectiveness and tolerability in comparison with various antiepileptic drugs (AEDs).

Methods: 32 children (19 males) with genetically confirmed DS treated at our center since 1999 were analyzed retrospectively.