Jan 17, 2022

Successful decision making often requires finding the right balance between the speed and accuracy of responding: Emphasising speed can lead to error-prone performance, yet emphasising accuracy leads ...

Jan 17, 2022

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a severe mood disorder characterized by episodes of depression and hypomania or mania. Despite its primarily biological roots, the onset and course of the disorder have also b...

Jan 17, 2022

Neurocysticercosis is the most common neuro-parasitosis caused by the larval stage of . The most common manifestations include seizures and hydrocephalus. Psychiatric abnormalities are relatively rare...

Jan 17, 2022

Transplantation represents an important source of hope for the candidates and produces an intense emotional effect. Psychosocial interventions can be helpful in all transplantation stages to better ma...

Jan 17, 2022

Previous studies have reported visual impairments in patients with bipolar disorder (BPD), but unclear were whether clinical variables would be associated with those disturbances. Here, we investigate...

Jan 10, 2022

Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder characterized by continuous or relapsing episodes of psychosis. While previous studies have detected functional network connectivity alterations in patients ...

Jan 10, 2022

While the favorable effect of adjuvant clonidine in the treatment of acute mania has been observed already about 40 years ago, this line of treatment has not been further investigated. Here, we resume...

Jan 10, 2022

Aripiprazole, cariprazine and brexpiprazole are antipsychotic drugs (APD) whose action is associated with partial agonism at the dopamine D2/D3 receptors. They are increasingly more widely used in cli...

Jan 10, 2022

Chronic alcohol use increases risk of alcohol craving and withdrawal symptoms (AW) as well as abstinence-related distress symptoms, in those entering alcohol use disorder (AUD) treatment. Here, we exa...

Jan 03, 2022

Hampered by the symptom complexity and diversity, the understanding of fundamental mechanisms underlying psychiatric disorders remains elusive. Traditional neuroscience research focusing on each behav...

Jan 03, 2022

Methamphetamine (MA), a psychostimulant, has become a serious problem in recent years. It is one of the most widely abused psychostimulants in the world. In the Czech Republic, ecstasy is the most com...

Dec 27, 2021

Psychological models of the consequences of ostracism (i.e. being socially excluded and ignored) and negative symptoms in schizophrenia suggest that repeatedly experiencing ostracism can lead to eleva...

Dec 27, 2021

The specific phenotype of depression in recent-onset schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) and its relation to non-psychotic depression is unknown. Symptom profile and network analysis are complement...

Dec 27, 2021

This cross-sectional study included a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults aged ≥50 years with self-reported pain in the past 4 weeks from the 2018 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. Adjus...

Dec 27, 2021

Off-label drug prescribing (OLDP) must be based on strong scientific evidence to make sure that patients get the optimum therapeutic outcomes. Adherence to the prerequisites is determined by the physi...

Dec 27, 2021

In the present fMRI study, we examined how anxious apprehension is processed in the human brain. A central goal of the study was to test the prediction that a subset of brain regions would exhibit sus...

Dec 27, 2021

Dental services are expanding in China, yet there is little evidence available on the dental-related psychological factors contributing to the uptake of dental services. Our study explored whether bel...

Dec 20, 2021

Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a pleasant physiological tingling sensation induced by certain visual and auditory triggers. ASMR has been shown to reduce stress and increase positive m...

Dec 20, 2021

The stigma and prejudice of the public regarding psychiatric disorders are a long-standing social problem. However, health professionals are more likely to have negative attitudes and label people wit...

Dec 20, 2021

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can arise as a secondary condition to a primary bipolar disorder, an aspect which may be overlooked by clinicians and thus may contribute to the exacerbation of t...