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Psychiatry General

Antipsychotics for Relapse Prevention in Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders

May 19, 2022

Current data and guidelines indicate that ongoing antipsychotic medication is critical for avoiding relapse in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, but evidence-based recommendations for th...

Antipsychotic Medication Effects in Schizophrenia Patients

May 19, 2022

Patients with schizophrenia have a wide range of clinical responses to antipsychotic treatment, a typical experience among practicing psychiatrists. However, it was unclear whether this variance repre...

Treatment for Common Mental & Substance Use Disorders

May 19, 2022

The usefulness of therapy as reported by patients was an essential indication of quality in patient-centered care. For a study, researchers sought to determine its routes and predictors in those who h...

Mortality Among Patients Suffering from Schizophrenia

May 19, 2022

Schizophrenia causes people to die 15-20 years earlier. To close this gap, it was critical to understand mortality risk and aggravating/attenuating variables. For a study, researchers performed a sys...

Acute Psychiatric Care: Services & Improving Quality of Care

May 19, 2022

Acute mental health crisis services are critical to service users and their allies, and they occupy a significant portion of mental health resources in many countries. However, acute care was frequent...

New Categories in the ICD-11 of New Disorders: Complex PTSD & Prolonged Grief

May 19, 2022

The inclusion of 21 new mental diseases is one of the most significant developments in the ICD-11. New categories were often proposed to: increase the use of morbidity data; assist the identification ...

The Lived Experience of Psychosis: Co-Written Bottom-Up Review

May 19, 2022

The most intangible feeling of mental disease is psychosis. For a study, researchers sought to provide the first co-written bottom-up evaluation of the lived experience of psychosis, in which experts ...

Comparative Effectiveness of Antipsychotics in Preventing Readmission for First-Admission Schizophrenia Patients in National Cohorts From 2001 to 2017 in Taiwan.

May 16, 2022

Antipsychotics remain the main treatment for schizophrenia, but their effectiveness is challenging to compare. We aimed to assess the comparative real-world effectiveness of antipsychotics in preventi...

Graph Convolutional Networks Reveal Network-Level Functional Dysconnectivity in Schizophrenia.

May 16, 2022

Schizophrenia is increasingly understood as a disorder of brain dysconnectivity. Recently, graph-based approaches such as graph convolutional network (GCN) have been leveraged to explore complex pairw...

A descriptive survey of substance use treatment facilities in Uasin Gishu County Kenya.

May 16, 2022

Substance use disorders are a major problem in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. The objective of this study was to describe the existing resources within substance use treatment facilities in the County, wi...

Analgesic effect of auricular point acupressure for acute pain in patients with dementia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

May 16, 2022

Common and frequent as acute pain is, it is often underestimated and undertreated in older people with dementia in nursing homes and inadequate pain management remains an issue.The study is designed t...

Effect of Probiotic Supplements on Oxidative Stress Biomarkers in First-Episode Bipolar Disorder Patients: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial.

May 16, 2022

Currently no study has examined the effects of probiotic administration on the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and mania, as well as their correlations with the biomarkers of oxidative stress in pat...

Theoretical procedures of the cross-cultural adaptation process of the Child Mania Rating Scale - Parent Version (CMRS-P) for the Brazilian context.

May 16, 2022

To describe the theoretical procedures of the cross-cultural adaptation process of the Child Mania Rating Scale - Parent Version (CMRS-P) for Brazil. METHOD: Seven steps were carried out: (1) translat...

Effectiveness of remote home monitoring for patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): systematic review.

May 16, 2022

Although remote home monitoring (RHM) has the capacity to prevent exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), evidence regarding its effectiveness remains unclear. The...

Correlation between FDG-PET brain hypometabolism and PTSD symptoms in temporal lobe epilepsy.

May 16, 2022

The relationship between post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and focal epilepsy is poorly understood. It has been hypothesized that there is a complex and reciprocal potential reinforcement of the s...

Allostatic load index in patients with multiple sclerosis: A case-control study.

May 09, 2022

Elevated allostatic load (AL) index is a cumulative measure of biological dysregulations associated with stress exposure. It has been reported that stress plays an important role in the pathophysiolog...

A Local Genetic Correlation Analysis Provides Biological Insights Into the Shared Genetic Architecture of Psychiatric and Substance Use Phenotypes.

May 09, 2022

Global genetic correlation analysis has provided valuable insight into the shared genetic basis between psychiatric and substance use disorders. However, little is known about which regions disproport...

A qualitative exploration of daily path and daily routine among people in Ukraine who inject drugs to understand associated harms.

May 09, 2022

Patterns of movement, heterogeneity of context, and individual space-time patterns affect health, and individuals' movement throughout the landscape is shaped by addiction, meeting basic needs, and ma...

Can pediatric bipolar disorder be successfully treated when comorbid with conduct disorder? A secondary analysis of clinical trials of risperidone, olanzapine, quetiapine, ziprasidone, and aripiprazole.

May 09, 2022

Pediatric bipolar disorder (BP) is frequently comorbid with conduct disorder (CD) and its presence adds to the morbidity of BP. While there are no known pharmacological treatments for CD, pediatric BP...

Assessing positive and negative valence systems to refine animal models of bipolar disorders: the example of GBR 12909-induced manic phenotype.

May 09, 2022

Bipolar disorders are defined by recurrences of depressive and manic episodes. The pathophysiology is still unknown, and translating clinical symptoms into behaviors explorable in animal models is cha...

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