German general practitioners' self-reported management of patients with chronic depression.

Background: Patients with chronic depression (persisting symptoms for ≥2 years) are a clinically relevant group with extensive (co)morbidity, high functional impairment and associated costs in primary care. The General Practitioner (GP) is the main health professional attending to these patients. The aim of this study was to examine the GPs' perception on managing patients with chronic depression.

Medical overuse and quaternary prevention in primary care - A qualitative study with general practitioners.

Background: Medical overuse is a topic of growing interest in health care systems and especially in primary care. It comprises both over investigation and overtreatment. Quaternary prevention strategies aim at protecting patients from unnecessary or harmful medicine.

[Consultation skills training as an element of general practice training in Germany - a qualitative survey].

Introduction: The consultation is at the heart of general practice. It is the central setting through which primary care is delivered. The competency requirements are laid down internationally by competency-based curricula for undergraduate and postgraduate education.

Electrophysiological correlates of target eccentricity in texture segmentation.

Event-related potentials and behavioural performance as a function of target eccentricity were measured while subjects performed a texture segmentation task. Fit-of-structures, i.e.

Visual object representations can be formed outside the focus of voluntary attention: evidence from event-related brain potentials.

There is an ongoing debate whether visual object representations can be formed outside the focus of voluntary attention. Recently, implicit behavioral measures suggested that grouping processes can occur for task-irrelevant visual stimuli, thus supporting theories of preattentive object formation (e.g.