Publications by authors named "Amelie Petillion"
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- * Using MRI techniques, researchers found that relapsers had larger caudate nuclei volumes than abstainers both at baseline and follow-up, suggesting this may be a risk factor for relapse.
- * In abstainers, recovery in gray and white matter volumes was noted, indicating that long-term abstinence can lead to improvements in brain structure, highlighting the importance of frontal brain regions in alcohol use disorder (AUD).
Background: The use of psychedelic treatments has shown very promising results in some psychiatric and addictive disorders, but not all patients achieved a response.
Aim: The aim of this review is to explore the clinical and biological factors which could predict the response to psychedelics in psychiatric and addictive disorders.
Methods: A systematic research was performed on MEDLINE, PsycInfo, Web of science, and Scopus databases from January 1990 to May 2020.
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- * The analysis included 18 studies, revealing that chronic smoking negatively impacts cognitive abilities such as attention, working memory, learning, and executive function, while no significant effect was found on delayed memory and language.
- * Findings suggest that age and the severity of schizophrenia symptoms influence the extent of attention impairment related to smoking, highlighting the need for better management of smoking and cognitive health in these patients.
Introduction: Even though anomalies on brain metabolites have been found in schizophrenia, researches about subjects with high risk (HR) show heterogeneous results. Thus, this meta-analysis aims to characterize the metabolic profile of HR subjects, first, compared to controls (HC) and then compared to people with schizophrenia.
Methods: After a systematic database search, means and standard deviations were extracted to calculate standardized mean differences (SMD).
Background: Chronic alcoholism and its related cognitive impairments are associated with increased social, relational, and professional deficits which have a variable overall impact on social integration. These impairments are known to have varying severities and have rarely been studied among healthy alcohol-dependent subjects with preserved psychosocial functioning. Thus, the objective of this study is to describe neuropsychological performance in this particular population.
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