{"title":"Correction to Porto et al.","authors":"","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.2009212114correction","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.2009212114correction","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":"37 3","pages":"292"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144528424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marissa L Beal, Kevin J Psoter, Kathleen T Bechtold, Veeran Nagpaul, Matthew E Peters, Vani Rao, Timothy E Van Meter, Hayley Falk, Frederick K Korley, Durga Roy
{"title":"Relationship Between Posttraumatic Headache and Depression After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.","authors":"Marissa L Beal, Kevin J Psoter, Kathleen T Bechtold, Veeran Nagpaul, Matthew E Peters, Vani Rao, Timothy E Van Meter, Hayley Falk, Frederick K Korley, Durga Roy","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20230143","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20230143","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) can lead to psychiatric and somatic symptoms for some patients, including posttraumatic headache (PTH) and depression. This study attempted to further establish the relationship between PTH and depression following mTBI and investigate whether the presence of PTH immediately following injury can identify patients at risk for developing depressive symptoms up to 6 months later.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study was a secondary analysis of data from Head Injury Serum Markers for Assessing Response to Trauma (HeadSMART), a prospective study of adult patients in the emergency department with head injury. Participants included 265 patients who met criteria for mTBI and completed the Rivermead Post-Concussion Symptoms Questionnaire, to identify PTH within 24 hours after injury, and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, to assess depressive symptoms during follow-up. Measures were completed at the initial visit immediately after the injury in the emergency department and at 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up visits.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Patients with acute PTH (aPTH) at time of injury were more likely to report PTH at 1, 3, and 6 months. They also had more severe depressive symptoms and a greater likelihood of clinically significant depression at all time points.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Patients with aPTH within 24 hours after injury were more likely to report continued symptoms of PTH and clinically significant depression at 1, 3, and 6 months. These findings provide support for using the presence of aPTH in the emergency department following mTBI as an indicator for monitoring persistent PTH and depressive symptoms in the postacute recovery period.</p>","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"47-52"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141902023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Jump Into Cold Water or a Leap of Faith?","authors":"Clare M Eglin, Heather Massey, Michael J Tipton","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20240150","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20240150","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"192-193"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142950308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neuroanatomic Structures and Neural Circuits of Habits.","authors":"Wilfredo López-Ojeda, Robin A Hurley","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20250046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20250046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":"37 3","pages":"A4-198"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144528425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mei Hung Chi, James A Bourgeois, Ellery Santos, Kyoungmi Kim, Matt Dominic Ponzini, Guadalupe Mendoza, Andrea Schneider, David Hessl, Flora Tassone, Randi J Hagerman
{"title":"Psychiatric Manifestations in Early to Middle Stages of Fragile X-Associated Tremor-Ataxia Syndrome (FXTAS).","authors":"Mei Hung Chi, James A Bourgeois, Ellery Santos, Kyoungmi Kim, Matt Dominic Ponzini, Guadalupe Mendoza, Andrea Schneider, David Hessl, Flora Tassone, Randi J Hagerman","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20230215","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20230215","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The purpose of the present study was to assess the psychiatric manifestations of early to middle stages of fragile X-associated tremor-ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) and their relationship with executive function and <i>FMR1</i> cytosine-guanine-guanine (CGG) repeat numbers across genders.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Cross-sectional data from 100 participants (62 men, 38 women; mean±SD age=67.11±7.90 years) with FXTAS stage 1, 2, or 3 were analyzed, including demographic information, cognitive measures, psychiatric assessments (Symptom Checklist-90-Revised and Behavioral Dyscontrol Scale-II [BDS-II]), and CGG repeat number.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Participants with FXTAS stage 3 exhibited significantly worse psychiatric outcomes compared with participants with either stage 1 or 2, with distinct gender-related differences. Men showed differences in anxiety and hostility between stage 3 and combined stages 1 and 2, whereas women exhibited differences in anxiety, depression, interpersonal sensitivity, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and somatization, as well as in the Global Severity Index, the Positive Symptom Distress Index, and the Positive Symptom Total. Among male participants, negative correlations were observed between BDS-II total scores and obsessive-compulsive symptoms, as well as between anxiety and CGG repeat number.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings suggest that even at early FXTAS stages, patients have significant cognitive and other psychiatric symptoms, with notable gender-specific differences. This study underscores the clinical and prognostic relevance of comorbid psychiatric conditions in FXTAS, highlighting the need for early intervention and targeted support for individuals with relatively mild motor deficits.</p>","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"20-28"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12101574/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141902022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Trends in Peptide Therapies: Perspectives and Implications for Clinical Neurosciences.","authors":"Wilfredo López-Ojeda, Robin A Hurley","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20240253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20240253","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":"37 2","pages":"A6-101"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143988760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jessie S Gibson, Kaitlyn R Hay, Daniel O Claassen, Katherine E McDonell, Amy E Brown, Amy Wynn, Jessica Jiang, David A Isaacs
{"title":"Apathy and Functional Status in Early-Stage Huntington's Disease.","authors":"Jessie S Gibson, Kaitlyn R Hay, Daniel O Claassen, Katherine E McDonell, Amy E Brown, Amy Wynn, Jessica Jiang, David A Isaacs","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20230225","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20230225","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Apathy is common in Huntington's disease (HD) and difficult to treat. Multiple recent calls have been made to increase understanding of apathy across the spectrum of HD severity. Functional status is an important outcome in HD trials; however, no consensus currently exists regarding the impact of apathy on functional status in HD. The authors aimed to identify correlates of apathy and effects on functional status in a primarily early-stage HD sample.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study included secondary analyses of data from a study of neuropsychiatric symptoms in a clinical HD sample. Spearman correlation analyses were used to assess the relationships between apathy (with the Frontal Systems Behavior Scale-Apathy [FrSBe-Apathy] subscore), clinical variables, and patient-reported outcomes. To assess the association of apathy with functional status, two multiple regression analyses were performed, with a different functional status measure (Adult Functional Adaptive Behavior [AFAB] scale or Total Functional Capacity [TFC] scale) as the dependent variable in each analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Statistically significant correlates of apathy included the Quality of Life in Neurological Disorders (Neuro-QoL) Satisfaction With Social Roles and Activities and Neuro-QoL Positive Affect and Well-Being scores (N=70 patients). Univariate correlation analyses also revealed statistically significant associations of FrSBe-Apathy scores with both functional status measures. In the multiple regression analyses, apathy significantly contributed to variability in functional status as measured by both the AFAB (N=49 patients) and TFC (N=56 patients) scales.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These results underscore the need to address apathy as a target for improving functional status, social satisfaction, and well-being in HD, even for individuals with early-stage HD.</p>","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"125-130"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11996602/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142668306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cameron A Ryczek, Rhiannon Rivas, Lea Hemphill, Zackary Zanotelli, Nicholas Renteria, Khashayar Dashtipour, Jacob D Jones
{"title":"Association of Favorable Cerebrospinal Fluid Markers With Reversion of Mild Cognitive Impairment Due to Parkinson's Disease.","authors":"Cameron A Ryczek, Rhiannon Rivas, Lea Hemphill, Zackary Zanotelli, Nicholas Renteria, Khashayar Dashtipour, Jacob D Jones","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20240099","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20240099","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Cognitive impairment is a common nonmotor symptom among individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD). Although cognitive impairment generally develops progressively, individuals with PD-associated mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI) may revert to being cognitively normal (CN), which is referred to as PD-MCI reversion. Previous studies are inconsistent in whether PD-MCI reverters are at greater risk for PD-MCI recurrence relative to CN individuals. Even less is known about how PD-MCI reverters compare with CN individuals or PD-MCI nonreverters in terms of neurodegenerative biomarkers. The authors examined group differences (CN, PD-MCI reversion, and PD-MCI nonreversion) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) markers of Alzheimer's disease (AD), including amyloid beta, tau (total [t-tau] and phosphorylated [p-tau]), and alpha-synuclein.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data from the longitudinal international multisite Parkinson Progression Marker Initiative were used. Participants were newly diagnosed as having PD (N=430) and completed a battery of neurocognitive assessments at baseline and annual follow-ups for up to 5 years. Participants were classified as CN, PD-MCI reverters, or PD-MCI nonreverters on the basis of the first two neurocognitive assessments.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The PD-MCI nonreversion group had greater p-tau:amyloid beta and t-tau:amyloid beta ratios relative to the PD-MCI reversion group. The CN and PD-MCI reversion groups did not significantly differ in any of the CSF markers.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>PD-MCI reverters may have a more favorable trajectory in terms of AD pathology relative to PD-MCI nonreverters. Future studies are needed to verify whether PD-MCI reversion may represent an intermediate prognostic group between CN individuals and those with MCI nonreversion.</p>","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"131-136"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12014151/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142950309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yu-Lien Huang, Tzu-Ting Chen, Wei-Shin Wang, Che Yu Kuo, Yen Kuang Yang, Huai-Hsuan Tseng
{"title":"Low Versus High Levels of Social Cognition Impairment and Their Associations With Specific Schizophrenia Symptom Domains.","authors":"Yu-Lien Huang, Tzu-Ting Chen, Wei-Shin Wang, Che Yu Kuo, Yen Kuang Yang, Huai-Hsuan Tseng","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20240020","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20240020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Social cognition is defined as the ability to construct mental representations about oneself, others, and one's relationships with others to guide social behaviors, including referring to mental states (cognitive factor) and understanding emotional states (affective factor). Difficulties in social cognition may be symptoms of schizophrenia. The authors examined associations between two factors of social cognition and specific schizophrenia symptoms, as well as a potential path from low-level affective perceptual social cognition to high-level social cognition, which may be associated with schizophrenia symptoms.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The authors compared IQ, executive function, and social cognition scores of 41 patients with schizophrenia with those of a community-based group of 30 healthy individuals by using the Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy 2-Taiwan version, the Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition-Taiwan version, and the Chinese version of the theory of mind task.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In analyses controlled for IQ and executive function scores, patients with schizophrenia were found to perform more poorly than individuals in the healthy comparison group on all social cognition tasks. Disorganized symptoms were associated with lower accuracy of recognizing happy and angry faces, a lower verbal theory of mind score, and altered low- and high-level social cognition scores. A potential causal link was identified between low-level affective perceptual social cognition and high-level social cognition, resulting in disorganized symptoms.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These results indicate distinct roles of two factors of social cognition in schizophrenia symptomatology and provide a new direction for alleviating symptoms of this disorder by enhancing social cognition.</p>","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"261-269"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142950311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kelly H Watson, Abagail E Ciriegio, Anna C Pfalzer, Abigail L B Snow, Spencer Diehl, Katherine E McDonell, Cindy L Vnencak-Jones, Jeffrey D Long, Bruce E Compas, Daniel O Claassen
{"title":"Psychiatric Symptoms Among Adolescents and Young Adults With or Without the Huntingtin Gene Expansion.","authors":"Kelly H Watson, Abagail E Ciriegio, Anna C Pfalzer, Abigail L B Snow, Spencer Diehl, Katherine E McDonell, Cindy L Vnencak-Jones, Jeffrey D Long, Bruce E Compas, Daniel O Claassen","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20240104","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20240104","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Using a multi-informant approach, the authors assessed the psychiatric symptoms of adolescents and young adults with or without the huntingtin gene expansion and examined the association of psychiatric symptoms with cumulative disease exposure, a measure taking into account age and genetic data.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The sample included 110 participants with (N=71) or without (N=39) the gene expansion, along with 85 family members who provided collateral reports. Saliva samples were used for genetic testing. Participants reported psychiatric symptoms with the age- and informant-appropriate Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment measure.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Family member ratings indicated that young people (ages 10-39) with the gene expansion were more likely to exhibit depression symptoms, attention difficulties, and behavior problems compared with those without the gene expansion. Self-reports of these symptoms did not differ between the two groups and indicated elevated depression symptoms, attention difficulties, thought problems, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in both groups. In family member reports, 25% and 15% of the individuals with the gene expansion exceeded the clinical cutoffs for internalizing and attention difficulties, respectively. Little support was found for an association between psychiatric symptoms and cumulative disease exposure.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings suggest that young people from families affected by Huntington's disease are at elevated risk for psychiatric symptoms regardless of gene status or cumulative disease exposure. However, findings differed depending on the informant type. These results emphasize a need to screen for and monitor the psychiatric symptoms of all young people from families affected by Huntington's disease regardless of gene status.</p>","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"230-237"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143066381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}