Article
Psychology, Biological
Chatrin Suksasilp, Sarah N. Garfinkel
Summary: Interoception is commonly assessed through behavioral tests, self-report measures, or neural signal analysis. Recent research has expanded the concept of interoception to include attention and interpretation of interoceptive signals. However, current assessment methods focus on individual dimensions and fail to capture the complexity of interoception. Comprehensive assessment across dimensions can provide a better understanding of overall interoceptive function, revealing differences in processing across dimensions and bodily axes. Future research can explore the relationship between interoceptive measures and different types of processing. Comprehensive interoceptive assessment can help identify selective disruptions in clinical conditions.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Psychology, Clinical
Dominique Endres, Viktoria Maier, Frank Leypoldt, Klaus-Peter Wandinger, Belinda Lennox, Thomas A. Pollak, Kathrin Nickel, Simon Maier, Bernd Feige, Katharina Domschke, Harald Pruss, Karl Bechter, Rick Dersch, Ludger Tebartz van Elst
Summary: Autoimmune encephalitis can mimic predominant psychiatric and neurocognitive disorders, such as schizophreniform psychoses or neurodegenerative dementia. Patients can be successfully treated with immunomodulatory drugs.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2022)
Review
Psychology, Developmental
Stephen P. Hinshaw, Phuc T. Nguyen, Sinclaire M. O'Grady, Emily A. Rosenthal
Summary: ADHD in females is often diagnosed at lower rates compared to males, but this gender difference narrows in adulthood. Females with ADHD primarily display symptoms of inattention and internalizing issues, while males tend to exhibit hyperactive-impulsive symptoms and externalizing problems. The clinical versus nonreferred nature of samples heavily influences sex differences in ADHD symptoms and related outcomes.
JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Daniel Le Grange, Sarah Eckhardt, Riccardo Dalle Grave, Ross D. Crosby, Carol B. Peterson, Helene Keery, Julie Lesser, Carolyn Martell
Summary: Family-based treatment (FBT) is effective in facilitating weight gain among underweight adolescents, while enhanced cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT-E) achieves similar outcomes in other domains, making it a viable treatment for adolescents with an eating disorder.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Shotaro Kinoshita, Kelley Cortright, Allison Crawford, Yuya Mizuno, Kazunari Yoshida, Donald Hilty, Daniel Guinart, John Torous, Christoph U. Correll, David J. Castle, Deyvis Rocha, Yuan Yang, Yu-tao Xiang, Pernille Kolbaek, David Dines, Mohammad ElShami, Prakhar Jain, Roy Kallivayalil, Marco Solmi, Angela Favaro, Nicola Veronese, Soraya Seedat, Sangho Shin, Gonzalo Salazar de Pablo, Chun-Hung Chang, Kuan-Pin Su, Hakan Karas, John M. Kane, Peter Yellowlees, Taishiro Kishimoto
Summary: This study investigated the telepsychiatry regulations in different countries/regions before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results showed that most regions relaxed their regulations on telepsychiatry during the pandemic, allowing for greater use and implementation of telepsychiatric care. These findings provide valuable information for future policy and regulatory decisions.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2022)
Review
Psychology
Jeni L. Burnette, Joseph Billingsley, George C. Banks, Laura E. Knouse, Crystal L. Hoyt, Jeffrey M. Pollack, Stefanie Simon
Summary: This systematic review and meta-analysis examines the effectiveness of growth mindset interventions and finds positive effects on academic outcomes, mental health, and social functioning, particularly when delivered to individuals expected to benefit the most.
PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN
(2023)
Letter
Psychology, Clinical
Gul Deniz Salali, Mete Sefa Uysal
Summary: This study examined the effectiveness of different incentives (prestige-based, conformist, and risk-based) for increasing COVID-19 vaccine intention in the UK, USA, and Turkey. The results showed that vaccination of an expert scientist was the most effective incentive, followed by vaccination of friends and family, and exposure to the death of someone from the disease. Vaccine incentives were less effective for those who originally refused the vaccine compared to those who were hesitant. Despite having the highest percentage of vaccine-hesitant participants, Turkey had the highest mean effectiveness scores for incentives, suggesting that an informed vaccine promotion strategy can be successful in the country.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Anees Ahamed Kaleefathullah, Natasha Merat, Yee Mun Lee, Yke Bauke Eisma, Ruth Madigan, Jorge Garcia, Joost de Winter
Summary: This study investigated pedestrians' misuse of an automated vehicle equipped with an external human-machine interface (eHMI). The results showed that eHMI can cause pedestrians to rely too much on it and ignore the vehicle's intrinsic cues. Therefore, it is necessary to educate people about the capabilities of eHMI.
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Chris R. Brewin, Jessica K. Miller, Magdalena Soffia, Alexandra Peart, Brendan Burchell
Summary: This study investigated work-related exposure to stressful and traumatic events in police officers and found that CPTSD had a higher prevalence than PTSD. Male officers were more likely to experience both disorders and they were associated with frequent exposure to traumatic events, traumatic visual material, humiliating behaviors, and sexual harassment. Compared to PTSD, CPTSD was also associated with exposure to humiliating behaviors and sexual harassment, as well as lower rank and longer years of service.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Melanie L. Hill, Brandon Nichter, Peter J. Na, Sonya B. Norman, Leslie A. Morland, John H. Krystal, Robert H. Pietrzak
Summary: This study examined the changes in mental health among U.S. military veterans during the COVID-19 pandemic. The prevalence of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) positive screens increased, particularly among veterans aged 45-64 years. Most veterans showed resilience to mental health problems, but approximately one in seven veterans experienced increased distress.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Psychology
Julia M. Rohrer, Paul Huenermund, Ruben C. Arslan, Malte Elson
Summary: This article discusses the issues of causal inference in psychology, explains the limitations of standard procedures for mediation and moderation analysis, and suggests improvements for a research culture that is more slow, deliberate, and collaborative.
ADVANCES IN METHODS AND PRACTICES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Mark Sinyor, Duleeka Knipe, Guilherme Borges, Michiko Ueda, Jane Pirkis, Michael R. Phillips, David Gunnell
Summary: Data from high and upper-middle-income countries suggest that suicide rates did not increase during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the impact of the pandemic on suicide is complex. Governments and societies must take specific steps to mitigate harm and prevent suicides in the late stages and aftermath of the pandemic.
ARCHIVES OF SUICIDE RESEARCH
(2022)
Review
Psychology, Clinical
Barbara Adriana Lambert Van As, Enrico Imbimbo, Angela Franceschi, Ersilia Menesini, Annalaura Nocentini
Summary: The review found a significant positive association between loneliness and depressive symptoms in older adults, with odds ratios ranging from 0.41 to 17.76 across the studies. Future research should focus on investigating the role of moderators and how they may impact the longitudinal association between loneliness and depression over time.
INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOGERIATRICS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Debo Dong, Dezhong Yao, Yulin Wang, Seok-Jun Hong, Sarah Genon, Fei Xin, Kyesam Jung, Hui He, Xuebin Chang, Mingjun Duan, Boris C. Bernhardt, Daniel S. Margulies, Jorge Sepulcre, Simon B. Eickhoff, Cheng Luo
Summary: This study investigated the pathological interaction of sensory and cognitive function in schizophrenia and its relationship to system-level imbalance. The results revealed a compression of the cortical hierarchy organization, leading to a diminished separation between sensory and cognitive systems. Furthermore, the analysis showed reduced connectivity within unimodal regions and increased connectivity between unimodal regions and other areas. These findings suggest that disruptions in the somatosensory-motor system and inefficient integration of sensory information contribute to high-level cognitive deficits in schizophrenia.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Review
Psychology
Peter F. Hitchcock, Eiko Fried, Michael J. Frank
Summary: The lack of influence of computational psychiatry on routine clinical practice may be due to its neglect of the role of time and context in certain mental health problems. Researchers have developed three heuristics to assess the importance of time and context, and review the advances in this area, including modeling state variation and interpreting differences in context.
ANNUAL REVIEW OF PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Da Jiang
Summary: Gratitude can improve positive affect, reduce perceived stress related to COVID-19, and enhance subjective health during the outbreak. However, higher levels of gratitude were not significantly associated with life satisfaction or subjective health in the long term.
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Psychology
Brenden M. Lake, Gregory L. Murphy
Summary: This article compares how humans and machines represent the meaning of words. Current NLP systems are successful in modeling human word similarity, but they have shortcomings in other aspects. The models are too reliant on text patterns in corpora and lack connection to people's desires, goals, and beliefs expressed through words. Word meanings also need to be grounded in perception and action and capable of flexible combinations in ways that current systems cannot achieve.
PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Nicolas Legrand, Niia Nikolova, Camile Correa, Malthe Braendholt, Anna Stuckert, Nanna Kildahl, Melina Vejlo, Francesca Fardo, Micah Allen
Summary: Interoception, the physiological sense of our inner bodies, has become a prominent research area in psychology and psychiatry. However, measuring accuracy in detecting cardiac signals has been challenging due to various limitations. In this study, researchers redefined subjective beliefs about heart rate as a crucial component of interoception and proposed a new psychophysical method to estimate their accuracy. The results showed that cardiac interoceptive beliefs were biased, less precise, and associated with poorer metacognitive insight. The open-source python package provided in this study offers a robust approach for quantifying cardiac beliefs.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Zachary J. Resch, Amber T. Pham, Dayna A. Abramson, Daniel J. White, Samantha DeDios-Stern, Gabriel P. Ovsiew, Liliam R. Castillo, Jason R. Soble
Summary: This study compared the diagnostic accuracy of the California Verbal Learning Test and the Brief Visuospatial Memory Test in identifying invalid performance. The results showed that both tests had high sensitivity and specificity in independently identifying invalid performance, with the latter performing relatively better when used together. This has clinical utility in the assessment of neuropsychological functioning.
APPLIED NEUROPSYCHOLOGY-ADULT
(2022)
Review
Psychology
Brooke N. Macnamara, Alexander P. Burgoyne
Summary: A systematic review and meta-analysis suggest that despite the popularity of growth mindset interventions in schools, positive results are rare and possibly spurious due to inadequately designed interventions, reporting flaws, and bias.
PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN
(2023)
