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Psychiatry General

Association of cognitive and P50 suppression deficits in chronic patients with schizophrenia.

Jan 31, 2020

Cognitive deficits are core symptoms of schizophrenia; however, their pathophysiological mechanisms are still unclear. A sensory gating deficit, as reflected by P50 suppression, has been repeatedly sh...

Factors Associated with Sleep Quality in Patients with Chronic Widespread Pain Attending Multidisciplinary Treatment.

Jan 31, 2020

(i) To investigate the prevalence of poor sleep quality and (ii) to explore the associations between clinical, cognitive and emotional factors and quality of sleep in patients with chronic widespread ...

Blonanserin patch vs. Other Antipsychotics for Acute Schizophrenia: A Systematic Review of Double-blind, Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Phase 3 Trials in Japan.

Jan 31, 2020

The use of the blonanserin patch (BLO-P) for schizophrenia treatment was approved in Japan in 2019. This systematic review of trials in Japan assessed the efficacy and safety profile of BLO-P compared...

Magnolol alleviates Alzheimer's disease-like pathology in transgenic C. elegans by promoting microglia phagocytosis and the degradation of beta-amyloid through activation of PPAR-γ.

Jan 31, 2020

This study aims to investigate whether magnolol (MG), a natural neolignane compound, can prevent AD induced by beta-amyloid (Aβ) and the possible mechanisms involved. MG dose-dependently reduces Aβ ...

Metformin and trimetazidine ameliorate diabetes-induced cognitive impediment in status epileptic rats.

Jan 31, 2020

Patients with diabetes and epilepsy are more prone to cognitive impairment, dementia, and even Alzheimer's disease. Diabetes-induced inflammatory process is one of the main contributing factors; howev...

Characterization of the dynamic behavior of neural activity in Alzheimer's disease: exploring the non-stationarity and recurrence structure of EEG resting-state activity.

Jan 31, 2020

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia due to Alzheimer's disease (AD) have been shown to induce perturbations to normal neuronal behavior and disrupt neuronal networks. Recent work suggests tha...

Efficacy and Safety of Psychostimulants for Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Jan 31, 2020

Several reports of the effectiveness of the use of psychostimulants for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are available.A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted including double-bli...

Addressing the need for forensic psychological evaluations of asylum seekers: The potential role of the general practitioner.

Jan 31, 2020

Asylum seekers who have survived torture and other abuses may experience a wide range of psychological symptoms associated with depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder. During the asylu...

Who is willing to participate in research? A screening model for an anxiety and depression trial in the epilepsy clinic.

Jan 31, 2020

Anxiety and depression in epilepsy are prevalent, associated with poor outcomes, underrecognized, undertreated, and thus a key area of need for treatment research. The objective of this study was to a...

American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Position Statement: Mental Health Issues and Psychological Factors in Athletes: Detection, Management, Effect on Performance, and Prevention-Executive Summary.

Jan 31, 2020

The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine convened a panel of experts to provide an evidence-based, best practice document to assist sports medicine physicians and other members of the athletic...

Mental Health Issues and Psychological Factors in Athletes: Detection, Management, Effect on Performance, and Prevention: American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Position Statement.

Jan 31, 2020

The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine convened a panel of experts to provide an evidence-based, best practices document to assist sports medicine physicians and other members of the athleti...

Local context effects in the magnitude-duration illusion: Size but not numerical value sequentially alters perceived duration.

Jan 31, 2020

Many aspects of an event can change perceived duration. A common example of this is the magnitude-duration illusion, in which a high magnitude (e.g. large or high value) stimulus will be perceived to ...

Detection of Type2 biomarkers for response in COPD.

Jan 31, 2020

 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a heterogeneous inflammatory lung disease. It is important to identify patients who would respond to anti-inflammatory treatment. This prospective st...

Poor performance of the 'child Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test' correlates with poorer social-emotional functioning in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Jan 31, 2020

The performance of the 'child Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test' (cRMET), a measure of Theory of Mind (ToM), was assessed in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with relation...

A Comparison of Existing Questionnaires for Identifying the Causes of Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases.

Jan 31, 2020

A thorough diagnostic process is essential with regard to prognosis and treatment of the more than 200 different types of interstitial lung diseases (ILD). Key to this complex process is a comprehensi...

Utility of the sleep stage sequence preceding sleep onset REM periods for the diagnosis of narcolepsy: a study in a Japanese cohort.

Jan 31, 2020

The minimum narcolepsy criteria "mean sleep latency (MSL) ≤8 min and ≥2 sleep onset rapid eye movement (REM) periods (SOREMPs) on polysomnography (PSG) and the multiple sleep latency test (MSLT),...

Patient Rights at the End of Life: The Ethics of Aid-in-Dying.

Jan 31, 2020

The end-of-life needs and desires of patients, whether it is related to a terminal illness or age-related end-of-life physiological function, can vary from patient to patient. Each dying patient's cas...

American Indian young adults display diminished cardiovascular and cortisol responses to acute psychological stress.

Jan 31, 2020

American Indian adults are at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease compared with non-Hispanic white adults. Scant research exists examining the underlying physiological and psychological mecha...

Ambivert degree identifies crucial brain functional hubs and improves detection of Alzheimer's Disease and Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Jan 31, 2020

Functional modules in the human brain support its drive for specialization whereas brain hubs act as focal points for information integration. Brain hubs are brain regions that have a large number of ...

GPR160 de-orphanization reveals critical roles in neuropathic pain in rodents.

Jan 31, 2020

Treating neuropathic pain is challenging and novel non-opioid based medicines are needed. Using unbiased receptomics, transcriptomic analyses, immunofluorescence and in situ hybridization, we found th...

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