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Psychiatry General

The Neurostimulation of the Brain in Depression Trial: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Treatment-Resistant Depression.

Mar 18, 2021

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is the second highest cause of disability worldwide. Standard treatments for MDD include medicine and talk therapy; however, approximately 1 in 5 Canadians fail to resp...

An altered global DNA methylation status in women with depression.

Mar 18, 2021

Sparse studies have shown that specific biomarkers of a global DNA methylation status may be related to various mental diseases and states, including: bipolar disorder (BD), anxiety and major depressi...

Trajectories of depression and anxiety in Chinese high school freshmen: Associations with Internet addiction.

Mar 18, 2021

Most previous studies focused on the associations of depression and anxiety with Internet addiction (IA) have used variable-centered approaches. This study aims to explore the distinct developmental t...

"Doc McStuffins: Doctor for a Day" Virtual Reality (DocVR) for Pediatric Preoperative Anxiety and Satisfaction - A Feasibility Study.

Mar 18, 2021

Preoperative anxiety is a common occurrence among children and is associated with a host of maladaptive post-operative behaviors. Consequently, increased attention has been placed on interventions to ...

A Pilot Economic Evaluation of Computerized Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Alcohol Use Disorder as an Addition and Alternative to Traditional Therapy.

Mar 18, 2021

Computer-based delivery of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) may be a less costly approach to increase dissemination and implementation of evidence-based treatments for alcohol use disorder (AUD). Ho...

Toward a Point-of-Need Bioluminescence-Based Immunoassay Utilizing a Complete Shelf-Stable Reagent.

Mar 18, 2021

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) are used extensively for the detection and quantification of biomolecules in clinical diagnostics as well as in basic research. Although broadly used, the i...

Continuation rate for asenapine and brexpiprazole treatment in patients with schizophrenia.

Mar 15, 2021

The current study sought to compare the treatment continuation rates of asenapine and brexpiprazole while specifically investigating the factors influencing this index and the clinical efficacy of bre...

Impaired regulatory T cell control of astroglial overdrive and microglial pruning in schizophrenia.

Mar 15, 2021

It is widely held that schizophrenia involves an active process of peripheral inflammation that induces or reflects brain inflammation with activation of microglia, the brain's resident immune cells. ...

Brain age prediction in schizophrenia: Does the choice of machine learning algorithm matter?

Mar 15, 2021

Brain-predicted age difference (brainPAD) has been used in schizophrenia to assess individual-level deviation in the biological age of the patients' brain (i.e., brain-age) from normative reference br...

Problematic usage of the internet and eating disorder and related psychopathology: a multifaceted, systematic review and meta-analysis.

Mar 15, 2021

Eating disorders are widespread illnesses with significant impact. There is growing concern about how those at risk of eating disorders overuse online resources to their detriment. We conducted a pre-...

Weight gain as a risk factor for progressive neurochemical abnormalities in first episode mania patients: a longitudinal magnetic resonance spectroscopy study.

Mar 15, 2021

We previously reported that bipolar disorder (BD) patients with clinically significant weight gain (CSWG; ⩾7% of baseline weight) in the 12 months after their first manic episode experienced greater...

Efficacy of Active vs Sham Intermittent Theta Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Patients With Bipolar Depression: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Mar 15, 2021

Major depressive episodes in bipolar disorder are common and debilitating. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation is well established in the treatment of major depressive disorder, and the inter...

Brain structural alterations in pediatric bipolar disorder patients with and without psychotic symptoms.

Mar 15, 2021

Bipolar disorder (BD) with psychotic symptoms is a specific phenotype that presents greater risk of relapse and worse outcomes than nonpsychotic BD, however, the underlying mechanisms remain unknown a...

Diagnostic conversion to bipolar disorder in unipolar depressed patients in Hong Kong: A 20-year follow-up study.

Mar 15, 2021

Bipolar (BP) disorder, especially BP depression is common and yet remains enigmatic until the emergence of mania. The rates and risk factors of conversion from unipolar (UP) depression to BP disorder ...

Threat of shock promotes passive avoidance, but not active avoidance.

Mar 15, 2021

Anxiety and stress are adaptive responses to threat that promote harm avoidance. In particular, prior work has shown that anxiety induced in humans using threat of unpredictable shock promotes behavio...

Addressing the mental health impact of COVID-19 through population health.

Mar 15, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has and will continue to result in negative mental health outcomes such as depression, anxiety and traumatic stress in people and populations throughout the world. A population m...

The Mediating Effect of Insomnia on the Relationship between Panic Symptoms and Depression in Patients with Panic Disorder.

Mar 11, 2021

This study aimed to determine if sleep disturbances may mediate the relationship between panic symptoms and depression in patients with panic disorder (PD).Electronic medical records were retrospectiv...

The Representation of Mental State Information in Schizophrenia and First-Degree Relatives: A Multivariate Pattern Analysis of fMRI Data.

Mar 11, 2021

Individuals with a schizophrenia-spectrum disorder (SSD) and those at familial high-risk (FHR) for SSDs experience social difficulties that are related to neural abnormalities in the network of brain ...

Second-Generation Antipsychotic Drugs for Patients with Schizophrenia: Systematic Literature Review and Meta-analysis of Metabolic and Cardiovascular Side Effects.

Mar 11, 2021

Second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs) for schizophrenia show different risk profiles, whose evidence has been evaluated through comparative reviews on randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and observa...

Latent class mediator for multiple indicators of mediation.

Mar 11, 2021

This paper demonstrates the utility of latent classes in evaluating the effect of an intervention on an outcome through multiple indicators of mediation. These indicators are observed intermediate var...

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