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Psychiatry General

Acute Psychiatric Care: Services & Improving Quality of Care

May 19, 2022

Acute mental health crisis services are critical to service users and their allies, and they occupy a significant portion of mental health resources in many countries. However, acute care was frequent...

New Categories in the ICD-11 of New Disorders: Complex PTSD & Prolonged Grief

May 19, 2022

The inclusion of 21 new mental diseases is one of the most significant developments in the ICD-11. New categories were often proposed to: increase the use of morbidity data; assist the identification ...

The Lived Experience of Psychosis: Co-Written Bottom-Up Review

May 19, 2022

The most intangible feeling of mental disease is psychosis. For a study, researchers sought to provide the first co-written bottom-up evaluation of the lived experience of psychosis, in which experts ...

Comparative Effectiveness of Antipsychotics in Preventing Readmission for First-Admission Schizophrenia Patients in National Cohorts From 2001 to 2017 in Taiwan.

May 16, 2022

Antipsychotics remain the main treatment for schizophrenia, but their effectiveness is challenging to compare. We aimed to assess the comparative real-world effectiveness of antipsychotics in preventi...

Graph Convolutional Networks Reveal Network-Level Functional Dysconnectivity in Schizophrenia.

May 16, 2022

Schizophrenia is increasingly understood as a disorder of brain dysconnectivity. Recently, graph-based approaches such as graph convolutional network (GCN) have been leveraged to explore complex pairw...

A descriptive survey of substance use treatment facilities in Uasin Gishu County Kenya.

May 16, 2022

Substance use disorders are a major problem in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. The objective of this study was to describe the existing resources within substance use treatment facilities in the County, wi...

Analgesic effect of auricular point acupressure for acute pain in patients with dementia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

May 16, 2022

Common and frequent as acute pain is, it is often underestimated and undertreated in older people with dementia in nursing homes and inadequate pain management remains an issue.The study is designed t...

Effect of Probiotic Supplements on Oxidative Stress Biomarkers in First-Episode Bipolar Disorder Patients: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial.

May 16, 2022

Currently no study has examined the effects of probiotic administration on the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and mania, as well as their correlations with the biomarkers of oxidative stress in pat...

Theoretical procedures of the cross-cultural adaptation process of the Child Mania Rating Scale - Parent Version (CMRS-P) for the Brazilian context.

May 16, 2022

To describe the theoretical procedures of the cross-cultural adaptation process of the Child Mania Rating Scale - Parent Version (CMRS-P) for Brazil. METHOD: Seven steps were carried out: (1) translat...

Effectiveness of remote home monitoring for patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): systematic review.

May 16, 2022

Although remote home monitoring (RHM) has the capacity to prevent exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), evidence regarding its effectiveness remains unclear. The...

Correlation between FDG-PET brain hypometabolism and PTSD symptoms in temporal lobe epilepsy.

May 16, 2022

The relationship between post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and focal epilepsy is poorly understood. It has been hypothesized that there is a complex and reciprocal potential reinforcement of the s...

Allostatic load index in patients with multiple sclerosis: A case-control study.

May 09, 2022

Elevated allostatic load (AL) index is a cumulative measure of biological dysregulations associated with stress exposure. It has been reported that stress plays an important role in the pathophysiolog...

A Local Genetic Correlation Analysis Provides Biological Insights Into the Shared Genetic Architecture of Psychiatric and Substance Use Phenotypes.

May 09, 2022

Global genetic correlation analysis has provided valuable insight into the shared genetic basis between psychiatric and substance use disorders. However, little is known about which regions disproport...

A qualitative exploration of daily path and daily routine among people in Ukraine who inject drugs to understand associated harms.

May 09, 2022

Patterns of movement, heterogeneity of context, and individual space-time patterns affect health, and individuals' movement throughout the landscape is shaped by addiction, meeting basic needs, and ma...

Can pediatric bipolar disorder be successfully treated when comorbid with conduct disorder? A secondary analysis of clinical trials of risperidone, olanzapine, quetiapine, ziprasidone, and aripiprazole.

May 09, 2022

Pediatric bipolar disorder (BP) is frequently comorbid with conduct disorder (CD) and its presence adds to the morbidity of BP. While there are no known pharmacological treatments for CD, pediatric BP...

Assessing positive and negative valence systems to refine animal models of bipolar disorders: the example of GBR 12909-induced manic phenotype.

May 09, 2022

Bipolar disorders are defined by recurrences of depressive and manic episodes. The pathophysiology is still unknown, and translating clinical symptoms into behaviors explorable in animal models is cha...

Continuum beliefs and the perception of similarities and differences to a person with depression.

May 02, 2022

Both continuum beliefs (i.e., that mental disorder exists on a spectrum of normative behavior patterns) and the perception of similarities to a person with schizophrenia have shown mixed effects on re...

A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness and Safety of Droperidol for Pediatric Agitation in Acute Care Settings.

May 02, 2022

Agitation in children in acute care settings poses significant patient and staff safety concerns. While behavioral approaches are central to reducing agitation and oral medications are preferred, pare...

Associations of presenting symptoms and subsequent adverse clinical outcomes in people with unipolar depression: a prospective natural language processing (NLP), transdiagnostic, network analysis of electronic health record (EHR) data.

May 02, 2022

To investigate the associations of symptoms of mania and depression with clinical outcomes in people with unipolar depression.A natural language processing electronic health record study. We used netw...

Exploring reasons for MD-PhD trainees' experiences of impostor phenomenon.

May 02, 2022

Acceptance into U.S. MD-PhD dual-degree programs is highly competitive, and the lengthy training program requires transitioning between multiple phases (pre-clinical-, PhD-research-, and clinical-trai...