Mar 26, 2021

The latest installment of the #PWChat series centered around the status of mental healthcare in the United States. Below are the highlights from the chat. You can read the full transcript here, b...

Mar 25, 2021

Theoretical models suggest that it is the interplay between social cognitive processes that result in adaptive social functioning in schizophrenia. This study explored the relative contributions of, a...

Mar 25, 2021

Specialty palliative care (SPC) provides patient-centered care to people with serious illness and may reduce costs. Specific cost-saving functions of SPC remain unclear. (1) To assess the effect of ...

Mar 25, 2021

Many individuals with early psychosis experience impairments in social and occupational function. Identification of modifiable predictors of function such as cognitive performance has the potential to...

Mar 25, 2021

Here, we examine the cellular changes triggered by tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) and different alpha-synuclein (αSYN) species in astrocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells. Human a...

Mar 25, 2021

Language impairment in Parkinson's disease (PD) has been investigated at different levels of linguistic skills. Only a few studies dealt with pragmatic abilities in PD, and these suggest an impairment...

Mar 25, 2021

Despite its use in determining nigrostriatal degeneration, the lack of a consistent interpretation of nigrosome 1 susceptibility map-weighted imaging (SMwI) limits its generalized applicability. To im...

Mar 25, 2021

Facial emotion recognition deficits are common in bipolar disorder (BD) and associated with impairment. However, the relationship between facial emotion recognition and mood course is not well underst...

Mar 25, 2021

Cushing disease is a rare but serious endocrine disorder. It involves increased cortisol levels, which can damage the function of various systems throughout the body, including the central nervous sys...

Mar 25, 2021

The practice of involuntary psychiatric commitment is central to the acute treatment of persons with severe mental illness and others in psychiatric crisis. Deciding whether a patient should be admitt...

Mar 25, 2021

The mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) and its ligand aldosterone have been found to play a major role in the pathophysiology of depression. Both could be targets of therapeutic interventions. We analyze...

Mar 25, 2021

Previous studies have examined the impact of material financial hardship on cancer screening but without focusing on the psychological aspects of financial hardship.This study examined the effects of ...

Mar 25, 2021

This paper presents a quantitative and qualitative study exploring patients' knowledge and experience of hyperbaric oxygen treatment (HBOT).Participants included 29 patients with appropriate indicatio...

Mar 25, 2021

Most existing studies on computational modeling of neural plasticity have focused on synaptic plasticity. However, regulation of the internal weights in the reservoir based on synaptic plasticity ofte...

Mar 25, 2021

In the last years, several evidences demonstrated the role of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) in the oligometastatic disease and the possibility to increase survival in selected patients. In 202...

Mar 25, 2021

Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common malignant brain tumor in children. Transcriptional profiling has so far delineated four major MB subgroups of which one is driven by uncontrolled Hedgehog (Hh) ...

Mar 22, 2021

According to recent data, nearly 50% of adolescents who misuse prescription opioids report obtaining the drugs from relatives or friends. Understanding the parental origins of adolescent prescription ...

Mar 22, 2021

Narcolepsy, a sleep disorder characterized by loss of hypocretin neurons, has been associated with metabolic disturbances. Although the metabolic alterations in narcolepsy patients are widely investig...

Mar 22, 2021

We describe advances in the understanding of brain dynamics that are important for understanding the operation of the cerebral cortex in health and disease. Peaks in the resting state fMRI BOLD signal...

Mar 22, 2021

Voice hearing has been conceptualized as an interrelational framework, where the interaction between voice and voice hearer is reciprocal and resembles "real-life interpersonal interactions." Although...