Dynamic observation and qualitative analysis of a psychological crisis hotline during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze the chief complaints of psychological crisis hotlines during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Jiangsu, China, and to summarize the psychological characteristics of the public during the different stages of COVID-19.

Methods: The chief complaints of calls to the psychological crisis hotline from 27 January 2020 to 30 June 2020. A total of 578 calls were extracted and grouped using thematic analysis into categories.

Remission of symptoms is not equal to functional recovery: Psychosocial functioning impairment in major depression.

The ultimate goal of depression treatment is to achieve functional recovery. Psychosocial functioning is the main component of functional impairment in depressed patients. The concept of psychosocial functioning has an early origin; however, its concept and connotation are still ambiguous, which is the basic and key problem faced by the relevant research and clinical application.

Development of a psychosocial functioning questionnaire for patients with major depressive disorder.

Background: The importance of psychosocial functioning in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD) is widely recognised. However, there is a lack of effective scales to assess psychosocial functioning in patients with MDD.

Aims: To develop a professional questionnaire to evaluate the psychosocial functioning of patients with MDD.

Cognitive behavioral therapy may rehabilitate abnormally functional communication pattern among the triple-network in major depressive disorder: A follow-up study.

Background: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an established treatment for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). MDD is characterized by imbalanced communication patterns among three networks: the central executive network (CEN), the default mode network (DMN) and the salience network (SN). The effect of CBT in restoring communications among these networks in MDD is unknown.

Psychological Resilience as a Protective Factor for Depression and Anxiety Among the Public During the Outbreak of COVID-19.

Background: Psychological resilience may reduce the impact of psychological distress to some extent. We aimed to investigate the mental health status of the public during the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and explore the level and related factors of anxiety and depression.

Methods: From February 8 to March 9, 2020, 3,180 public completed the Zung's Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) for anxiety, Zung's Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) for depression, the Connor-Davidson resilience scale (CD-RISC) for psychological resilience, and the Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire (SCSQ) for the attitudes and coping styles.

The alteration of cognitive function networks in remitted patients with major depressive disorder: an independent component analysis.

Introduction: Dysfunctional connectivity of resting-state functional networks has been observed in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), particularly in cognitive function networks including the central executive network (CEN), default mode network (DMN) and salience network (SN). Findings from studies examining how aberrant functional connectivity (FC) changed after antidepressant treatment, however, have been inconsistent. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to explore potential mechanisms of altered cognitive function networks during resting-state between remitted major depressive disorder (rMDD) patients and healthy controls (HCs) and furthermore, the relationship between dysfunctional connectivity patterns in rMDD and clinical symptoms.

Resting-state causal connectivity of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in panic disorder.

Panic disorder (PD) is associated with anticipatory anxiety, a sustained threat response that appears to be related to the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST). Individuals with panic disorder may demonstrate significant differences in causal connectivity of the BNST in comparison to healthy controls. To test this hypothesis, resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to identify aberrant causal connectivity of the BNST in PD patients.

Connectivity patterns of cognitive control network in first episode medication-naive depression and remitted depression.

Background: Cognitive dysfunctions, such as impaired cognitive control, are frequently observed in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). Although the cognitive control network (CCN) is widely considered a core feature of major depressive disorder (MDD), the relationship between cognitive dysfunction and symptom dimensions remains unclear. This study investigated differences in resting-state functional connectivity of the cognitive control network (CCN) between first-episode medication-naive MDD patients and remitted MDD.

Role stress, social support and occupational burnout among physicians in China: a path analysis approach.

Background: Occupational burnout in physicians is prevalent and can have many negative effects. The purposes of this study were to explore the prevalence of occupational burnout and to analyze the effects of social support and role stress on occupational burnout among Chinese physicians.

Methods: Using multistage-stratified cluster random sampling, physicians were selected to participate in the study and completed three questionnaires: the Chinese Maslach Burnout Inventory; the Cross-Cultural Role Conflict, Ambiguity and Overload Scale; and the Social Support Rating Scale.

Hippocampus-driving progressive structural alterations in medication-naïve major depressive disorder.

Background: Major depressive disorder (MDD) is associated with abnormalities in brain structure. However, structural abnormality findings have been inconsistent and how structural changes lead to progressive morphometric alterations in depressed brain regions remains unclear.

Methods: High-resolution T1-weighted magnetic resonance images of first-episode medication-naïve MDD patients (20 men, 36 women) and healthy control participants (33 men, 23 women) were evaluated.

Abnormal resting state activity of left middle occipital gyrus and its functional connectivity in female patients with major depressive disorder.

Background: Women are more susceptible to major depressive disorder (MDD). A possible explanation is that women have a trait tendency to engage in a ruminative response style. Depending on cognitive model of depression, attention bias, memory bias and self-referential bias were closely related among depressed patients.