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Empathic Disorders: From Diagnosis to Care
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Interoceptive dysfunction and its neural correlates in schizophrenia: protocol for a cross-sectional multimodal MRI study
BackgroundInteroception—the perception and integration of internal bodily signals—is fundamental to emotion regulation, bodily self-awareness, and predictive coding. Emerging evidence suggests that interoceptive disturbances may contribute to core psychopathological features of schizophrenia. Our research group recently conducted a systematic review and…
Anxiety among Chinese primary school teachers under the “double reduction” policy: prevalence and associated factors
ObjectivesThe implementation of the “Double Reduction” Policy in China has raised concerns about increased anxiety levels among primary school teachers. However, the prevalence of anxiety symptoms and the factors associated with them remain unclear. This study aims to investigate the…
Psychometric validation of the revised Chinese version of the Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale in psychiatric outpatients
ObjectiveTo refine the Chinese version of the Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale (DARS) and evaluate the psychometric properties of the Revised Chinese DARS (RC-DARS) in a large sample of first-visit psychiatric outpatients.MethodsThe study was conducted in two sequential phases at a…
Two faces of police stress: Spanish validation of operational and organizational PSQ scales
IntroductionPolice officers face multiple psychosocial risks stemming from operational and organizational aspects of their work. The Police Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) includes operational (PSQ-Op) and organizational (PSQ-Org) versions to assess these stressors. This study aimed to validate both versions in a…
Recording Stress Biomarkers in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Conditions: Autism Spectrum Disorder With Intellectual Deficiency Sponsors: Universite Cote d'Azur Recruiting
Brain Gene Variations Help Explain Neurological and Psychiatric Sex Differences
More than 3000 genes are expressed differently in the brains of men and women, which could help explain striking differences in psychiatric and neurological disorders between the sexes. The post Brain Gene Variations Help Explain Neurological and Psychiatric Sex Differences…
Role of TRPC1 in the pathogenesis of depression induced by traumatic brain injury
BackgroundTraumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of mortality and disability, with many patients developing long-term sequelae. Depression is among the most common psychiatric complications following TBI, yet its underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Transient receptor potential canonical…
Integrating evidence-based health approaches in U.S. healthcare settings: addressing the syndemics of poverty, health, and violence
Health disparities in the United States are not produced by single risk factors but by interacting social and biological conditions that cluster within structurally marginalized communities. Poverty, violence, and poor physical and mental health form a reinforcing system of disadvantage…
Establishing standards of care for forensic mental health: an international Delphi consensus-building study
ObjectivesThe present study aimed to establish a consensus on a definition of forensic mental health systems and services, and to identify principles and components of forensic mental health systems.MethodsA Delphi consensus-building process was employed among 23 experts in forensic mental…
The mental health parity gap is gaping
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AI-Assisted 4-Week Psychodynamic Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Via Smartphone for Social Anxiety: A Randomized Pilot Study (STePS-Ai)
Conditions: Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) Interventions: Behavioral: Ai chatbot Sponsors: Stockholm University Active, not recruiting
Baseline Mismatch Negativity Amplitude Predicts Direction and Magnitude of Ketamine Effect in Healthy Volunteers — A “Disordinal” Effect
Mismatch negativity (MMN) is a component of the auditory event-related potential (ERP) that is elicited during a passive oddball paradigm where task-irrelevant infrequent deviants are presented in a stream of more frequent standard stimuli. MMN is believed to index a…
Can psychiatric genetics advance without incorporating a lifecourse perspective?
Psychiatric disorders unfold over the lifecourse, yet genomic studies of these conditions overwhelmingly rely on phenotypes collected at a single time point, often in adulthood. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of psychiatric conditions may therefore miss genetic variants with time-varied relevance…
[Comment] Youth mental health in central Asia: research needs
Little research has been published on mental health difficulties in young people (aged 10–24 years) living in central Asia,1 a region comprising Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. As researchers and representatives from academic, non-governmental, governmental, and UN organisations working…
[Comment] Magnetic seizure therapy: balancing efficacy and cognition
Few treatments in psychiatry match the antidepressant efficacy of convulsive therapy. Yet despite this therapeutic potency, persistent stigma and concerns about cognitive adverse effects—particularly autobiographical memory disturbance associated with electroconvulsive therapy, ECT—continue to limit its wider adoption.1 This tension is…
[Comment] Assessing adolescents’ use of artificial intelligence in psychiatric practice
In a recent clinical encounter with one of the authors (AP), a young boy with autism insisted that his mother hated him—because ChatGPT said so. After asking whether a parent who sets limits must dislike their child, he interpreted the…
Determinants of Digital Health Literacy Among Patients With Serious Mental Illness: Cross-Sectional Survey
Background: Individuals with serious mental illness increasingly use digital devices and the internet to access health information and services but often face challenges when navigating digital tools, which may limit the benefits they receive from online health resources and digital…
Development of a Contextualized, Research-Based Flemish Assessment Framework for Digital Care, Assistance, and Support: Delphi Study
Background: The rapid evolution of digital technologies has transformed health, mental health, and social care, offering new modalities of digital care, assistance, and support through web-based platforms, mobile apps, extended reality, wearables, and artificial intelligence systems. Despite this proliferation, there…