{"title":"The American Journal of Psychiatry: Table of Contents","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/pcn.13674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/pcn.13674","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20938,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140602256","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}
{"title":"A pragmatic and evidence-based approach to telepsychiatry-let's stop waiting for the future to arrive.","authors":"Allison Crawford","doi":"10.1111/pcn.13639","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pcn.13639","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20938,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"219"},"PeriodicalIF":11.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139571240","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}
{"title":"Acceptability of antipsychotic transdermal patch for acute schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.","authors":"Taro Kishi, Leslie Citrome, Kenji Sakuma, Shun Hamanaka, Yasufumi Nishii, Nakao Iwata","doi":"10.1111/pcn.13635","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pcn.13635","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20938,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"260-262"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138831306","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}
{"title":"Exploration of cell type-specific somatic mutations in schizophrenia and the impact of maternal immune activation on the somatic mutation profile in the brain.","authors":"Jianbin Du, Yutaka Nakachi, Yui Murata, Emi Kiyota, Tadafumi Kato, Miki Bundo, Kazuya Iwamoto","doi":"10.1111/pcn.13640","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pcn.13640","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>Schizophrenia (SZ) is a severe psychiatric disorder caused by the interaction of genetic and environmental factors. Although somatic mutations that occur in the brain after fertilization may play an important role in the cause of SZ, their frequencies and patterns in the brains of patients and related animal models have not been well studied. This study aimed to find somatic mutations related to the pathophysiology of SZ.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We performed whole-exome sequencing (WES) of neuronal and nonneuronal nuclei isolated from the postmortem prefrontal cortex of patients with SZ (n = 10) and controls (n = 10). After detecting somatic mutations, we explored the similarities and differences in shared common mutations between two cell types and cell type-specific mutations. We also performed WES of prefrontal cortex samples from an animal model of SZ based on maternal immune activation (MIA) and explored the possible impact of MIA on the patterns of somatic mutations.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We did not find quantitative differences in somatic mutations but found higher variant allele fractions of neuron-specific mutations in patients with SZ. In the mouse model, we found a larger variation in the number of somatic mutations in the offspring of MIA mice, with the occurrence of somatic mutations in neurodevelopment-related genes.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Somatic mutations occurring at an earlier stage of brain cell differentiation toward neurons may be important for the cause of SZ. MIA may affect somatic mutation profiles in the brain.</p>","PeriodicalId":20938,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"237-247"},"PeriodicalIF":11.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139707697","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}
María Cabello-Toscano, Lídia Vaqué-Alcázar, Ivet Bayes-Marin, Gabriele Cattaneo, Javier Solana-Sánchez, Lídia Mulet-Pons, Nuria Bargalló, Josep M Tormos, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, David Bartrés-Faz
{"title":"Functional brain connectivity prior to the COVID-19 outbreak predicts mental health trajectories during two years of pandemic.","authors":"María Cabello-Toscano, Lídia Vaqué-Alcázar, Ivet Bayes-Marin, Gabriele Cattaneo, Javier Solana-Sánchez, Lídia Mulet-Pons, Nuria Bargalló, Josep M Tormos, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, David Bartrés-Faz","doi":"10.1111/pcn.13654","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pcn.13654","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20938,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"262-264"},"PeriodicalIF":11.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139900366","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}
Lena K L Oestreich, Jessica W Lo, Maria A Di Biase, Perminder S Sachdev, Alice H Mok, Paul Wright, John D Crawford, Ben Lam, Latchezar Traykov, Sebastian Köhler, Julie E A Staals, Robert van Oostenbrugge, Christopher Chen, David W Desmond, Kyung-Ho Yu, Minwoo Lee, Aleksandra Klimkowicz-Mrowiec, Régis Bordet, Michael J O'Sullivan, Andrew Zalesky
{"title":"Network analysis of neuropsychiatric, cognitive, and functional complications of stroke: implications for novel treatment targets.","authors":"Lena K L Oestreich, Jessica W Lo, Maria A Di Biase, Perminder S Sachdev, Alice H Mok, Paul Wright, John D Crawford, Ben Lam, Latchezar Traykov, Sebastian Köhler, Julie E A Staals, Robert van Oostenbrugge, Christopher Chen, David W Desmond, Kyung-Ho Yu, Minwoo Lee, Aleksandra Klimkowicz-Mrowiec, Régis Bordet, Michael J O'Sullivan, Andrew Zalesky","doi":"10.1111/pcn.13633","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pcn.13633","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>Recovery from stroke is adversely affected by neuropsychiatric complications, cognitive impairment, and functional disability. Better knowledge of their mutual relationships is required to inform effective interventions. Network theory enables the conceptualization of symptoms and impairments as dynamic and mutually interacting systems. We aimed to identify interactions of poststroke complications using network analysis in diverse stroke samples.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data from 2185 patients were sourced from member studies of STROKOG (Stroke and Cognition Consortium), an international collaboration of stroke studies. Networks were generated for each cohort, whereby nodes represented neuropsychiatric symptoms, cognitive deficits, and disabilities on activities of daily living. Edges characterized associations between them. Centrality measures were used to identify hub items.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Across cohorts, a single network of interrelated poststroke complications emerged. Networks exhibited dissociable depression, apathy, fatigue, cognitive impairment, and functional disability modules. Worry was the most central symptom across cohorts, irrespective of the depression scale used. Items relating to activities of daily living were also highly central nodes. Follow-up analysis in two studies revealed that individuals who worried had more densely connected networks than those free of worry (CASPER [Cognition and Affect after Stroke: Prospective Evaluation of Risks] study: S = 9.72, P = 0.038; SSS [Sydney Stroke Study]: S = 13.56, P = 0.069).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Neuropsychiatric symptoms are highly interconnected with cognitive deficits and functional disabilities resulting from stroke. Given their central position and high level of connectedness, worry and activities of daily living have the potential to drive multimorbidity and mutual reinforcement between domains of poststroke complications. Targeting these factors early after stroke may have benefits that extend to other complications, leading to better stroke outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":20938,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"229-236"},"PeriodicalIF":11.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138807747","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}
Ting Xue, Jialing Sheng, Hui Gao, Yan Gu, Jingjing Dai, Xianghong Yang, Hong Peng, Hongrui Gao, Ruping Lu, Yi Shen, Li Wang, Lijun Wang, Yuan Shi, Zezhi Li, Donghong Cui
{"title":"Eight-month intensive meditation-based intervention improves refractory hallucinations and delusions and quality of life in male inpatients with schizophrenia: a randomized controlled trial.","authors":"Ting Xue, Jialing Sheng, Hui Gao, Yan Gu, Jingjing Dai, Xianghong Yang, Hong Peng, Hongrui Gao, Ruping Lu, Yi Shen, Li Wang, Lijun Wang, Yuan Shi, Zezhi Li, Donghong Cui","doi":"10.1111/pcn.13641","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pcn.13641","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>This study investigated the impact of an 8-month daily-guided intensive meditation-based intervention (iMI) on persistent hallucinations/delusions and health-related quality of life (QoL) in male inpatients with schizophrenia with treatment-refractory hallucinations and delusions (TRHDs).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A randomized controlled trial assigned 64 male inpatients with schizophrenia and TRHD equally to an 8-month iMI plus general rehabilitation program (GRP) or GRP alone. Assessments were conducted at baseline and the third and eighth months using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), 36-Item Short Form-36 (SF-36), and Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ). Primary outcomes measured PANSS reduction rates for total score, positive symptoms, and hallucinations/delusions items. Secondary outcomes assessed PANSS, SF-36, and FFMQ scores for psychotic symptoms, health-related QoL, and mindfulness skills, respectively.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In the primary outcome, iMI significantly improved the reduction rates of PANSS total score, positive symptoms, and hallucination/delusion items compared with GRP at both the third and eighth months. Treatment response rates (≥25% reduction) for these measures significantly increased in the iMI group at the eighth month. Concerning secondary outcomes, iMI significantly reduced PANSS total score and hallucination/delusion items, while increasing scores in physical activity and mindfulness skills at both the third and eighth months compared with GRP. These effects were more pronounced with an 8-month intervention compared with a 3-month intervention.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>An iMI benefits patients with TRHDs by reducing persistent hallucinations/delusions and enhancing health-related QoL. Longer iMI duration yields superior treatment outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":20938,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"248-258"},"PeriodicalIF":11.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139692834","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}
{"title":"The American Journal of Psychiatry: Table of Contents","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/pcn.13666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/pcn.13666","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20938,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140116570","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}
{"title":"Potential Role of Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines in Postpartum Depression: Considerations for Future Research and Improvement.","authors":"Vanessa Veltre, Lothar Vidal, David F Lo","doi":"10.1111/pcn.13586","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pcn.13586","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20938,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":"78 3","pages":"212"},"PeriodicalIF":11.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140102272","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}