Social support may prevent self-cutting in adolescence: A 5-year follow-up study.

Unlabelled: Self-cutting is common among adolescents. However, studies examining protective factors are rare. It has been suggested that social support may protect against self-cutting in adolescence.

Repeated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation-Induced Motor Evoked Potentials Correlate With the Subject-Specific Serum Metabolic Profile of Creatine.

Purpose: Transcranial magnetic stimulation-induced motor responses have been considered to mainly reflect the electrophysiological characteristics of the central motor system. However, certain motor phenomena, such as the magnitude of repetition suppression measured with motor evoked potentials (MEPs), could also in part be influenced by metabolic processes in the peripheral muscles and in both the peripheral and central nervous system. Repetition suppression is an inhibitory phenomenon in which the amplitude of MEP decreases in comparison to that of the first MEP in a train of transcranial magnetic stimulation pulses.

Changes in the serum metabolite profile correlate with decreased brain gray matter volume in moderate-to-heavy drinking young adults.

Our aim was to analyze metabolite profile changes in serum associated with moderate-to-heavy consumption of alcohol in young adults and to evaluate whether these changes are connected to reduced brain gray matter volumes. These study population consisted of young adults with a 10-year history of moderate-to-heavy alcohol consumption (n = 35) and light-drinking controls (n = 27). We used the targeted liquid chromatography mass spectrometry method to measure concentrations of metabolites in serum, and 3.

Association of the N100 TMS-evoked potential with attentional processes: A motor cortex TMS-EEG study.

The most thoroughly studied transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)-evoked electroencephalogram (EEG) potential (TEP), N100, is often defined as a measure of cortical inhibition. We explored the association of the N100 amplitude with attention in 51 young healthy adults. Navigated TMS with simultaneous EEG registering was applied over the left primary motor cortex at the intensity of 110% of the resting motor threshold.

Heavy alcohol use in adolescence is associated with altered cortical activity: a combined TMS-EEG study.

Long-term alcohol use affects cognitive and neurophysiological functioning as well as structural brain development. Combining simultaneous electroencephalogram (EEG) recording with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) enables direct, in vivo exploration of cortical excitability and assessment of effective and functional connectivity. In the central nervous system, the effects of alcohol are particularly mediated by alterations in gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)ergic neurotransmission, and TMS-evoked potentials (TEPs) N45 and N100 in EEG are known to reflect GABAergic function.

Alcohol consumption during adolescence is associated with reduced grey matter volumes.

Background And Aims: Cognitive impairment has been associated with excessive alcohol use, but its neural basis is poorly understood. Chronic excessive alcohol use in adolescence may lead to neuronal loss and volumetric changes in the brain. Our objective was to compare the grey matter volumes of heavy- and light-drinking adolescents.

[Current Care Guideline: Eating disorders].

Early diagnosis with intervention is linked to better outcome. In primary care patients in risk for eating disorder should be screened and actively asked about eating disorder symptoms. Treatment is mainly out-patient care and should first be focused on gaining a normal nutritional status.

Psychosocial problems in adolescents associated with frequent health care use.

Background: The prevalence of somatic, mental and behavioural problems increases in puberty. Nevertheless, compared to adults, health service utilization by adolescents, and associated factors such as risky health behaviours, have been poorly explored. In order to improve health care services, there is a need for further research on adolescents frequently using primary health care.

Self-reported emotional and behavioral problems in Nepalese adolescents from urban and rural areas.

In this study, the prevalence of self-reported emotional/behavioral problems and the association of problem scales scores with demographic factors among 12-18 year old adolescents (n = 408) selected from urban and rural areas of the Western Developmental Region of Nepal, are discussed. The emotional/behavioral problems were assessed by the Youth Self-Report questionnaire. Girls had higher scores than boys for anxiety/depression, while boys had higher scores for delinquent behavior.

Alcohol use among adolescents, aggressive behaviour, and internalizing problems.

Alcohol use is common among adolescents, but its association with behavioural and emotional problems is not well understood. This study aimed to investigate how self-reported psychosocial problems were associated with the use of alcohol in a community sample consisting of 4074 Finnish adolescents aged 13-18 years. Aggressive behaviour associated with alcohol use and a high level of alcohol consumption, while internalizing problems did not associate with alcohol use.

Factors helping adolescents to stop self-cutting: descriptions of 347 adolescents aged 13-18 years.

Aims And Objectives: To describe the factors contributing to the stopping of self-cutting among 13-18-year-old Finnish adolescents from the personal perspective of the adolescents.

Background: Self-cutting is quite common among adolescents. However, adolescents' personal descriptions of what helped them to stop self-cutting have not previously been investigated.

Adolescent self-cutting elsewhere than on the arms reveals more serious psychiatric symptoms.

Self-cutting as a form of self-harm is a common and multifaceted phenomenon among adolescents. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the location of self-cutting (arms or other areas of the body) could help to assess the severity of the underlying psychiatric problems. A sample of adolescents who reported self-cutting (n = 440) was drawn from a large sample of community adolescents (n = 4,019).

Helping self-mutilating adolescents: descriptions of Finnish nurses.

This study focused on the views of Finnish nurses in regards to providing help for adolescents who self-mutilate. Nine nurses participated, and when the interviews and written descriptions were qualitatively analysed, four main categories of information emerged. The first category comprises the nurses' views on self-mutilation.

A systematic literature review: self-mutilation among adolescents as a phenomenon and help for it-what kind of knowledge is lacking?

The aim of this review article is to present current knowledge of self-mutilation among adolescents as a phenomenon and to define what kind of knowledge is lacking based on existing literature. The literature searches were executed in the CINAHL and Medline databases in 2010. The analysed data consisted of 126 articles and inductive content analysis was carried out.

A brief intervention is sufficient for many adolescents seeking help from low threshold adolescent psychiatric services.

Background: There has been a considerable increase in the need for psychiatric services for adolescents. Primary health care practitioners have a major role in detecting, screening and helping these adolescents. An intervention entitled SCREEN is described in this article.

Associations between the coping self in adolescence and mental health in early adulthood.

Problem: We have insufficient knowledge of the factors that should be considered when attempting to promote the mental health of adolescents, and whether the coping self during adolescence is indicative of mental health in later life.

Methods: Coping self data were collected in 1996 from 14-year-old pupils (N= 249) using part of the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire. Mental health data were collected in 2006 from the same persons at the age of 24 years, using the Symptom Checklist-90 instrument, with a response rate of 64.

Associations between psychosomatic symptoms in adolescence and mental health symptoms in early adulthood.

This longitudinal study explored associations between psychosomatic symptoms in adolescence and mental health symptoms in early adulthood. The baseline data were collected in 1996 from 14-year-old pupils (n = 235; 116 girls, 119 boys) at schools using a structured questionnaire that included a 14-item scale of psychosomatic symptoms. The follow-up data were collected in 2006 from the same persons at the age of 24 using the Symptom Checklist-90.

Adolescent dissociation and alexithymia are distinctive but overlapping phenomena.

Findings on the association between dissociation and alexithymia in adult populations are inconsistent. Dissociation has also been related to other types of psychopathology. Few studies have been published on these connections among adolescents.

Helping adolescents who self-mutilate: parental descriptions.

Aim: The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore parental views on how to help adolescents who self-mutilate.

Background: Self-harm, including self-mutilation, is common among adolescents. However, parental conceptions of helping adolescents who self-mutilate have rarely been investigated in nursing science.

Mental disorders in self-cutting adolescents.

Purpose: Self-cutting as a form of self-harm is common in general population adolescents. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of mental disorders and associated factors among self-cutting community-dwelling adolescents.

Methods: A sample of adolescents who reported current self-cutting (n = 80) was drawn from a large sample of community adolescents (n = 4205).

The prevalence of alexithymia and its relationship with Youth Self-Report problem scales among Finnish adolescents.

This study investigated the relationship between alexithymia, depressive symptoms, and Youth Self-Report (YSR) self-image profiles among 13 to 18-year-old adolescents (n = 7087) attending school in Kuopio, Finland. The final sample consisted of 3936 adolescents (1801 boys, 2135 girls) who completed structured self-rating questionnaires (Toronto Alexithymia Scale [TAS] 20, Beck Depression Inventory [BDI], and YSR) during class periods at school. The overall prevalence of alexithymia was 7.

Descriptions of help by Finnish adolescents who self-mutilate.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe help from the viewpoint of self-mutilating Finnish adolescents.

Methods: Methodological triangulation was used in data collection. Written descriptions were provided by 62 self-mutilating adolescents (aged 12-21 years) of the help they received and wished to receive, and individual interviews were conducted with 10 self-mutilating adolescents (aged 15-22 years).

Dissociation, self-cutting, and other self-harm behavior in a general population of Finnish adolescents.

A few studies on adult clinical samples have demonstrated that dissociation predicts self-harm behavior without intent to die. Furthermore, a similar association has been found from selected adolescent populations. However, no studies have been published on the association between dissociation and self-harm behavior in general populations of either adults or adolescents.

The prevalence of self-cutting and other self-harm among 13- to 18-year-old Finnish adolescents.

Background: Deliberate self-harm has become more prevalent among adolescents.

Aims: To investigate the prevalence and the associated background factors of self-cutting and other self-harming behaviour.

Methods: The study sample included 4,205 adolescents aged 13-18 years.

Descriptions of self-mutilation among Finnish adolescents: a qualitative descriptive inquiry.

The purpose of this study was to describe self-mutilation from the perspectives of self-mutilating adolescents. A qualitative descriptive design was adopted. Self-mutilating adolescents were asked to write descriptions of their self-mutilation.