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16.05.2024 | Original Paper

Glutamate imbalance in key structure of the default mode network in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

The default mode network (DMN) is atypically active in patients with ADHD, likely contributing to the inattention patterns observed in patients with the disorder. Nonetheless, magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) studies have rarely targeted the …

verfasst von:
Marcos Vinícius Vidor, Eduardo Schneider Vitola, Cibele Edom Bandeira, Alexandre Ribeiro Martins, Maria Eduarda de Araujo Tavares, Renata Basso Cupertino, Alana Castro Panzenhagen, Bruna Santos da Silva, Isabel Ghirardi Falkenberg, Pedro Olavo Barreto, Stefania Pigatto Teche, Felipe Almeida Picon, Luis Augusto Rohde, Diego L. Rovaris, Claiton Henrique Dotto Bau, Eugenio Horacio Grevet

Open Access 16.05.2024 | Correction

Correction: The association between childhood trauma and tobacco smoking in patients with psychosis, unaffected siblings, and healthy controls

verfasst von:
Justine de With, Heleen S. van der Heijden, Therese van Amelsvoort, Maud Daemen, Claudia Simons, Behrooz Alizadeh, Daphne van Aalst, Lieuwe de Haan, Jentien Vermeulen, Frederike Schirmbeck

Open Access 13.05.2024 | Original Paper

Characterization of cognitive symptoms in post COVID-19 patients

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a novel condition caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Due to its rapid global spread after first being described in Wuhan, China in 2019, COVID-19 was declared a …

verfasst von:
Michael Ruzicka, Simone Sachenbacher, Fides Heimkes, Aline Olivia Uebleis, Susanne Karch, Fabienne Grosse-Wentrup, Gerardo Jesus Ibarra Fonseca, Nora Wunderlich, Johannes Bogner, Julia Mayerle, Michael von Bergwelt-Baildon, Peter Falkai, Marion Subklewe, Thomas Ruzicka, Christopher Benesch, Elisabeth Valdinoci, Anna Pernpruner, Anabel Thomas, Bernhard Heindl, Hans Christian Stubbe, Kristina Adorjan

13.05.2024 | Original Paper

Effects of web-based adapted physical activity on hippocampal plasticity, cardiorespiratory fitness, symptoms, and cardiometabolic markers in patients with schizophrenia: a randomized, controlled study

Among the lifestyle interventions, the physical activity (PA) has emerged as an adjuvant non-pharmacological treatment improving mental and physical health in patients with schizophrenia (SZPs) and increasing the hippocampus (HCP) volume.

verfasst von:
E. Leroux, M. Tréhout, E. Reboursiere, R. de Flores, R. Morello, O. Guillin, G. Quarck, S. Dollfus

Open Access 13.05.2024 | Correction

Correction: Deciphering the interplay between psychopathological symptoms, sensorimotor, cognitive and global functioning: a transdiagnostic network analysis

verfasst von:
Stefan Fritze, Geva A. Brandt, Sebastian Volkmer, Jonas Daub, Maria Krayem, Jacqueline Kukovic, Emanuel Schwarz, Urs Braun, Georg Northoff, Robert Christian Wolf, Katharina M. Kubera, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Dusan Hirjak

Open Access 10.05.2024 | Original Paper

Three distinct patterns of mental health response following accidents in mountain sports: a follow-up study of individuals treated at a tertiary trauma center

The restorative effect of physical activity in alpine environments on mental and physical health is well recognized. However, a risk of accidents and post-accident mental health problems is inherent to every sport. We aimed to characterize mental …

verfasst von:
Hanna Veronika Salvotti, Piotr Tymoszuk, Mathias Ströhle, Peter Paal, Hermann Brugger, Martin Faulhaber, Nicola Kugler, Thomas Beck, Barbara Sperner-Unterweger, Katharina Hüfner

Open Access 07.05.2024 | Original Paper

Advising activity—knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors regarding the recommendation of physical activity in clinical psychologists

Regular physical activity has a large positive effect on health [ 1 , 2 ] and physical inactivity is one of the leading risk factors for noncommunicable chronic diseases [ 3 ] and global mortality [ 4 ]. While research has initially focused mainly …

verfasst von:
Moritz Bruno Petzold, Felix Betzler, Jens Plag, Andreas Ströhle, Antonia Bendau

Open Access 06.05.2024 | Original Paper

Persistent increased severity of cannabis use disorder symptoms in adolescents compared to adults: a one-year longitudinal study

Adolescence is a developmental period characterised by increased vulnerability to cannabis use disorder (CUD). However, previous investigations of this vulnerability have relied on cross-sectional comparisons and lack a detailed assessment of …

verfasst von:
Rachel Lees, Will Lawn, Kat Petrilli, Amelia Brown, Katie Trinci, Anya Borissova, Shelan Ofori, Claire Mokrysz, H. Valerie Curran, Lindsey A. Hines, Tom P. Freeman

03.05.2024 | Original Paper

Smoking may increase the usage of antidepressant: evidence from genomic perspective analysis

This study uses the two-sample Mendelian randomization (TSMR) method to explore the causal relationships between smoking initiation (SMKI), never smoking (NSMK), past tobacco smoking (PTSMK), and the usage of antidepressants (ATD).

verfasst von:
Yucai Qu, Zhiqiang Du, Yuan Shen, Qin Zhou, Zhenhe Zhou, Ying Jiang, Haohao Zhu

02.05.2024 | Letter to the Editor

All available diagnostic and therapeutic options should be fully exploited in order to quickly identify and optimally treat neuropathic pain in long-COVID

verfasst von:
Josef Finsterer

Open Access 26.04.2024 | Original Paper

Persistent negative symptoms in young people at clinical high risk of psychosis treated with an Italian early intervention program: a longitudinal study

Negative symptoms in CHR-P people are generally not responsive to treatments and commonly related to poorer functional outcome. However, less research attention has been dedicated to Persistent Negative Symptoms (PNS), defined as clinically stable …

verfasst von:
Camilla Ricci, Emanuela Leuci, Emanuela Quattrone, Derna Palmisano, Pietro Pellegrini, Marco Menchetti, Simona Pupo, Lorenzo Pelizza

25.04.2024 | Original Paper

Altered patterns of dynamic functional connectivity of brain networks in deficit and non-deficit schizophrenia

This study aims to investigate the altered patterns of dynamic functional network connectivity (dFNC) between deficit schizophrenia (DS) and non-deficit schizophrenia (NDS), and further explore the associations with cognitive impairments. 70 DS …

verfasst von:
Biying Ye, Yiqiao Wu, Mingjun Cao, Chanhuan Xu, Chao Zhou, Xiangrong Zhang

25.04.2024 | Original Paper

Ketamine and its enantiomers for depression: a bibliometric analysis from 2000 to 2023

Ketamine has demonstrated rapid and sustained antidepressant effects, marking its emergence as an innovative treatment of depression. Despite the growing number of preclinical and clinical studies exploring the antidepressant effects of ketamine …

verfasst von:
Li-yuan Zhao, Guang-fen Zhang, Xue-jie Lou, Kenji Hashimoto, Jian-jun Yang

Open Access 16.04.2024 | Original Paper

Bright light therapy versus physical exercise to prevent co-occurring depression in adolescents and young adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a multicentre, three-arm, randomised controlled, pilot phase-IIa trial

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental condition with onset in childhood and a high rate of persistence into adulthood [ 1 ]. ADHD is associated with co-occurring mental [ 1 ] and somatic conditions [ 2 ] …

verfasst von:
Jutta S. Mayer, Laura Kohlhas, Jacek Stermann, Juliane Medda, Geva A. Brandt, Oliver Grimm, Adam D. Pawley, Philip Asherson, Judit Palacio Sanchez, Vanesa Richarte, Douwe Bergsma, Elena D. Koch, Adrià Muntaner-Mas, Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer, Meinhard Kieser, Wolfgang Retz, Francisco B. Ortega, Michael Colla, Jan K. Buitelaar, Jonna Kuntsi, Josep A. Ramos-Quiroga, Andreas Reif, Christine M. Freitag

15.04.2024 | Editorial

Cognitive horizons in chronic pain: unraveling neuroscientific insights and innovative interventions for fibromyalgia

verfasst von:
Jie Sun, Xiaoxing Liu, Lin Lu

Open Access 13.04.2024 | Original Paper

Criminal behavior in alcohol-related dementia and Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome: a Nationwide Register Study

Criminal behavior is known to peak in people in their 20s and to decline later in life [ 1 ]. However, arrest rates in older age groups are increasing [ 1 ], and the number and proportion of older prisoners have escalated globally over the past …

verfasst von:
Anniina Palm, Tiina Talaslahti, Risto Vataja, Milena Ginters, Hannu Kautiainen, Henrik Elonheimo, Jaana Suvisaari, Nina Lindberg, Hannu Koponen

Open Access 13.04.2024 | Invited Review

The boon and bane of nitrous oxide

Nitrous oxide (N2O) has been known since the end of the eighteenth century. Today, N2O plays a huge role as a greenhouse gas and an ozone-depleting stratospheric molecule. The main sources of anthropogenic N2O emissions are agriculture, fuel …

verfasst von:
Golo Kronenberg, Georgios Schoretsanitis, Erich Seifritz, Sebastian Olbrich

12.04.2024 | Editorial

Beneficial and adverse effects of ketamine and its enantiomers, and the underlying mechanisms of ECT and rTMS efficacy

verfasst von:
Kenji Hashimoto

10.04.2024 | Original Paper

Diminished differentiation of rewards in individuals at clinical high-risk for psychosis

Reward processing is impaired in people with schizophrenia, which may begin in the clinical high-risk (CHR) for psychosis period. The Monetary Incentive Delay (MID) task has been important in understanding the neural correlates of reward …

verfasst von:
D. N. Pratt, M. T. Treadway, G. P. Strauss, V. A. Mittal

Open Access 08.04.2024 | Original Paper

Genetic predisposition for negative affect predicts mental health burden during the COVID-19 pandemic

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was accompanied by an increase in mental health challenges including depression, stress, loneliness, and anxiety. Common genetic variants can contribute to the risk for psychiatric disorders and may …

verfasst von:
Alicia M. Schowe, Malvika Godara, Darina Czamara, Mazda Adli, Tania Singer, Elisabeth B. Binder