Psychiatry International, Volume 5, Issue 4

To evaluate the expression profile of circulating miRNAs in patients with schizophrenia (hsa-miR-34a, miR-449a, miR-564, miR-432, miR-548d, miR-572, and miR-652) in relation to individual negative controls for the disease. This was an analytical, cas...

There is solid evidence supporting the therapeutic effectiveness of paradoxical interventions, those in which the patient is encouraged to maintain or increase the behavior or thought that s/he wants to remove. However, their use in recent years has...

Heightened anxiety can impair perceptual-motor performance, with detrimental effects potentially arising, in part, from threat-related attentional biases and interpretations. Shifting from a flight (i.e., threat) mindset to a fight (i.e., challenge)...

The belief that people suffering from psychiatric disorders are more violent, in particular psychotic patients that do not have insight into their illness, is very common in the general population. Therefore, this review aimed to present a more accur...

The study investigates the reliability and validity of the Greek version of the knowledge about childhood autism among health workers (KCAHQ) questionnaire. A total of 541 allied healthcare participants (n1 = 471 students; n2 = 70 professionals) prov...

The high prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms in youngsters has resulted in two thirds of mental health problems emerging before the age of 25. In this context, various studies have indicated that attachment styles and emotional regulation a...

Women under treatment are a particular susceptibility group according to the classification of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). The average number of women under treatment is lower than men all across Europe, and...

Interoceptive awareness is currently gaining considerable attention and is in an active phase of research, supported by a growing body of empirical evidence from diverse fields such as neurophysiology, cognitive neuroscience, mind–body therapie...

State-of-the-art literature has been enhancing the significance of personality phenomena in Alzheimer’s dementia (AD). This study seeks to identify the relationships of current and premorbid traits and abnormal dimensions in AD. Five-factor mod...

The comorbidity between late-life depression and neurocognitive disorders (NCDs) in the elderly is a subject of increasing interest within the scientific and medical community. We conducted a narrative review of clinical studies focused on depression...

Despite their higher risk of mental health conditions, migrants often face barriers to accessing mental health care. This systematic review aims to synthesize the evidence on interventions to improve mental health care access for migrants (protocol C...

The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has increased the vulnerability and decreased the retention in treatment of patients receiving medication-assisted treatment (MAT). Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on crav...

Although the Parenting Stress Index-Short Form (PSI-SF) is widely applicable, there has been a dearth of research on the psychometric properties and item wording effects associated with the cultural sensitivity of the instrument. This study investiga...

The aim of this article is to present a new marker of the degree of self-representation unity, developed from the Rorschach test, to assess the strength or fragility of psychotic patients’ narcissistic foundations. The marker exhibited discrimi...

Numerous studies have linked lower levels of serum cholesterol with heightened aggression, violent crimes, and violent deaths across diverse populations, including forensic psychiatric patients, criminals, and the broad public. Interestingly, this as...

The occupational environment may affect one’s psychophysical health by leveraging both external workplace stressors and individual psychological responses. We developed a comprehensive questionnaire to assess occupational stress among postgradu...

The scientific literature focused on the categorization of therapists’ interventions in clinical sessions, and their effects on patients, is not very extensive and often autoreferential. The most relevant findings clearly show the eclecticism o...

Suicidal behavior is an important public health problem often associated with psychological and biological factors. Understanding the role of biochemical markers, such as cholesterol and serotonin levels, may provide insight into the mechanisms under...

Substance-induced psychosis (SIP) is an increasingly prevalent and complex condition that presents significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. With the rising use of novel psychoactive substances (NPSs) and potent traditional compounds like ca...

This study investigates the impact of psychiatric interventions on occupational dysfunction in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and anxiety disorder (AD). Occupational dysfunction is a significant concern in these populations, severely i...

The aim of this study was to assess the mental health situation of children and adolescents during a period of less strict COVID-19-pandemic-related measures after the first pandemic wave. This cross-sectional study was conducted in July 2021 by carr...

Mental imagery is a cognitive ability that enables individuals to simulate sensory experiences without external stimuli. This complex process involves generating, manipulating, and experiencing sensory perceptions. Despite longstanding interest, unde...

Background: Extreme promotion and prevention focus (foci) of the value need can lead to mental disorders due to a reinforcement mechanism between efficacy expectations (EEs) and behavioral intensity (BI) that then sets in. A reliable measurement inst...

Considering that research points to the discrepancy regarding the positive role of hedonia as opposed to eudaimonia in physical health, the aim of this study was to investigate the moderating effects of hedonia and eudaimonia on the relationship betw...

Agitation is one of the most common and persistent behavioral and psychological symptoms among persons with dementia (PWD) in residential aged care facilities (RACFs). While most studies have explored the general impact of COVID-19 on the mental heal...

This study used bibliometric analysis to investigate the research on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in pediatric populations between January 2014 and January 2024. The Scopus database is utilized to gather a diverse array of scholarl...

The counseling needs of civilian war victims, particularly those not classified as refugees, have been largely neglected in academic counseling research. This study addresses this gap by conducting a rapid literature review to evaluate the current st...

Epilepsy is a critical neurological condition characterized by the disturbance of the excitatory neuron network, resulting in recurrent seizures. It is a serious health problem requiring intensive attention. The present study was designed to use bibl...

Ten years ago, the Society for Women’s Health Research highlighted sleep as a significant area of interest in women’s health research [...]

Globally, suicide mortality rates have decreased in this century; however, it has been reported that the decreasing trends of some subgroups were attenuated in the late 2010s. These tendencies are pronounced among adolescents. In this study, the temp...