Yesenia Cantu, Taryn White, Gabriela Austgen, Christine Rizk, Olaoluwa O Okusaga, Melissa B Jones
{"title":"Primary Polydipsia in a Case of Genetic Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia.","authors":"Yesenia Cantu, Taryn White, Gabriela Austgen, Christine Rizk, Olaoluwa O Okusaga, Melissa B Jones","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20230227","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20230227","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"appineuropsych20230227"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142668308","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}
Thomas W McAllister, Steven P Broglio, Susan M Perkins, Barry P Katz, Paul F Pasquina, Michael A McCrea
{"title":"Characterizing the Effects of Concussion and Head Impact Exposure: Design, Methods, and Participant Traits of the CARE 2.0 Study.","authors":"Thomas W McAllister, Steven P Broglio, Susan M Perkins, Barry P Katz, Paul F Pasquina, Michael A McCrea","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20240022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20240022","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This article describes the design, methods, and participant characteristics of the second phase of the Concussion Assessment, Research, and Education (CARE) Consortium study (\"CARE 2.0\") of the effects of concussion and repetitive head impact exposure on neuropsychiatric health.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The authors conducted a prospective multisite observational study of male and female collegiate athletes and military service academy cadets and midshipmen participating in the CARE study. Participants were assessed at three time points: undergraduate baseline (UB), before departure from university or service academy (exit), and up to 6 years following graduation (postgrad) via an online battery of brain health assessments. Participant characteristics were compared across the three time points and four levels of head impact exposure.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 4,643 participants completed the exit assessment, and 3,981 completed the postgrad assessment. Relative to the UB assessment cohort, the exit and postgrad assessment cohorts differed with respect to the percentage of women, baseline Wechsler Test of Adult Reading scores, National Collegiate Athletic Association division category, sport contact level, and number of previous concussions. The median standardized difference across balancing variables, assessment time points, and degree of head impact exposure was 0.12 (with 90% of effect sizes ≤0.29).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Although there were some statistically significant differences between participants across assessments, the effect sizes were modest, and overall the data suggest that the exit and postgrad cohorts reflect the characteristics of the baseline cohort. The CARE study design and its large, richly characterized sample provide an opportunity to answer important questions about cumulative and persistent effects of concussion and repetitive head impact exposure on neuropsychiatric health.</p>","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"appineuropsych20240022"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142391159","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}
Tina Chou, Darin D Dougherty, Scott F Sorg, Roger K Pitman, Kaloyan S Tanev
{"title":"Cognition and Ventral Attention Network Connectivity: Associations With Treatment Response in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.","authors":"Tina Chou, Darin D Dougherty, Scott F Sorg, Roger K Pitman, Kaloyan S Tanev","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20240058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20240058","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a highly heterogeneous disorder, which makes it difficult to link clinical phenotypes with biomarkers to improve treatment outcomes. Findings from previous studies suggest that cognitive measures such as verbal memory or attention paired with within-ventral attention network (VAN) or salience network resting-state functional connectivity may predict treatment response among individuals with PTSD.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In a sample comprising 20 individuals with PTSD and 10 healthy control group individuals, the investigators subtyped individuals by using both discriminant function analysis and standardized norms for a single measure of memory and neuropsychological batteries of memory, attention, and executive functioning; attempted to replicate previous findings of lower within-VAN connectivity among individuals with cognitive impairment; and explored whether within-VAN connectivity paired with cognitive impairment predicted treatment outcomes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>PTSD patients with cognitive impairment (defined by using a discriminant function analysis with verbal memory performance) had greater within-VAN resting-state functional connectivity compared with control group individuals and cognitively intact PTSD patients at a level that fell short of statistical significance (F=3.41; df=2, 21; η<sub>p</sub><sup>2</sup>=0.237). The interaction between verbal memory performance and within-VAN connectivity also predicted treatment-related change in PTSD symptoms at a level that also fell short of statistical significance (β=-0.442).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings somewhat support the clinical utility of identifying cognitive phenotypes within PTSD (by using discriminant function analysis and verbal memory performance) to predict treatment outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"appineuropsych20240058"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142391160","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}
Roberto Fernández Fernández, Javier Ibias Martín, María Araceli Maciá Antón
{"title":"Depression as a Risk Factor for Dementia: A Meta-Analysis.","authors":"Roberto Fernández Fernández, Javier Ibias Martín, María Araceli Maciá Antón","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20230043","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20230043","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dementia is a syndrome characterized by the deterioration of cognitive function beyond what is expected. The increased risk of developing this syndrome resulting from established modifiable risk factors, such as depressive episodes, is currently a subject of interest. The aim of this study was to review the scientific evidence that addresses the relationship between depression and dementia. A bibliographic search of the PubMed and PsycInfo databases for articles published over the past 20 years was conducted with the following medical subject heading terms: depression or depressive, dementia, and incidence or cohort studies. After articles meeting the inclusion criteria were selected, relevant moderating variables were grouped as sample characteristics, methodological characteristics, extrinsic characteristics, and outcome variables. The 26 selected studies resulted in a sample comprising 1,760,262 individuals. Statistical analysis revealed a pooled relative risk for the development of dementia of 1.82 (95% CI=1.62-2.06). The primary variables evaluated were the diagnostic methods for depression and dementia and the presence of depression. Other variables, such as mean age, methodological quality of each study, follow-up time, and publication year, were also evaluated. Age was statistically but not clinically significant. No relevant publication bias or alterations in the results were found when accounting for the quality of the studies. It is recommended that new moderating variables be evaluated or that existing variables be reformulated in future studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"101-109"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138803974","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":"Doubling Down on Combined Neurology-Psychiatry Residency Training and Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Fellowship Training: Reply to Perez.","authors":"Joshua C Brown","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20230163","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20230163","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":"36 1","pages":"79-81"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139472559","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}
Kelsey A Holiday, Alexander Sheppard, Youssef I Khattab, Diana Chavez, Rebecca J Melrose, Mario F Mendez
{"title":"Socioemotional Dysfunction From Temporal Lobe Involvement in Frontotemporal Dementia: A Preliminary Report.","authors":"Kelsey A Holiday, Alexander Sheppard, Youssef I Khattab, Diana Chavez, Rebecca J Melrose, Mario F Mendez","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20230175","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20230175","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Socioemotional changes, rather than cognitive impairments, are the feature that defines behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). Investigators have attributed the socioemotional changes in bvFTD and other dementias to frontal lobe dysfunction; however, recent work implies a further contribution from right anterior temporal disease. The authors evaluated relationships between regional brain atrophy and socioemotional changes in both bvFTD and early-onset Alzheimer's disease (EOAD).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study explored the neuroanatomical correlations of performance on the Socioemotional Dysfunction Scale (SDS), an instrument previously shown to document socioemotional changes in bvFTD, among 13 patients with bvFTD not preselected for anterior temporal involvement and 16 age-matched patients with early-onset Alzheimer's disease (EOAD). SDS scores were correlated with volumes of regions of interest assessed with tensor-based morphometric analysis of MRI images.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>As expected, the bvFTD group had significantly higher SDS scores overall and smaller frontal regions compared with the EOAD group, which in turn had smaller volumes in temporoparietal regions. SDS scores significantly correlated with lateral anterior temporal lobe (ATL) atrophy, and a regression analysis that controlled for diagnosis indicated that SDS scores predicted lateral ATL volume. Within the bvFTD group, higher SDS scores were associated with smaller lateral and right ATL regions, as well as a smaller orbitofrontal cortex. Within the EOAD group, higher SDS scores were associated with a smaller right parietal cortex.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study confirms that, in addition to orbitofrontal disease, there is a prominent right and lateral ATL origin of socioemotional changes in bvFTD and further suggests that right parietal involvement contributes to socioemotional changes in EOAD.</p>","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"344-349"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141579956","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":"Cold-Water Immersion: Neurohormesis and Possible Implications for Clinical Neurosciences.","authors":"Wilfredo López-Ojeda, Robin A Hurley","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20240053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20240053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":"36 3","pages":"A4-177"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141579957","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}
Yidi Wang, Andrew R Pines, Joseph Y Yoon, Summer B Frandsen, Edison K Miyawaki, Shan H Siddiqi
{"title":"Focal Lesion in the Intraparietal Sulcus: A Case for Network-Dependent Release Hallucinations.","authors":"Yidi Wang, Andrew R Pines, Joseph Y Yoon, Summer B Frandsen, Edison K Miyawaki, Shan H Siddiqi","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20220145","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20220145","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"74-76"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41123471","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":"Creating a \"Brain-Mind-Body Interface Disorders\" Diagnostic Category Across Specialties.","authors":"Julie Maggio, Caitlin Adams, David L Perez","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20230071","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20230071","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"172-174"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41236148","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}
Daniel S Lowet, Florin Vaida, John R Hesselink, Linda Ewing-Cobbs, Russell J Schachar, Sandra B Chapman, Erin D Bigler, Elisabeth A Wilde, Ann E Saunders, Tony T Yang, Olga Tymofiyeva, Mingxiong Huang, Jeffrey E Max
{"title":"Novel Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Conduct Disorder 24 Months After Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and Adolescents.","authors":"Daniel S Lowet, Florin Vaida, John R Hesselink, Linda Ewing-Cobbs, Russell J Schachar, Sandra B Chapman, Erin D Bigler, Elisabeth A Wilde, Ann E Saunders, Tony T Yang, Olga Tymofiyeva, Mingxiong Huang, Jeffrey E Max","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20220094","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20220094","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The authors sought to identify predictive factors of new-onset or novel oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder assessed 24 months after traumatic brain injury (TBI).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Children ages 5 to 14 years who had experienced TBI were recruited from consecutive hospital admissions. Soon after injury, participants were assessed for preinjury characteristics, including psychiatric disorders, socioeconomic status (SES), psychosocial adversity, and family function, and the presence and location of lesions were documented by MRI. Psychiatric outcomes, including novel oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder, were assessed 24 months after injury.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the children without preinjury oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, or disruptive behavior disorder not otherwise specified who were recruited in this study, 165 were included in this sample; 95 of these children returned for the 24-month assessment. Multiple imputation was used to address attrition. The prevalence of novel oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder was 23.7 out of 165 (14%). In univariable analyses, novel oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder was significantly associated with psychosocial adversity (p=0.049) and frontal white matter lesions (p=0.016) and was marginally but not significantly associated with SES. In the final multipredictor model, frontal white matter lesions were significantly associated with novel oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder (p=0.021), and psychosocial adversity score was marginally but not significantly associated with the outcome. The odds ratio of novel oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder among the children with versus those without novel depressive disorder was significantly higher for girls than boys (p=0.025), and the odds ratio of novel oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder among the children with versus those without novel attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was significantly higher for boys than girls (p=0.006).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Approximately 14% of children with TBI developed oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder. The risk for novel oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder can be understood from a biopsychosocial perspective. Sex differences were evident for comorbid novel depressive disorder and comorbid novel ADHD.</p>","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"53-62"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10840932/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9964284","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}