JAMA PsychiatryPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.4276
Patricia A Areán, Stephen O'Connor, Joel Sherrill
{"title":"The Promise and Perils of Using Peers and Other Paraprofessionals as Mental Health Service Professionals.","authors":"Patricia A Areán, Stephen O'Connor, Joel Sherrill","doi":"10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.4276","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.4276","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14800,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"107-108"},"PeriodicalIF":22.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142914783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA PsychiatryPub Date : 2025-01-29DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.4548
Jonathan Cantor, Megan S. Schuler, Rose Kerber, Jonathan Purtle, Ryan K. McBain
{"title":"Changes in Specialty Crisis Services Offered Before and After the Launch of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline","authors":"Jonathan Cantor, Megan S. Schuler, Rose Kerber, Jonathan Purtle, Ryan K. McBain","doi":"10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.4548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.4548","url":null,"abstract":"ImportanceThe launch of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (988) in July 2022 aimed to enhance access to crisis mental health services by replacing the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline with a more memorable number and expanding the Lifeline scope beyond suicide. However, 988’s success relies on the availability of community crisis services.ObjectiveTo examine whether the launch of 988 was associated with the availability of crisis services.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsThis cohort study characterized trends in crisis services offered by US mental health treatment facilities (MHTFs) from November 1, 2021, through June 30, 2023. Longitudinal data were from the Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Tracking Repository, which contains daily instances from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Behavioral Health Treatment Locator. The analysis includes licensed MHTFs that completed the National Substance Use and Mental Health Services Survey. Proportions of facilities offering 4 specific crisis services were calculated nationally and at the state level. Mixed-effects logistic regression was used to assess changes in availability of each crisis service after the launch of 988, controlling for MHTF characteristics.ExposureLaunch of 988 in July 2022.Main Outcomes and MeasuresOutcomes were the availability of mobile crisis response services, psychiatric emergency walk-in services, suicide prevention services, or peer support services.ResultsAcross 15 623 MHTFs (184 769 observations; 79 268 before and 105 501 after the 988 launch), the largest changes were observed for availability of peer support services, which increased from 39% (n = 31 170) before to 42% (n = 44 630) after the 988 launch (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic> &amp;lt; .001), and emergency psychiatric walk-in services, which decreased from 32% (n = 25 684) before to 29% (n = 30 300) after the 988 launch (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic> &amp;lt; .001). When controlling for MHTF characteristics, after the 988 launch, the odds of peer support availability increased 1.3% per month (odds ratio, 1.013; 95% CI, 1.009-1.018), and the odds of emergency psychiatric walk-in service availability decreased by 0.6% per month (odds ratio, 0.994; 95% CI, 0.989-0.999). Availability of other service types also decreased at the national level, with mobile crisis response decreasing from 22% (n = 17 071) before to 21% (n = 22 023) after the 988 launch and suicide prevention decreasing from 69% (n = 54 933) before to 68% (n = 71 905) after the 988 launch. Significant variation across states was observed in service availability trends before and after the 988 launch.Conclusions and RelevanceThis study found that the launch of 988 did not coincide with significant and equitable growth in the availability of most crisis services except for a small increase in peer support services. These findings suggest that strategies are needed to boost the financing and availability of crisis s","PeriodicalId":14800,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Psychiatry","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":25.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143056310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA PsychiatryPub Date : 2025-01-08DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.4312
Michelle Matvey, D. Parker Kelley, Ellen R. Bradley, Winston Chiong, Aoife O’Donovan, Josh Woolley
{"title":"Modifying Informed Consent to Help Address Functional Unmasking in Psychedelic Clinical Trials","authors":"Michelle Matvey, D. Parker Kelley, Ellen R. Bradley, Winston Chiong, Aoife O’Donovan, Josh Woolley","doi":"10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.4312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.4312","url":null,"abstract":"ImportanceThere is unprecedented clinician, industry, and patient interest in the therapeutic development of psychedelic drugs. This is due to a combination of promising clinical trial results, positive media coverage, and the lack of novel pharmacologic treatments for psychiatric disorders in recent decades. However, the field faces a key methodological challenge: masking participants to treatment conditions in psychedelic clinical trials has been largely unsuccessful.ObjectiveWhen participants can tell whether they received active drug or placebo, their responses to clinical assessments, questionnaires, and even their functional imaging and biological data can be influenced by preconceptions about treatment effects. Positive patient expectancies combined with ineffective masking may skew outcomes and inflate effect sizes. This complicates efforts to determine the safety and efficacy of psychedelic drugs. Here, we explore a method to help address this problem: modifying informed consent to obscure information about the study design.Evidence ReviewWe reviewed all contemporary (2000-2024) clinical trials of psychedelic or methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) therapy and corresponded with the investigators to compile information on the use of modifications to informed consent in these studies.FindingsModifying informed consent to obscure details of the study design has been implemented in several psychedelic clinical trials and may offer a way to strengthen masking. However, this approach poses significant ethical risks. We examine examples of modifications used in the psychedelic literature, discuss the current regulatory landscape, and suggest strategies to mitigate risks associated with modified informed consent.Conclusions and RelevanceIncorporating modified informed consent in future psychedelic clinical trials may improve interpretability and impact, but this has not been explicitly tested. Modifications to informed consent may not be appropriate in all cases, and risks to participants should be minimized by implementing appropriate guardrails.","PeriodicalId":14800,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Psychiatry","volume":"82 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":25.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142936339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA PsychiatryPub Date : 2025-01-08DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.4230
Emanuel Boudriot, Marius Stephan, Finn Rabe, Lukasz Smigielski, Andrea Schmitt, Peter Falkai, Michael J. Ziller, Moritz J. Rossner, Philipp Homan, Sergi Papiol, Florian J. Raabe
{"title":"Genetic Analysis of Retinal Cell Types in Neuropsychiatric Disorders","authors":"Emanuel Boudriot, Marius Stephan, Finn Rabe, Lukasz Smigielski, Andrea Schmitt, Peter Falkai, Michael J. Ziller, Moritz J. Rossner, Philipp Homan, Sergi Papiol, Florian J. Raabe","doi":"10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.4230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.4230","url":null,"abstract":"ImportanceAs an accessible part of the central nervous system, the retina provides a unique window to study pathophysiological mechanisms of brain disorders in humans. Imaging and electrophysiological studies have revealed retinal alterations across several neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders, but it remains largely unclear which specific cell types and biological mechanisms are involved.ObjectiveTo determine whether specific retinal cell types are affected by genomic risk for neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders and to explore the mechanisms through which genomic risk converges in these cell types.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsThis genetic association study combined findings from genome-wide association studies in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson disease, Alzheimer disease, and stroke with retinal single-cell transcriptomic datasets from humans, macaques, and mice. To identify susceptible cell types, Multi-Marker Analysis of Genomic Annotation (MAGMA) cell-type enrichment analyses were applied and subsequent pathway analyses performed. The cellular top hits were translated to the structural level using retinal optical coherence tomography (acquired between 2009 and 2010) and genotyping data in the large population-based UK Biobank cohort study. Data analysis was conducted between 2022 and 2024.Main Outcomes and MeasuresCell type–specific enrichment of genetic risk loading for neuropsychiatric and neurological disorder traits in the gene expression profiles of retinal cells.ResultsExpression profiles of amacrine cells (interneurons within the retina) were robustly enriched in schizophrenia genetic risk across mammalian species and in different developmental stages. This enrichment was primarily driven by genes involved in synapse biology. Moreover, expression profiles of retinal immune cell populations were enriched in multiple sclerosis genetic risk. No consistent cell-type associations were found for bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, Parkinson disease, Alzheimer disease, or stroke. On the structural level, higher polygenic risk for schizophrenia was associated with thinning of the ganglion cell inner plexiform layer, which contains dendrites and synaptic connections of amacrine cells (B, −0.09; 95% CI, −0.16 to −0.03; <jats:italic>P</jats:italic> = .007; n = 36 349; mean [SD] age, 57.50 [8.00] years; 19 859 female [54.63%]). Higher polygenic risk for multiple sclerosis was associated with increased thickness of the retinal nerve fiber layer (B, 0.06; 95% CI, 0.02 to 0.10; <jats:italic>P</jats:italic> = .007; n = 36 371; mean [SD] age, 57.51 [8.00] years; 19 843 female [54.56%]).Conclusions and RelevanceThis study provides novel insights into the cellular underpinnings of retinal alterations in neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders and highlights the retina as a potential proxy to study synaptic pathology in schizophrenia.","PeriodicalId":14800,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Psychiatry","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":25.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142936193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA PsychiatryPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.3062
Robert A McCutcheon, Richard S E Keefe, Philip M McGuire, Andre Marquand
{"title":"Deconstructing Cognitive Impairment in Psychosis With a Machine Learning Approach.","authors":"Robert A McCutcheon, Richard S E Keefe, Philip M McGuire, Andre Marquand","doi":"10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.3062","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.3062","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Cognitive functioning is associated with various factors, such as age, sex, education, and childhood adversity, and is impaired in people with psychosis. In addition to specific effects of the disorder, cognitive impairments may reflect a greater exposure to general risk factors for poor cognition.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To determine the extent that impairments in cognition in psychosis reflect risk factor exposures.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This cross-sectional study examined the relationship between exposures and cognitive function using data from the Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes studies 1 and 2 across 6 sites. Participants included healthy controls; patients with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or bipolar I disorder with psychosis; and relatives of patients. Predictive modeling was performed using extreme gradient boosting regression to train a composite cognitive score prediction model with nested cross-validation. Shapley additive explanations values were used to examine the relationship between exposures and cognitive function.</p><p><strong>Exposure: </strong>Exposures were chosen based on associations with cognition previously identified: age, sex, race and ethnicity, childhood adversity, education, parental education, parental socioeconomic status, parental age at birth, substance use, antipsychotic dose, and diagnosis.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>Cognition was assessed using the Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 3370 participants were included: 840 healthy controls, 709 patients with schizophrenia, 541 with schizoaffective disorder, 457 with bipolar I disorder with psychosis, and 823 relatives of patients. The mean (SD) age was 37.9 (13.3) years; 1887 were female (56%) and 1483 male (44%). The model predicted cognitive scores with high accuracy: out-of-sample Pearson correlation between predicted and observed cognitive composite score was r = 0.72 (SD = 0.03). Individuals with schizophrenia (z = -1.4), schizoaffective disorder (z = -1.2), and bipolar I disorder with psychosis (z = -0.5) all had significantly worse cognitive composite scores than controls. Factors other than diagnosis and medication accounted for much of this impairment (schizophrenia z = -0.73, schizoaffective disorder z = -0.64, bipolar I disorder with psychosis z = -0.13). Diagnosis accounted for a lesser proportion of this deficit (schizophrenia z = -0.29, schizoaffective disorder z = -0.15, bipolar I disorder with psychosis z = -0.13), and antipsychotic use accounted for a similar deficit across diagnostic groups (schizophrenia z = -0.37, schizoaffective disorder z = -0.33, bipolar I disorder with psychosis z = -0.26).</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>This study found that transdiagnostic factors accounted for a meaningful share of the variance in cognitive fu","PeriodicalId":14800,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"57-65"},"PeriodicalIF":22.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11465119/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142390686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA PsychiatryPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.3435
David T Zhu
{"title":"Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Fentanyl and Polysubstance Overdose Deaths.","authors":"David T Zhu","doi":"10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.3435","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.3435","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14800,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"99-100"},"PeriodicalIF":22.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11581714/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142582773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA PsychiatryPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.3596
Ruth S Shim, Margarita Alegría
{"title":"Ending Unequal Treatment for People With Behavioral Health Conditions.","authors":"Ruth S Shim, Margarita Alegría","doi":"10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.3596","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.3596","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14800,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"10-11"},"PeriodicalIF":22.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142675868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA PsychiatryPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.3241
Tarek K Rajji, Christopher R Bowie, Nathan Herrmann, Bruce G Pollock, Krista L Lanctôt, Sanjeev Kumar, Alastair J Flint, Linda Mah, Corinne E Fischer, Meryl A Butters, Marom Bikson, James L Kennedy, Daniel M Blumberger, Zafiris J Daskalakis, Damien Gallagher, Mark J Rapoport, Nicolaas P L G Paul Verhoeff, Angela C Golas, Ariel Graff-Guerrero, Erica Vieira, Aristotle N Voineskos, Heather Brooks, Ashley Melichercik, Kevin E Thorpe, Benoit H Mulsant
{"title":"Slowing Cognitive Decline in Major Depressive Disorder and Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Randomized Clinical Trial.","authors":"Tarek K Rajji, Christopher R Bowie, Nathan Herrmann, Bruce G Pollock, Krista L Lanctôt, Sanjeev Kumar, Alastair J Flint, Linda Mah, Corinne E Fischer, Meryl A Butters, Marom Bikson, James L Kennedy, Daniel M Blumberger, Zafiris J Daskalakis, Damien Gallagher, Mark J Rapoport, Nicolaas P L G Paul Verhoeff, Angela C Golas, Ariel Graff-Guerrero, Erica Vieira, Aristotle N Voineskos, Heather Brooks, Ashley Melichercik, Kevin E Thorpe, Benoit H Mulsant","doi":"10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.3241","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.3241","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Older adults with major depressive disorder (MDD) or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) are at high risk for cognitive decline.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To assess the efficacy of cognitive remediation (CR) plus transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) targeting the prefrontal cortex in slowing cognitive decline, acutely improving cognition, and reducing progression to MCI or dementia in older adults with remitted MDD (rMDD), MCI, or both.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This randomized clinical trial was conducted at 5 academic hospitals in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Participants were older adults who had rMDD (with or without MCI, age ≥65 y) or MCI without rMDD (age ≥60 y). Assessments were made at baseline, month 2, and yearly from baseline for 3 to 7 years.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>CR plus tDCS (hereafter, active) or sham plus sham 5 days a week for 8 weeks followed by twice-a-year 5-day boosters and daily at-home CR or sham CR.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>The primary outcome was change in global composite cognitive score. Secondary outcomes included changes in 6 cognitive domains, moderating effect of the diagnosis, moderating effect of APOE ε4 status, change in composite score at month 2, and progression to MCI or dementia over time.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 486 older adults who provided consent, 375 (with rMDD, MCI, or both) received at least 1 intervention session (mean [SD] age, 72.2 [6.4] years; 232 women [62%] and 143 men [38%]). Over a median follow-up of 48.3 months (range, 2.1-85.9), CR and tDCS slowed cognitive decline in older adults with rMDD or MCI (adjusted z score difference [active - sham] at month 60, 0.21; 95% CI, 0.07 to 0.35; likelihood ratio test [LRT] P = .006). In the preplanned primary analysis, CR and tDCS did not improve cognition acutely (adjusted z score difference [active - sham] at month 2, 0.06, 95% CI, -0.006 to 0.12). Similarly, the effect of CR and tDCS on delaying progression from normal cognition to MCI or MCI to dementia was weak and not significant (hazard ratio, 0.66; 95% CI, 0.40 to 1.08; P = .10). Preplanned analyses showed treatment effects for executive function (LRT P = .04) and verbal memory (LRT P = .02) and interactions with diagnosis (P = .01) and APOE ε4 (P < .001) demonstrating a larger effect among those with rMDD and in noncarriers of APOE ε4.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>The study showed that CR and tDCS, both targeting the prefrontal cortex, is efficacious in slowing cognitive decline in older adults at risk of cognitive decline, particularly those with rMDD (with or without MCI) and in those at low genetic risk for Alzheimer disease.</p><p><strong>Trial registration: </strong>ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02386670.</p>","PeriodicalId":14800,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"12-21"},"PeriodicalIF":22.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11525663/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142545627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}