Schizophrenia Journal Articles

• Sleep Disturbance Among Offspring of Parents With Depression Do children of depressed parents exhibit greater parent- and self-reported sleep disturbance compared to those without any parental psychopathology?
  Journal of Pediatric Psychology, February 19, 2020
• Risks During Pregnancy and Complications in HIV+ Women Is there a higher incidence of pregnancy- or birth-related complications among women living with HIV than those without the virus?
  HIV Medicine, February 05, 2020
• Schizophrenia is Associated With an Immune Response to EBV Might Epstein-Barr virus infection contribute to the immunopathology of schizophrenia? This study found that individuals with schizophrenia have increased levels of antibodies to certain EBV proteins.
  Schizophrenia Bulletin, January 20, 2020
• Towards a Natural History of Schizophrenia A new study posits that evolutionary modifications in the human connectome played a role in the emergence of cerebral dysconnectivity associated with schizophrenia.
  Brain, December 31, 2019
• Effect of D2 Antagonists in Smokers With Schizophrenia This study suggests that potent D2 antagonists diminish the reward-enhancing effects of nicotine in smokers with schizophrenia, which may explain the increased rate of smoking in these patients.
  Schizophrenia Bulletin, December 20, 2019
• Antibiotic Exposure in the First Year of Life and ADHD Risk It has been suggested that alterations in gut microbiota might play a role in the development of ADHD. Might antibiotic use during the first year of life contribute to ADHD risk?
  American Journal of Epidemiology, December 10, 2019
• Associations of Mental Health and Background With Opioid Use Are patients with mental health conditions or lower socioeconomic status more likely to receive long-term opioid therapy?
  Pain, November 21, 2019
• Racial/Ethnic and HIV Disparities in PrEP Discontinuation A better understanding of the existing disparities in PrEP discontinuation may help identify which populations are most at risk.
  AIDS, November 21, 2019
• Is Schizophrenia a Risk Factor for Breast Cancer? This study used GWAS statistics to investigate the genetic relationship between schizophrenia and breast cancer. Do these two diseases share genetic risk factors?
  Schizophrenia Bulletin, November 20, 2019
• Handedness, Language Areas and Neuropsychiatric Diseases This study aimed to identify genome-wide loci for human handedness. How might these variants contribute to neurodevelopment and the predisposition to develop neurological and psychiatric diseases?
  Brain, November 06, 2019
• Predicting Risk of Preventable Hospitalization in Dementia Might this newly developed prediction model help identify which patients with dementia are at highest risk of potentially preventable hospitalization?
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, November 01, 2019
• Legalized Cannabis in Colorado Emergency Departments The experience of EDs and hospitals in Colorado provides insight into the negative health consequences associated with the recreational use of cannabis.
  Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health, October 04, 2019
• Preoperative Cannabinoid Use and Perioperative Pain Does preoperative cannabinoid use have an impact on early postoperative pain in patients undergoing major orthopedic surgery?
  Anesthesia & Analgesia, September 19, 2019
• Theory-of-mind and Variation in Children's Social Cognition This fMRI study aimed to elucidate how nodes of the theory-of-mind network act and interact to support social cognition and false belief reasoning in school-aged children.
  Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, September 12, 2019
• Brief Mobile-Augmented Intervention in Serious Mental Illness This RCT contrasted two types of single-session interventions for serious mental illness, augmented by a mobile health app: cognitive behavioral therapy vs. illness education with self-monitoring.
  Schizophrenia Bulletin, August 30, 2019
• Ketogenic Diet for Schizophrenia: Clinical Implication Might impaired glucose/energy metabolism play a role in the etiology of schizophrenia? This review examines the evidence and the potential efficacy of a ketogenic diet in patients with schizophrenia.
  Current Opinion in Psychiatry, August 26, 2019
• ECT for Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia This Cochrane review evaluated the current evidence for the efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy on clinical response for people with treatment-resistant schizophrenia.
  Schizophrenia Bulletin, July 30, 2019
• Delusions: Sticking With Conclusions Why are delusions so persistent, even in the face of contradictory evidence? An intriguing new study using a computational approach sheds light on the neural mechanisms of delusions.
  Brain, July 22, 2019
• Prospects for Pharmacotherapies to Treat Alcohol Use Disorder This article summarizes recent studies on the use of pharmacological treatments for alcohol use disorder. What's currently in the armamentarium, and what novel therapies are under investigation?
  Current Opinion in Psychiatry, June 20, 2019
• Avoidable Use of General Anesthesia in Cesarean Deliveries Why are some cesarean deliveries performed with general anesthesia without a clinical indication? What are the complications associated with its use?
  Anesthesiology, May 30, 2019