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List of works by Javier Ballesteros

A meta-analysis of the efficacy of albendazole compared with tinidazole as treatments for Giardia infections in children.

scientific article published on 14 October 2015

A randomized trial to assess the efficacy of a psychoeducational intervention on caregiver burden in schizophrenia.

scientific article published on 4 February 2016

A systematic review and meta-analysis of MTHFR polymorphisms in methotrexate toxicity prediction in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

scientific article published on 23 October 2012

An independent meta-analysis using summary data for clinical response, remission, and discontinuation for any reason from the 6 pivotal phase III randomized clinical trials of duloxetine in major depressive disorder

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

Anxiety as a marker of severity in acute mania

scientific article published on 24 May 2012

Apomorphine for the treatment of erectile dysfunction

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Assessment of Psychiatric Symptomatology in Bilingual Psychotic Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Assessment of the consequences of caregiving in psychosis: a psychometric comparison of the Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI) and the Involvement Evaluation Questionnaire (IEQ).

scientific article published on 05 April 2017

Attention deficits and response to drug therapy in patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia: results through confirmatory factor analysis

scientific article published in April 2010

Bcl-2 and BLIMP-1 expression predict worse prognosis in gastric diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLCBL) while other markers for nodal DLBCL are not useful.

scientific article published on 9 February 2012

Brief interventions for hazardous drinkers delivered in primary care are equally effective in men and women.

scientific article published in January 2004

Can we really accelerate and enhance the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant effect? A randomized clinical trial and a meta-analysis of pindolol in nonresistant depression.

scientific article published on 19 October 2010

Chromosome instability in lymphocytes of children with coeliac disease.

scientific article published in July 2009

Cognitive performance and smoking in first-episode psychosis: the self-medication hypothesis.

scientific article published on 14 September 2010

Congestive heart failure in a 77-year-old woman receiving adjuvant treatment with imatinib for a large gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumour

scientific article published on 01 June 2012

Development of in-vivo resistance after quinolone treatment of gonococcal urethritis

scientific article published on 01 June 1997

Differential [(3)H]idazoxan and [(3)H]2-(2-benzofuranyl)-2-imidazoline (2-BFI) binding to imidazoline I(2) receptors in human postmortem frontal cortex.

scientific article published in July 2001

Dimensions of mania: differences between mixed and pure episodes.

scientific article published in August 2004

Dissociation between I2-imidazoline receptors and MAO-B activity in platelets of patients with Alzheimer's type dementia.

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Effectiveness of a psychoeducational intervention group program in the reduction of the burden experienced by caregivers of patients with dementia: the EDUCA-II randomized trial

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Efficacy of MLC601 on functional recovery after stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

scientific article published on 18 February 2016

Efficacy of mebendazole in paediatric patients with giardiasis: A systematic review and meta-analysis

scholarly article by Angel A Escobedo et al published 6 August 2018 in Acta Tropica

Evaluación psicométrica comparativa de las versiones en español de 6, 17 y 21 ítems de la Escala de valoración de Hamilton para la evaluación de la depresión

First episode in bipolar disorder: misdiagnosis and psychotic symptoms

scientific article published on 01 July 1998

Folic acid for fragile X syndrome

scientific article (publication date: 11 May 2011)

Folic acid for fragile X syndrome

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How does collective violence shape the health status of its victims? Conceptual model and design of the ISAVIC study

scientific article published on 6 April 2011

I2-Imidazoline Receptors in Platelets of Patients with Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's Type Dementiaa

scholarly article by ISABEL ULIBARRI et al published June 1999 in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

I2-Imidazoline receptors and monoamine oxidase B enzyme sites in human brain: covariation with age

scientific article published on 01 July 2000

Impact of collective violence on health status. Results of the ISAVIC study in the Basque Region (Spain)

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Impact of depressive symptoms on subjective well-being: the importance of patient-reported outcomes in schizophrenia

scientific article published on September 27, 2011

Improving systematic reviews on psychometric properties of measurement instruments: a letter to the Editor commenting on Reilly et al.'s (2015) review of the psychometric literature on QIDS.

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Is there a subgroup of long-term evolution among patients with advanced lung cancer?: hints from the analysis of survival curves from cancer registry data

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L-acetylcarnitine for fragile X syndrome

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L-acetylcarnitine for treating fragile X syndrome

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MTHFR 677TT genotype and toxicity of methotrexate: controversial results

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Measuring burden in caregivers of people with multiple sclerosis: psychometric properties of the CSI questionnaire

Mental health professionals' attitudes towards mental illness: professional and cultural factors in the INTER NOS study

scientific article published on 20 January 2018

Number of prior episodes and the presence of depressive symptoms are associated with longer length of stay for patients with acute manic episodes

scientific article published on 10 March 2012

Orphan comparisons and indirect meta-analysis: a case study on antidepressant efficacy in dysthymia comparing tricyclic antidepressants, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and monoamine oxidase inhibitors by using general linear models.

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Outcome of memory rehabilitation in traumatic brain injury assessed by neuropsychological tests and questionnaires.

scientific article published in November 2003

P.2.e.008 Validity and reliability of the Spanish version of the Bech-Rafaelsen's mania (MAS) and melancholia (MES) scales for bipolar disorders

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Pharmacogenetics of microRNAs and microRNAs biogenesis machinery in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia

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Polymorphisms of the SLCO1B1 gene predict methotrexate-related toxicity in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

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Principal components of mania

scientific article published in September 2003

Psychometric properties of the SDM-Q-9 questionnaire for shared decision-making in multiple sclerosis: item response theory modelling and confirmatory factor analysis

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Quality of life in patients with schizophrenia in five European countries: the EPSILON study

scientific article published in April 2002

Radiotherapy plus nimotuzumab or placebo in the treatment of high grade glioma patients: results from a randomized, double blind trial

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Recent cocaine use is a significant risk factor for sudden cardiovascular death in 15-49-year-old subjects: a forensic case-control study

scientific article published on 27 August 2014

Retention rates in two naltrexone programmes for heroin addicts in Vitoria, Spain.

scientific article published in January 1995

Sensitivity to change, discriminative performance, and cutoff criteria to define remission for embedded short scales of the Hamilton depression rating scale (HAMD)

scientific article published on 26 January 2007

Sexual functioning in women and men with fibromyalgia.

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Specific binding of [3H]Ro 19-6327 (lazabemide) to monoamine oxidase B is increased in frontal cortex of suicide victims after controlling for age at death.

scientific article published on 13 June 2007

Suicidal ideation in patients with fibromyalgia: a cross-sectional study

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Systematic review of pharmacological treatments in fragile X syndrome

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Tardive dyskinesia associated with higher mortality in psychiatric patients: results of a meta-analysis of seven independent studies

scientific article published on 01 April 2000

The density of monoamine oxidase B sites is not altered in the postmortem brain of alcoholics

scientific article published in November 1997

The subjective well-being under neuroleptic scale - short version (SWN-K) and the SF-36 health survey as quality of life measures in patients with schizophrenia.

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The sufficiency of the HAM-D6as an outcome instrument in the acute therapy of antidepressants in the outpatient setting

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Underlying dimensions of the EORTC QLQ-C30 in a Cuban population of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer

scientific article published on 02 November 2020

Unidimensional 12-item Zarit Caregiver Burden Interview for the assessment of dementia caregivers' burden obtained by item response theory

scientific article published on 04 October 2012

Validación de la versión en castellano de la Escala del Bienestar Subjetivo con Neurolépticos (SWN-K) en pacientes con esquizofrenia

Validation of a Spanish version of the Revised Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQR).

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Validity and reliability of the Spanish versions of the Bech-Rafaelsen's mania and melancholia scales for bipolar disorders

scientific article published on 13 December 2007

[Commentary] quality improvement interventions for screening and treatment of at-risk drinkers need to be sustained and positively reinforced over time to maximize results

scientific article published in August 2008

[GHQ-60: review of its factorial structure in primary care patients]

scientific article published on 01 May 2006