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Deriving information from missing data: implications for mood prediction
(2020-06)The availability of mobile technologies has enabled the efficient collection prospective longitudinal, ecologically valid self-reported mood data from psychiatric patients. These data streams have potential for improving ... -
Can we prevent seasonal affective disorder (SAD) with melatonergic agents?
(2020-06)Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a recurrent form of major depression, particularly occurring in the winter months with a generally spontaneous remission in spring/summer. The predictable nature of this condition ... -
Insomnia as a mediating therapeutic target for depressive symptoms: A sub-analysis of participant data from two large randomized controlled trials of a digital sleep intervention
(2020-06)Insomnia predicts the onset of depression, commonly co-presents with depression and often persists following depression remission. However, these conditions can be challenging to treat concurrently using depression-specific ... -
Subjective cognitive complaints given in questionnaire: relationship with brain structure, cognitive performance and self-reported depressive symptoms in a 25-year retrospective cohort study
(2020-07)Subjective cognitive complaints are common but it is unclear whether they indicate an underlying pathological process or reflect affective symptoms. Method:800 community-dwelling older adults were drawn from the Whitehall ... -
Comparative efficacy and acceptability of antidepressants, psychotherapies, and their combination for acute treatment of children and adolescents with depressive disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
(2020-07)Depressive disorders are common in children and adolescents. Antidepressants, psychotherapies, and their combination are often used in routine clinical practice; however, available evidence on the comparative efficacy and ... -
Addressing concerns about smoking cessation and mental health: theoretical review and practical guide for healthcare professionals
(2020-07)Smoking rates in people with depression and anxiety are twice as high as in the general population, even though people with depression and anxiety are motivated to stop smoking. Most healthcare professionals are aware that ... -
Identifying outcomes for depression that matter to patients, informal caregivers, and health-care professionals: qualitative content analysis of a large international online survey
(2020-07)Many clinical trials have assessed treatments for depressive disorders and bipolar depression. However, whether, and which, assessed outcome domains really matter to patients, informal caregivers, and health-care professionals ... -
Predicting treatment effects in unipolar depression: A meta-review
(2020-08)There is increasing interest in clinical prediction models in psychiatry, which focus on developing multivariate algorithms to guide personalized diagnostic or management decisions. The main target of these models is the ... -
How effective is augmentation with psychotherapy as a next-step option for treatment-resistant depression?
(2020-08)Determining the optimum next-step treatment for the numerous patients with depression who do not adequately respond to an initial trial of medication remains a source of uncertainty in clinical practice. Although a number ... -
Precision biomarkers for mood disorders based on brain imaging
(2020-10)Mood disorders are a global public health problem because of their high prevalence, chronicity, and recurrence throughout the lifespan as well as increased risk of mortality.123 They also impose a heavy economic burden on ... -
Effect of acute citalopram on self-referential emotional processing and social cognition in healthy volunteers
(2020-10)Background Depression is characterised by negative views of the self. Antidepressant treatment may remediate negative self-schema through increasing processing of positive information about the self. Changes in affective ... -
Antidepressants plus benzodiazepines in major depressive disorder: a clinical dilemma with no recent answers from research
(2020-10)Comorbid anxiety symptoms are common in depression, and adding benzodiazepines to antidepressant treatment may seem a rational clinical solution. Benzodiazepines also have potential to reduce the initial anxiety that may ... -
Inducing Affective Learning Biases with Cognitive Training and Prefrontal tDCS: A Proof-of-Concept Study
(2020-10)Cognitive models of mood disorders emphasize a causal role of negative affective biases in depression. Computational work suggests that these biases may stem from a belief that negative events have a higher information ... -
Neural effects of a single dose of fluoxetine on resting-state functional connectivity in adolescent depression
(2020-11)Fluoxetine is commonly prescribed in adolescent depression, but the neural mechanisms underlying its action remain poorly understood. Here, we used resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the ... -
Postnatal depression in fathers: a quiet struggle?
(2020-11)The mental health of fathers is now receiving more attention as a part of a national policy designed to address mens' mental health. Fatherhood can be a challenging period in a man's life and some men are at risk of ... -
Associations between statin use and suicidality, depression, anxiety, and seizures: a Swedish total-population cohort study
(2020-11)Background Statins have shown both protective and adverse associations with neuropsychiatric outcomes. We aimed to examine the possible associations between statins and suicidality, depression, anxiety, and seizures. M ... -
Using the 11-item Version of the RCADS to Identify Anxiety and Depressive Disorders in Adolescents
(2021)The purpose of this study was to identify items from the Revised Children’s Anxiety and Depression Scale – RCADS-C/P that provided a brief, reliable and valid screen for anxiety and/or depressive disorders in adolescents. ... -
Ketamine treatment for depression: qualitative study exploring patient views
(2021-01)Ketamine is a new and promising treatment for depression but comes with challenges to implement because of its potential for abuse. Aims We sought the views of patients to inform policy and practical decisions about ... -
Stimulating human prefrontal cortex increases reward learning
(2021-01)Work in computational psychiatry suggests that mood disorders may stem from aberrant reinforcement learning processes. Specifically, it is proposed that depressed individuals believe that negative events are more informative ... -
The effect of sertraline on emotional processing: secondary analyses of the PANDA randomised controlled trial
(2021-01)Background. According to the cognitive neuropsychological model, antidepressants reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety by increasing positive relative to negative information processing. Most studies of whether ...