European Neuropsychopharmacology
Volume 21, Issue 9 , Pages 655-679 , September 2011

The size and burden of mental disorders and other disorders of the brain in Europe 2010

  • H.U. Wittchen

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Center of Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies (CELOS), Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Chemnitzer Str. 46; D-01187 Dresden, Germany. Tel.: +49 351 463 36985x36983; fax: +49 351 463 36984.
    • Equally shared first authorship.
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  • F. Jacobi

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Center of Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies (CELOS), Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
    • Equally shared first authorship.
    • Also affiliated with Psychologische Hochschule Berlin, Germany.
    • ,
  • J. Rehm

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Center of Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies (CELOS), Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
    • Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada
    • ,
  • A. Gustavsson

      Affiliations

    • i3 Innovus, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • M. Svensson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Economics and Statistics, Karlstad University, Sweden
    • ,
  • B. Jönsson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
    • ,
  • J. Olesen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
    • ,
  • C. Allgulander

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • J. Alonso

      Affiliations

    • Health Services Research Unit, IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • C. Faravelli

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
    • ,
  • L. Fratiglioni

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • P. Jennum

      Affiliations

    • Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  • R. Lieb

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Psychology and Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
    • ,
  • A. Maercker

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention, University of Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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  • J. van Os

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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  • M. Preisig

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • L. Salvador-Carulla

      Affiliations

    • UNIVIDD (Intellectual Disability-Developmental Disorders Research Unit), Villablanca Foundation, Reus, Spain
    • ,
  • R. Simon

      Affiliations

    • European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), Lisbon, Portugal
    • ,
  • H.-C. Steinhausen

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Psychology and Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
    • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Aalborg Psychiatric Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
    • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

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