{"title":"Computational Clarity and Validation of Shisa7 in Heroin-Seeking Behavior","authors":"BaDoi N. Phan , Samara J. Vilca","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.05.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8918,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychiatry","volume":"98 1","pages":"Pages 5-6"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144253329","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}
{"title":"Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound for Opioid Use Disorder: Early Evidence and Open Questions","authors":"Zoë Panchal","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.04.019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.04.019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8918,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychiatry","volume":"98 1","pages":"Pages 9-10"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144253327","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}
{"title":"Conducting the Molecular Symphony: Network-Based Approaches to Substance Use Disorders","authors":"Anna S. Warden , R. Dayne Mayfield","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.04.017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.04.017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8918,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychiatry","volume":"98 1","pages":"Pages 2-4"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144253409","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}
{"title":"Novel Insights Into the Role of Coding Variants in Alcohol Use Disorder","authors":"Wei Cheng , Jianfeng Feng","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.04.016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.04.016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8918,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychiatry","volume":"98 1","pages":"Pages 7-8"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144253328","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}
{"title":"Biological mechanisms of sleep/wake related function.","authors":"Greene Robert","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.06.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Animals oscillate between sleep and wake periods characterized by foraging for food and avoiding danger, with a relatively high level of arousal during waking, and by relative absence of movement and decreased level of arousal during sleep. In the brain, at the cellular level, waking involves energy efficient oxidative phosphorylation that can conserve metabolites, whereas during sleep, energy and metabolites are utilized to support protein anabolism and turnover. At the intercellular level this bias in metabolism can facilitate sleep-dependent glutamate synaptic reorganization by downscaling synaptic strength and enhancement of metaplastic potentiating plasticity. The dual focus of this review is on the molecules and genetics in the intracellular pathways controlling the functionally permissive state of sleep and the functional outcomes of sleep. These sleep-related functional outcomes require MEF2c-dependent transcriptional changes targeting genes regulating glutamate synapses. The same genes are enriched for known risk factor genes for autism spectrum disorder consistent with an interaction of sleep and autism.</p>","PeriodicalId":8918,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144282247","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}
Victoria Sharpe, Michael Mackinley, Samer Nour Eddine, Lin Wang, Lena Palaniyappan, Gina R Kuperberg
{"title":"Selective insensitivity to global vs. local linguistic context in speech produced by patients with untreated psychosis and positive thought disorder.","authors":"Victoria Sharpe, Michael Mackinley, Samer Nour Eddine, Lin Wang, Lena Palaniyappan, Gina R Kuperberg","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.06.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Early psychopathologists proposed that certain features of positive thought disorder, the disorganized language output produced by some people with schizophrenia, suggest an insensitivity to global, relative to local, discourse context. This idea has received support from carefully controlled psycholinguistic studies in language comprehension. In language production, researchers have so far remained reliant on subjective qualitative rating scales to assess and understand speech disorganization. Now, however, recent advances in large language models mean that it is possible to quantify sensitivity to global and local context objectively by probing lexical probability (the predictability of a word given its preceding context) during natural language production.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>For each word in speech produced by 60 first-episode psychosis patients and 35 healthy, demographically-matched controls, we extracted lexical probabilities from GPT-3 based on contexts that ranged from very local- a single preceding word: P(Wn | Wn-1)-to global-up to 50 preceding words: P(Wn|Wn-50, Wn-49, …, Wn-1).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We show that disorganized speech is characterized by disproportionate insensitivity to global, versus local, linguistic context. Critically, this global-versus-local insensitivity selectively predicted clinical ratings of positive thought disorder, above and beyond overall symptom severity. There was no evidence of a relationship with negative thought disorder (impoverishment).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We provide an automated, interpretable measure that can potentially be used to quantify speech disorganization in schizophrenia. Our findings directly link the clinical phenomenology of thought disorder to neurocognitive constructs that are grounded in psycholinguistic theory and neurobiology.</p>","PeriodicalId":8918,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144282248","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}
Louise Stiernman, Manon Dubol, Erika Comasco, Maja Johansson, Lars Stiernman, Marie Bixo
{"title":"Emotion generation and regulation in premenstrual dysphoric disorder: dysregulation of large-scale brain networks across the menstrual cycle.","authors":"Louise Stiernman, Manon Dubol, Erika Comasco, Maja Johansson, Lars Stiernman, Marie Bixo","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.05.025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.05.025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Emotion regulation deficits have been highlighted as a transdiagnostic feature of multiple psychiatric disorders, including premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). In this study, we hypothesize that deficient prefrontal \"top-down\" regulation of key nodes of the salience network (SN) is a characteristic of PMDD, driven by increased levels of progesterone-derived neuroactive steroids.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to investigate menstrual-cycle related variations in brain activity and connectivity during two emotional tasks (emotion generation and regulation) in 29 women with PMDD and 27 controls. We also examined whether differential brain activation between groups is related to serum levels of progesterone-derived neuroactive steroids and premenstrual symptom severity.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Women with PMDD showed increased reactivity in key nodes of the SN and - at subthreshold level - in the default mode network (DMN) during the luteal phase when passively viewing negative emotional stimuli. Intriguingly, SN hyperactivity in PMDD patients was apparent also during the follicular phase and related to premenstrual symptom severity. PMDD and control women had similar network connectivity patterns and activity in regions associated with the conscious control of emotion in PMDD. No link to progesterone-derived neuroactive steroids was found.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Multiple network aberrations during the luteal phase may explain the development of mood symptoms in the luteal phase. Furthermore, higher baseline (follicular) SN activity may render PMDD women more susceptible to severe mood symptoms in response to hormonal fluctuations. What drives increased SN activity in the follicular phase is unknown, but innate and neuroplastic mechanisms are proposed.</p>","PeriodicalId":8918,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144246241","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}