Jae-Min Kim, Hee-Ju Kang, Ju-Wan Kim, Hyunseok Jang, Jung-Chul Kim, Byung Jo Chun, Ju-Yeon Lee, Sung-Wan Kim, Il-Seon Shin
{"title":"Response to [It is still an open question if cortisol levels, neuroticism and traumatic events are associated with PTSD].","authors":"Jae-Min Kim, Hee-Ju Kang, Ju-Wan Kim, Hyunseok Jang, Jung-Chul Kim, Byung Jo Chun, Ju-Yeon Lee, Sung-Wan Kim, Il-Seon Shin","doi":"10.1111/pcn.13776","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pcn.13776","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20938,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"79-80"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142839122","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}
Martin Pastre, Bob-Valéry Occéan, Vincent Boudousq, Ismael Conejero, Pascale Fabbro-Peray, Laurent Collombier, Luc Mallet, Jorge Lopez-Castroman
{"title":"Serotonergic underpinnings of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of neuroimaging findings.","authors":"Martin Pastre, Bob-Valéry Occéan, Vincent Boudousq, Ismael Conejero, Pascale Fabbro-Peray, Laurent Collombier, Luc Mallet, Jorge Lopez-Castroman","doi":"10.1111/pcn.13760","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pcn.13760","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a frequent and disabling condition, with many patients being treatment-resistant. Improved understanding of its neurobiology is vital for better therapies. Evidence is still conflicting regarding specific serotonergic-related dysfunctions in OCD. We systematically reviewed the literature to provide a quantitative assessment of the role of serotonin (5-HT) in patients with untreated OCD through imaging. We searched for neuroimaging studies investigating central 5-HT tonus in unmedicated patients with OCD, excluding studies comprising treated patients to prevent bias from antidepressant-induced changes in serotonergic tonus. We also conducted a meta-analysis using a homogeneous group of positron emission tomography and single photon emission computed tomography articles that compared 5-HT transporter (SERT) and 5-HT2A receptor (HT2AR) binding potential in different brain regions of patients with untreated OCD and healthy controls. The systematic review encompassed 18 articles, with 13 included in the subsequent meta-analysis. Risk of bias was assessed by a revised form of the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. We provided standardized mean difference (SMD) values for SERT and 5-HT2AR binding potential measures across 15 different brain regions. Patients with OCD showed lower SERT binding potential in the brainstem (SMD = -1.13, 95% CI [-1.81 to -0.46]), midbrain (SMD = -0.54, 95% CI [-0.92 to -0.16]), and thalamus/hypothalamus regions (SMD = -0.58, 95% CI [-0.99 to -0.18]) with neglectable to moderate heterogeneity. By combining results from 2 decades of molecular imaging studies, we show that individuals with OCD exhibit lower SERT binding potential in specific brain regions, providing compelling evidence of a 5-HT system dysfunction. However, the exact mechanisms underlying this phenotype remain elusive. The limitations include heterogeneity across studies in populations, imaging techniques, and radiotracer usage.</p>","PeriodicalId":20938,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"48-59"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11789457/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142606149","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}
Beatrice Bravi, Marco Paolini, Melania Maccario, Chiara Milano, Laura Raffaelli, Elisa Maria Teresa Melloni, Raffaella Zanardi, Cristina Colombo, Francesco Benedetti
{"title":"Abnormal choroid plexus, hippocampus, and lateral ventricles volumes as markers of treatment-resistant major depressive disorder.","authors":"Beatrice Bravi, Marco Paolini, Melania Maccario, Chiara Milano, Laura Raffaelli, Elisa Maria Teresa Melloni, Raffaella Zanardi, Cristina Colombo, Francesco Benedetti","doi":"10.1111/pcn.13764","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pcn.13764","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>One-third of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) do not achieve full remission and have high relapse rates even after treatment, leading to increased medical costs and reduced quality of life and health status. The possible specificity of treatment-resistant depression (TRD) neurobiology is still under investigation, with risk factors such as higher inflammatory markers being identified. Given recent findings on the role of choroid plexus (ChP) in neuroinflammation and hippocampus in treatment response, the aim of the present study was to evaluate inflammatory- and trophic-related differences in these regions along with ventricular volumes among patients with treatment-sensitive depression (TSD), TRD, and healthy controls (HCs).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>ChP, hippocampal, and ventricular volumes were assessed in 197 patients with MDD and 58 age- and sex-matched HCs. Volumes were estimated using FreeSurfer 7.2. Treatment resistance status was defined as failure to respond to at least two separate antidepressant treatments. Region of interest volumes were then compared among groups.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We found higher ChP volumes in patients with TRD compared with patients with TSD and HCs. Our results also showed lower hippocampal volumes and higher lateral ventricular volumes in TRD compared with both patients without TRD and HCs.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings corroborate the link between TRD and neuroinflammation, as ChP volume could be considered a putative marker of central immune activity. The lack of significant differences in all of the region of interest volumes between patients with TSD and HCs may highlight the specificity of these features to TRD, possibly providing new insights into the specific neurobiological underpinnings of this condition.</p>","PeriodicalId":20938,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"69-77"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11789456/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142676588","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":"PCN Art Brut Series No. 43, Artwork Description.","authors":"Kenjiro Hosaka","doi":"10.1111/pcn.13795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/pcn.13795","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20938,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":"79 2","pages":"81"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143080871","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":"Intermittent theta burst stimulation for negative symptoms in schizophrenia patients with moderate to severe cognitive impairment: A randomized controlled trial.","authors":"Jing Li, Dan Jiang, Xingyu Huang, Xiao Wang, Tingting Xia, Wei Zhang","doi":"10.1111/pcn.13779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/pcn.13779","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>This study aims to assess the therapeutic effects of intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) targeting the bilateral dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC) on negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia, utilizing functional near-infrared spectroscopy for evaluation.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Thirty-five schizophrenia patients with negative symptoms and moderate to severe cognitive impairment were randomly assigned to a treatment group (n = 18) or a control group (n = 17). The treatment group received iTBS via bilateral DMPFC. Negative symptoms, cognitive function, emotional state, and social function were assessed using Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS), Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), Calgary Depression Scale for Schizophrenia (CDSS), and Social Dysfunction Screening Questionnaire (SDSS) scales at pretreatment, posttreatment, and follow-up at 4, 8, and 12 weeks. Brain activation in regions of interest (ROIs) was evaluated through verbal fluency tasks.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Prior to treatment there was no significant difference in the two groups. After 20 iTBS sessions, a significant difference was observed in SANS total score, its related subscales, PANSS total score, and PANSS-negative symptoms (all P < 0.05). The group-by-time interaction showed statistical significance, indicating improvements in negative symptoms and related dimensions over time, with therapeutic effects persisting for at least 8 weeks posttreatment. Prior to treatment, there were no significant differences in activation across all ROIs between the two groups. Posttreatment, the activation of right inferior frontal gyrus (t = 2.19, P = 0.036) and right frontal eye field (t = 2.14, P = 0.04) in the treatment group was significantly higher than in the control group.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>iTBS stimulation of bilateral DMPFC demonstrates therapeutic effects in improving negative symptoms in schizophrenia patients, and this treatment approach has the potential to enhance activation within the prefrontal cortex.</p>","PeriodicalId":20938,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143067553","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":"Associations Between Mental Disorders, Personality Disorders, and Filicide-Suicide and Parental Suicide: A Nationwide Cohort Study.","authors":"Cheng-Fang Yen, Yi-Lung Chen","doi":"10.1111/pcn.13790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/pcn.13790","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>Filicide-suicide represents a critical intersection of psychiatric and familial crises, yet the literature remains scant on differentiated risk profiles among family members. This study addresses a gap in understanding the specific mental health correlates of filicide-suicide, especially within a comprehensive family context, distinct from traditional parental or child-focused perspectives.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This study used the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database to identify a nationally representative sample of families from 2004 to 2020, with continuous monitoring extending into 2021. Families were classified into those affected by filicide-suicide, parental suicide, and those without such incidents. Multinomial logistic regression was conducted to explore the association between family status and mental health. Analyses of effect modification were conducted to evaluate whether low-income status modified these relationships.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The study encompassed 1,898,299 families, revealing that filicide-suicide is notably rare, with an incidence of 1.64 deaths per 100,000 newborn children from 2004 to 2020, with an increasing trend observed after 2014. Fathers and children in filicide-suicide families had the highest prevalence of mental disorders, followed by those in parental-suicide families and then other families (those where no child has been recorded as a homicide victim and no parent has committed suicide). There was a tendency for stronger associations between filicide-suicide families and paternal schizophrenia as well as autistic spectrum disorder in children among low-income families.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings underscore the profound impact of severe mental disorders within the familial framework, emphasizing the need for an integrated approach to mental health care that considers the familial context in order to better predict and prevent such devastating events.</p>","PeriodicalId":20938,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143067549","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}
Lingyu Li, Shuqi Kong, Haiquan Zhao, Chunbo Li, Yan Teng, Yingchun Wang
{"title":"Chain of Risks Evaluation (CORE): A framework for safer large language models in public mental health.","authors":"Lingyu Li, Shuqi Kong, Haiquan Zhao, Chunbo Li, Yan Teng, Yingchun Wang","doi":"10.1111/pcn.13781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/pcn.13781","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Large language models (LLMs) have gained significant attention for their capabilities in natural language understanding and generation. However, their widespread adoption potentially raises public mental health concerns, including issues related to inequity, stigma, dependence, medical risks, and security threats. This review aims to offer a perspective within the actor-network framework, exploring the technical architectures, linguistic dynamics, and psychological effects underlying human-LLMs interactions. Based on this theoretical foundation, we propose four categories of risks, presenting increasing challenges in identification and mitigation: universal, context-specific, user-specific, and user-context-specific risks. Correspondingly, we introduce CORE: Chain of Risk Evaluation, a structured conceptual framework for assessing and mitigating the risks associated with LLMs in public mental health contexts. Our approach suggests viewing the development of responsible LLMs as a continuum from technical to public efforts. We summarize technical approaches and potential contributions from mental health practitioners that could help evaluate and regulate risks in human-LLMs interactions. We propose that mental health practitioners could play a crucial role in this emerging field by collaborating with LLMs developers, conducting empirical studies to better understand the psychological impacts on human-LLMs interactions, developing guidelines for LLMs use in mental health contexts, and engaging in public education.</p>","PeriodicalId":20938,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143034098","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}
Erlend Lane, Lucy Gray, David Kimhy, Dilip Jeste, John Torous
{"title":"Digital phenotyping of social functioning and employment in people with schizophrenia: Pilot data from an international sample.","authors":"Erlend Lane, Lucy Gray, David Kimhy, Dilip Jeste, John Torous","doi":"10.1111/pcn.13786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/pcn.13786","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>Individuals living with schizophrenia experience significant impairments in social functioning. As a major clinical outcome, social functioning requires appropriate measurement tools that can capture its dynamic nature. Digital phenotyping, using smartphone technology to collect high volume ecologically valid data, can potentially capture these facets. We investigated the viability of digital data, such as GPS, Accelerometer, and screen activation as a proxy for common social functioning measurements.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We used an ordinary least squares linear regression approach to compare the performance of digital signals with the performance of past social functioning scale (SFS) scores for predicting current SFS scores and subdomain values in 62 individuals with schizophrenia using smartphone and clinical assessments over the course of a year. The outcome of interest was the current SFS, for which we compared the capacity of the digital data (active and passive), and prior SFS scores to predict SFS scores.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Overall, the sub-scale models in order of performance (measured by RMSE score) were: (i) employment, (ii) social engagement, (iii) interpersonal behavior, (iv) recreation, (v) prosocial activities, (vii) performance, and (vii) competence. Digital data were particularly capable of predicting subdomain scores for employment (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.746, Mean Squared Error (MSE) = 1.663) and social engagement (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.710, MSE = 2.318).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Digital phenotyping may have the capacity to operate as a proxy for certain social functioning measures. Future research should expand on this pilot data by focusing on establishing the reliability and validity of digital phenotyping to measure social functioning, and exploring which subdomains of social functioning are best measured digitally.</p>","PeriodicalId":20938,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143010591","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":"RETRACTION: High Consumption of Whole Grain Foods Decreases the Risk of Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: Framingham Offspring Cohort.","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/pcn.13787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/pcn.13787","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Retraction: </strong>K. Wang , W. Tang , X. Hao , and H. Liu , \"High Consumption of Whole Grain Foods Decreases the Risk of Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: Framingham Offspring Cohort,\" Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 77, no. 3 (2023): 141-148, https://doi.org/10.1111/pcn.13509. The above article, published online on 16 November 2022 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal's Editors-in-Chief, Tadafumi Kato and Hidehiko Takahashi; the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology; and John Wiley & Sons Australia. The retraction has been agreed as the authors did not have the appropriate approvals in place from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) for use of the data in this article. This contravenes the journal's policy on data use and the journal is issuing this retraction as a result.</p>","PeriodicalId":20938,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143024247","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":"Second-generation antipsychotic-induced dystonia: Analysis using the Japanese Adverse Drug Event Report (JADER) database.","authors":"Takumi Ebina, Kunihiro Iwamoto, Masahiko Ando, Masashi Ikeda","doi":"10.1111/pcn.13785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/pcn.13785","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>This study aimed to explore the comparative risks for dystonia among different second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs), the influence of sex, and the relationship between the time-to-onset of dystonia and its outcomes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We analyzed data from the Japanese Adverse Drug Event Report database from April 2004 to November 2023. Cases involving oral SGAs, excluding clozapine, were extracted. We used the odds ratios to assess the reporting proportions among SGAs and sex, analyzed the median time-to-onset and interquartile ranges (IQRs), and conducted a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis to investigate the time-to-onset of dystonia and its relationship to outcomes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We extracted 9837 cases involving oral SGAs. Lurasidone was associated with a significantly higher proportion of dystonia reports than risperidone, aripiprazole, quetiapine, and olanzapine. The reporting proportion of dystonia associated with aripiprazole was lower than that of paliperidone and risperidone, but higher than that of quetiapine and olanzapine. Female sex was significantly associated with a higher reporting proportion of dystonia compared with males. Among the 148 cases of oral SGA-induced dystonia, the median time-to-onset was 125 days (IQR, 19.75-453.25 days). Divided into the three outcome groups (recovered, improved, and unrecovered/residual), those with better outcomes had a shorter time-to-onset than those with poorer outcomes. ROC curve analysis suggested a threshold of 91.5 days for discriminating outcomes, with a sensitivity of 71.7% and specificity of 69.9%.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The risks of dystonia may vary among SGAs and between sexes. SGA-induced dystonia often manifests in the tardive form.</p>","PeriodicalId":20938,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143010597","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}