Lancet PsychiatryPub Date : 2025-03-25DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00060-4
Chrysanthi Blithikioti, Eiko I Fried, Emiliano Albanese, Matt Field, Ioana A Cristea
{"title":"Reevaluating the brain disease model of addiction","authors":"Chrysanthi Blithikioti, Eiko I Fried, Emiliano Albanese, Matt Field, Ioana A Cristea","doi":"10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00060-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00060-4","url":null,"abstract":"The brain disease model of addiction has dominated public and scientific discourse on addiction (termed substance use disorder [SUD] in the DSM-5) over the past 3 decades. The model framed addiction as a chronic and relapsing brain disease caused by structural and functional brain alterations. The purpose of this model was purportedly dual, as both an aetiological theory and a tool to reduce stigma. Weak empirical support and concerns about the model downplaying fundamental psychosocial causes of SUDs have led to stark disagreement as to whether addiction should be conceptualised as a brain disease. In this Personal View, we argue that the absence of an agreed, clear, and consistent definition of a brain disease—coupled with frequent recourse to concepts with divergent or shifting meaning—have obstructed productive debate and a coherent advance in knowledge and understanding of addiction. Borrowing from the philosophy of psychiatry, we show that both narrow and broad views of brain disease coexist and inform addiction research, though often implicitly and inconsistently. The narrow view of brain disease posits that a mental condition qualifies as a brain disease only if it manifests similarly to a paradigmatic brain disease, resulting from either known or unknown structural and functional damage. The broad view of brain disease suggests that brain disease status should be granted automatically to mental disorders, as all mental activity resides in the brain. We examine theoretical assumptions, empirical evidence, and treatment implications for each view and propose ways of moving beyond them.","PeriodicalId":48784,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Psychiatry","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143703289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lancet PsychiatryPub Date : 2025-03-18DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00070-7
{"title":"The value of many","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00070-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00070-7","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract","PeriodicalId":48784,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Psychiatry","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143653660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lancet PsychiatryPub Date : 2025-03-18DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00025-2
Nobuyuki Nomura, Spyridon Siafis, Johannes Schneider-Thoma, Lasse Brandt, Jinyoung Park, Orestis Efthimiou, Josef Priller, John M Davis, Hiroyoshi Takeuchi, Stefan Leucht
{"title":"The trajectory of sedative adverse events caused by antipsychotics: a meta-analysis of individual participant data from randomised, placebo-controlled, clinical trials in acute phase schizophrenia","authors":"Nobuyuki Nomura, Spyridon Siafis, Johannes Schneider-Thoma, Lasse Brandt, Jinyoung Park, Orestis Efthimiou, Josef Priller, John M Davis, Hiroyoshi Takeuchi, Stefan Leucht","doi":"10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00025-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00025-2","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Background</h3>Sedative adverse events are common in patients with schizophrenia undergoing antipsychotic treatment, which affects treatment adherence and the patients’ quality of life. Although tolerance to sedation is believed to develop, robust evidence documenting the timing of sedation onset and resolution remains elusive. To address this gap, we aimed to assess the dynamics of onset and resolution of sedation across various antipsychotics in patients with schizophrenia.<h3>Methods</h3>In this meta-analysis, we included placebo-controlled, randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of antipsychotic monotherapy for the acute phase of schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. We searched PubMed for RCTs from inception until May 6, 2021 and obtained individual participant data of included trials through the Yale University Open Data Access project. We created Kaplan–Meier curves to assess the probability of onset of sedation and resolution from the incidence of sedation across time after treatment initiation. People with lived experience were not involved in this study. This study is registered with PROSPERO, CRD42022351647.<h3>Findings</h3>We included a total of 6791 participants (4549 [67·0%] men and 2242 [33·0%] women, with a mean age of 38·0 years [SD 12·4, range 13–81], 1172 [17·3%] were Asian, 1626 [23·9%] were Black, 3654 [53·8%] were White, and 339 [5·0%] were other ethnicities) from 19 RCTs. Sedative adverse events were observed in 582 (8·6%) of 6791 participants and typically occurred shortly after treatment initiation. Among participants receiving antipsychotics, 418 (83%) of 505 sedation events occurred within the first 2 weeks of treatment. Following the onset of sedation, 50% of symptoms were resolved within 1 week. After 4 weeks of treatment, 24% (95% CI 19·7–29·3) continued to have sedation with oral agents and 22·3% (15·3–32·3) with long-acting injectables.<h3>Interpretation</h3>The high incidence of sedation within the first 2 weeks of treatment with antipsychotics emphasises the importance of early monitoring. Half of the sedation resolved within 1 week and 75% within 1 month, suggesting that tolerance to sedation is acquired quickly. If sedation is sustained, contributing factors should be evaluated.<h3>Funding</h3>German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.","PeriodicalId":48784,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Psychiatry","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143653664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lancet PsychiatryPub Date : 2025-03-18DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00028-8
Anthony J Cleare, Jess Kerr-Gaffney, Kimberley Goldsmith, Zohra Zenasni, Nahel Yaziji, Huajie Jin, Alessandro Colasanti, John R Geddes, David Kessler, R Hamish McAllister-Williams, Allan H Young, Alvaro Barrera, Lindsey Marwood, Rachael W Taylor, Helena Tee
{"title":"Clinical and cost-effectiveness of lithium versus quetiapine augmentation for treatment-resistant depression: a pragmatic, open-label, parallel-group, randomised controlled superiority trial in the UK","authors":"Anthony J Cleare, Jess Kerr-Gaffney, Kimberley Goldsmith, Zohra Zenasni, Nahel Yaziji, Huajie Jin, Alessandro Colasanti, John R Geddes, David Kessler, R Hamish McAllister-Williams, Allan H Young, Alvaro Barrera, Lindsey Marwood, Rachael W Taylor, Helena Tee","doi":"10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00028-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00028-8","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Background</h3>Lithium and quetiapine are first-line augmentation options for treatment-resistant depression; however, few studies have compared them directly, and none for longer than 8 weeks. We aimed to assess whether quetiapine augmentation therapy is more clinically effective and cost-effective than lithium for patients with treatment-resistant depression over 12 months.<h3>Methods</h3>We did this pragmatic, open-label, parallel-group, randomised controlled superiority trial at six National Health Service trusts in England. Eligible participants were adults (aged ≥18 years) with a current episode of major depressive disorder meeting DSM-5 criteria, with a score of 14 or higher on the 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale at screening who had responded inadequately to two or more therapeutic antidepressant trials. Exclusion criteria included having a diagnosis of bipolar disorder or current psychosis. Participants were randomly assigned (1:1) to the decision to prescribe lithium or quetiapine, stratified by site, depression severity, and treatment resistance, using block randomisation with randomly varying block sizes. After randomisation, pre-prescribing safety checks were undertaken as per standard care before proceeding to trial medication initiation. The coprimary outcomes were depressive symptom severity over 12 months, measured weekly using the Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology, and time to all-cause treatment discontinuation. Economic analyses compared the cost-effectiveness of the two treatments from both an NHS and personal social services perspective, and a societal perspective. Primary analyses were done in the intention-to-treat population, which included all randomly assigned participants. People with lived experience were involved in the trial. The trial is completed and registered with the International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial registry, ISRCTN16387615.<h3>Findings</h3>Between Dec 5, 2016, and July 26, 2021, 212 participants (97 [46%] male gender and 115 [54%] female gender) were randomly assigned to the decision to prescribe quetiapine (n=107) or lithium (n=105). The mean age of participants was 42·4 years (SD 14·0 years) and 188 (89%) of 212 participants were White, seven (3%) were of mixed ethnicity, nine (4%) participants were Asian, four (2%) were Black, three (1%) were of Other ethnicity, and ethnicity was not recorded for one (1%) participant. Participants in the quetiapine group had a significantly lower overall burden of depressive symptom severity than participants in the lithium group (area under the between-group differences curve –68·36 [95% CI –129·95 to –6·76; p=0·0296). Time to discontinuation did not significantly differ between the two groups. Quetiapine was more cost-effective than lithium. 32 serious adverse events were recorded in 18 participants, one of which was deemed possibly related to the trial medication in a female participant in the lithium group. The most common serio","PeriodicalId":48784,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Psychiatry","volume":"91 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143653665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lancet PsychiatryPub Date : 2025-03-18DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00058-6
Hannah K Betcher, Megan N Kummerlowe
{"title":"Quetiapine augmentation for treatment-resistant depression","authors":"Hannah K Betcher, Megan N Kummerlowe","doi":"10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00058-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00058-6","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract","PeriodicalId":48784,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Psychiatry","volume":"183 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143653662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lancet PsychiatryPub Date : 2025-03-18DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00065-3
Subho Chakrabarti
{"title":"Antipsychotics and sedation: from clinical to shared decision making","authors":"Subho Chakrabarti","doi":"10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00065-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00065-3","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract","PeriodicalId":48784,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Psychiatry","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143653661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lancet PsychiatryPub Date : 2025-03-17DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00039-2
Akbar Ullah, Farah Lunat, Traolach Brugha, Matthias Pierce, Richard Morriss, Deepali Sharma, Atif Rahman, Kamaldeep Bhui, Peter Bower, Nusrat Husain
{"title":"Cost-effectiveness of a group psychological intervention for postnatal depression in British south Asian women: an economic evaluation from the ROSHNI-2 trial","authors":"Akbar Ullah, Farah Lunat, Traolach Brugha, Matthias Pierce, Richard Morriss, Deepali Sharma, Atif Rahman, Kamaldeep Bhui, Peter Bower, Nusrat Husain","doi":"10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00039-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00039-2","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Background</h3>Minority ethnic groups often face ethnocultural barriers in accessing mental health treatments. The ROSHNI-2 trial compared culturally adapted cognitive behavioural therapy (Positive Health Programme [PHP]) with treatment as usual for postnatal depression in British south Asian women. We aimed to assess the cost-effectiveness of the PHP intervention.<h3>Methods</h3>The ROSHNI-2 trial was a multicentre, two-arm, assessor-blinded, randomised controlled trial; we conducted an economic evaluation over a 12-month period to assess the cost-effectiveness of PHP plus treatment as usual versus treatment as usual alone from the perspective of the English National Health Service and personal social services. In the trial, British south Asian women aged 16 years or older with a child aged up to 12 months, and meeting DSM-5 criteria for depression, were recruited from northwest England, Yorkshire, the East Midlands, and London. The PHP intervention involved 12 group sessions delivered by two trained bilingual facilitators, held once per week for 2 months and once per fortnight thereafter, each lasting 60–90 min. Questionnaires on depression symptoms, quality of life, and resource use were completed at baseline, 4 months (end of intervention), and 12 months after random assignment. Quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) were used for the cost-utility analysis, and recovery from depression at 4 months (the primary clinical outcome), assessed using the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, informed the cost-effectiveness analysis. After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the intervention was adapted for online delivery for the remaining participants. A stratified analysis compared the cost-effectiveness of online versus in-person delivery. The trial involved researchers with lived experience, and all methods, including health economic measures, were developed in consultation with service users, community members, and faith leaders. This is a preplanned analysis of the ROSHNI-2 trial, registered with ISRCTN (ISRCTN10697380).<h3>Findings</h3>From Feb 8, 2017, to March 29, 2020, 732 eligible women were enrolled: 368 participants were randomly assigned to the PHP arm and 364 to the treatment as usual arm. The base-case intention-to-treat analysis showed that PHP significantly increased costs (£712, 95% CI 311 to 1113) and QALYs (0·036, 95% CI 0·006 to 0·067), with an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of £19 601 (7622 to 83 772). Based on the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) maximum willingness-to-pay threshold of £30 000 per QALY, the likelihood of PHP being cost-effective was 77% from a health and social care perspective. Cost per remission from depression at the 4-month follow-up was £5509 (2916 to 17 860). In a stratified analysis of 34 participants attending online sessions during the pandemic, incremental QALY effects were 0·125 (0·048 to 0·203), resulting in costs of £202 (–3906 to 10 918) per additional QALY gain","PeriodicalId":48784,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Psychiatry","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143640870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lancet PsychiatryPub Date : 2025-03-11DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00064-1
William D R Smitha, Rebecca Defina, Caitlin Hitchcock
{"title":"Cultural practices within Indigenous Australian communities enhance mental health","authors":"William D R Smitha, Rebecca Defina, Caitlin Hitchcock","doi":"10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00064-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00064-1","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract","PeriodicalId":48784,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Psychiatry","volume":"92 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143599649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}