Intracellular Fibroblast Growth Factor 14: Emerging Risk Factor for Brain Disorders
The finely tuned regulation of neuronal firing relies on the integrity of ion channel macromolecular complexes. Minimal disturbances of these tightly regulated networks can lead to persistent maladaptive plasticity of brain circuitry.
Fernanda Laezza +5 more
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Human brain evolution and the "Neuroevolutionary Time-depth Principle:" Implications for the Reclassification of fear-circuitry-related traits in DSM-V and for studying resilience to warzone-related posttraumatic stress disorder. [PDF]
The DSM-III, DSM-IV, DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10 have judiciously minimized discussion of etiologies to distance clinical psychiatry from Freudian psychoanalysis.
Bracha, Dr. H. Stefan
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Understanding vulnerability for depression from a cognitive neuroscience perspective: a reappraisal of attentional factors and a new conceptual framework [PDF]
We propose a framework to understand increases in vulnerability for depression after recurrent episodes that links attention processes and schema activation to negative mood states, by integrating cognitive and neurobiological findings.
De Raedt, Rudi, Koster, Ernst
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The Quest for Psychiatric Advancement through Theory, beyond Serendipity
Over the past century, advancements in psychiatric treatments have freed countless individuals from the burden of life-long, incapacitating mental illness. These treatments have largely been discovered by chance.
Robert E. Kelly +4 more
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Genetic determinants of cortical structure (thickness, surface area and volumes) among disease free adults in the CHARGE Consortium [PDF]
Cortical thickness, surface area and volumes (MRI cortical measures) vary with age and cognitive function, and in neurological and psychiatric diseases.
Adams, H. +98 more
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Social psychiatry amid biological psychiatry and Indian perspective
Many decades has passed since the Indian Association for Social Psychiatry was founded, and the social psychiatry movement in India began, but overall growth in this discipline has been gradual. In India, the field of psychiatry is rapidly expanding, and
Dushad Ram, Akash Mathew
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From traumatic childhood to cocaine abuse: the critical function of the immune system [PDF]
Background: Experiencing traumatic childhood is a risk factor for developing substance use disorder (SUD), but the mechanisms that underlie this relationship have not been determined.
Aricò, Eleonora +17 more
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Big boys don't cry: Depression and men [PDF]
Men are a numerical minority group receiving a diagnosis of, and treatment for, depression. However, community surveys of men and of their mental health issues (e.g. suicide and alcoholism) have led some to suggest that many more men have depression than
Branney, P, White, A
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Measuring Earwax Cortisol Concentration using a non-stressful sampling method
Background: “Short-term” samples are not the most appropriate for reflecting chronic cortisol concentration. Although hair is used for reflecting the systemic level of this hormone, its use as a “long-term” measure appears clinically problematic.
Andres Herane-Vives +7 more
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L’intervention brève en psychiatrie de consultation-liaison [PDF]
Cet essai présente un point de vue sur l’intervention brève en psychiatrie de consultation-liaison basée sur l’expérience subjective des patients, tel que soutenu par Kendler en 2005 dans l’American Journal of Psychiatry dans sa prise de position contre ...
Sirois, François
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