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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Psychiatry

Psychiatry current awareness bulletin

Frequency: Bi-monthly

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April 2025

Breastfeeding interventions for preventing postpartum depression (new Cochrane intervention review)

Daily step count and depression in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Decisional capacity to consent to treatment in children and adolescents: a systematic review

Diagnosis and management of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) (BMJ practice review)

Drug development in psychiatry: 50 years of failure and how to resuscitate it

Emerging research on disposable e-cigarettes (special issue of Addiction)

Identification and treatment of alcohol use disorder (NEJM review)

Maternal cannabis use disorder and offspring behavioral outcomes: findings from a linked data cohort study

Mentalisation-based treatment for antisocial personality disorder in males convicted of an offence on community probation in England and Wales (Mentalization for Offending Adult Males, MOAM): a multicentre, assessor-blinded, randomised controlled trial

Neurofeedback for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Non-invasive neuromodulation treatment for depression in adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Physical pain and suicide-related outcomes across the lifespan: systematic review and meta-analysis

Primary care contact, clinical management, and suicide risk following discharge from inpatient mental health care: a case–control study

Psychological interventions for pediatric posttraumatic stress disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

Psychosis spectrum symptoms before and after adolescent cannabis use initiation

The state of implementation science in major depressive disorder: a narrative review

Suicide in people prescribed opioid-agonist therapy in Scotland, United Kingdom, 2011–2020: a national retrospective cohort study

Suicide risks associated with pregnancy outcomes: a national cross-sectional survey of American females 41–45 years of age

Tobacco: preventing uptake, promoting quitting and treating dependence (updated NICE guideline NG209)

Understanding the mechanisms of change in social norms around tobacco use

Sources

Addiction (Feb-Mar); BJGP Open (Dec); BMJ, The (Jan); Cochrane Library (Feb); JAMA Network Open (Dec); JAMA Psychiatry (Feb); Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology (Jan); Lancet Psychiatry, The (Mar); NEJM, The (Jan); NICE website (Feb); Psychiatry Research (Feb-Apr)

February 2025

Antipsychotic drugs and cognitive function: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

Associations between maternal preconception and pregnancy adiposity and neuropsychiatric and behavioral outcomes in the offspring: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Barriers and facilitators to mental health care access and engagement for LGBTQA+ people with psychosis: a scoping review

Brief cognitive behavioral therapy for suicidal inpatients: a randomized clinical trial

Bright light therapy for nonseasonal depressive disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Clinical outcomes of continuation and maintenance electroconvulsive therapy

Effects of interventions to combat tobacco addiction: Cochrane update of 2021 to 2023 reviews

Effects of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) on psychotic symptoms and psychological outcomes in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis

A group parenting intervention for male postpartum depression: a cluster randomized clinical trial

How do people quit smoking using e-cigarettes? A mixed-methods exploration of participant smoking pathways following receiving an opportunistic e-cigarette-based smoking cessation intervention

Neuroinflammation, stress-related suicidal ideation, and negative mood in depression

Predicting suicides among US army soldiers after leaving active service

Predictors of substance use during treatment for addiction: a network analysis of ecological momentary assessment data

Prevention of self‐harm and suicide in young people up to the age of 25 in education settings (Cochrane review)

Psychiatric symptoms, cognition, and symptom severity in children

Psychosocial interventions offered across inpatient and crisis settings to the social networks of service users with psychosis: a systematic review

Reducing self-stigma in psychosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of psychological interventions

The relationship between cannabis and nicotine use: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Risk of suicide across medical conditions and the role of prior mental disorder

Sexual trauma, polygenic scores, and mental health diagnoses and outcomes

Social cognition interventions for patients with first-episode psychosis: a scoping review

Slowing cognitive decline in major depressive disorder and mild cognitive impairment

Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts after direct or indirect psychotherapy

Traumatic and adverse childhood experiences and developmental differences in psychiatric risk

Sources

Addiction (Dec-Jan); Cochrane Library (Dec); JAMA Psychiatry (Dec-Jan); Psychiatry Research (Dec-Jan)

December 2024

Air quality and mental illness: role of bioaerosols, causal mechanisms and research priorities

An analysis of prescribing data in ADHD for adolescents and adults in Scotland

ADHD diagnoses and prescriptions in UK primary care, 2000–2018: population-based cohort study

Analysis of serious adverse incidents reported to RQIA where the diagnosis is addictions/substance misuse, September 2024

Autistic psychiatrists’ experiences of recognising themselves and others as autistic

Bringing imaging biomarkers into clinical reality in psychiatry

Consistency of delusion themes across first and subsequent episodes of psychosis

E-cigarettes: a framework for comparative history and policy

Effect of behavioural activation for individuals with post-stroke depression

Hyperalgesia in patients with a history of opioid use disorder

Inflammatory biomarkers and risk of psychiatric disorders

Inflammatory biomarkers in depression: scoping review

The Lancet Commission on self-harm

Measuring clinical outcomes in adult ADHD clinics: psychometrics of a new scale, the adult ADHD Clinical Outcome Scale

Post-traumatic stress disorder and symptoms in paediatric cancer survivors and their family nucleus

Perspectives on physician-assisted suicide in mental healthcare: results of a survey of physicians and medical students

Prevalence of problematic pharmaceutical opioid use in patients with chronic non-cancer pain

Prioritization of psychopathological symptoms and clinical characterization in psychiatric diagnoses

Psychosis and schizophrenia among patients with epilepsy

School-based eating disorder prevention programmes and their impact on adolescent mental health

Self-poisoning with paracetamol in England: short report of characteristics of individuals and their overdoses according to source of tablets

Social vulnerability and prevalence and treatment for mental health and substance use disorders

Suicide-related internet use of mental health patients: what clinicians know

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the traumatogenic phenotype hypothesis of psychosis

Temporal patterns and individual characteristics of compulsory treatment orders for mental disorders in Scotland from 2007 to 2020

Sources

Addiction (Nov); BJPsych Open (Sep-Nov); Epilepsy Research (Nov); JAMA Psychiatry (Oct-Nov); Lancet, The (Oct); RQIA website (Oct)

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