Browsing by Author "McBain, Ryan Keniston"
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Context matters: community characteristics and mental health among war-affected youth in Sierra Leone
Betancourt, Theresa Stichick; McBain, Ryan Keniston; Newnham, Elizabeth; Brennan, Robert Thomas (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)Background Worldwide, over one billion children and adolescents live in war-affected settings. At present, only limited research has investigated linkages between disrupted social ecology and adverse mental health ... -
Deficient biological motion perception in schizophrenia: results from a motion noise paradigm
Kim, Jejoong; Norton, Daniel; McBain, Ryan; Ongur, Dost; Chen, Yue (Frontiers Media S.A., 2013)Background:: Schizophrenia patients exhibit deficient processing of perceptual and cognitive information. However, it is not well-understood how basic perceptual deficits contribute to higher level cognitive problems in ... -
Family-Centred Approaches to the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV
Abrams, Elaine J; Fawzi, Mary C Smith; Stichick, Theresa Stichick; McBain, Ryan Keniston (BioMed Central, 2010)Background: Prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) programmes have traditionally been narrow in scope, targeting biomedical interventions during the perinatal period, rather than considering HIV as a family ... -
The Role of Health Systems Factors in Facilitating Access to Psychotropic Medicines: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the WHO-AIMS in 63 Low- and Middle-Income Countries
McBain, Ryan Keniston; Norton, Daniel J.; Morris, Jodi; Yasamy, M. Taghi; Betancourt, Theresa S. (Public Library of Science, 2012)Background: Neuropsychiatric conditions comprise 14% of the global burden of disease and 30% of all noncommunicable disease. Despite the existence of cost-effective interventions, including administration of psychotropic ...