OBJECTIVE: The study measured the effects of atypical antipsychotics on psychiatric and behavioral symptoms in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and psychosis or agitated behavior. METHOD: The ...

OBJECTIVE: Several predictors of treatment response in late-life depression have been reported in the literature. The aim of this analysis was to develop a clinically useful algorithm that would ...

OBJECTIVE: The limbic system is thought to underlie dysfunctional affective and cognitive processes in individuals with depression. Neuroanatomical studies of subjects with depression have often ...

OBJECTIVES: This study evaluated the efficacy of a computer-based version of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for substance dependence METHOD: This was a randomized clinical trial in which 77 ...

OBJECTIVE: Inhibitory dysfunction may be a transdiagnostic etiopathophysiology of disruptive behavior disorders. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of inhibitory control has only been ...

OBJECTIVE: Predictability is a fundamental modulator of anxiety in that the ability to predict aversive events mitigates anxious responses. In panic disorder, persistent symptoms of anxiety are ...

OBJECTIVE: This study presented nationally representative data on the lifetime prevalence, correlates, and comorbidity of shoplifting among adults in the United States METHOD: Data were derived ...

Mothers and fathers of twins conceived either spontaneously or with assisted reproductive technology (ART) suffer more mental health symptoms after delivery and one year later than do parents of ...

Alterations in a molecular brain pathway activated by marijuana may contribute to the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, ...

Abstract Considerable research, ranging from survey to clinical to genetic, has utilized traditional measures of tobacco dependence, such as the Fagerstrm Test of Nicotine Dependence (FTND) and the ...

Background:  Obesity is a well-known cause of cardiovascular disease burden and premature death, but effects on psychological morbidity remain uncertain. This article reports findings ...

J Affect Disord 2008; 108: 279-284, 27 May 2008 Women with depression have a different clinical course and symptom profile to that of their male counterparts, showing an earlier age at onset and a ...

J Clin Invest 2008; 27 May 2008 -Advance online public. Genetic variation in the A protein-serine/threonine kinase 1 (AKT1) gene appears to modulate prefrontal-striatal structure and function, ...

While 30 to 50 percent of people with Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome are also affected with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), both illnesses might have a distinct neurocognitive profile, according ...

Schizophr Res 2008; 101: 161-168 Adolescent girls with schizotypal personality disorder are more likely to covert to an Axis I psychotic disorder if they show marked deficits in neurocognitive ...