Involuntary Hospitalizations in an Italian Acute Psychiatric Ward: A 6-Year Retrospective Analysis by Di Lorenzo R, Reami M, Dragone D, Morgante M, Panini G, Rovesti S, Filippini T, Ferrari S, Ferri P

“…Our results suggest that IHs in Psychiatry represented an extreme measure for treating the most severe psychopathological situations such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorders, characterized by aggressive behaviour and precarious social conditions, which needed longer stay than VHs, especially during the pandemic.Keywords: nonadherence to treatment, involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations, pandemic, revolving door…”
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Clinical experiences with 6-monthly paliperidone palmitate beyond the diagnosis of schizophrenia. A retrospective study by S. Benavente López, S. Bolaño Mendoza, A. Parra González, A. Lara Fernández, A. Herencias Nevado, E. Baca García

“…Regarding the efficacy of 6-monthly paliperidone palmitate, none of the patients presented a psychotic decompensation after its administration, maintaining psychopathological stability after the change. The switch to 6-monthly paliperidone palmitate was made from both 1-monthly paliperidone palmitate and 3-monthly paliperidone palmitate, both showing the same efficacy. …”
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A pilot trial of an online guided self-help cognitive behavioral therapy program for bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder in Japanese patients by Noriaki Ohsako, Hiroshi Kimura, Tasuku Hashimoto, Yutaka Hosoda, Yosuke Inaba, Masaomi Iyo, Michiko Nakazato

“…Secondary outcomes were the change in the weekly frequency of objective purge episodes, responses on self-report questionnaires of the frequencies of binging and purging, psychopathological characteristics of eating disorders found on BITE, EDE-Q, EDI-2, HADS and EQ-5D, measurements of motivation, and completion of intervention (vs. dropout). …”
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Diversity of Binge-Eating Disorder Symptoms Is Associated with Anxiety about Getting Fat Rather Than Body Image: A Clinical Study of Women in Poland by Karolina Lewandowska, Waldemar Klinkosz, Wojciech Styk, Magdalena Kowalczyk

“…Weight gain anxiety is associated with psychopathological behaviors, but existing research in this area is primarily focused on bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa. …”
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The heterogeneity of attenuated and brief limited psychotic symptoms: association of contents with age, sex, country, religion, comorbidities, and functioning by Christian Theisen, Marlene Rosen, Eva Meisenzahl, Nikolaos Koutsouleris, Nikolaos Koutsouleris, Nikolaos Koutsouleris, Theresa Lichtenstein, Stephan Ruhrmann, Joseph Kambeitz, Joseph Kambeitz, Lana Kambeitz-Ilankovic, Anita Riecher-Rössler, Katharine Chisholm, Katharine Chisholm, Rachel Upthegrove, Linda A. Antonucci, Alessandro Bertolino, Alessandro Pigoni, Alessandro Pigoni, Raimo K. R. Salokangas, Christos Pantelis, Stephen J. Wood, Stephen J. Wood, Stephen J. Wood, Rebekka Lencer, Rebekka Lencer, Peter Falkai, Peter Falkai, Jarmo Hietala, Paolo Brambilla, Paolo Brambilla, André Schmidt, Christina Andreou, Stefan Borgwardt, Naweed Osman, Frauke Schultze-Lutter, Frauke Schultze-Lutter, Frauke Schultze-Lutter

“…Contents did not differ between religious groups.ConclusionPsychosis-risk patients report a wide range of different contents of APS/BIPS, underlining the psychopathological heterogeneity of this group but also revealing a potential core set of contents. …”
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Culturally adapted cognitive behavioural group therapy for mental disorders in refugees plus problem solving training (ReTreat): study protocol for a multicentre randomised control... by Carmen Schade-Brittinger, Jens-Peter Reese, Nexhmedin Morina, Ahlke Kip, Ricarda Mewes, Cornelia Weise, Thomas Ehring, Ulrich Stangier, Schahryar Kananian, Hannah Schumm, Julia Giesebrecht, Anica Nicolai

“…Secondary outcomes include changes in psychopathological symptoms, somatic symptoms and quality of life. …”
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Post-weaning social isolation in male mice leads to abnormal aggression and disrupted network organization in the prefrontal cortex: Contribution of parvalbumin interneurons with o... by Laszlo Biro, Christina Miskolczi, Huba Szebik, Biborka Bruzsik, Zoltan Kristof Varga, Laszlo Szente, Mate Toth, Jozsef Halasz, Eva Mikics

“…Adverse social experiences during childhood increase the risk of developing aggression-related psychopathologies. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is a key regulator of social behavior, where experience-dependent network development is tied to the maturation of parvalbumin-positive (PV+) interneurons. …”
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Antibiotic-induced gut dysbiosis and cognitive, emotional, and behavioral changes in rodents: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Shivdeep S. Hayer, Shivdeep S. Hayer, Shivdeep S. Hayer, Shivdeep S. Hayer, Soonjo Hwang, Jonathan B. Clayton, Jonathan B. Clayton, Jonathan B. Clayton, Jonathan B. Clayton, Jonathan B. Clayton, Jonathan B. Clayton

“…The results of the meta-analysis provide promising evidence that there is indeed an association between antibiotic-induced gut dysbiosis and psychopathologies. However, inconsistencies in the implemented methodologies make generalizing these results difficult. …”
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ASSESSMENT OF CHROMOSOME ABERRATION LEVEL IN BLOOD LYMPHOCYTES OF PATIENTS WITH VARIOUS FORMS OF ANXIETY DISORDERS IN VITRO by Bagatska N. V.

“…These factors often lead to the formation of suicidal behavior of the child and decline in the quality of life and, consequently, to the development of psychopathological disorders in adult life. Significant number of pathological conditions associated with structural changes in DNA, are characterized by disorders of the central nervous system development and functioning. …”
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ON THE DIFFICULTIES IN THE DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS BETWEEN PRIMARY DEPERSONALIZATION-DEREALIZATION DISORDER AND SCHIZOTYPAL DISORDER by Anastasia Yu. Bykova, Roman A. Bekker, Yuriy V. Bykov

“…The literature data we have found were then analyzed, summarized and presented in this article, together with a thorough description and clinical and psychopathological analysis of two clinical cases from our own practice. …”
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Evaluation of the effectiveness of psychosocial treatment of patients with schizophrenia at different stages of its rendering by V. Mitikhin, G. ?. Tiumenkova, T. Solokhina, L. Alieva

“…Methods Clinical and psychopathological, statistical, as well as a battery of tests: PANSS, CGI; Drug Attitude Inventory (DAI, Hogan T.P. et al., 1983); Insight Scale for Psychosis (ISP, Birchwood M., 1994); «SF-36 Health Status Survey» (SF-36, Ware J.E. et al., 1993); URICA (McConnaughy E.A. et al., 1983); The Social Adjustment Scale-Self (SAS-SR, Weissman M, Bothwell S.,1976); PSP (Morosini P.L. et al., 2000) and a number of other scales. 90 patients with schizophrenia in the community, inpatient department of psychiatric hospital, day hospital participated in the basic PST program, which included psychoeducation, motivational training, social and cognitive skills training. …”
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Longitudinal Relationships Among Fear of COVID-19, Smartphone Online Self-Disclosure, Happiness, and Psychological Well-being: Survey Study by Jörg Matthes, Kevin Koban, Ariadne Neureiter, Anja Stevic

“…ObjectiveThis study aimed to determine the temporal associations between smartphone online self-disclosure (as a communicative behavior) and critical indicators of psychological health (including psychopathological, as well as hedonic and eudaimonic states) during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Austria. …”
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The Experience of the Crisis Clinic at the Scientific and Practical Center for Mental Health of Children and Adolescents named after G.E. Sukhareva by Pyotr V. Bezmenov, Anna Ya. Basova, Roman V. Deych, Yulia V. Severina

“…CONCLUSION: The need to remedy severe crisis conditions and their associated psychopathological repercussions (including suicidal and self-harming behavior) calls for coordinated efforts on the part of specialists from different fields of knowledge related to childhood and adolescence. …”
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From the identification of biopsychosocial risk factors to an increase in pain-related self-efficacy (IDRIS) – The online-based conveyance of an explanatory model for chronic back... by Petra Engelmann, Bernd Löwe, Paul Hüsing

“…This way, this study contributes to the understanding of cross-disorder psychopathological factors and a stronger consideration of biopsychosocial factors in the treatment of persistent somatic symptoms. …”
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Hysterical and comorbid mental disorders in outpatient neurological practice by L. V. Romasenko, V. V. Vandysh-Bubko, S. S. Nikitin

“…Identifying the current clinical-dynamic regular patterns of hysterical disorders (taking into account the temporal pathological morphosis) for purposes of providing substantiation for their psychopathological essence and the optimal therapeutic-diagnostic tactics in respect of the pertinent cohort of patients.Materials and methods. …”
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The difference between shorter- versus longer-term psychotherapy for adult mental health disorders: a systematic review with meta-analysis by Sophie Juul, Janus Christian Jakobsen, Caroline Kamp Jørgensen, Stig Poulsen, Per Sørensen, Sebastian Simonsen

“…More trials at low risk of bias and at low risk of random errors assessing participants at different levels of psychopathological severity are urgently needed. Systematic review registration PROSPERO CRD42019128535.…”
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Microbial composition, functionality, and stress resilience or susceptibility: unraveling sex-specific patterns by Arax Tanelian, Bistra Nankova, Mariam Miari, Esther L. Sabban

“…Yet, individual responses to such stress vary, with some people developing stress-induced psychopathologies while others exhibit resilience. The factors influencing sex-related disparities in affective disorders as well as variations in resilience remain unclear; however, emerging evidence suggests differences in the gut microbiota play a role. …”
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Increasing public concern on insomnia during the COVID-19 outbreak in China: An info-demiology study by Yuying Chu, Wenhui Li, Suyan Wang, Guizhi Jia, Yuqiang Zhang, Hongliang Dai

“…Further studies are needed to determine whether the search behavior truly reflect the real-time prevalence profile of relevant mental disorders, and further to establish a risk prediction model to determine the prevalence risk of psychopathological disorders, including insomnia, using insomnia-related BDI and other well-established risk factors.…”
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Use of Ecological Momentary Assessment Through a Passive Smartphone-Based App (eB2) by Patients With Schizophrenia: Acceptability Study by Javier-David Lopez-Morinigo, María Luisa Barrigón, Alejandro Porras-Segovia, Verónica González Ruiz-Ruano, Adela Sánchez Escribano Martínez, Paula Jhoana Escobedo-Aedo, Sergio Sánchez Alonso, Laura Mata Iturralde, Laura Muñoz Lorenzo, Antonio Artés-Rodríguez, Anthony S David, Enrique Baca-García

“…Those who consented to installation of the eB2 app (users) were compared with those who did not (nonusers) in sociodemographic, clinical, premorbid adjustment, neurocognitive, psychopathological, insight, and metacognitive variables. …”
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Intranasal esketamine + Intensive CBT: a 12 months follow-up of two complicated cases of Treatment Resistant Depression at high suicidal risk by V. Martiadis, F. Raffone, R. Cerlino, S. Testa, M. Russo

“…Methods Two male patients, 67 and 63 years old, with TRD, defined by at least two therapeutic failures with SSRI/SNRI and positive screening for high suicidal risk at the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale, were selected for treatment with intranasal esketamine + CBT as an add-on to SSRI/SNRI antidepressant therapy. Psychopathological assessment were made by means of Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D), Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A), Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS), Clinical Global Impression (CGI), Short Form Health Questionnaire (SF-36 items) at T0, every 7 days for the first 3 months, then every month. …”
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