Most Recent PubMed Publications

Sex Specific Threshold Effects of Prenatal Stress on Striatal Microglia and Relevant Behaviors in Mice

Sunday, December 21, 2025
Sara V Maurer
CONCLUSIONS: High and immune stress affected adult striatal-dependent behavior, exceeding the threshold necessary for persistent impacts mostly in males, but all stress models affected embryonic microglia, suggesting a lower threshold for early neuroimmune impacts. Distinct severities and aspects of prenatal stress may therefore underlie different NDD-relevant outcomes.

Reconstructing Psychopathology: A Data-Driven Reorganization of the Symptoms in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Friday, December 19, 2025
Miriam K Forbes
In this study, we reduced the DSM-5 to its constituent symptoms and reorganized them based on patterns of covariation in individuals' (n = 14,762) self-reported experiences of the symptoms to form an empirically derived hierarchical framework of clinical phenomena. Specifically, we used the points of agreement among hierarchical principal components analyses and hierarchical clustering, as well as between the randomly split primary (n = 11,762) and hold-out (n = 3,000) samples, to identify the...

Electrodermal reactivity in an aversive countdown task: Concurrent and prospective relations with triarchic psychopathy traits and antisocial behavior outcomes in a child-aged sample

Friday, December 19, 2025
Bridget M Bertoldi
INTRODUCTION: Considerable evidence exists for reduced electrodermal reactivity to aversive cues/events in high-psychopathic individuals, but most research of this kind has employed adult samples and cross-sectional designs. The current study examined skin conductance (SC) activation during anticipation of and in response to a noise stressor in a sample of 9-10 year old children in relation to constituent traits of psychopathy described by the triarchic model (i.e., boldness, disinhibition,...

Creation of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Curriculum for Required Medical School Psychiatry Rotation

Friday, December 19, 2025
Gerard Ondrey
CONCLUSIONS: The DEI curriculum integrated into the University of Minnesota third-year psychiatry clerkship was well received by students, with positive feedback about the curriculum and an increased ability to work with psychiatric patients from diverse backgrounds.

Intersectional pain disparities and resilience in veterans with chronic pain

Monday, December 15, 2025
Mackenzie L Shanahan
CONCLUSIONS: Findings highlight the robust connection between race and pain. They also suggest that socioeconomic and rural and pain disparities may be less prevalent in Veterans. Resilience may be a modifiable factor that can improve pain outcomes in Black patients. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Health Care Journeys of Veterans With Gulf War Illness

Friday, December 12, 2025
Katharine Bloeser
CONCLUSIONS: Findings point to the need to shift care for Veterans with GWI, and similar conditions, away from overly focusing on individual symptoms. Instead, primary care clinicians need training and support, potentially from tertiary care experts, to develop and implement holistic care plans that recognize GWI as a complex chronic condition.

Changing rural-urban and racial patterns in VA tele-mental health use among women Veterans, 2019-2022

Thursday, December 11, 2025
Michelle A Mengeling
CONCLUSIONS: SVT-MH use among women veterans increased substantially during the study period, with rural-urban gaps narrowing over time. These findings suggest SVT-MH differences may shift rapidly based on infrastructure, outreach, and policy implementation. Ongoing monitoring and tailored strategies are needed to ensure fair access to SVT-MH for all veterans, especially for AIAN and rural women veterans.

The legal intersection of psychosis and substance use: A mixed methods investigation of settled insanity

Monday, December 8, 2025
Ciera Arnett
CONCLUSIONS: The legal doctrine of settled insanity does not map well onto clinical reality and complicates the intersection of intoxication and mental illness by prompting insoluble questions about the etiology of mental illness. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1) activation reduced mania-relevant hyperexploration and risky decision-making in dopamine transporter knockdown mice

Friday, December 5, 2025
Tarannum Yumi Munir
CONCLUSIONS: These findings support the potential for TAAR1 agonists as novel treatments for hyperactivity and risky decision-making in BD, and suggest an inverted U-shaped relationship between dopamine tone and decision-making optimization.

Preventive Dental Visits Among Older Adults With Mental Health Conditions: A Retrospective Cohort Study From a Dental School Setting

Thursday, December 4, 2025
Katie McAllister
CONCLUSION: In this sample of older adults with self-reported mental health condition, about one-third had at least one annual preventive dental visit during the observation period. Receiving care from faculty members was significantly associated with increased odds of attending annual preventive dental visits.

Structural brain abnormalities and aggression in schizophrenia: mega-analysis of data from 2095 patients and 2861 healthy controls via the ENIGMA consortium

Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Jelle Lamsma
It is hypothesised that structural brain abnormalities in individuals with schizophrenia are associated with aggressive behaviour, but this has not been tested directly. We pooled magnetic resonance imaging and clinical data from 2095 patients and 2861 healthy control subjects across 20 sites of the ENIGMA-Schizophrenia Working Group. Using normative modelling, we quantified individual-level deviations from controls (z-scores) for global and regional grey matter volume and white matter...

Urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome 3-year symptom trajectories: the Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain (MAPP) Symptom Patterns Study

Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Catherine S Bradley
CONCLUSION: In all, 30% of patients with UCPPS demonstrated improvement in pain and/or urinary symptoms over 3 years. Baseline factors associated with improvement may represent markers of a milder or localised phenotype and/or treatment effects.

Cortical connectivity is associated with cognition across time in Parkinson's disease

Monday, December 1, 2025
Hunter P Twedt
Cognitive symptoms are common in Parkinson's disease (PD) and have debilitating effects on quality of life and disease trajectory; however, the underlying brain mechanisms remain poorly understood. To address this gap, we investigated the relationship between functional connectivity and cognition at multiple time points using longitudinal functional MRI (fMRI) and cognitive assessments from the Parkinson's Progression Marker Initiative (PPMI). We calculated resting-state functional connectivity...

Extracellular condensates (ECs) are endogenous modulators of HIV transcription and latency reactivation

Saturday, November 29, 2025
Wasifa Naushad
The persistence of HIV latent reservoir is the major challenge to HIV cure because latent viruses serve as sources for viral rebound upon ART cessation. Mechanisms regulating viral persistence are not well understood; thus, there is a compelling need for research focusing on addressing the knowledge gap related to HIV persistence. The present study focuses on the effect of extracellular condensates (ECs) on latent HIV/SIV reactivation in the brain in the context of HIV infection using the...

Pupil Dynamics in Macaque Recognition Memory Tasks: Investigating Physiological Mechanisms

Friday, November 28, 2025
Jianhua Liu
Cognitive deficits are common in primates, particularly in memory and emotional processes. Rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta), widely used in cognitive and behavioral research, are central to memory studies. The relationship between recognition memory performance and pupillary dynamics in rhesus monkeys remains underexplored. This study investigated pupil dynamics during recognition memory tasks and their physiological correlates in five sexually mature male rhesus monkeys. We measured pupil...