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Applying the Rules of Evidence to Expert Testimony About Risk

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Expert opinion about dangerousness or risk is common at sentencing, criminal commitment proceedings and some types of pretrial detention hearings. This article argues that such evidence must be (1) “material” (logically relevant, empirically generalizable, and epistemologically germane), (2) “probative” (a measure of accuracy, which is ...
Christopher Slobogin
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Mental Health and Serious Drug Crime: A Case–Control Study

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Serious drug crime involves a high level of risk and is often characterised as requiring a network of suitable and trustworthy collaborators. Although prior studies have focused on the importance of economic, social and work‐related factors for involvement in such crime, there has been less research into the mental health of the ...
Morten Hesse, Julie Elizabeth Brummer, Freja Ilsing Magnussen, Erik Simonsen, Thomas Friis Søgaard   +4 more
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Experiences of Prisoners Living With Mental Health Conditions and Seeking or Receiving Mental Health Support in Prisons: An Integrative Review

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Prisoners experience poor mental health and well‐being in prison, including severe mental illnesses. However, access to mental health support and treatment in prison is limited. We conducted an integrative review to synthesise prisoners' experiences of living with mental ill health and/or seeking or receiving mental health support ...
Anne Kairu, Judith Dyson, Damian Breen, James Skinner, Manuela Jarrett, Joanne Brooke   +5 more
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Is it possible to prevent excessive synaptic pruning in schizophrenia? Possibilities and limitations

Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience
BackgroundSynaptic pruning is a critical neurodevelopmental process that eliminates redundant or weak synaptic connections to optimize brain circuitry. In schizophrenia, converging evidence from imaging, genetic, and postmortem studies suggests that this
Agnieszka Pawlak, Jakub Stefanowicz, Zofia Kotkowska, Agata Gabryelska, Marcin Sochal, Filip Napieraj, Magdalena Kotlicka-Antczak, Dominik Strzelecki   +7 more
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Dynamic Functional Connectivity Within the Fronto-Limbic Network Induced by Intermittent Theta-Burst Stimulation: A Pilot Study

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019
PurposeThe utility of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has been growing rapidly in both neurocognitive studies and clinical applications in decades.
Yingying Tang, Yingying Tang, Xiong Jiao, Xiong Jiao, Junjie Wang, Junjie Wang, Tianyuan Zhu, Jie Zhou, Jie Zhou, Zhenying Qian, Tianhong Zhang, Huiru Cui, Hui Li, Xiaochen Tang, Lihua Xu, Ling Zhang, Yanyan Wei, Jianhua Sheng, Liu Liu, Jijun Wang, Jijun Wang, Jijun Wang   +21 more
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Copula‐based joint modelling of emergency department visits with time‐varying dependence

Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.
Abstract Jointly modelling multiple correlated count time series is essential in health services research, where outcomes like emergency visits for mental health and substance use often evolve together. Ignoring these dependencies can obscure meaningful trends and limit the effectiveness of policy evaluation.
Guanjie Lyu, Cindy Feng, Lihui Liu
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Transcriptome analysis to explore the mechanism of downregulated TNIK influencing the effect of risperidone

Frontiers in Pharmacology
BackgroundRisperidone is one of the most reliable and effective antipsychotics for schizophrenia treatment. However, the mechanism of action of risperidone is not yet fully understood.
Ruixue Yuan, Yaojing Li, Xiangyi Li, Yingmei Fu, Ailing Ning, Dongxiang Wang, Ran Zhang, Shunying Yu, Qingqing Xu   +8 more
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Genomic Insights Into Risperidone Treatment Outcomes in Children and Adolescents: Experience From a Psychiatric Hospital Serving Rural Youth

Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
Risperidone is a commonly used antipsychotic for treating psychiatric illness in children and adolescents. There is a large variability in risperidone response and discontinuation rates remain high. Pharmacogenomics offers the opportunity to improve risperidone outcomes, yet studies in pediatric populations are limited.
Jack W. Staples, Shayna R. Killam, Karen E. Brown, Rachel Dalton, Elizabeth Sather, Qiang Chen, Joshua Loveland, Corbin Schwanke, Abdallah F. Elias, Kristin L. Bigos, Erica L. Woodahl   +10 more
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Daily Body (Dis‐)Satisfaction and Dietary Restriction in Women Across the Eating Disorder Spectrum

International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Body dissatisfaction is a key risk factor in eating disorder development: It is theorized to promote dietary restriction, thereby contributing to symptom onset. Evidence for this pathway primarily comes from cross‐sectional or multi‐wave questionnaire studies in bulimia nervosa (BN) and anorexia nervosa (AN).
Michaela R. Buehler, Ann‐Kathrin Arend, Julia Reichenberger, Jens Blechert   +3 more
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Safe and Sound: Is Safeness a Specific Affective Dimension Related to Eating Disorder Behaviors?

International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Safeness is a warm, soothing emotional state that is often experienced in the presence of close others. Safeness is thought to be distinct from other positive emotions or the absence of negative emotions and is shown to predict mental health variables over and above other emotions.
Ege Bicaker, Alexia E. Miller, Vittoria Trolio, Sarah E. Racine   +3 more
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