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

Psychiatry current awareness bulletin

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December 2025

Applicability and adaptation of cognitive behavior therapy for long COVID neuropsychiatric symptoms: a review with insights from ME/CFS

Association between mental health symptoms and autoimmunity in patients with long COVID

Cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia in people with cancer (new Cochrane intervention review)

Complex patterns of altered white matter structural connectivity within a ‘subjective valuation network’ in treatment-resistant depression (preprint)

Creating a standard for evaluation of symptoms of depression and anxiety in women undergoing reduction mammaplasty: validation and reliability of HADS

Effectiveness and safety of psychosocial interventions for the treatment of cannabis use disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Effects of legal access versus illegal market cannabis on use and mental health: a randomized controlled trial

Healthcare provider stigma toward patients with substance use disorders

The landscape of ketamine use disorder: patient experiences and perspectives on current treatment options

Medications for opioid use disorder in county jails — outcomes after release

Mental health outcomes in transgender and nonbinary people: an umbrella review

Methamphetamine use among substance use disorder treatment populations

National clinical assessment data of Indigenous Traveller women attending 24 Irish emergency departments, between 2018–2022, in a suicidal crisis: a sequential mixed method study

Occurrence of psychosis and bipolar disorder in individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder treated with stimulants: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Pharmacological and non‐pharmacological treatments for impulsive‐compulsive behaviors in Parkinson's disease (new Cochrane intervention review)

Precision assignment to psychosocial interventions for late-life depression: an automated treatment decision rule

Prevalence of substance use disorder among autistic youth with and without co-occurring mental health conditions and a history of trauma

Reducing barriers to mental health care for physicians: an overview and strategic recommendations

Semaglutide treatment of antipsychotic-treated patients with schizophrenia, prediabetes, and obesity: the HISTORI randomized clinical trial

Soft drink consumption and depression mediated by gut microbiome alterations

Systematic review of symptom-level networks of alcohol use disorder

Unpacking the link between substance use disorders and 30-day unplanned readmission

Sources

Addiction (Sep-Dec); Autism Research (Aug); BioRxiv (Sep); BMC Infectious Diseases (Sep-Oct); BMC Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Sep); Cochrane Library (Oct); Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine (Sep); JAMA (Sep); JAMA Psychiatry (Nov); Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health (Aug); NEJM (Sep)

October 2025

ADHD drug treatment and risk of suicidal behaviours, substance misuse, accidental injuries, transport accidents, and criminality: emulation of target trials

Bipolar disorder (Lancet review)

Building community capacity in mental health care with the Strong Minds–Strong Communities programme: a randomised controlled trial in the USA

Cognitive and mental health outcomes in Long COVID

Dysmenorrhea and adolescent mental health: a school-based cross-sectional study

The emergent motherhood mental health advantage: did pandemic times make a difference?

How effective are remote and/or digital interventions as part of alcohol and drug treatment and recovery support? A systematic review and meta-analysis

Lifetime stressor exposure is related to suicidality in autistic adults: a multinational study

Medication experiences in the treatment of opioid use disorders: insights from Reddit

Mental health burden of persons living in Ukraine and Ukrainians displaced to Switzerland: the mental health assessment of the Ukrainian population (MAP) studies

Metabolic brain changes in post-acute COVID-19: systematic review and meta-analysis of [18F]-FDG-PET findings

Neighborhood opportunity and residential instability: associations with mental health in middle childhood

Palliative management of depression in advanced cancer

Pathway of effects of adverse childhood experiences on psychological distress and substance use among emerging adults: a structural equation modeling approach

People are being involuntarily committed, jailed after spiraling into "ChatGPT psychosis"

Propofol versus methohexital in electroconvulsive therapy: impact on treatment efficacy and adverse effects

The psychology of social isolation and loneliness in later life

Rare but relevant: ketamine-induced cystitis – an in-depth review for addiction medicine

The role of pubertal development in the association between trauma and internalising symptoms in female youth

Sex differences in psychiatric diagnoses preceding autism diagnosis and their stability post autism diagnosis

Sex differences in the clinical correlates of nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescents – a systematic review

Shared and distinct structural and functional brain alterations in adolescents with major depressive disorder

Trends and disparities in maternal self-reported mental and physical health

Vaping and harm in young people: umbrella review

Sources

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (Aug); Addiction (Aug); Australian Journal of General Practice (Aug); Autism (May); BJOG (Aug); BMJ, The (Jul-Aug); BMJ Global Health (Aug); Brain Structure and Function (Aug); Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health (Jul-Aug); Clinics in Geriatric Medicine (Aug); Demography (Jun); Futurism website (Jun); JAMA Internal Medicine (Jul); Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (Jul-Aug); Lancet, The (Aug); Tobacco Control (Aug)

August 2025

Addictive screen use trajectories and suicidal behaviors, suicidal ideation, and mental health in US youths

Analysis of serious adverse incidents reported to RQIA where the diagnosis is addictions/substance misuse September 2025 (updated April 2025)

Association between genetic liability to physical health conditions and comorbidities in individuals with severe mental illness: an analysis of two cross-sectional observational studies in the UK

Atypical antipsychotics for autism spectrum disorder: a network meta‐analysis (new Cochrane intervention review)

Comparative effectiveness of interventions to facilitate deprescription of benzodiazepines and other sedative hypnotics: systematic review and meta-analysis

Digital therapy for chronic tic disorders and Tourette syndrome: early value assessment (new NICE guideline HTE25)

Effects of a general practitioner-led brief narrative exposure intervention on symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder after intensive care (PICTURE): multicentre, observer blind, randomised controlled trial

Electronic cigarettes and subsequent cigarette smoking in young people: a systematic review

Growing health concern regarding gambling addiction in the age of sportsbooks

The impacts of e-cigarette flavours: an overview of systematic reviews

An intensive weight loss programme with behavioural support for people with type 2 diabetes at risk of eating disorders in England (ARIADNE)

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy versus treatment as usual after non-remission with NHS Talking Therapies high-intensity psychological therapy for depression

Non-mental health inpatient and emergency care hospital costs associated with four mental disorders in Europe

A novel discovery platform for targeted drug repurposing: application for psychiatric disorders

Pharmacological treatment of anxiety in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Positive psychological interventions for substance use, addiction and recovery: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis

Post‐incident debriefing for people with schizophrenia after coercive measures (new Cochrane intervention review)

Recommendations for defining treatment outcomes in major psychiatric disorders using real-world data

Reevaluating the brain disease model of addiction

Relative risks of adverse effects across different opioid agonist treatments—a systematic review and meta-analysis

Temporal dynamics in the association between depression and dementia: an umbrella review and meta-analysis

Sources

Addiction (Jun-Jul); BMJ, The (May-Jun); Cochrane Library (May-Jun); eClinicalMedicine (May); JAMA (Jun); JAMA Internal Medicine (Apr); Lancet Psychiatry, The (Jun-Jul); RQIA website (Apr)

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