PsychopathologyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-01-16DOI: 10.1159/000535586
Qian Wang, Zirong Li, Jie Zhong
{"title":"Network Analysis of Borderline Personality Features in Adolescence Using a Screening Tool in a Chinese Community Sample.","authors":"Qian Wang, Zirong Li, Jie Zhong","doi":"10.1159/000535586","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000535586","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>This study investigated the structure of the borderline personality features (BPFs) network and the most central BPF in adolescence.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Cross-sectional self-report data from 4,866 Chinese adolescents (M = 13.96, SD = 1.64; 61.3% girls) were included in the network analysis models. BPFs were assessed with the McLean Screening Instrument for Borderline Personality Disorder.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Identity disturbance and affective instability emerged as the most central BPF in the current adolescent sample. In addition, chronic emptiness was also found with high centrality. The general networks of BPF were very similar between adolescent boys and girls, although some differences were detected.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>This study further supports the necessity of BPD assessment and diagnosis in adolescence and identifies the distinctive importance of identity and affective dysregulation in the early development of BPD. The findings provide empirical insights into the interconnections of BPF, which resonate with therapeutic mechanisms of evidence-based treatments for BPD. However, the research was limited in its use of a screening measurement rather than a diagnostic tool. Future studies can further explore BPD psychopathology in adolescence with longitudinal data and clinical interviews.</p>","PeriodicalId":20723,"journal":{"name":"Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"182-191"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11152012/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139478820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PsychopathologyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-03-27DOI: 10.1159/000538096
Asala Halaj, George Konstantakopoulos, Nassir S Ghaemi, Anthony S David
{"title":"Anxiety Disorders: The Relationship between Insight and Metacognition.","authors":"Asala Halaj, George Konstantakopoulos, Nassir S Ghaemi, Anthony S David","doi":"10.1159/000538096","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000538096","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The exploration of metacognition in relation to anxiety has received considerable attention in recent decades. Research indicates that it plays a role in the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders while also providing benefits, including the ability to assess situations, modify behaviors, and make informed decisions.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>We propose that having an awareness of a disorder, also known as insight, is related to metacognition in anxiety. This relationship stems from the ability it provides individuals to recognize their mental state through reflection on personal experiences. We discuss the impact of insight and metacognition on decision-making, treatment-seeking behaviors, and coping strategy selection.</p><p><strong>Key messages: </strong>Understanding the concept of insight in anxiety disorders, as compared to other mental disorders like psychosis, requires exploring its complexities while carefully considering the balance of harms and benefits. While the medicalization of symptoms in psychosis is widely regarded as clearly beneficial, evaluating the role of insight in anxiety disorders demands a more nuanced understanding. Gaining a fuller perspective on patients' beliefs can impact their behaviors and decision-making. Clinicians can achieve this by encouraging active self-reflection to increase awareness, which includes evaluating both severity and impact on daily functioning. This also involves expressing experiences and exploring attributions of anxiety. This practical approach enables clinicians to understand engagement and treatment-seeking behaviors, allowing them to tailor treatment plans and develop effective coping and management strategies. Ultimately, this knowledge promotes a deeper comprehension of insight into anxiety disorders.</p>","PeriodicalId":20723,"journal":{"name":"Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"434-443"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11446293/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140306631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PsychopathologyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-05-16DOI: 10.1159/000538267
Victor Monteiro, Lucas Bloc, Guilherme Messas
{"title":"What Is It Like to Be in Alcohol Addiction Recovery? A Dialectical Phenomenological Analysis.","authors":"Victor Monteiro, Lucas Bloc, Guilherme Messas","doi":"10.1159/000538267","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000538267","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Currently, there is no scientific consensus on the concept of alcohol addiction recovery beyond substance use control. This conceptual issue challenges the implementation of therapeutic strategies and mental health policies that are unrestricted to symptomatic remission. Aiming to contribute to its definition, this study aimed to examine the recovery experience of individuals with alcohol addiction using dialectical phenomenological psychopathology (DPP) as a theoretical and methodological framework.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A dialectical phenomenological analysis was conducted through an examination of online interviews with eight Brazilian, São Paulo state citizens who were self-declared to be undergoing alcohol addiction recovery (or who declared that they had completely recovered).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Participants' reports generated eight categories that were subdivided into two groups. The first group indicated experiential elements of recovery, such as changes in self-relation, changes in interpersonal relations, and changes in time relations, giving new meanings to suffering and alcohol use, and recovery as a continuous process. The second group referred to how the participants interpreted recovery according to their worldviews: as a spiritual experience, moral reformation, and mentality change.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These categories can be understood through the lens of DPP as a process of change in the subjects' being in the world, characterized by the continued management of their existential imbalances in the dimensions of spatiality, temporality, selfhood, and intersubjectivity. The results are preliminary when it comes to conceptualizing recovery but may help future studies to develop recovery-oriented therapeutic strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":20723,"journal":{"name":"Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"377-388"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140959161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PsychopathologyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-08-22DOI: 10.1159/000539714
Pietro Sarasso, Martina Billeci, Irene Ronga, Fabiola Raffone, Vassilis Martiadis, Gilberto Di Petta
{"title":"Disembodiment and Affective Resonances in Esketamine Treatment of Depersonalized Depression Subtype: Two Case Studies.","authors":"Pietro Sarasso, Martina Billeci, Irene Ronga, Fabiola Raffone, Vassilis Martiadis, Gilberto Di Petta","doi":"10.1159/000539714","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000539714","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Dissociative experiences are considered undesirable ketamine's adverse events. However, they might be crucial for ketamine's antidepressant effects, at least in some depression subtypes. Current understandings of ketamine's therapeutic potentials converge on the so-called \"relaxed prior hypothesis,\" suggesting that glutamatergic blockage up-weights bottom-up surprising somatosensory/affective states. As a result, ketamine improves short-term plasticity in depression by enhancing sensitivity to interoceptive signals.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We selected 2 case studies for their paradigmatic description of \"depersonalized depression\" (Entfremdungsdepression) symptoms. Patients were included in a 6-month-long esketamine program for treatment resistant depression, during which we collected their spontaneous experience with esketamine. According to a neurophenomenological approach, we combined subjective reports from unstructured clinical interviews and the review of previous objective neuroimaging results and neurocomputational models to unveil the relation between esketamine antidepressant effects and interoceptive sensitivity.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>According to our clinical observations, esketamine-induced dissociation might be particularly effective in the depersonalized depression subtype, in which interoceptive awareness and interaffectivity are particularly compromised. Ketamine and esketamine's dissociative effects and particularly disembodiment might suspend previously acquired patterns of feeling, sensing, and behaving.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Coherently with previous research, we suggest that esketamine-induced disembodiment allows for a transient window of psychological plasticity and enhanced sensitivity, where the body recovers its permeability to affective affordances.</p>","PeriodicalId":20723,"journal":{"name":"Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"480-491"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142036761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PsychopathologyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-01-29DOI: 10.1159/000535658
Jessica Szu-Chi Cheng, Elissa Khalil, Masoud Salehi, Lauren Mulcahy, Isabella Yiru Xie, Hasti Hadizadeh, Marco A Grados
{"title":"Temperament Traits in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Relation to Tourette Syndrome and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.","authors":"Jessica Szu-Chi Cheng, Elissa Khalil, Masoud Salehi, Lauren Mulcahy, Isabella Yiru Xie, Hasti Hadizadeh, Marco A Grados","doi":"10.1159/000535658","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000535658","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and Tourette syndrome (TS) are often concurrent. This study explores the temperament profile of complex OCD phenotypes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A clinical registry recorded demographic data, psychiatric diagnoses, and temperament traits, including novelty seeking (exploratory behaviors), harm avoidance (fear of uncertainty), reward dependence (sentimentality), and persistence (perseverance). Temperament data were accrued from the Junior Temperament and Character Inventory (JTCI). Participants were divided into (1) OCD only; (2) OCD+ADHD or TS; and (3) OCD+ADHD+TS to compare temperament.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Participants include 126 youths with OCD (61.9% male, 88.9% white) between the ages 6 and 18 years (12.7 ± 3.1). Among the three groups, the complex neurodevelopmental disorder group OCD+ADHD+TS expresses the highest novelty seeking and lowest persistence. Harm avoidance is increased in all groups compared to reference controls, irrespective of concurrent ADHD or TS. For the OCD+ADHD+TS group, contamination and washing symptoms have higher novelty seeking (p < 0.01), while counting and ordering have lower novelty seeking (p < 0.05). Harm avoidance is increased with aggressive, somatic, and checking symptoms in OCD only (p < 0.01), while persistence is increased with repeating and counting symptoms in the comorbid groups (OCD+ADHD or TS, OCD+ADHD+TS).</p><p><strong>Discussion/conclusion: </strong>The complex subtype, OCD+ADHD+TS, is associated with high novelty seeking and low persistence, while high harm avoidance is linked to pediatric OCD irrespective of ADHD or TS co-occurrence. In sum, pediatric OCD with ADHD and TS confers a unique temperament profile, further refining complex phenotypes of pediatric OCD for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":20723,"journal":{"name":"Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"192-201"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11147693/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139576163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are Traumatic Disintegration, Detachment, and Dissociation Separate Pathogenic Processes Related to Attachment Trauma? A Working Hypothesis for Clinicians and Researchers","authors":"B. Farina, Claudio Imperatori","doi":"10.1159/000535191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000535191","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Despite its high prevalence in all psychiatric disorders and its widely demonstrated clinical relevance as a marker of both clinical severity and poorer treatment response, a scientifically validated definition of dissociation remains controversial, and the understanding of its pathogenesis is still somewhat lacking. Furthermore, although most clinicians commonly refer to dissociation as a single unitary concept, the empirical evidence strongly supports the paucity of a one-dimensional approach to dissociation. Summary: Resonating with the clinical and neuroscientific data on this topic, this article aimed to provide a working hypothesis, suggesting that the wide variety of psychopathological phenomena that are currently improperly lumped into the category of dissociation are in fact produced by at least three different pathogenic processes involved in developmental trauma, namely, traumatic disintegration, detachment responses, and dissociation. Key Messages: This hypothesis should, therefore, be considered a starting point for a better understanding of the complex manifestations and processes that currently overly, attributed to dissociation per se.","PeriodicalId":20723,"journal":{"name":"Psychopathology","volume":"58 34","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138588218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PsychopathologyPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2022-11-12DOI: 10.1007/s11571-022-09897-w
Afshin Shoeibi, Navid Ghassemi, Marjane Khodatars, Parisa Moridian, Abbas Khosravi, Assef Zare, Juan M Gorriz, Amir Hossein Chale-Chale, Ali Khadem, U Rajendra Acharya
{"title":"Automatic diagnosis of schizophrenia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in rs-fMRI modality using convolutional autoencoder model and interval type-2 fuzzy regression.","authors":"Afshin Shoeibi, Navid Ghassemi, Marjane Khodatars, Parisa Moridian, Abbas Khosravi, Assef Zare, Juan M Gorriz, Amir Hossein Chale-Chale, Ali Khadem, U Rajendra Acharya","doi":"10.1007/s11571-022-09897-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11571-022-09897-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nowadays, many people worldwide suffer from brain disorders, and their health is in danger. So far, numerous methods have been proposed for the diagnosis of Schizophrenia (SZ) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), among which functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) modalities are known as a popular method among physicians. This paper presents an SZ and ADHD intelligent detection method of resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) modality using a new deep learning method. The University of California Los Angeles dataset, which contains the rs-fMRI modalities of SZ and ADHD patients, has been used for experiments. The FMRIB software library toolbox first performed preprocessing on rs-fMRI data. Then, a convolutional Autoencoder model with the proposed number of layers is used to extract features from rs-fMRI data. In the classification step, a new fuzzy method called interval type-2 fuzzy regression (IT2FR) is introduced and then optimized by genetic algorithm, particle swarm optimization, and gray wolf optimization (GWO) techniques. Also, the results of IT2FR methods are compared with multilayer perceptron, k-nearest neighbors, support vector machine, random forest, and decision tree, and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system methods. The experiment results show that the IT2FR method with the GWO optimization algorithm has achieved satisfactory results compared to other classifier methods. Finally, the proposed classification technique was able to provide 72.71% accuracy.</p>","PeriodicalId":20723,"journal":{"name":"Psychopathology","volume":"36 1","pages":"1501-1523"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10640504/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87286390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joachim Klosterkötter, L. Fleck, A. Fuchs, M. H. Kaess, Bern, M. Kaur, NC Greensboro, M. Sanches, TX Houston, P.K.H. Mo, G.Y.K. So, Z. Lu, W. W. Mak, Hong Kong
{"title":"Contents Vol. 56, No. 6, 2023","authors":"Joachim Klosterkötter, L. Fleck, A. Fuchs, M. H. Kaess, Bern, M. Kaur, NC Greensboro, M. Sanches, TX Houston, P.K.H. Mo, G.Y.K. So, Z. Lu, W. W. Mak, Hong Kong","doi":"10.1159/000535111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000535111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20723,"journal":{"name":"Psychopathology","volume":"538 ","pages":"I - VI"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139022730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}