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...

May 29, 2023

Combination therapy with antipsychotics has been investigated for treating schizophrenia, and has shown clear advantages among non-invasive therapies. Transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation (T...

May 29, 2023

To examine the impact of comorbid psychiatric disorders on postoperative outcomes in pulmonary lobectomy patients.A retrospective analysis of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Nationwide Rea...

May 29, 2023

The efficacy and safety of lurasidone monotherapy in patients with bipolar I depression with or without rapid cycling has not been previously investigated.We performed subgroup analysis (rapid cycling...

May 22, 2023

Ulotaront (SEP-363856) is a novel agonist at trace amine-associated receptor 1 and serotonin 5-HT receptors in clinical development for the treatment of schizophrenia. Previous studies demonstrated ul...

May 22, 2023

Narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) is a neurological disorder caused by disruption of hypocretin (HCRT; or orexin) neurotransmission leading to fragmented sleep/wake states, excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), a...

May 22, 2023

Cerebral blood flow (CBF) plays a critical role in the maintenance of neuronal integrity, and CBF alterations have been linked to deleterious white matter changes. Several studies report CBF and white...

May 22, 2023

Individuals with severe mental illness are at a higher risk of violence than the general population. However, there is a lack of available and simple tools to screen for the risk of violent offending ...

May 22, 2023

The impact of involving peers on research engagement is largely unknown. The purpose of this pilot study, a part of a larger research, was to evaluate the impact of recovery peer involvement as a stud...

May 22, 2023

The prevalence of depression in diabetes mellitus (DM) patients is very high, and it severely impacts the prognosis and quality of life of these patients. Sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhib...

May 22, 2023

Patients diagnosed withmajor depressive disorder (MDD) usually experience impaired cognitive functioning, which might negatively impact their clinical and functional outcomes. This study aimed to inve...

May 22, 2023

Glutamatergic transmission and N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) have been implicated in the pathophysiology schizophrenic spectrum and major depressive disorders. Less is known about the role o...

May 22, 2023

Several pieces of evidence suggest that the monoaminergic theory of depression cannot fully explain all behavioral and neuroplastic changes observed after antidepressant chronic treatment. Other molec...

May 22, 2023

Focused ultrasound (FUS) is a medical technology that non-invasively stimulates the brain and has been applied in thermal ablation, blood-brain barrier (BBB) opening, and neuromodulation. In recent ye...

May 22, 2023

Airborne pollen monitoring has been conducted for more than a century now, as knowledge of the quantity and periodicity of airborne pollen has diverse use cases, like reconstructing historic climates ...

May 16, 2023

The following is a summary of "Long-term Exposure to Multiple Ambient Air Pollutants and Incident Depression and Anxiety," published in the February 2023 issue of Psychiatry by Yang et al. For ...

May 15, 2023

The following is a summary of "Serotonin 4 Receptor Brain Binding in Major Depressive Disorder and Association With Memory Dysfunction," published in the February 2023 issue of Psychiatry by Köhler-F...

May 15, 2023

An altered stress response can contribute to the transition from preclinical psychotic symptoms to the clinical manifestation of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. The present study was aime...