Jun 19, 2023

Applying causal inference methods, such as weighting and matching methods, to a survey sampled population requires properly incorporating the survey weights and design to obtain effect estimates that ...

Jun 19, 2023

Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disease mainly characterized by cortico-neuronal atrophy, impaired memory and other cognitive declines. On the other hand, schizophrenia is a neuro-developme...

Jun 19, 2023

Internalised stigma is highly prevalent among people with mental illness. This is concerning because internalised stigma is often associated with negative consequences affecting individuals' personal,...

Jun 19, 2023

While the evolution of our modern concepts of mania and melancholia over the 19th century is relatively well-understood, no such clear narrative exists for the nonaffective psychotic syndromes that cu...

Jun 19, 2023

There are various factors including inflammation that have been studied in bipolar disorder. NLR (Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio) and PLR (platelet to lymphocyte ratio) are one of them. Various psycho...

Jun 19, 2023

Some studies have shown Burning Mouth Syndrome (BMS) as comorbid psychosocial and psychiatric disorders, and as well, pointed at stress as a major risk factor.The aim of this meta-analysis was to answ...

Jun 19, 2023

Assessing the link between whole-brain activity and individual differences in cognition and behavior has the potential to offer insights into psychiatric disorder etiology and change the practice of p...

Jun 12, 2023

Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker (GSS) is a rare prion disease with heterogeneous clinical presentation. Although sleep-related abnormalities are prominent and well-known in other prion diseases such a...

Jun 12, 2023

Treatment of schizophrenia remains a major challenge. Recent studies have focused on glutamatergic signaling hypoactivity through N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors. Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound...

Jun 12, 2023

Epigenetic aberrations are suggested to play an important role in transcriptional alterations in Alzheimer's disease (AD). One of the key mechanisms of epigenetic regulation of gene expression is thro...

Jun 12, 2023

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is diagnosed by the presence of both amyloid β and tau proteins. Recent advances in molecular PET imaging have made it possible to assess the accumulation of these proteins i...

Jun 12, 2023

Chronic mania is a mental health disorder that has been described by various psychiatrists in the past but currently is not a part of nosology. Robust epidemiological data for chronic mania are lackin...

Jun 12, 2023

People with diagnoses of intellectual disability or serious mental illness have higher mortality rates due to physical comorbidities; better understanding is needed to guide best practice in provision...

Jun 12, 2023

Development and functioning of attention-a key component of human cognition-can be affected by environmental factors. We investigated whether long- and short-term exposure to particulate matter with a...

Jun 05, 2023

Transgender persons can use gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) to align their physical appearance with their identified gender. Many transgender persons report poor sleep, but the effects of GAHT...

Jun 05, 2023

Studies have shown that community-based group rehabilitation activities can have a positive impact on patients.This study attempted to improve schizophrenia patients' social and self-cognition through...

Jun 05, 2023

The hypothesis of dopamine dysfunction in psychosis has evolved since the mid-twentieth century. However, clinical support from biochemical analysis of the transmitter in patients is still missing. Th...

Jun 05, 2023

This issue of the Biomedical Journal contains a special section about cell senescence. The reader gets an insight into the crosstalk between immune system and senescent cells, into an approach to figh...

Jun 05, 2023

Manic and depressive mood states in bipolar disorder (BD) may emerge from the non-linear relations between constantly changing mood symptoms exhibited as a complex dynamic system. Dynamic Time Warp (D...

Jun 05, 2023

Common genetic variants located in calcium channel genes are important markers of genetic susceptibility for bipolar disorder (BD). Previous clinical trials with Calcium Channel Blocker (CCB) medicati...