Overview of the genetics of major depressive disorder.

abstract：:Puerperal psychoses do not represent a nosological entity, but rather a selection of puerperally triggered "ordinary" functional psychoses with cycloid psychoses predominating and schizophrenias occurring very rarely. The prognosis is basically favorable concerning symptom remission and social and occupational functio...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Pfuhlmann B,Stoeber G,Beckmann H

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inverse relationship exists between an individual's degree of negative affect and the interpersonal perception of friendliness, sympathy and empathy, acceptance, warmth, regard, and genuineness, and the converse relationship persists for the perception of sadness and anger. Thus, a "negative interpersonal bias" exi...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Janowsky DS

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children's and adolescent's use of computer games and videogames is becoming highly popular and has increased dramatically over the last decade. There is growing evidence of high prevalence of addiction to computer games and videogames among children, which is causing concern because of its harmful consequences. There...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Weinstein A,Weizman A

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the association between trauma and personality disorders, particularly borderline personality disorder (BPD), has been well established, the etiologic role of trauma in the development of personality disorders has been a topic of debate. Numerous mediation models have been put forth to explain how trauma can ...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Yen S,Shea MT

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with several forms of risk-taking behavior (RTB). This paper aims to examine the scope of ADHD-related RTB, to highlight potential underlying mechanisms of this association, and to review initial evidence for interventions aimed to treat AD...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Pollak Y,Dekkers TJ,Shoham R,Huizenga HM

更新日期：2019-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Anorexia nervosa is a debilitating illness that affects mostly females and their families. Multiple physiologic disturbances are present and can be life-threatening. Nutritional rehabilitation is the foremost initial treatment goal. Assessment skills include understanding the physiologic, developmental, and psychiatri...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Weaver L,Liebman R

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last several years, there has been a substantial increase in the number of publications reporting on Internet interventions for mental health and addictions. This paper provides a summary of the recent research on Internet interventions for the most common mental health and addictions concerns-depression, anx...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Cunningham JA,Gulliver A,Farrer L,Bennett K,Carron-Arthur B

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute mania is frequently a medical emergency requiring hospitalization for behavioral control, rapid resolution of irritability, agitation, de-escalation of mood, and decreasing of risk-taking behavior. Lithium efficacy in the management of acute mania was reported in 1949 and approved by the US Food and Drug Adminis...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Gajwani P,Kemp DE,Muzina DJ,Xia G,Gao K,Calabrese JR

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:We review recent research addressing neurocognitive and information processing abnormalities in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including studies informing direction of causality. We additionally consider neurocognition in the context of co-morbid mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) and psychosoci...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Vasterling JJ,Arditte Hall KA

更新日期：2018-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Relapse is a highly prevalent phenomenon in addiction. This paper examines the new research on identifying biological factors that contribute to addiction relapse risk. Prospective studies examining relapse risk are reviewed, and clinical, biological, and neural factors that predict relapse risk are identified. Clinic...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Sinha R

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review provides an overview of the state of research on alliance ruptures and resolutions in the treatment of personality disorders (PDs). We discuss frequently used instruments to measure alliance ruptures and resolutions. We discuss the effectiveness of rupture resolution processes and highligh...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Schenk N,Fürer L,Zimmermann R,Steppan M,Schmeck K

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:We review recent and growing evidence that provides support for a novel parasomnia, trauma associated sleep disorder (TASD). Based on these findings, we further develop the clinical and polysomnographic (PSG) characteristics of TASD. We also address factors that precipitate TASD, develop a differentia...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Brock MS,Powell TA,Creamer JL,Moore BA,Mysliwiec V

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethical issues in the field of schizophrenia research have become a focus of intense debate in the past year. The publication of the final report of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) coupled with recent media reports have catapulted these issues into international view. Major questions have been raised...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Zipursky RB

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By design or by default, primary care providers (PCPs)are frequently the vanguard in the fight against suicide. Recent studies have highlighted programs to improve screening and prevention of suicidality in the medical home, particularly among high-risk patients, such as adolescents, the elderly, and veterans. Increas...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Bostwick JM,Rackley S

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of gonadal hormone-related influences on human brain anatomy, function, and chemistry is scarce. The present review scrutinized organizational and functional neuroimaging correlates of the menstrual cycle and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). Supportive evidence of cyclic short-term structural and func...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Comasco E,Sundström-Poromaa I

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of overt hypothyroidism (HO) on cognition and mood are well established, and HO is considered a common cause of reversible dementia. There is now increasing evidence to suggest that subclinical hypothyroidism (ie, elevated thyroid stimulating hormone in the presence of normal thyroxine concentrations) may ...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Davis JD,Stern RA,Flashman LA

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suicidal behavior and its prevention constitute a major public health issue. Etiology of suicidal behavior is multifactorial. Whereas current research is mostly focused on clinical and biological risk factors, the sociodemographic risk factors for suicidal behavior, first highlighted by Durkheim, have received less at...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Conejero I,Lopez-Castroman J,Giner L,Baca-Garcia E

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research consistently indicates that in animals and adults, reduced central serotonergic (5-HT) function is associated with increased aggression. This relationship has been elucidated via cerebrospinal fluid monoamine metabolite levels, hormonal responses to pharmacologic challenge using serotonergic probes, platelet ...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Mitsis EM,Halperin JM,Newcorn JH

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To review the current literature on biobehavioral mechanisms involved in reactive aggression in a transdiagnostic approach. RECENT FINDINGS:Aggressive reactions are closely related to activations in the brain's threat circuitry. They occur in response to social threat that is experienced as inescapab...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Bertsch K,Florange J,Herpertz SC

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The central characteristics of borderline personality disorder (BPD) are bound to be associated with the development and maintenance of couple dysfunction. Although seven of the nine diagnostic criteria of BPD in the DSM-IV-TR refer directly to interpersonal functioning, very few empiric studies have addressed the exa...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Bouchard S,Sabourin S

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews recent research on late-life depression (LLD) pharmacotherapy, focusing on updated information for monotherapy and augmentation treatments. We then review new research on moderators of clinical response and how to use the information for improved efficacy. RECENT FINDINGS:A recent review shows that...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Beyer JL,Johnson KG

更新日期：2018-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cocaine dependence continues to be a significant public health problem in the United States. The number of regular cocaine users has not declined significantly in the United States since 1992. Although counseling remains the treatment of choice for cocaine dependence, many cocaine-dependent patients do not respond com...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Kampman KM

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The search for an effective psychopharmacologic strategy in the treatment of anorexia nervosa (AN) has been elusive for decades and has run the gamut from reserpine to typical antipsychotics, to lithium, to tetrahydrocannabinol, to growth hormone, to anticonvulsants, to antidepressants, to atypical antipsychotics. Onl...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Brewerton TD

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress has been identified as a key risk factor for a multitude of human pathologies. However, stress by itself is often not sufficient to induce a disease, as a large contribution comes from an individual's genetic background. Therefore, many stress models have been created to investigate this so-called gene-environm...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Scharf SH,Schmidt MV

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human gut harbors a complex community of microbes that profoundly influence many aspects of growth and development, including development of the nervous system. Advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing methods have led to rapidly expanding knowledge about this gut microbiome. Here, we review fundamental emerging...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Mulle JG,Sharp WG,Cubells JF

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paraphilia is a set of disorders characterized by abnormal sexual desires. Perhaps most discussed amongst them, pedophilia is a complex interaction of disturbances of the emotional, cognitive and sexual experience. Using new imaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, neural correlates of emotion...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Wiebking C,Northoff G

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bipolar disorder is marked by frequent recurrences, a course from childhood or early adulthood until death, marked increased rates of suicide, and substantial functional morbidity. Maintenance treatment is generally recommended to reduce the ravages of the illness. This article reviews the evidence that lithium, dival...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Bowden CL

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a clinically distinct disorder that is under-recognized. A primary focus of recent research has been to delineate neuropsychiatric features that best discriminate FTD from other dementias, and to identify test instruments that elicit differentiating characteristics most effectively. Ad...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Snowden JS,Neary D

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since its earliest descriptions, schizophrenia has been thought to be clinically heterogeneous. Symptomatic features and subtypes tend to aggregate in families, suggesting that genetic factors contribute to individual differences in illness presentation. Over the past 5 years, evidence from genetic linkage and associa...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Fanous AH,Kendler KS

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several international guidelines indicate stimulants, including methylphenidate (MPH), amphetamines and derivatives, modafinil, and armodafinil among the second-third-line choices for bipolar depression. Efficacy of stimulants has been also reported for the management of residual depressive symptoms such as fatigue an...

journal_title：Current psychiatry reports

authors： Perugi G,Vannucchi G,Bedani F,Favaretto E

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00