The attitudes of psychiatric patients towards COVID-19 vaccination in China: a cross-sectional study.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has become a global health catastrophe. By far, there has been no specific antiviral treatment for COVID-19. Developing a vaccine against COVID-19 appeared to be the most cost-effective strategy to stop the repeated outbreak.

Sodium valproate induced acute pancreatitis in a bipolar disorder patient: a case report.

Background: Sodium valproate is one of the most widely used antiepileptics and mood stabilizers. However, this drug may induce acute pancreatitis. Few cases have been reported so far, mainly on the pediatric patients who underwent antiepileptic treatment.

Genistein Improves the Major Depression through Suppressing the Expression of miR-221/222 by Targeting Connexin 43.

Objective: Recent studies have indicated the possibility that genistein may improve depression via regulating the expression of miR221/222. This study is to explore whether genistein could improve depression by altering miR-221/222 levels and investigate the possible mechanisms involved in the improvement effect of genistein.

Methods: The animal model of depression was established through unpredictable chronic mild stress.

Effect of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Cigarette Smoking in Patients with Schizophrenia.

Background: The high smoking rate among patients with schizophrenia is an important public health problem, and researchers have been studying how to change the status quo.

Objective: We investigated the effects of high frequency (10Hz) repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on the amount of cigarette smoking in patients with schizophrenia.

Method: This study enrolled 37 male patients with schizophrenia who were at a stable stage of treatment.

Study on the executive function of attention in depression patients based on SPECT technology.

Objective: To investigate event-related potential in executive function of attention and characteristics of cerebral perfusion by 99mTc-ECD single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in depression patients receiving the Oddball task.

Methods: A total of 30 depression patients and 30 normal control subjects were selected to carry out the Oddball task. Event-related potential (ERP) technology combined with SPECT imaging technology was used to compare the reaction time, ERP-P300 latency and amplitude, and cerebral perfusion characteristics on sites of brain.

The combined treatment of venlafaxine and quetiapine for treatment-resistant depression: a clinical study.

The authors studied the efficacy and safety of combined venlafaxine and quetiapine treatment for treatment-resistant depression (TRD) by dividing 95 TRD patients into two treatment groups: a combined venlafaxine (225 mg/day) and quetiapine (400 mg/day) group and a venlafaxine-only (225 mg/day) group for 8 weeks. Efficacy was assessed with the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, 17 items (Ham-D-17) and the Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety (Ham-A); safety was assessed with the Treatment-Emergent Symptom Scale (TESS). The two groups showed significant differences for the Ham-D-17 and Ham-A and no differences on the TESS.