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- PSYCHIATRY: -HIPPOCAMPAL BRAIN NETWORK IN SCHIZOPHRENIA: - Impaired visual object processing across an occipital-frontal-hippocampal brain network in schizophrenia
SUMMARY & CONTEXT Perceptual closure is the ability to identify objects based on partial information and depends on the function of a distributed network of brain regions that include the ...
- PSYCHIATRY: -Short-term effects of antipsychotic treatment on cerebral function in drug-naive first-episode schizophrenia revealed by
Context Most of what we know about antipsychotic drug effects is at the receptor level, distal from the neural system effects that mediate their clinical efficacy. Studying ...
- PSYCHIATRY:-BRAIN FUNCTION IN BIPOLAR DISORDER: -Brain function in carriers of a genome-wide supported bipolar disorder variant
Context The neural abnormalities underlying genetic risk for bipolar disorder, a severe, common, and highly heritable psychiatric condition, are largely unknown. An opportunity to define ...
- PSYCHIATRY & PRENATAL SMOKING EXPOSURE: -Prenatal smoking exposure and the risk of psychiatric morbidity into young adulthood
Context Prenatal smoking exposure modulates brain development, which may deviate mental development of the offspring. Objective To study the effects of prenatal smoking ...
- PSYCHIATRIC BIOLOGY: -Dysregulation of regional endogenous opioid function in borderline personality disorder
Objective: Borderline personality disorder is characterized by a lack of effective regulation of emotional responses. The authors investigated the role of the endogenous opioid system and ...
- PSYCHIATRY: -Treatment for PTSD related to childhood abuse: a randomized controlled trial
Objective: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) related to childhood abuse is associated with features of affect regulation and interpersonal disturbances that substantially contribute to ...
- PSYCHIATRY: -Context Collaborative care interventions for depression in primary care settings are clinically beneficial and cost-effective. Most prior studies were conducted in urban settings.
Context Collaborative care interventions for depression in primary care settings are clinically beneficial and cost-effective. Most prior studies were conducted in urban settings. ...
- PSYCHIATRY: Midlife psychological stress and risk of dementia: a 35-year longitudinal population study
The number of people with dementia has increased dramatically with global ageing. Nevertheless, the pathogeneses of these diseases are not sufficiently understood. The present study aims to analyse ...
- PSIQUIATRY: -Meta-analytical comparison of voxel-based morphometry studies in OCD-Obsessive-compulsive disorder- Vs. OAD-Other anxiety disorders
Context Whether obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is adequately classified as an anxiety disorder is a matter of considerable debate. Objectives To quantitatively compare ...
- PSYCHIATRY: -Incidence and predictors of suicide attempts in DSM–IV major depressive disorder: a five-year prospective study
Objective: Prospective long-term studies of risk factors for suicide attempts among patients with major depressive disorder have not investigated the course of illness and state at the time ...
- PSYCHIATRY: -DOPAMINERGIC D2-RECEPTOR GENETIC VARIATION RESPONSE: -To antipsychotic drug treatment: a meta-analysis
Objective: Several lines of evidence suggest that antipsychotic drug efficacy is mediated by dopamine type 2 (D2) receptor blockade. Therefore, it seems plausible that variation in the ...
- PSYCHIATRY: -Processing speed deficits in schizophrenia: reexamining the evidence
Objective: recent meta-analysis identified processing speed inefficiency as the largest single cognitive impairment in schizophrenia. However, the effect of potential moderator variables, ...
- PSYCHIATRY: -GENERALIZED ANXIETY & CARDIOVASCULAR EVENTS: -Scared to death? generalized anxiety disorder and cardiovascular events in patients with stable coronary heart disease
Context Anxiety is common in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), but studies examining the effect of anxiety on cardiovascular prognosis and the role of potential mediators have ...
- CONDUCT DISORDER: -NEURAL ABNORMALITIES IN EARLY-ONSET AND ADOLESCENT: -Neural abnormalities in early-onset and adolescence-onset conduct disorder
Context Conduct disorder (CD) is characterized by severe antisocial behavior that emerges in childhood (early-onset CD [EO-CD]) or adolescence (adolescence-onset CD [AO-CD]). Early-onset ...
- CHILD MALTREATMENT: -Prospectively ascertained child maltreatment and its association with DSM-IV mental disorders in young adults
Context Evidence for an association between child maltreatment and later psychopathology heavily relies on retrospective reports of maltreatment. The few studies using prospective ...
