Oct 25, 2021

Cannabis is the most used recreational drug worldwide. Its use can increase the risk of developing psychotic disorders and exacerbate their course. However, the relationship between cannabis use and d...

Oct 25, 2021

According to epidemiological studies, Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with probable REM sleep behavior disorder (pRBD) are more prone to develop impulse control disorders (ICDs), which is shown to b...

Oct 25, 2021

Emotion dysregulation is central to the development and maintenance of psychopathology, and is common across many psychiatric disorders. Neurobiological models of emotion dysregulation involve the fro...

Oct 25, 2021

To determine changes in dimensions of personality in a sample of patients suffering from drug-resistant epilepsy at the 1-year follow-up following surgery, compared to non-surgically treated controls....

Oct 25, 2021

It has been reported that depression has an impact on both temporal spatial parameters and walking kinematics in adults. Given the difference in the walking biomechanics between adults and children, t...

Oct 18, 2021

Although some individuals with at-risk mental states (ARMS) develop overt psychosis, surrogate markers which can reliably predict a future onset of psychosis are not well established. The dorsal later...

Oct 18, 2021

Extensive evidence suggests that alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) is effective in diabetic neuropathy pain management. However, little is known on its safety and efficacy in reducing idiopathic pain in normogl...

Oct 18, 2021

Animal studies show marked sex differences as well as effects of estrogen (E2) in the mesocorticolimbic dopaminergic (DA) pathways, which play a critical role in reward processing and reinforcement le...

Oct 18, 2021

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a cyclic mood disorder characterised by alternating episodes of mania/hypomania and depression interspersed with euthymic periods. Lamotrigine (LTG) demonstrated some mood imp...

Oct 18, 2021

Biological, genetic and psychosocial factors may play a role in the aetiology of bipolar mood disorder (BPD). BPD episodes might be triggered by isotretinoin, a retinoid derivative of vitamin A with a...

Oct 18, 2021

Scar theories propose that elevated depression and anxiety can predispose people to future decreased executive function (EF) via heightened inflammation across decades. However, more longitudinal (ver...

Oct 11, 2021

“Depression is the most frequent comorbidity for people with MS, affecting more than 20% of this patient population,” explains Raffaele Palladino, MD, PhD. “In addition, depression is associated...

Oct 11, 2021

Chronic treatments with dopamine D2 receptor ligands induce fluctuations in D2 receptor density. Since D2 receptors tend to assemble as homodimers, we hypothesized that receptor density might influenc...

Oct 11, 2021

Exposure to urban greenspaces promotes a variety of mental health benefits. However, much of the evidence for these benefits is biased towards high-income countries. In contrast, urban areas in low-in...

Oct 11, 2021

There are a plethora of cognitive sequelae in addition to neglect and extinction that arise with unilateral right hemispheric stroke (RHS). Cognitive deficits following non-dominant (right) hemisphere...

Oct 11, 2021

Mental contamination (MC)-feelings of dirtiness triggered by internal sources-is a potentially important yet understudied factor for survivors of sexual trauma. MC has been linked to disgust and other...

Oct 11, 2021

This study is aimed at assessing changes in functioning among young people from the general population with bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder over a period of five years. Specifically, we...

Oct 11, 2021

The American Medical Association has acknowledged the public health threat posed by racism in medicine. While clinicians in psychiatry have echoed the sentiment, the research community has largely bee...

Oct 04, 2021

Data on the prevalence and correlates of restless legs syndrome (RLS) in people with HIV are limited. This study sought to determine the prevalence of RLS, associated clinical correlates, and characte...

Oct 04, 2021

Neuroinflammation has been connected to the pathophysiology of major depressive disorder (MDD) and neurochemical biomarkers of glial pathology could aid the diagnosis and might support patient stratif...