Factors associated with depressive symptoms among 1,502 couples in the immediate puerperium.

Background: Historically, perinatal depression has predominantly focussed on the mother-baby dyad, often neglecting the crucial role of fathers.

Aim: To determine the prevalence and associated factors of depressive symptoms in the immediate puerperium (PDS) in both mothers and fathers, individually and concurrently.

Method: This study employed a cross-sectional design.

Prader-Willi syndrome in a large sample from Spain: general features, obesity and regular use of psychotropic medication.

Background: Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), a genetically determined disorder, the most frequent cause of early onset obesity, is associated with physical and cognitive dysfunctions and behavioural disturbances; these disturbances are frequently treated with psychotropic medication. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to describe the characteristics of the first large national sample of persons with PWS in Spain and analyse the relationships of those characteristics with key demographic and clinical factors, particularly with obesity and the regular use of psychotropic medication.

Methods: Participants were recruited among all members of the Spanish Prader-Willi Association who agreed to take part in the study and fulfilled its inclusion criteria.

Host space, not energy or symbiont size, constrains feather mite abundance across passerine bird species.

Comprehending symbiont abundance among host species is a major ecological endeavour, and the metabolic theory of ecology has been proposed to understand what constrains symbiont populations. We parameterized metabolic theory equations to investigate how bird species' body size and the body size of their feather mites relate to mite abundance according to four potential energy (uropygial gland size) and space constraints (wing area, total length of barbs and number of feather barbs). Predictions were compared with the empirical scaling of feather mite abundance across 106 passerine bird species (26,604 individual birds sampled), using phylogenetic modelling and quantile regression.

A Systematic Review of Clozapine Concentration-Dose Ratio from Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Studies in Children and Adolescents Treated with Clozapine for Mental Disorders.

Background: Therapeutic drug monitoring of clozapine in children and adolescents has received insufficient attention. Calculation of concentration-to-dose (C/D) ratios from trough steady-state concentrations estimate drug clearance.

Methods: A systematic electronic literature search was conducted in 3 article databases from inception until January 10, 2023, and articles reporting clozapine concentrations in children and adolescents were retrieved.

THE HEALING POWER OF TALK THERAPY.

The Word (λόγος or logos in Greek, verbum in Latin) is an exclusive attribute of a rational animal such as the human, who shares non-verbal language with other animal species.