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Psychoeducational preventive treatment for women at risk of postpartum depression: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial, PROGEA
(Biomed Central, 2017-06-13)
Background: Postpartum depression is a disease with a prevalence of 20% that has deleterious consequences not only for the mother but also for the baby and can cause delays in physical, social and cognitive development. ...
Bipolar disorder comorbid with alcohol use disorder: Focus on neurocognitive correlates
(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2015-04-07)
Bipolar disorder (BD) and alcohol use disorders (AUDs) are usually comorbid, and both have been associated with significant neurocognitive impairment. Patients with the BD-AUD comorbidity (dual diagnosis) may have more ...
Undertreatment of human immunodeficiency virus in psychiatric inpatients: a cross-sectional study of seroprevalence and associated factors
(Dove Medical Press, 2015)
Background: The aims of this study were to evaluate the prevalence of HIV and its associated demographic and clinical factors among psychiatric inpatients of a general hospital.
Methods: This was a single-center, ...
Novel Evidence hat Attributing Affectively Salient Signal to Random Noise Is Associated with Psychosis
(Public Library Science, 2014-07-14)
We wished to replicate evidence that an experimental paradigm of speech illusions is associated with psychotic experiences. Fifty-four patients with a first episode of psychosis (FEP) and 150 healthy subjects were examined ...
Data Gathering Bias: Trait Vulnerability to Psychotic Symptoms?
(Public Library Science, 2015-07-06)
Background
Jumping to conclusions (JTC) is associated with psychotic disorder and psychotic symptoms. If JTC represents a trait, the rate should be (i) increased in people with elevated levels of psychosis proneness ...
Factors associated with chronic pain in patients with bipolar depression: a cross-sectional study
(BioMed Central, 2013-04-15)
Background: While pain is frequently associated with unipolar depression, few studies have investigated the link between pain and bipolar depression. In the present study we estimated the prevalence and characteristics of ...
Birth Weight, Working Memory and Epigenetic Signatures in IGF2 and Related Genes: A MZ Twin Study
(Public Library Science, 2014-08-29)
Neurodevelopmental disruptions caused by obstetric complications play a role in the etiology of several phenotypes associated with neuropsychiatric diseases and cognitive dysfunctions. Importantly, it has been noticed that ...
Molecular Components and Functions of the Endocannabinoid System in Mouse Prefrontal Cortex
(Public Library of Science, 2007-08-08)
Background. Cannabinoids have deleterious effects on prefrontal cortex (PFC)-mediated functions and multiple evidences link the endogenous cannabinoid (endocannabinoid) system, cannabis use and schizophrenia, a disease in ...
A Model of Ischemia-Induced Neuroblast Activation in the Adult Subventricular Zone
(Public Library of Science, 2009-04-23)
We have developed a rat brain organotypic culture model, in which tissue slices contain cortex-subventricular zone-striatum regions, to model neuroblast activity in response to in vitro ischemia. Neuroblast activation has ...
Antioxidant defense system and family environment in adolescents with family history of psychosis
(BioMed Central, 2012-11-16)
[EN] Our objective was to determine antioxidant defence activity in healthy controls (HC) and healthy unaffected second-degree relatives of patients with early onset psychosis (HC-FHP),and to assess its relationship with ...