Factorial and Criterion Validities of the Chinese Version of Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale Among Undergraduate Students.

Purpose: To systematically investigate the factorial and criterion validity of the Chinese version of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) among undergraduate students.

Methods: Altogether 1415 undergraduates completed the RSES, the Short Form of Mood and Anxiety Symptoms Questionnaire, the Perceived Stress Scale and the Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire. Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to examine the factorial structure, gender invariance, and latent mean invariance of RSES.

Psychometric Properties of Different Short Forms of Social Interaction Anxiety Scale in Chinese College Students.

Background: There exist four short forms of the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS): 10-item version (SIAS-10), 6-item version by Peters et al (SIAS-6P), 6-item version by Fergus et al (SIAS-6F), and 5-item version (SIAS-5). This study aims to comprehensively examine the psychometric properties of the SIAS-10, SIAS-6P, SIAS-6F, and SIAS-5 and to determine which one performs relatively better in Chinese population.

Methods: This study enrolled 733 Chinese college students.

Impaired cognitive flexibility in major depressive disorder: Evidences from spatial-temporal ERPs analysis.

Background: Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) may exhibit impairments in cognitive flexibility. This study investigated whether the cognitive flexibility deficits in MDD are evident across general stimuli or specific to emotional stimuli, while exploring the underlying neuropsychological mechanism.

Methods: A total of 41 MDD patients and 42 healthy controls (HCs) were recruited.

Altered intrinsic functional network connectivity is associated with impulsivity and emotion dysregulation in drug-naïve young patients with borderline personality disorder.

Background: Despite impulse control and emotion regulation being altered in borderline personality disorder (BPD), the specific mechanism of these clinical features remains unclear. This study investigated the functional connectivity (FC) abnormalities within- and between- default mode network (DMN), salience network (SN), and central executive network (CEN) in BPD, and examined the association between aberrant FC and clinical features. We aimed to explore whether the abnormal large-scale networks underlie the pathophysiology of impulsivity and emotion dysregulation in BPD.

Application of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire in Chinese Community Elderly.

Background: The present study investigated the applicability of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) in the Chinese community elderly and explored the influence of cognitive emotion regulation strategies on late-life depression.

Methods: A total of 367 community elderly aged 60-94 were deemed eligible and completed CERQ, the Perceived Stress Scale-10, the Geriatric Depression Questionnaire-15, and the State Anxiety Inventory. Confirmatory factor analysis was adopted to verify the 9-factor structure of CERQ.

Right amygdala-right precuneus connectivity is associated with childhood trauma in major depression patients and healthy controls.

The present study investigated the effect of childhood trauma (CT) on amygdala and hippocampus functional connectivity (FC) and the association with clinical presentations of major depressive disorder (MDD). Participants included 73 MDD patients (42 with moderate-to-severe CT and 31 with no or low CT) and 64 healthy controls (HC; 30 with moderate-to-severe CT and 34 with no or low CT). Seed-based whole-brain resting-state FC analyses were performed with seeds located in amygdala and hippocampus.

Correlates of poor insight: A comparative fMRI and sMRI study in obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizo-obsessive disorder.

Background: Despite the several researches on the correlates of insight in psychosis, less is known regarding the specificity of disease diagnosis on the relationship between insight and the correlates. The current study sought to explore the effects of insight and disease diagnosis on those in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and patients with schizo-obsessive disorder (SOD).

Methods: We evaluated clinical symptoms and neurocognitions among 111 patients (including 41 OCD with good insight, 40 OCD with poor insight, 14 SOD with good insight and 16 SOD with poor insight.

Modern lifestyle risks associated with alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking in Ukraine.

Background: Substance uses confer huge risks for public health in modern society. This study aimed to evaluate current factors related to alcohol drinking and tobacco smoking in the republic of Ukraine.

Methods: We distributed a questionnaire to healthy volunteers in four Ukrainian regions and collected 929 responses regarding demographic information, reasons for starting substance use, substance use family history, environmental factors, use pattern (internet, drinking or smoking), consequences of drinking, and insomnia.

Childhood trauma is associated with social anhedonia and brain gray matter volume differences in healthy subjects.

The present study tested the effects of childhood trauma (CT) on trait social anhedonia (SA) and on gray matter volume (GMV) and explored the possible relationships among CT, SA and brain GMV. Forty-three healthy individuals with experience of moderate-to-severe CT and sixty-eight individuals with no or low CT participated in the present study. Trait SA was evaluated using the Revised Social Anhedonia Scale.

Psychological resilience and daily stress mediate the effect of childhood trauma on depression.

Objective: Childhood trauma (CT) is a well-recognized distal risk factor for depression. Previous studies suggested that the psychological mechanism of the impact of childhood trauma on depression may be attributed to some mediators such as daily stress and psychological resilience. This study aimed to assess how daily stress and resilience affect the relationship between childhood trauma and depression in adult clinical context.

Aggression in borderline personality disorder: A systematic review of neuroimaging studies.

Aggressive behaviors are prevalent among patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Neuroimaging studies have linked aggression in BPD patients to neurochemical, structural, functional, and metabolic alterations in various brain regions, especially in frontal-limbic areas. This systematic review summarizes current neuroimaging results on aggression among BPD patients and provides an overview of relevant brain mechanisms.

Factor structure and measurement invariance of the Chinese version of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) scale among undergraduates and clinical patients.

Background: The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale (CESD) was widely used for screening of depressive symptoms. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the factor structure and measurement invariance of the CESD across genders and groups in a sample of Chinese undergraduates and clinical patients.

Methods: Participants included 3093 undergraduates from the Hunan province and 336 patients from psychological clinics.

Impaired impulse inhibition of emotional stimuli in patients with borderline personality disorder.

This study was aimed to investigate whether BPD patients showed impaired impulse inhibition of emotional and non-emotional stimuli and to explore relevant neuroelectrophysiological mechanisms. A total of 32 BPD patients and 32 matched healthy controls were recruited. Self-reported scales were used to measure psychiatric symptoms.

Increased functional interaction within frontoparietal network during working memory task in major depressive disorder.

Abnormal fronto-parietal activation has been suggested as a neural underpinning of the working memory (WM) deficits in major depressive disorder (MDD). However, the potential interaction within the frontoparietal network during WM processing in MDD remains unclear. This study aimed to examine the role of abnormal functional interactions within frontoparietal network in the neuropathological mechanisms of WM deficits in MDD.

Changes in Degree Centrality of Network Nodes in Different Frequency Bands in Parkinson's Disease With Depression and Without Depression.

Background: Depression induces an early onset of Parkinson's disease (PD), aggravates dyskinesia and cognitive impairment, and accelerates disease progression. However, it is very difficult to identify and diagnose PD with depression (PDD) in the early clinical stage. Few studies have suggested that the changes in neural networks are associated with PDD, while degree centrality (DC) has been documented to be effective in detecting brain network changes.

Networks Are Associated With Depression in Patients With Parkinson's Disease: A Resting-State Imaging Study.

Background: Disturbance of networks was recently proposed to be associated with the occurrence of depression in Parkinson's disease (PD). However, the neurobiological mechanism of depression underlying PD remains unclear.

Objective: This study was conducted to investigate whether intra-network and inter-network brain connectivity is differently changed in PD patients with and without depression (PDD and PDND patients, respectively).

Impaired set-shifting in drug-naïve patients with borderline personality disorder: an event-related potentials study.

Background: Neurocognitive impairments might play a key role in the development of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), however, the pathophysiological mechanism underlying cognitive impairment of BPD is largely unknown. This study was aimed to examine the electrophysiological mechanism of deficits in set-shifting processing in patients with BPD.

Methods: Twenty-seven drug-naïve patients with BPD and twenty-four healthy controls were recruited.

Childhood trauma is associated with elevated anhedonia and altered core reward circuitry in major depression patients and controls.

Childhood trauma (CT) is a well-established risk factor for major depressive disorder (MDD). However, the underlying mechanism linking CT and MDD remains not fully understood. The present study tested the hypothesis that CT have effects on specific types of anhedonia in depression via reward system.

Insecure attachment and maladaptive emotion regulation mediating the relationship between childhood trauma and borderline personality features.

Background: Previous studies suggested that childhood trauma is an important etiologic factor for the development of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Moreover, insecure attachment and maladaptive emotion regulation (ER) might be related to childhood trauma and BPD. This study was aimed to explore the relationships among childhood trauma, insecure attachment, maladaptive ER, and BPD features.

The MAOA Gene Influences the Neural Response to Psychosocial Stress in the Human Brain.

The stress response is regulated by many mechanisms. Monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) has been related to many mental illnesses. However, few studies have explored the relationship between MAOA and acute laboratory-induced psychosocial stress with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Functional connectivity within the salience network differentiates autogenous- from reactive-type obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Background: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a clinically heterogeneous condition. To better understand and treat patients, symptomatology of OCD has been categorized into more homogenous symptom dimensions. The autogenous-reactive classification model has proven helpful in the elucidation of the neurobiological substrates for clinical heterogeneity in OCD.

Structural and Functional Connectivity of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder.

Background: Emerging evidences supported the hypothesis that emotional dysregulation results from aberrant connectivity within the fronto-limbic neural networks in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Considering its important role in emotional regulation, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) has not yet been fully explored in BPD patients. Therefore, using the seed-based resting state functional connectivity (rsFC) and probabilistic fiber tracking, we aimed to explore the alterations of functional and structural connectivity (SC) of the ACC in patients with BPD.

Abnormal spontaneous neural activity in the medial prefrontal cortex and right superior temporal gyrus correlates with anhedonia severity in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Backgroud: Converging evidence indicated the presence of clinically significant anhedonia in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Studying anhedonia and its neural correlates in OCD may be beneficial in understanding the pathophysiology and treatment of OCD. However, the neural mechanisms that underlie anhedonia in OCD still remain unclear.