Jul 15, 2021

There is a need to develop a novel analgesic for pain associated with interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome (IC/PBS). The use of the conventional μ-opioid receptor agonists to manage IC/PBS ...

Jul 15, 2021

Pain is the primary motivation for seeking medical care. Although pain may subside as inflammation resolves or an injury heals, it is increasingly evident that persistency of the pain state can occur ...

Jul 12, 2021

This report describes the development, implementation and outcomes of a "COVID-19 Anxiety Hotline," designed to address the community's mental health crisis provoked by the coronavirus pandemic. The s...

Jul 12, 2021

This study investigated the characteristics of patients with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders presenting to emergency departments (ED) for psychiatric treatment during the first six months ...

Jul 12, 2021

Nepeta adenophyta Hedge (Lamiaceae) is an endemic therapeutic herb from Astore, Gilgit. This plant species has been reported among the local communities, especially for treating abdominal pain, kidney...

Jul 12, 2021

Schizophrenia is associated with premature mortality, partly through increased suicide rates.To examine (1) if persecutory ideas, auditory hallucinations, and probable cases of psychosis are associate...

Jul 12, 2021

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a serious mental illness with a chronic course and significant morbidity and mortality. BD has a lifetime prevalence rate of 1% to 1.5% and is characterised by recurrent episo...

Jul 12, 2021

Historiography of South Asian mental asylums is generally skewed towards asylums operated by the British. The Lunatic asylum, Bengaluru, later to become NIMHANS, was one of the early asylums and was a...

Jul 12, 2021

With the concept of self-efficacy as a theoretical framework, this qualitative research study explored the academic, social and psychological challenges faced by students transferring from a community...

Jul 08, 2021

Ketamine may model aspects of schizophrenia arising through NMDA receptor activity deficits. Although acute ketamine can induce effects resembling both positive and negative psychotic symptoms, chroni...

Jul 08, 2021

To evaluate the ten-year stability of schizophrenia diagnosis in a cohort of first-episode psychosis (FEP) patients and the factors associated with it.Changes in diagnosis of 209 FEP patients were des...

Jul 08, 2021

Depressive disorders are common among adults with alcohol use disorder and with suicidality; however, demographic differences in comorbid alcohol use disorder, binge drinking, and suicidality are unde...

Jul 08, 2021

Social network characteristics may provide a novel non-pharmaceutical target for the prevention of depression. We investigated the temporal association of a broad range of structural and functional so...

Jul 08, 2021

Increasing evidence indicates lithium (Li) efficacy in neuropsychiatry, pointing to overlapping mechanisms that occur within distinct neuronal populations. In fact, the same pathway depending on which...

Jul 08, 2021

Bipolar disorders (BDs) exhibit high heritability and symptoms typically first occur during late adolescence or early adulthood. Affected individuals may experience alternating bouts of mania/hypomani...

Jul 08, 2021

According to Fuzzy-Trace Theory (FTT), qualitative, bottom-line, "gist" reasoning leads to less risk taking and more mature decision-making, less easily swayed by emotions than quantitative, detail-or...

Jul 08, 2021

Major depressive disorder (MDD) has been associated with difficulties in social and interpersonal functioning. Deficits in emotion processing may contribute to the development and maintenance of inter...

Jul 08, 2021

Aberrant DMN connectivity and activity have been robustly linked to Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and risk for depression. This link has mostly been explained in terms of rumination, a form of negat...

Jul 05, 2021

The mediodorsal thalamus (MD) and anterior thalamic nuclei (ATN) are two adjacent brain nodes that support our ability to make decisions, learn, update information, form and retrieve memories, and fin...

Jul 05, 2021

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which acts as an angiogenic and neurotrophic factor, is involved the regulation of cerebral blood volume and flow in Schizophrenia (SCZ). Several evidence in...