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Psychiatry General

The association between objective necessity for involuntary treatment as measured during admission, legal admission status and clinical factors in an inpatient psychiatry setting.

Jan 24, 2022

Involuntary psychiatric admission is a common feature of mental health services around the world, but there is limited research about tools to support clinical assessment of objective necessity for co...

Volunteering Improves Employee Health and Organizational Outcomes through Bonding with Coworkers and Enhanced Identification with Employers.

Jan 24, 2022

To understand the determinants and consequences of employee volunteering and possible psychological mechanisms that produce these effects.Using data from more than 50,000 responses to Britain's Health...

Rapid cycling bipolar disorder: Literature review on pharmacological treatment illustrated by a case report on ketamine.

Jan 24, 2022

Rapid cycling bipolar disorder (RCBD) is defined as four or more affective episodes (depression, mania or hypomania) within 1 year. RCBD has a high point of prevalence (from 10% to 20% among clinical ...

Effect of blueberry extract on energetic metabolism, levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor, and Ca-ATPase activity in the hippocampus and cerebral cortex of rats submitted to ketamine-induced mania-like behavior.

Jan 24, 2022

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a psychiatric disease characterized by mood episodes. Blueberry is rich in bioactive compounds and shows excellent therapeutic potential against chronic diseases. The aim of t...

Mental Health Disorders and Suicidal Behaviors Among Provincial Correctional Workers.

Jan 24, 2022

We examined the prevalence of mental health disorders and suicidal behaviours (ideation, planning and attempts) among a sample of provincial correctional workers in Manitoba.Self-reported mental healt...

Tourette Disorder and Sleep.

Jan 17, 2022

Healthy sleep is of utmost importance for growth, development, and overall health. Strong evidence shows that sleep is affected negatively in patients and particularly children with Tourette Disorder ...

Long-term safety and effectiveness of open-label lurasidone in antipsychotic-Naïve versus previously treated adolescents with Schizophrenia: A post-hoc analysis.

Jan 17, 2022

There is a relative lack of long-term, prospective data evaluating the safety and effectiveness of treatment in early-onset adolescent patients with schizophrenia who are treatment-naïve. The aim of ...

Outcomes for first-episode psychosis after entry via an at-risk mental state clinic compared to direct entry to a first episode of psychosis service: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Jan 17, 2022

Early intervention for psychosis services have been established worldwide and consist of specialist services for those with the At-Risk Mental State (ARMS) and a first episode of psychosis (FEP). This...

Computational modelling of the speed-accuracy tradeoff: No evidence for an association with depression symptomatology.

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 ...

Schema Therapy for Patients with Bipolar Disorder: Theoretical Framework and Application.

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...

Neurocysticercosis presenting as bipolar disorder: a case report.

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...

Psychosocial treatment on psychological symptoms, adherence, and physiological function on transplanted patients: A systematic review and metanalysis.

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...

Combined influence of medication and symptom severity on visual processing in bipolar disorder.

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...

Alterations of dynamic functional connectivity between visual and executive-control networks in schizophrenia.

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 ...

Influence of adjuvant clonidine on mania, sleep disturbances and cognitive performance - Results from a double-blind and placebo-controlled randomized study in individuals with bipolar I disorder during their manic phase.

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...

The position statement of the Working Group of the Polish Psychiatric Association on the use of D2/D3 dopamine receptor partial agonists in the treatment of mental disorders.

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...

Alcohol craving and withdrawal at treatment entry prospectively predict alcohol use outcomes during outpatient treatment.

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...

Towards the understanding of state-independent neural traits underlying psychiatric disorders.

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...

Influence of Prenatal Methamphetamine Abuse on the Brain.

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...

Does social defeat cause negative symptoms? A prospective study in a multi-national community sample.

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...

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