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Psychiatry General

Kappa opioid receptors internalization is protective against oxygen-glucose deprivation through β-arrestin activation and Akt-mediated signaling pathway.

Apr 28, 2020

Hypoxia induces reversible κ-opioid receptor (KOR) internalization similar to the internalization that is induced by KOR agonists. In the current study, we demonstrate that this KOR internalization i...

Maternal spontaneous abortion and the risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in offspring: a population-based cohort study.

Apr 28, 2020

Is a maternal history of spontaneous abortion (SA) associated with an increased risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in offspring?Our results suggest an association between maternal...

[Mental Distress and Resilience in Severe Somatic Diseases: An Analysis of Dyadic Relations].

Apr 28, 2020

In this article, we present 3 studies examining patients with current or previous severe physical illness and their partners with respect to dyadic concordance, gender and role differences in mental d...

Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts: associations with sleep duration, insomnia, and inflammation.

Apr 24, 2020

Sleep disturbance has been consistently identified as an independent contributor to suicide risk. Inflammation has emerged as a potential mechanism linked to both sleep disturbance and suicide risk. T...

Sleep disturbance mediates the link between childhood trauma and clinical outcome in severe mental disorders.

Apr 24, 2020

The experience of childhood trauma is linked to more severe symptoms and poorer functioning in severe mental disorders; however, the mechanisms behind this are poorly understood. We investigate the re...

Autism Spectrum Disorder and Narcolepsy: A Possible Connection That Deserves to Be Investigated.

Apr 24, 2020

Narcolepsy in childhood-adolescence is characterized by a high occurrence of psychiatric comorbidities. The most frequent psychiatric disorders reported in these patients are attention deficit/hyperac...

The epidemiology of regular opioid use and its association with mortality: Prospective cohort study of 466 486 UK biobank participants.

Apr 24, 2020

Opioids have, at most, small benefits for non-cancer pain in the medium and long-term but there is good evidence that they cause harm. The current study describes the characteristics and clinical stat...

Cognitive functioning, sleep quality, and work performance in non-clinical burnout: The role of working memory.

Apr 24, 2020

We investigated the relationship between cognitive functioning, work performance, and sleep in non-clinical burnout. In a working population, an online survey was conducted with additional online neur...

Predictors of criminal offending in a clinical sample of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia: A 6-year follow-up study.

Apr 24, 2020

Criminal behavior in schizophrenia has been associated with a number of risk factors including symptoms of schizophrenia, co-occurring personality disorders (PDs), substance abuse, intellectual and co...

Using Complexity Assessment to Inform the Development and Deployment of a Digital Dashboard for Schizophrenia Care: Case Study.

Apr 24, 2020

Health care is becoming more complex. For an increasing number of individuals, interacting with health care means addressing more than just one illness or disorder, engaging in more than one treatment...

The role of pituitary adenylyl cyclase-activating polypeptide in the motivational effects of addictive drugs.

Apr 24, 2020

Pituitary adenylyl cyclase activating polypeptide (PACAP) was originally isolated from the hypothalamus and found to stimulate adenylyl cyclase in the pituitary. Later studies showed that this peptide...

The Effect of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations on the Relationship between Spontaneous Brain Activity and intraventricular Brain Temperature in Patients with Drug-Naïve Schizophrenia.

Apr 24, 2020

Our recent study reported that adolescent-onset schizophrenia showed an uncoupling between intraventricular brain temperature (iBT) and local spontaneous brain activity (SBA). While auditory verbal ha...

Prevalence and predictors of hazardous alcohol use among tuberculosis patients: the need for a policy on joint tuberculosis-alcohol collaborative activities in India.

Apr 24, 2020

Collaborative activities to address tobacco addiction among tuberculosis (TB) patients are in place in India. The research was carried out to estimate the prevalence and to determine the predictors of...

Approach bias for erotic stimuli among heterosexual female college students who use pornography.

Apr 24, 2020

Repeated engagement in addictive behaviors may lead to relatively automatic action tendencies whereby individuals approach rather than avoid addictive stimuli. This study assessed whether an approach ...

First radiolabeling of a ganglioside with a positron emitting radionuclide - in vivo PET demonstrates low exposure of radiofluorinated GM1 in non-human primate brain.

Apr 24, 2020

Gangliosides are biologically important glycolipids widely distributed in vertebrate cells. An important member of the ganglioside family is the monosialylganglioside GM1, which has been suggested as ...

Nonlinear and mixed inhibitory effect of matrine on the cytotoxicity of oligomeric amyloid-β protein.

Apr 24, 2020

The formation of amyloid β-protein (1-42) (Aβ42) oligomers and Aβ42 oligomer cytotoxicity are two defining characteristics of the etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). In this study, we found that ...

Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel carboline-cinnamic acid hybrids as multifunctional agents for treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

Apr 24, 2020

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease with multiple pathological features. Multifunctional compounds able to simultaneously interact with several pathological components have...

GJ-4 alleviates Aβ-induced memory dysfunction in mice through protecting the neurovascular unit.

Apr 24, 2020

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease. AD has become an important social health problem but there are few therapeutic drugs. Many researchers devote to the development ...

Altered clearance of beta-amyloid from the cerebrospinal fluid following subchronic lead exposure in rats: Roles of RAGE and LRP1 in the choroid plexus.

Apr 24, 2020

Formation of amyloid plaques is the hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. Our early studies show that lead (Pb) exposure in PDAPP transgenic mice increases β-amyloid (Aβ) levels in the cerebrospinal flui...

The Clinical Effect of Electroconvulsive Therapy and Its Relationship with Serum Levels of MMP-9 and CXCL12 in Patients with Mania.

Apr 24, 2020

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a non-pharmacological method for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. The precise biochemical mechanism of the effects of ECT is not clear, and since the two fact...

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