{"title":"Breaking Down Binary Thinking in Neuropsychiatry.","authors":"Joseph J Cooper, Barbara Schildkrout","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20240044","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20240044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"279-281"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142769802","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}
Diego Armando Coronel Manzo, Monica Flores Ramos, Schajrit Esther Amscheridam Herrera, Rogelio Zapata Arenas, José de Jesús Naveja, Natasha Álcocer Castillejos, Ana Cecilia López Sepúlveda
{"title":"Changes in Neuropsychiatric Symptoms Among COVID-19-Convalescent Patients During Hospitalization at a Tertiary Care Center.","authors":"Diego Armando Coronel Manzo, Monica Flores Ramos, Schajrit Esther Amscheridam Herrera, Rogelio Zapata Arenas, José de Jesús Naveja, Natasha Álcocer Castillejos, Ana Cecilia López Sepúlveda","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20230121","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20230121","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The investigators compared neuropsychiatric symptoms among COVID-19 patients at hospital admission and at discharge.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Clinical data on neuropsychiatric syndromes were prospectively collected from 103 COVID-19 patients at admission and immediately before discharge. Clinical evaluations and serum biomarkers were analyzed to assess their relationship with neuropsychiatric symptoms and patient survival.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Neuropsychiatric symptoms had improved by the time of hospital discharge (N=81) compared with admission. Depression scores decreased from 5.0 to 3.8 points on the Beck Depression Inventory (t=3.04); anxiety scores decreased from 12.3 to 10.0 points on the Beck Anxiety Inventory (t=2.75); and cognitive scores increased from 21.8 to 23.6 points on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (t=-4.07). Delirium was present among 24% of patients upon admission but only among 12% before discharge. Markers of inflammation were correlated with neuropsychiatric symptoms. Longer hospital stays significantly predicted depression (R<sup>2</sup>=0.06), and gender and procalcitonin levels were significantly associated with anxiety (R<sup>2</sup>=0.05). Cognitive impairment was linked to depression and the need for endotracheal intubation. Both cognitive impairment and endotracheal intubation were associated with lower survival rates (R<sup>2</sup>=0.10 and 0.18, respectively).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings reveal that a significant number of COVID-19 patients continued to exhibit affective symptoms, delirium, and cognitive deficits at discharge, with delirium and cognitive deficits being linked to lower survival rates and inflammation markers being significantly associated with these symptoms. Factors such as gender, hospital stay length, and mechanical ventilation predicted neuropsychiatric symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"244-251"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143066373","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}
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}
{"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}
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":2.4,"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":"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":2.4,"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}
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}
Ryan Van Patten, Lawrence Chan, Krista Tocco, Kristen Mordecai, Hamada Altalib, Erica Cotton, Stephen Correia, Tyler E Gaston, Leslie P Grayson, Amber Martin, Samantha Fry, Adam Goodman, Jane B Allendorfer, Jerzy Szaflarski, W Curt LaFrance
{"title":"Reduced Subjective Cognitive Concerns With Neurobehavioral Therapy in Functional Seizures and Traumatic Brain Injury.","authors":"Ryan Van Patten, Lawrence Chan, Krista Tocco, Kristen Mordecai, Hamada Altalib, Erica Cotton, Stephen Correia, Tyler E Gaston, Leslie P Grayson, Amber Martin, Samantha Fry, Adam Goodman, Jane B Allendorfer, Jerzy Szaflarski, W Curt LaFrance","doi":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20230138","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20230138","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Functional seizures are common among people with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Subjective cognitive concerns refer to a person's own perception of problems with cognitive functioning in everyday life. The authors investigated the presence and correlates of subjective cognitive concerns and the response to neurobehavioral therapy among adults with TBI and functional seizures (TBI+FS group).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this observational study, participants in the TBI+FS group (N=47) completed a 12-session neurobehavioral therapy protocol for seizures, while participants in the comparison group (TBI without seizures) (N=50) received usual treatment. Subjective cognitive concerns, objective cognition, mental health, and quality of life were assessed before and after treatment. Data collection occurred from 2018 to 2022.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Baseline subjective cognitive concerns were reported for 37 (79%) participants in the TBI+FS group and 20 (40%) participants in the comparison group. In a multivariable regression model in the TBI+FS group, baseline global mental health (β=-0.97) and obsessive-compulsive symptoms (β=-1.01) were associated with subjective cognitive concerns at baseline. The TBI+FS group had fewer subjective cognitive concerns after treatment (η<sup>2</sup>=0.09), whereas the TBI comparison group showed a nonsignificant increase in subjective cognitive concerns.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Subjective cognitive concerns are common among people with TBI and functional seizures and may be related to general mental health and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Evidence-based neurobehavioral therapy for functional seizures is a reasonable treatment option to address such concerns in this population, although additional studies in culturally diverse samples are needed. In addition, people with functional seizures would likely benefit from rehabilitation specifically targeted toward cognitive functioning.</p>","PeriodicalId":16559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"197-205"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140119771","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}