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Prevalence, Severity, and Unmet Need for Treatment of Mental Disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys by Demyttenaere, Koen, Bruffaerts, Ronny, Posada-Villa, Jose, Gasquet, Isabelle, Kovess, Viviane, Lepine, Jean Pierre, Angermeyer, Matthias C, Bernert, Sebastian, de Girolamo, Giovanni, Morosini, Pierluigi, Polidori, Gabriella, Kikkawa, Takehiko, Kawakami, Norito, Ono, Yutaka, Takeshima, Tadashi, Uda, Hidenori, Karam, Elie G, Fayyad, John A, Karam, Aimee N, Mneimneh, Zeina N, Medina-Mora, Maria Elena, Borges, Guilherme, Lara, Carmen, de Graaf, Ron, Ormel, Johan, Gureje, Oye, Shen, Yucun, Huang, Yueqin, Zhang, Mingyuan, Alonso, Jordi, Haro, Josep Maria, Vilagut, Gemma, Bromet, Evelyn J, Gluzman, Semyon, Webb, Charles, Kessler, Ronald C, Merikangas, Kathleen R, Anthony, James C, Von Korff, Michael R, Wang, Philip S, Brugha, Traolach S, Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio, Lee, Sing, Heeringa, Steven, Pennell, Beth-Ellen, Zaslavsky, Alan M, Ustun, T Bedirhan, Chatterji, Somnath

“…CONTEXT Little is known about the extent or severity of untreated mental disorders, especially in less-developed countries. OBJECTIVE To estimate prevalence,…”
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Concordance between the diagnostic guidelines for alcohol and cannabis use disorders in the draft ICD‐11 and other classification systems: analysis of data from the WHO's World Mental Health Surveys by Degenhardt, Louisa, Bharat, Chrianna, Bruno, Raimondo, Glantz, Meyer D., Sampson, Nancy A., Lago, Luise, Aguilar‐Gaxiola, Sergio, Alonso, Jordi, Andrade, Laura Helena, Bunting, Brendan, Caldas‐de‐Almeida, Jose Miguel, Cia, Alfredo H., Gureje, Oye, Karam, Elie G., Khalaf, Mohammad, McGrath, John J., Moskalewicz, Jacek, Lee, Sing, Mneimneh, Zeina, Navarro‐Mateu, Fernando, Sasu, Carmen C., Scott, Kate, Torres, Yolanda, Poznyak, Vladimir, Chatterji, Somnath, Kessler, Ronald C.

“…Background and aims The World Health Organization's (WHO's) proposed International Classification of Diseases, 11th edition (ICD‐11) includes several major…”
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Prevalence and treatment of mental disorders in Lebanon: a national epidemiological survey by Karam, Elie G, Mneimneh, Zeina N, Karam, Aimee N, Fayyad, John A, Nasser, Soumana C, Chatterji, Somnath, Kessler, Ronald C

“…Mental disorders are believed to account for a large portion of disease burden worldwide. However, no national studies have been undertaken to assess this…”
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Psychometric properties of the Lebanese–Arabic TEMPS-A: A national epidemiologic study by Karam, Elie G., Mneimneh, Zeina, Salamoun, Mariana, Akiskal, Kareen K., Akiskal, Hagop S.

“…Several measures have been proposed to evaluate temperament traits and their connection to psychopathology. One recent development in this area is the TEMPS-A…”
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Affective temperaments and alcoholism by Erfurth, A, Vyssoki, B, Kogoj, D, Blüml, V, Walter, H, Salem, B, Karam, EG, Lesch, O

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Prevalence of suicide ideation and suicide attempts in nine countries by Weissman, M M, Bland, R C, Canino, G J, Greenwald, S, Hwu, H G, Joyce, P R, Karam, E G, Lee, C K, Lellouch, J, Lepine, J P, Newman, S C, Rubio-Stipec, M, Wells, J E, Wickramaratne, P J, Wittchen, H U, Yeh, E K

“…There are few cross-national comparisons of the rates of suicide ideation and attempts across diverse countries. Nine independently conducted epidemiological…”
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Mixed affective illness following brain injury by Karam, EG, Saliba, KM, Assaf, EK

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Alcohol use among university students in Lebanon: prevalence, trends and covariates: The IDRAC University Substance Use Monitoring Study (1991 and 1999) by Karam, Elie G., Maalouf, Wadih E., Ghandour, Lilian A.

“…The practical inexistence of research on alcohol use among university students in Lebanon and other Arab countries spurred us at IDRAC to initiate a…”
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Duloxetine and suicide attempts: a possible relation by Salem, Bilal A, Karam, Elie G

“…The possible increase of suicidal ideation with some antidepressants is still a matter of debate. We are reporting two cases of suicidal attempt that occurred…”
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Comorbidity of substance abuse and other psychiatric disorders in acute general psychiatric admissions: A study from Lebanon by Karam, Elie G., Yabroudi, Philippe F., Melhem, Nadine M.

“…This is the first published study from an Arab Near Eastern country to examine the comorbidity of substance abuse with other psychiatric disorders. All…”
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The nosological status of bereavement-related depressions by Karam, E G

“…The validity of excluding bereavement-related depressive episodes which satisfy all the criteria of major depression is examined in this community study. A…”
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Major depression and external stressors: the Lebanon Wars by Karam, E G, Howard, D B, Karam, A N, Ashkar, A, Shaaya, M, Melhem, N, El-Khoury, N

“…This article examines the effect of war events and pre-war depression on the prevalence of major depression during war. A total of 658 subjects aged 18-65…”
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The War Events Questionnaire by KARAM, E. G, AL-ATRASH, R, SALIBA, S, MELHEM, N, HOWARD, D

“…The measurement of exposure to war in large epidemiological studies necessitates the use of easily administered and reliable questionnaires that cover a range…”
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Systems development of child mental health services in developing countries by Fayyad, J A, Jahshan, C S, Karam, E G

“…This article reviews recent findings in the epidemiology of childhood psychiatric disorders in the developing world and the relationship of epidemiology to…”
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PTSD: how frequently should the symptoms occur? The effect on epidemiologic research by Karam, E G, Noujeim, J C, Saliba, S E, Chami, A H, Abi Rached, S

“…The definition of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), like most other psychiatric disorders, relies on descriptive methodology; the formulation of the…”
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The cross-national epidemiology of panic disorder by Weissman, M M, Bland, R C, Canino, G J, Faravelli, C, Greenwald, S, Hwu, H G, Joyce, P R, Karam, E G, Lee, C K, Lellouch, J, Lépine, J P, Newman, S C, Oakley-Browne, M A, Rubio-Stipec, M, Wells, J E, Wickramaratne, P J, Wittchen, H U, Yeh, E K

“…Epidemiological data on panic disorder from community studies from 10 countries around the world are presented to determine the consistency of findings across…”
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