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Subchronic treatment with St John’s wort produces a positive shift in emotional processing in healthy volunteers
(2018-11-28)
The neurocognitive model of antidepressant treatment in depression states that antidepressants work by producing relatively immediate positive shifts in emotional processing, which translate into clinical improvement with ...
Variation in recognition of happy and sad facial expressions and self-reported depressive symptom severity: A prospective cohort study
(2019-06)
Objective:Cognitive theories suggest people with depression interpret self-referential social information negatively. However, it is unclear whether these biases precede or follow depression. We investigated whether facial ...
Use of Over-The-Counter Analgesics for Pain and Psychological Distress Among Adolescents: A Mixed Effects Approach in Cross-Sectional Survey Data From Norway
(2020-10)
Background: Over-the-counter analgesics (OTCA) such as Paracetamol and Ibuprofen are frequently used
by adolescents, and the route of administration and access at home allows unsupervised use.
Psychological distress and ...
Predicting treatment response in depression: the role of anterior cingulate cortex
(2018)
Background:
Identification of biomarkers predicting therapeutic outcome to antidepressant treatment is one of the most important tasks in current research because it may transform the lengthy process of finding the right ...
Catechol-O-methyltransferase activity does not influence emotional processing in men
(2022-04)
Background: Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) regulates cortical dopaminergic transmission and prefrontal-dependent cognitive function. However, its role in other cognitive processes, including emotional processing, is ...
Symptom Dynamics and Attention in Depression: Fatigue and Low Positive Affect are Associated With Reduced Orienting Efficiency
(2022-02)
Depression is a heterogeneous mental disorder involving a complex interplay between
potential etiological and maintenance factors. The current study examined how depression
heterogeneity is related to attentional ...
Pramipexole Enhances Reward Learning by Preserving Value Estimates
(2022-01)
Background: Dopamine D2-like receptor agonists show promise as treatments for depression. They are
thought to act by altering how individuals learn from rewarding experiences. However, the nature of these
reward learning ...
Accuracy in recognising happy facial expressions is associated with antidepressant response to a NOP receptor antagonist but not placebo treatment
(2021-10)
Background: Clinical trials with putative antidepressants can be difficult to execute as it can take up to 8 weeks before differences emerge between drug and placebo, and long expensive trials often fail. Implementation ...
Déjà-vu? Neural and behavioural effects of the 5-HT 4 receptor agonist, prucalopride, in a hippocampal-dependent memory task
(2021-10)
Cognitive deficits commonly accompany psychiatric disorders but are often underrecognised, and difficult to treat. The 5-HT4 receptor is a promising potential treatment target for cognitive impairment because in animal ...
Characterizing Affective Variability in Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder, and the Effects of Lithium, Using a Generative Model of Affect
(2022-02)
The affective variability of Bipolar Disorder (BD) is thought to qualitatively differ from that of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), with changes in affect persisting for longer in BD. However, quantitative studies ...