1 November 2026
Neurocognitive deficits are central to schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSDs) and predict functional outcomes; yet interventions such as cognitive remediation show limited effects on real-world recovery. Metacognitive deficits have also been propose...
This proof-of-concept corpus study examined the technical feasibility of generating and clinically appraising synthetic psychiatric dialogues about hallucinations. A corpus of 200 dialogues was generated with GPT-4o-mini using synthetic personas, str...
Background: Safewards is an evidence-based model designed to reduce conflict and restrictive practices in mental health inpatient settings. Although Safewards has been evaluated in multiple international contexts, evidence from routine implementation...
Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a major public health and human rights issue worldwide. This study investigated the association between IPV and mental health among women in Greece. We used the Woman Abuse Screening Tool (WAST) to mea...
Music therapy is often presented as a less confrontational alternative to conventional verbal treatments. However, whether this positioning exempts it from mental health help-seeking stigma remains unknown. Drawing on spillover logic, this study prop...
Hearing is fundamental to communication and may be particularly relevant in schizophrenia, yet hearing function remains insufficiently considered in psychiatric research and clinical practice. Population-based evidence links hearing loss to psychotic...
Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major public health concern and is frequently associated with delirium, particularly in critically ill patients. Evidence on pharmacological management of paediatric delirium is limited, and data on the u...
Background: Social media use has become highly prevalent among adolescents and has been linked to both positive and negative health outcomes. However, evidence regarding its relationship with mental health and obesity remains inconsistent, and limite...
Sexual well-being is integral to health, yet social responses to mental health conditions and sexual and gender diversity may restrict expression, safety, and belonging. This qualitative descriptive study explored how adults with self-reported and un...
Background: Although social support, social anxiety, and loneliness have been shown to be interrelated, the specific node-level associations underlying these relationships remain largely unclear. Therefore, the present study aimed to examine the spec...
Previous research has demonstrated the potential integration of Fairbairn’s structural theory of mind from Object Relations Psychotherapy with the Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC), whereby a client’s artistic expressions may symbolise...
Background/Objectives: Psychotherapists have become increasingly interested in identifying how recurrent emotional themes might add value to the clinical process, especially in the context of recent developments in affective neuroscience. However, mu...
Chronic tic disorders, obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), as well as an intriguing intermediary group with comorbid tics and OCD (Tics & OCD) share a striking overlap in neurocircuitry and genetic risk factors, with environmental and epig...
Background: The population of French Guiana is young, poor, and multicultural. We thus hypothesized that the epidemiology of depression and its care may differ from that in mainland France. We took the opportunity of the Mental Health in the General...
Background: Major depressive disorder (MDD) severely impairs quality of life (QoL), yet contextual constraints such as perceived time availability for self-care remain underexplored in low- and middle-income countries. This study evaluated multidimen...
Background/Objectives: Various psychological and sociodemographic factors are strongly associated with shopping addiction in different populations. To date, the relationships between these variables have not been fully clarified. European data indica...
The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) has gained substantial empirical support as a dimensional model for understanding severe psychopathology. However, the integration of the Level of Personality Functioning (LPF) into this framework...
Bailan (摆烂), meaning “to give up and let things rot,” has emerged among Chinese youth as a cultural expression of disillusionment, withdrawal, and resignation in response to intense academic, occupational, and socioeconomic...
Child maltreatment (CM) has been associated with adverse outcomes in bipolar disorder (BD), although evidence from Chile remains limited. We examined associations between CM, emotion dysregulation, impulsivity, and neurocognition in euthymic individu...
Background: Common mental health conditions are associated with increased mortality, but longitudinal evidence from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remains limited. We aimed to examine whether baseline depression and anxiety were associated...
Objective. Public safety personnel (PSP; e.g., police, firefighters, paramedics, correctional workers, and communications officials) face elevated risks of mental health concerns, including suicidal ideation and behaviours. Well-validated cognitive a...
Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and developmental dyslexia are among the most prevalent neurodevelopmental disorders affecting children’s language, literacy, academic achievement, and social participation. Although traditionally conceptua...
Armed conflict is a well-established risk factor for children’s mental health, yet young children remain underrepresented in research on mental health among children affected by conflict in the Gaza Strip. This systematic review synthesized evi...
(1) Background: Women in the peripartum period are at increased vulnerability to the development or worsening of mental disorders. However, data from specialized psychiatric settings in Southeast Europe on this topic remain limited. In this study, we...
Mental disorders are a leading cause of global disability, and environmental characteristics are increasingly recognized as relevant to mental health. Although green-space exposure has been associated with psychological benefits, the contribution of...
Background/Objectives: Digital technologies are increasingly embedded in children’s everyday lives, yet problematic Internet use (PIU) remains conceptually heterogeneous and has been studied mainly in adolescents. This narrative review aimed to...
Background: Schizophrenia is a debilitating disorder that exacts a heavy burden on sufferers and carers alike. Despite improvements in neuroimaging techniques in the past decades, schizophrenia has lacked a clear definition at the neuroanatomical lev...
Background: Medical students experience substantially higher rates of anxiety and depressive symptoms than similarly aged members of the general population. Academic, financial, and social pressures, together with concerns about stigma, may discourag...
Background: Mental Health Literacy (MHL), originally conceptualised by Jorm as knowledge and beliefs that facilitate the recognition, management, and prevention of mental disorders, has expanded to encompass Positive Mental Health Literacy (PMHL), in...
Background: Modern-type depression (MTD), first described in Japan, reflects a sociocultural form of depression characterized by avoidance of social roles, complaint tendencies, and low self-esteem. While increasingly recognized across Asian societie...
Autism interventions are commonly evaluated at the level of treatment packages and intervention fidelity, whereas the therapist’s moment-to-moment embodied and interactional contribution is less often specified or directly measured. This work a...
Mental health problems represent a growing public health burden, particularly in middle-income countries where population-based evidence remains limited. This study aimed to analyze the risk profiles and heterogeneity of symptoms compatible with depr...
Fathers play a vital role in caring for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Fathers of children with ASD today have moved far beyond the “occasional helper” role. They are deeply involved in daily caregiving routines, supporting...
Vicarious War Trauma (VWT) refers to psychological distress arising from indirect exposure to war-related suffering through media, social media, news reports, images, videos, or communication with affected individuals. Grounded in theories of vicario...
Background: Evidence for repeated intranasal esketamine in obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) remains preliminary, particularly when OCD co-occurs with treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Methods: We report a 58-year-old woman treated with i...
Suicide is a serious public health concern and a major cause of premature mortality among individuals with psychotic disorders. Although several risk factors for suicide have been established, much remains unknown about how these factors generalize t...
Background: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective treatment for major depressive disorder but may cause transient neurological and motor side effects. Limited evidence exists regarding acute balance disturbances following treatment. Therefo...
Background: Nomophobia is increasingly common and may impair daily functioning, academic performance, and social relationships. Although neuroticism has been linked to nomophobia, the role of digital stress in this association remains unclear. This s...
Mental health is shaped by multiple psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual factors. This narrative review aimed to synthesize the available evidence on the relationship between spirituality, religiosity, and mental health across the lifespan,...
Workplace phubbing (being ignored during an interaction because a colleague is attending to a mobile phone) is increasingly common in clinical settings and may function as a subtle interpersonal stressor relevant to nursing teamwork, occupational wel...
Background: Problematic gaming has been linked to reduced well-being, but associations between student life satisfaction and gaming-related risk among students remain relatively untested. This pilot cross-sectional study applied the Japanese version...
Trace amines (TAs) are endogenous biogenic amines present at low concentrations in the brain and were historically considered byproducts of monoamine metabolism. The discovery of trace amine-associated receptors (TAARs), a family of G protein-coupled...
(1) Background: Communication barriers may complicate forensic psychiatric assessment of deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals. (2) Methods: This retrospective descriptive case series reviewed 450 unique adults with institutional and forensic psychiatr...
Background: Road traffic accidents (RTAs) present a significant public health problem and economic burden. The aim of the study was to determine mental health outcomes and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of RTA victims 6 months following a roa...
Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other communication-related conditions may experience substantial emotional demands, yet depressive symptoms have been underexamined in Greek families. This exploratory cross-sectional study...
Mood disorder symptoms represent an important but understudied mental health concern among physicians in Romania, with potential implications for quality of life and suicide risk. This cross-sectional study included 104 medical doctors. Validated sel...
Acculturative family distancing (AFD), characterized by communication gaps and cultural value differences between immigrant parents and their children, has been identified as a potential contributor to mental health disparities among Asian American p...
Background: Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven conversational systems are increasingly capable of simulating empathy, adapting to individual users, and fostering emotional bonds that blur the boundary between tool and companion. This scoping review...
Autistic traits have been associated with enhanced perceptual processing, attention to detail, and systemizing, all of which may be linked to numerical cognition. However, little is known about whether these traits are related to symbolic numerical p...
Introduction: Prolonged sitting, computer work and digital workload are associated with frequent occurrence of pain in the spine and upper extremities, as well as increased stress and mental problems. Some difficulties often arise from static strain...
