Publications by authors named "O Pogarell"
Introduction: Smoking remains a significant global public health issue, leading to numerous preventable deaths and disabilities annually. Telephone counselling is a recommended intervention for smoking cessation, offering accessible support to a wide range of people who smoke. This study aimed to evaluate the long-term effectiveness of the German quitline for smoking cessation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe partial legalization of cannabis in Germany in 2024 will affect both medical and recreational use of cannabis. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main psychoactive component of the cannabis plant, influences heart rate and blood pressure through the endocannabinoid system. Acute and chronic use can pose cardiovascular risks.
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- - EEG is a valuable tool for studying brain activity and, when combined with machine learning, can help identify biomarkers for serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia (SCZ) and major depressive disorder (MDD).
- - A study with 735 participants successfully distinguished between SCZ, MDD, and healthy controls using EEG data, showing varying degrees of accuracy for each group.
- - The findings suggest that age-related changes in brain activity may influence the diagnosis of SCZ and MDD, indicating a need for early and precise application of these machine learning models in clinical settings.
Emotion dysregulation has long been considered a key symptom in multiple psychiatric disorders. Difficulties in emotion regulation have been associated with neural dysregulation in fronto-limbic circuits. Real-time fMRI-based neurofeedback (rt-fMRI-NFB) has become increasingly popular as a potential treatment for emotional dysregulation in psychiatric disorders, as it is able to directly target the impaired neural circuits.
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