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A Practical Preprocessing Pipeline for Concurrent TMS-iEEG: Critical Steps and Methodological Considerations
Thursday, December 25, 2025
Zhuoran Li
Transcranial magnetic stimulation combined with intracranial EEG (TMS-iEEG) has emerged as a powerful approach for probing the causal organization and dynamics of the human brain. Despite its promise, the presence of TMS-induced artifacts poses significant challenges for accurately characterizing and interpreting evoked neural responses. In this study, we present a practical preprocessing pipeline for single pulse TMS-iEEG data, incorporating key steps of re-referencing, filtering, artifact...
Risk factors associated to disability in primary headaches: a systematic review to inform future iterations of the Global Burden of Disease Study
Wednesday, December 24, 2025
Alberto Raggi
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Nonexercise Equations for Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Older Adults using Body Roundness Index and Waist Circumference
Wednesday, December 24, 2025
Hayley Chappell
CONCLUSIONS: Equations using WC and BRI perform better for estimating CRF than equations using body mass index and resting heart rate in an inactive older adult population. These equations could be used to screen participants during study enrollment when specific estimates of CRF are desired for the study sample. However, these equations should be validated for use in clinical populations to stratify disease risk.
Potential Mechanisms of Influence Between Spiritual Practices and Cognitive Health: A Systematic Review and Conceptual Model
Wednesday, December 24, 2025
Katherine Carroll Britt
Background/Objectives: This systematic review summarizes the evidence regarding potential mechanisms underlying the relationship between spiritual practices and cognitive health in adults. The review was performed based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) checklist. Methods: An extensive search of six electronic databases (i.e., PubMed, PsycINFO, Embase, Sociological Abstracts, ATLA, CINAHL) was conducted using keywords related to spiritual...
Reward-specific learning parameters change across normative adolescent development and are blunted in youth with high risk for depression
Monday, December 22, 2025
Holly Sullivan-Toole
CONCLUSIONS: The observed developmental changes in traditional and computational metrics are largely consistent with the optimization of learning from rewards across adolescence. Further, the observed developmental changes in specifically reward-related computational parameters are consistent with heightened adolescent reward system plasticity. Additionally, there was support for our hypothesis that maternal history of depression may exert a unique effect on learning from rewards specifically,...
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.
Cognition Disconnected: The Influence of Domain-General Cognition (g) in Lesion-Deficit Mapping
Monday, December 15, 2025
Lara Sozer
Lesion-deficit mapping is a premier technique for dissociating neural correlates of cognitive functions. However, the contribution of domain-general cognition (g) to the performance of virtually all complex behavioral tasks may encumber such efforts. This possibility has been largely unexplored. Here, we examined the influence of g in lesion-deficit mapping using a combination of structural equation modeling, lesion-behavior mapping (LBM), and structural (sLNM) and functional (fLNM) lesion...
Unsupervised mapping of causal relations between brain lesions and behavior
Monday, December 15, 2025
Iman A Wahle
Human lesion studies offer one of the most direct routes to investigating the causal relations between brain regions and behavioral outcomes in circumstances where experimental interventions are highly restricted. However, these studies face a major challenge in identifying the right level of granularity at which brain regions and behavioral outcomes should be analyzed to identify the association between lesions to specific brain regions and specific behavioral outcomes. Here we showcase a novel...
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).