Michael Weinberg, Avi Besser, Jasmin Bass, Sharon Gil
{"title":"Coping, media exposure and terror: Forgiveness, mastery, and emotional distress following exposure to intense traumatic events through the media.","authors":"Michael Weinberg, Avi Besser, Jasmin Bass, Sharon Gil","doi":"10.24869/psyd.2025.88","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24869/psyd.2025.88","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Video footage of terror attacks as distributed over social networks can cause significant emotional distress. Dealing with such stress requires attention to significant personal resources.</p><p><strong>Subjects and methods: </strong>This study examined the relationship between forgiveness and mastery with PTSD symptoms and stress among 249 participants before (T1) and after watching a video clip of a series of terror attacks that were distributed over social networks (T2).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results demonstrated that higher levels of situational forgiveness and mastery at T1 were associated with lower levels of PTSD symptoms and stress at T1. Regarding T2, only PTSD symptoms at T1 were positively associated with both PTSD and stress at T2. Stress at T1 was only positively associated with stress at T2. Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Among those exposed to traumatic social-media content, it is important to acknowledge previous PTSD symptoms and stress. In addition, attention should be given to gender, situational forgiveness and mastery when coping with the emotional distress following such exposure. Thus, awareness of different trajectories of the emotional distress is recommended allowing for theoretical, practical and clinical implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":20760,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatria Danubina","volume":"37 1","pages":"88-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144294822","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":"Mental health consequences of the pandemic: An overlooked challenge.","authors":"Saravan Kumar J, Rathna Paramaswamy, Surya Vishnuram, Buvanesh Annadurai","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20760,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatria Danubina","volume":"37 1","pages":"115-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144294830","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}
Raquel Medinas, Catarina Santos, Ana Quintão, Filipe Azevedo, Leonor Santana, Filipa Prates, Ricardo Caetano
{"title":"The history of electroconvulsive therapy: From a controversial past to a merited present and towards an essential future.","authors":"Raquel Medinas, Catarina Santos, Ana Quintão, Filipe Azevedo, Leonor Santana, Filipa Prates, Ricardo Caetano","doi":"10.24869/psyd.2025.8","DOIUrl":"10.24869/psyd.2025.8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is one of the oldest biological treatments in psychiatry. ECT appeared in Europe in the 1930s. During the past century, it underwent several advances, setbacks, and successive adaptations. Despite its stigmatizing media coverage, it maintains its usefulness in current psychiatric clinical practice. This paper aims to provide a summary of the history of ECT, its present state, and its future. It covers the long history of ECT, the requirements for informed consent, most accepted techniques, clinical indications, and required staff training. Additionally, we discuss the uncertain future of ECT in the face of new therapeutic options in modern psychiatry.</p>","PeriodicalId":20760,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatria Danubina","volume":"37 1","pages":"8-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144294836","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":"Comparing the antidepressive effect of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) versus transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in the treatment of patients with depression.","authors":"Hamida Memon, Haroon Ahmed","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20760,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatria Danubina","volume":"37 1","pages":"110-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144294820","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":"Could allopurinol be used in the treatment of schizophrenia?","authors":"Cicek Hocaoglu","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20760,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatria Danubina","volume":"37 1","pages":"105-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144294823","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":"Exploring the impact of drama therapy in dementia care: A holistic perspective.","authors":"Renuka Sundar","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20760,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatria Danubina","volume":"37 1","pages":"113-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144294826","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":"In memory of professor dr. Jovan Marić.","authors":"Miroslava Jašović-Gašić","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20760,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatria Danubina","volume":"37 1","pages":"118-119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144294828","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":"Evaluating machine learning algorithms for prediction of treatment response for sleep disturbances in patients with schizophrenia: A post-hoc analysis from a randomized controlled trial.","authors":"Archana Mishra, Rituparna Maiti, Monalisa Jena, Anand Srinivasan","doi":"10.24869/psyd.2025.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24869/psyd.2025.46","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>A post-hoc analysis was planned to create and compare machine learning algorithms to predict treatment responses to sleep disturbances in patients with schizophrenia.</p><p><strong>Subjects and methods: </strong>This post-hoc analysis was done on a randomized controlled trial (NCT03075657), studying the effect of add-on ramelteon on sleep and circadian rhythm disturbances in 120 patients with schizophrenia. We created models using random forest, k-nearest neighbors, extreme gradient boosting machine, R part Classification and regression trees and logistic regression algorithms. R language with mlbench, caret, MASS, rPART packages were used. Box plot and dot plot were plotted to visualize comparisons among the models.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The logistic regression algorithm was found to be the best-fit model with a specificity of 0.93 and sensitivity of 0.45, and ROC 0.78. Predominant symptom domain (positive or negative), urinary melatonin and global PSQI score at baseline were the most important variables when plotted in terms of mean decrease accuracy. These variables contributed significantly to the final model in the logistic regression algorithm, and the accuracy of this algorithm was found to be 90% for prediction.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Machine learning models are an emerging trend in clinical research and should be translated into clinical practice. The logistic regression model predicted responders with 90% accuracy.</p>","PeriodicalId":20760,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatria Danubina","volume":"37 1","pages":"46-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144294824","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}
Aysun Kalenderoglu, Aslı Egeli-Karatas, Mehmet Hamdi Orum, Ayse Sevgi Karadag
{"title":"Panic disorder causes an increase in choroid layer and a decrease in IPL, GCL, RNFL.","authors":"Aysun Kalenderoglu, Aslı Egeli-Karatas, Mehmet Hamdi Orum, Ayse Sevgi Karadag","doi":"10.24869/psyd.2025.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24869/psyd.2025.38","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>This study aimed to compare the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), the inner plexiform layer (IPL), the ganglion cell layer (GCL), and the choroid thickness (CT) of patients diagnosed with panic disorder (PD) before and after four-weeks of the treatment and to compare the findings with the healthy subjects.</p><p><strong>Subjects and methods: </strong>The PD group consisted of 32 subjects and the control group consisted of 64 subjects. All patients were managed by paroxetine plus alprazolam after PD diagnosis. The spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) was applied twice to the PD group, before and after treatment, and once to the control group.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Age (p=0.916) and smoking status (p=0.850) of PD (23 females, 9 males) and control (46 females, 18 males) groups were similar. Pre-treatment PD's RNFL sub-sectors, GCL, and IPL values were lower than the control group. Pre-treatment PD's CT value was higher than the control group. Four-weeks of PD treatment caused an increase in RNFL sub-sectors in the pre-treatment SD-OCT parameters of PD group, significantly in left mean and left TI. The sensitivity of mean CT (p<0.001) related to the diagnosis of pre-treatment PD was 71.9 percent and the specificity was 93.8 percent (Nagelkerke R2=0.636). The area under the ROC curve of mean CT was 0.915 (p<0.001; 95% CI [0.845-0.985]). The optimal cut-off value for mean CT was 321.75, and its sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of OUD were 68.8% and 98.4%, respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This is the first study to examine the effect of PD treatment on SD-OCT parameters in patients diagnosed with PD. We suggest that acute exacerbation of PD is characterized by an increase in CT and a decrease in RNFL sub-sectors, GCL, and IPL. PD treatment causes an increase in RNFL sub-sectors.</p>","PeriodicalId":20760,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatria Danubina","volume":"37 1","pages":"38-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144294831","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}