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Patient Perspectives on Psychiatric Polygenic Risk Scores in Reproductive Decision‐Making and Polygenic Embryo Screening

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Polygenic risk scores (PRS) estimate individuals' genetic risk for developing multifactorial conditions. Recent genome‐wide association studies have enabled development of psychiatric PRS, which hold potential to streamline diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric conditions.
Lauren A. Ginn, Amanda R. Merner, Page M. Trotter, Kaitlynn P. Craig, Abigail C. Martinez, Ana Lucía Battaglino, Dorit Barlevy, Daphne M. Ayton, Takahiro Soda, Eric A. Storch, Gabriel Lázaro‐Muñoz, Stacey Pereira   +11 more
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Images of hospices on social media: The #notdingy campaign [PDF]

, 2016
In June 2015, hospices were described as ‘dingy’ on two popular British television dramas. This spurred a social media protest using the hashtag #notdingy.
Borgstrom, Erica
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Psychiatric and Cognitive Features in Italian Women With the FMR1 Premutation: A Comprehensive Assessment Using SCID‐5 and Standardized Cognitive Measures

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Women with the FMR1 premutation (PM) are at increased risk for fragile X‐associated conditions (FXPAC), including cognitive and psychiatric features collectively termed fragile X‐associated neuropsychiatric disorders (FXAND). This study is the first to systematically investigate cognitive and psychiatric features in Italian female premutation ...
Federica Alice Maria Montanaro, Randi J. Hagerman, Giuseppina Spano, Flora Tassone, Giancarlo Logroscino, Andrea Bosco   +5 more
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Medical Anthropology

Abstracts in Anthropology, 2011
Medical anthropology is an interdisciplinary subfield of anthropology with a long history of research on environmental health-related issues, especially those pertaining to human health within environments of risk, consequences of ecological degradation, and the way patterns of development and globalization impact environmental (and therefore human ...
McMahan, B., Nichter, M.
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Anthropology, Brokerage and Collaboration in the development of a Tongan Public Psychiatry: Local Lessons for Global Mental Health [PDF]

, 2016
The Global Mental Health (GMH) movement has revitalised questions of the translatability of psychiatric concepts and the challenges of community engagement in countries where knowledge of the biomedical basis for psychiatric diagnosis is limited or ...
Campbell I. C., Churchward C. M., Cowling W. E., Desjarlais R., Fadgen T. P., Gordon T., Heaton M. M., Helu F., Janman P., Jilek W. G., Jilek W. G., Latukefu S., Leckie J., Littlewood R., Luhrmann T., Mike Poltorak, Minister of Health, Moala K., Morton H., Parsons C. D. F., Puloka M. H., Puloka M. H., Puloka M. H., Shore B., Thaman K. H., Vaiola Hospital Psychiatric Unit, Vaiola Hospital Psychiatric Unit, Vaiola Hospital Psychiatric Unit, Vaka S. L., Weiss P., Williams A. T., Williams A. T., World Health Organization (WHO), ‘Atenisi University   +33 more
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Genome‐Wide Association Study of Symptom Change Following Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Common Mental Disorders

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a well‐established, evidence‐based treatment for common mental disorders such as depression, anxiety disorders, and obsessive‐compulsive disorder (OCD). However, treatment outcomes vary widely, and a substantial proportion of patients do not achieve sufficient improvement.
Julia Bäckman, Olly Kravchenko, Matthew Halvorsen, Elles de Schipper, Ekaterina Ivanova, Viktor Kaldo, Nils Hentati Isacsson, Thorstein Olsen Eide, Kira D. Höffler, Manuel Mattheisen, Bjarne Hansen, Gerd Kvale, Kristen Hagen, Jan Haavik, David Mataix‐Cols, James J. Crowley, John Wallert, Christian Rück, Nordic OCD and Related Disorders Consortium (NORDiC), Julia Bäckman, Long‐Long Chen, James J. Crowley, Elles de Schipper, Diana Pascal, Jan Haavik, Kristen Hagen, Matthew W. Halvorsen, Bjarne Hansen, Kira D. Höffler, Fredrik Johansson, Anna K. Kähler, Elinor K. Karlsson, Gerd Kvale, Paul Lichtenstein, Kerstin Lindblad‐Toh, Manuel Mattheisen, David Mataix‐Cols, Kathleen Morrill, Christian Rück, Thorstein Olsen Eide, Nora I. Strom, John Wallert   +41 more
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"Now he walks and walks, as if he didn't have a home where he could eat": food, healing, and hunger in Quechua narratives of madness [PDF]

, 2013
In the Quechua-speaking peasant communities of southern Peru, mental disorder is understood less as individualized pathology and more as a disturbance in family and social relationships. For many Andeans, food and feeding are ontologically fundamental to
A Topor, Alison Krogel, Anna Meigs, Bianca Brijnath, Carlos Larrea, Carole M Counihan, Catherine J Allen, Catherine J Allen, Christine Greenway, Constance Classen, David M. R. Orr, David MR Orr, Derek Summerfield, Derek Summerfield, Duncan Pedersen, Elizabeth Cartwright, Emily Yates-Doerr, Gaithri A Fernando, Hermilio Valdizán, Irene Silverblatt, Javier Saavedra, Judith K Bass, Katherine Sohrsdahl, Krista E Vleet van, Laurence J Kirmayer, Lesley Jo Weaver, Libbet Crandon-Malamud, Mary Weismantel, Mary Weismantel, María Tapias, Michael Goddard, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Neely Laurenzo Myers, Parin Dossa, Peter Gose, Sarah Lund Skar, Sharon Alane Abramowitz, Susan Elizabeth Ramirez, Ursula Read, WHO, Xavier Ricard Lanata   +40 more
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MAT Editorial

Medicine Anthropology Theory
Editorial for the Spring issue, 2025.
Editorial Collective
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Exploring Biomedical, Temporal, and Embodied Perspectives on the Timing of Birth in Central Nepal [PDF]

, 2018
As an ANHS Senior Fellow, I began to explore the standardization of time in obstetrics and its translation into everyday practice in Nepal by analyzing the various perspectives involved in determining a woman’s ideal time of delivery and a successful ...
Brunson, Jan, Tamrakar, Suman Raj
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The Diagnosis That Arrived Decades Late: Living Without and Then With Myhre Syndrome

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Myhre syndrome (MIM #139210) is a rare multisystem disorder first described in 1981, characterized by short stature, neurodevelopmental delay, joint contractures, and cardiopulmonary complications. Its molecular basis, recurrent pathogenic variants in SMAD4, was not discovered until 2011. This narrative is based on a review of medical records,
Abdallah F. Elias
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