Characteristics of Adolescents Affected by Mass Psychogenic Illness Outbreaks in Schools in Nepal: A Case-Control Study.

abstract：:Mental illnesses, among which depression and anxiety are most common, are the leading cause for permanent disability. It is of interest to know what case characteristics determine if a person returns to the work force in spite of mental illness to tailor specific interventions. So far, there has been little research i...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Behrens-Wittenberg E,Wedegaertner F

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Suicide is the most severe consequence of depression which has become a leading cause of disability and a global disease burden. Recent evidence indicates a central role of small molecules in the pathogenesis of depression and associated suicidal behaviors. However, there lacks a systemic exploration of small molecule...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Liu S

更新日期：2020-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Major depressive disorder (MDD) is associated with a wide range of cognitive deficits. However, it remains unclear whether there will be a major cognitive deficit independently caused by depression at acute episodes of MDD. Method: A comprehensive neurocognitive test battery was used to assess the executiv...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Liu J,Dong Q,Lu X,Sun J,Zhang L,Wang M,Wan P,Guo H,Zhao F,Ju Y,Yan D,Li H,Fang H,Guo W,Liao M,Zhang X,Zhang Y,Liu B,Li L

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a devastating public health problem in which both genetic and environmental factors play a role. Growing evidence supports that epigenetic regulation is one major mechanism in neuroadaptation that contributes to development of AUD. Meanwhile, epigenetic patterns can be modified by various...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Chen J,Hutchison KE,Bryan AD,Filbey FM,Calhoun VD,Claus ED,Lin D,Sui J,Du Y,Liu J

更新日期：2018-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: During the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic in China, breast cancer (BC) patients and healthcare workers faced several challenges, resulting in great psychological stress. We measured the psychological status of BC patients and female nurses and compared the severity within the two groups at the peak time-...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Cui Q,Cai Z,Li J,Liu Z,Sun S,Chen C,Wang G

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is characterized by an excessive preoccupation with one or more perceived flaws in one's own appearance. Previous studies provided evidence for deficits in configural and holistic processing in BDD. Preliminary evidence suggests abnormalities at an early stage of visual process...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Ritter V,Kaufmann JM,Krahmer F,Wiese H,Stangier U,Schweinberger SR

更新日期：2020-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: A growing body of research underlines that interpersonal trauma in childhood leads to heightened susceptibility for substance use disorders (SUDs) in later life. Little research has been conducted on parenting experiences of mothers in recovery from substance use, taking into account their own upbringing a...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Meulewaeter F,De Pauw SSW,Vanderplasschen W

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The most replicated neuroanatomical finding in autism is the tendency toward brain overgrowth, especially in younger children. Research shows that both gray and white matter are enlarged. Proposed mechanisms underlying brain enlargement include abnormal inflammatory and neurotrophic signals that lead to excessive, abe...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Sokol DK,Maloney B,Westmark CJ,Lahiri DK

更新日期：2019-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Animal data suggest that Δ(9)-TetraHydroCannabinol (Δ(9)THC) stabilizes autonomic output during sleep, reduces spontaneous sleep-disordered breathing, and blocks serotonin-induced exacerbation of sleep apnea. On this basis, we examined the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of dronabinol (Δ(9)THC), an e...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Prasad B,Radulovacki MG,Carley DW

更新日期：2013-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies utilizing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) cue-reactivity paradigms have demonstrated that short-term abstinent or current methamphetamine (MA) users have increased brain activity in the ventral striatum, caudate nucleus and medial frontal cortex, when exposed to MA-related visual cues. However, pa...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Huang S,Zhang Z,Dai Y,Zhang C,Yang C,Fan L,Liu J,Hao W,Chen H

更新日期：2018-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: People with severe mental illness have difficulties finding and maintaining competitive employment. This is particularly so for those living in supported housing who, by definition, have significant day-to-day support needs: in the Netherlands only 3 to 5% of people with serious mental health problems who ...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Roeg D,de Winter L,Bergmans C,Couwenbergh C,McPherson P,Killaspy H,van Weeghel J

更新日期：2021-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have shown a direct link between memory for emotionally salient experiences and false memories. In particular, emotionally arousing material of negative and positive valence enhanced reality monitoring compared to neutral material since emotional stimuli can be encoded with more contextual details and thereby ...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Fairfield B,Altamura M,Padalino FA,Balzotti A,Di Domenico A,Mammarella N

更新日期：2016-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacogenomics represents a potentially powerful enhancement to the current standard of care for psychiatric patients. However, a variety of biological and technical challenges must be addressed in order to provide adequate clinical decision support for personalized prescribing and dosing based on genomic data. This...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Jarvis JP,Peter AP,Shaman JA

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several lines of evidence implicate dysfunctional neuronal plasticity in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia (SCZ). Aberrant glutamatergic and gamma amino--butyric acid neurotransmission are thought to underlie core cognitive deficits and negative symptoms of SCZ. Non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) allow...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Bhandari A,Voineskos D,Daskalakis ZJ,Rajji TK,Blumberger DM

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Major depression is a high-prevalence mental disease with major socio-economic impact, for both the direct and the indirect costs. Major depression symptoms can be faked or exaggerated in order to obtain economic compensation from insurance companies. Critically, depression is potentially easily malingered, as the sym...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Monaro M,Toncini A,Ferracuti S,Tessari G,Vaccaro MG,De Fazio P,Pigato G,Meneghel T,Scarpazza C,Sartori G

更新日期：2018-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Over the past 15 years, comparative assessments of psychoactive substance harms to both users and others have been compiled by addiction experts. None of these rankings however have included synthetic cannabinoids or non-opioid prescription analgesics (NOAs, e.g., gabapentinoids) despite evidence of increa...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Bonnet U,Specka M,Soyka M,Alberti T,Bender S,Grigoleit T,Hermle L,Hilger J,Hillemacher T,Kuhlmann T,Kuhn J,Luckhaus C,Lüdecke C,Reimer J,Schneider U,Schroeder W,Stuppe M,Wiesbeck GA,Wodarz N,McAnally H,Scherbaum N

更新日期：2020-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: Vitamin D inadequacy or deficiency (VDID) has been reported in a high percentage of otherwise healthy individuals. Factors that may contribute to the high prevalence of VDID in people with mental disorders include diet low in vitamin D, poor sunlight exposure, decrease in cutaneous vitamin D synthesis, i...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Cuomo A,Maina G,Bolognesi S,Rosso G,Beccarini Crescenzi B,Zanobini F,Goracci A,Facchi E,Favaretto E,Baldini I,Santucci A,Fagiolini A

更新日期：2019-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: The issue of treatment resistance in eating disorder care is controversial. Prior research has identified multiple failed treatment attempts as a common criterion for severe and enduring anorexia nervosa, but little is known about patients who have multiple failed treatment attempts. This study was designe...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Smith S,Woodside DB

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:Although research over the past decade has resulted in significantly increased knowledge about distal risk factors for non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), little is known about short-term (proximal) factors that predict NSSI thoughts and behaviors. Drawing on contemporaneous theories of NSSI, as well as the c...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Kiekens G,Hasking P,Nock MK,Boyes M,Kirtley O,Bruffaerts R,Myin-Germeys I,Claes L

更新日期：2020-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: There is a crucial link between the gut microbiota and the host central nervous system, and the communication between them occurs via a bidirectional pathway termed the "microbiota-gut-brain axis." The gut microbiome in the modern environment has markedly changed in response to environmental factors. These...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Zhu X,Hu J,Deng S,Tan Y,Qiu C,Zhang M,Ni X,Lu H,Wang Z,Li L,Chen H,Huang S,Xiao T,Shang D,Wen Y

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Structure and function are closely related in the healthy human brain. In patients with chronic heroin exposure, brain imaging studies have identified long-lasting changes in gray matter (GM) volume. More recently, we showed that acute application of heroin in dependent patients results in hypoperfusion of fronto-temp...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Denier N,Schmidt A,Gerber H,Schmid O,Riecher-Rössler A,Wiesbeck GA,Huber CG,Lang UE,Radue EW,Walter M,Borgwardt S

更新日期：2013-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Several studies have shown a positive association between anxiety and obesity, particularly in women. We aimed to study whether sex hormone alterations related to obesity might play a role in this association. Patients and methods: Data for this study were obtained from a population-based cohort study (the...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Stanikova D,Luck T,Pabst A,Bae YJ,Hinz A,Glaesmer H,Stanik J,Sacher J,Engel C,Enzenbach C,Wirkner K,Ceglarek U,Thiery J,Kratzsch J,Riedel-Heller SG

更新日期：2019-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: We previously found that chronic ketamine usages were associated with various psychotic and cognitive symptoms mimicking schizophrenia. The blockade of the NMDA receptor and subsequent nitric oxide synthase 1 (NOS1) dysfunction were found to be closely correlated with schizophrenia including NOS1 gene polym...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Chen J,Zhang M,Zhou C,Ding Y,Fan N,He H

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Anhedonia is a condition in which the capacity of experiencing pleasure is totally or partially lost, and it refers to both a state symptom in various psychiatric disorders and a personality trait. It has a putative neural substrate, originating in the dopaminergic mesolimbic and mesocortical reward circuit. Anhedonia...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Hatzigiakoumis DS,Martinotti G,Giannantonio MD,Janiri L

更新日期：2011-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to advances over the last several decades, many fields of medicine are moving toward a precision medicine approach where treatments are tailored to nuanced patient factors. While in some disciplines these innovations are commonplace leading to unique biomarker-guided experimental medicine trials, there are no such...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Joshi YB,Light GA

更新日期：2018-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Anorexia nervosa (AN) is characterized by severe malnutrition as well as inefficiencies in neurocognitive functioning, which are believed to contribute to the maintenance of disordered eating. The aim of this study was to examine the impact of individual cognitive remediation therapy (CRT) on neurocognition ...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Leppanen J,Adamson J,Tchanturia K

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：Background:In the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the primary problem is respiratory-related, but there also is increasing evidence of central nervous system (CNS) involvement. This study aims to summarize the literature on neurological manifestations of COVID-19, underlying mechanisms of CNS involvement...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Wenting A,Gruters A,van Os Y,Verstraeten S,Valentijn S,Ponds R,de Vugt M

更新日期：2020-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Epidemiological studies have shown that total scores in depression screening scales change with age, but the mechanism underlying these age-related changes remains unclear. Previous research has indicated that item responses in depression screening scales exhibit characteristic distributions in the general p...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Tomitaka S,Kawasaki Y,Ide K,Akutagawa M,Ono Y,Furukawa TA

更新日期：2020-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical conditioning was suggested as a mechanism of placebo effects in the 1950s. It was then challenged by response expectancy theory, which proposed that classical conditioning is just one of the means by which expectancies are acquired and changed. According to that account, placebo effects induced by classical ...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Bąbel P

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: Previous studies have indicated that changes in the concentration of glutamate and related metabolites may mediate the progression of addiction in patients with methamphetamine (MA) use disorders. In the present study, we utilized magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) to investigate absolute glutamate co...

journal_title：Frontiers in psychiatry

authors： Yang W,Yang R,Luo J,He L,Liu J,Zhang J

更新日期：2018-08-31 00:00:00