Apr 12, 2021

It is established that the severity of depressive and anxiety symptoms is associated with poorer quality of life (QOL) in persons with drug-resistant epilepsy. We aimed to verify the presence of subsy...

Apr 12, 2021

Effective and targeted interventions for improving quality of life (QOL) in addition to achieving 'clinical remission' are imperatives for patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). This study aim...

Apr 09, 2021

Disclaimer: The thoughts and ideas in this post are Dr. Tuchler's alone and do not represent Kaiser Permanente’s positions, strategies, or opinions.   A tsunami is building. Even a...

Apr 08, 2021

To evaluate the shared genetic components, common pathways and causal relationship between ADHD and sleep-related phenotypes.We used the largest genome-wide association summary statistics available fo...

Apr 08, 2021

Psychosis, characterized by hallucinations and delusions, is a common feature of psychiatric disease, especially schizophrenia. One prominent theory posits that psychosis is driven by abnormal sensori...

Apr 08, 2021

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is an act of deliberately hurting one's body without the purpose of death. Internal phenotypes have been used in numerous studies of mental disorders, suicide, and self...

Apr 08, 2021

This study systematically compared duration of untreated illness (DUI) with duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) in prediction of impairment at first-episode psychosis and investigated the extent to ...

Apr 08, 2021

The use of pornography, while unproblematic for the majority, can grow into addiction-like behavior which in its extreme form is labeled as compulsive sexual behavioral disorder in the ICD-11 (WHO, 20...

Apr 08, 2021

The aim of the present systematic review was to identify psychometric tools developed to assess problematic exercise in order to identify and compare their theoretical conceptualisations on which they...

Apr 08, 2021

The Stanley Foundation Bipolar Treatment Outcome Network (SFBN) recruited more than 900 outpatients from 1995 to 2002 from 4 sites in the United States (US) and 3 in the Netherlands and Germany (abbre...

Apr 08, 2021

Offspring of mothers with a bipolar disorder are at high-risk for impaired developmental outcomes and psychopathology (e. g., mood, anxiety, sleep disorders) later in life. This increased risk of psy...

Apr 08, 2021

Recent literature on the public understanding of science has focused on replacing the deficit model of public communication in which experts disseminate information with one that encourages public par...

Apr 05, 2021

To examine associations of personality dimensions and facets with insomnia symptoms in a community sample of older adults.We studied 1,049 participants aged 60-97 years in the Baltimore Longitudinal S...

Apr 05, 2021

We evaluated the performance of Fitbit Charge 3™ (FC3), a multi-sensor commercial sleep-tracker, for measuring sleep in adolescents against gold-standard laboratory polysomnography (PSG). Singl...

Apr 05, 2021

Connected mental health (CMH), referring to the use of technology for mental health care, has become an established field of research. CMH provides access to many technology-based therapeutic solution...

Apr 05, 2021

Schizophrenia is characterized by several core behavioral features, in which the gastrointestinal symptoms are frequently reported. Maternal immune activation (MIA) has been developed in a rodent mode...

Apr 05, 2021

This study aims to examine whether there is an equivalence between the two different versions of Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) regarding psychometric properties on two distinct samples: individua...

Apr 05, 2021

Schizophrenia (SZ) is recognized as a neuropsychiatric disorder in humans with accelerated mortality and profound morbidity followed with impairments in social as well as vocational functioning. Thoug...

Apr 05, 2021

Prevalence rates of overweight and obesity are increasing worldwide and are amongst the leading causes of death. Participants with obesity also suffer from poorer mental health with a concomitant redu...

Apr 05, 2021

Stress is a state of feeling that inhibits one from responding properly in the face of a threat. Agarwood smoke has been used in traditional medicine as a sedative anti-anxious, and anti-restless ther...