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Psychiatry General

A Systematic Review of Childhood Adversity and Executive Functions Outcomes among Adults.

Apr 04, 2022

Exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is linked to disruptions in typical neurodevelopment of brain structures and functioning, including changes in executive functions. Although the relati...

How do social factors relate to blunted facial affect in schizophrenia? A digital phenotyping study using ambulatory video recordings.

Apr 04, 2022

Clinical interviews and laboratory-based emotional induction paradigms provide consistent evidence that facial affect is blunted in many individuals with schizophrenia. Although it is clear that blunt...

A DSM-5-based tool to monitor concurrent mood and premenstrual symptoms: the McMaster Premenstrual and Mood Symptom Scale (MAC-PMSS).

Apr 04, 2022

Despite high co-morbidity between premenstrual dysphoric disorder and mood disorders, there is a gap of research-based tools to monitor concurrent premenstrual and mood symptoms. In this study, we dev...

The use of modern dopamine partial agonists in bipolar depression: is the evidence sound?

Apr 04, 2022

Bipolar depression is a leading cause of morbidity in patients with bipolar disorder (BD) with at least half of bipolar patients who initially present with a depressive episode. While several pharmaco...

The anticholinergic burden is not associated with cognitive impairments in patients treated by electroconvulsive therapy for treatment-resistant depression.

Apr 04, 2022

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the most effective non-pharmacological treatment for treatment-resistant depression (TRD) but can expose to transient cognitive impairments. Understanding factors un...

Childhood adversity and adulthood major depressive disorder.

Apr 04, 2022

Examine how specific types of childhood adversity are associated with clinical features and treatment in adults with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD).This is a secondary analysis of the 35-site VA Augm...

Self-Harm Among Adult Outpatients: Dialectical Behavior Therapy vs Usual Care

Mar 29, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to compare two low-intensity outreach programs with standard treatment to prevent suicidal conduct in outpatients who have recently had frequent suicidal thoughts. Outp...

Neuropsychiatric manifestations in vitamin B12 deficiency.

Mar 28, 2022

Vitamin B12 deficiency can have distressing neuropsychiatric symptoms. It can have an etiological role in clinical presentations like depression, anxiety, psychosis, dementia, and delirium, requiring ...

Adult stress exposure blunts dopamine system hyperresponsivity in a neurodevelopmental rodent model of schizophrenia.

Mar 28, 2022

Stress is a major risk factor for the development of both schizophrenia and depression, and comorbidity between the two is common in schizoaffective disorders. However, the effects of stress exposure ...

Metacognitive training for psychosis (MCT): past, present, and future.

Mar 28, 2022

This article provides an overview and retrospective on metacognitive training for psychosis (MCT), which first appeared approximately 2 decades ago. We recount how our empirical understanding of psych...

Butyrate emerges as a crucial effector of Zhi-Zi-Chi decoctions to ameliorate depression via multiple pathways of brain-gut axis.

Mar 28, 2022

Gut microbiota has emerged as a crucial target of gut-brain axis to influence depression. Zhi-Zi-Chi decoctions (ZZCD), as a classic oral formula in clinic, is widely applied in depression treatment n...

The Emergence of Psychiatry: 1650-1850.

Mar 28, 2022

Western psychiatry emerged as a medical specialty caring for the mentally ill over the course of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This emergence was a contingent process, dependent on the co-oc...

Mini Review on Cariprazine: A Promising Antipsychotic Agent.

Mar 28, 2022

Cariprazine is a piperazine derivative approved by the USFDA in 2015 as a novel atypical antipsychotic drug (APD) to treat adults with schizophrenia and bipolar manic or mixed episodes in adults. Howe...

Parental and own substance use disorder: The intersection of gender and early adversity.

Mar 28, 2022

Children who are exposed to parental substance use disorder (SUD) have a higher risk of SUD themselves. This study examines the extent to which the association between parental and own SUD is conditio...

Development of Dynamic Measures to Assess Balance Confidence and State Anxiety While Walking at Increasing Speeds in Young and Older Adults.

Mar 28, 2022

The purpose of this study was to determine the test-retest reliability and construct validity of tools to assess how balance confidence (BC) and state anxiety (SA) change with progressively increasing...

Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetic Profiles of TP0473292

Mar 24, 2022

TP0473292 (the active component in TS-161) is a prodrug of new metabotropic glutamate (mGlu) 2/3 receptor antagonist that was being investigated for the treatment of depression patients. The safety, t...

Drug-Free First-Episode Schizophrenia Patients: SOD, BDNF, and Cognitive Improvement

Mar 23, 2022

Cognitive improvement following antipsychotic drugs appears to require redox modulation via neurotrophins such as a brain-derived neurotrophic factor in people with schizophrenia (SCZ) (BDNF). For a s...

Kappa Opioid Receptor (KOR) and the Sleep of Reason

Mar 23, 2022

The mechanisms through which kappa opioid receptor (KOR) agonists generate psychotomimetic effects are largely unclear, despite the fact that manipulation of this receptor has sparked interest for the...

Brain 5-HT1A Receptor Implicated to Stress, and Suicidal Behaviour

Mar 23, 2022

Depression and suicidal conduct have both been linked to the serotonin 1A (5-HT1A) receptor. Lower resting cortisol levels are connected with increased 5-HT1A receptor binding, and both distinguish su...

Placebo Response and Its Predictors in ADHD

Mar 23, 2022

Inattention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a high placebo response can minimize medication–placebo differences, compromising the development of novel medications. For a study, researchers so...

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