Psychomorbidity, Resilience, and Exacerbating and Protective Factors During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic.

Background: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has caused mental stress in a number of ways: overstrain of the health care system, lockdown of the economy, restricted opportunities for interpersonal contact and excursions outside the home and workplace, and quarantine measures where necessary. In this article, we provide an overview of psychological distress in the current pandemic, identifying protective factors and risk factors.

Methods: The PubMed, PsycINFO, and Web of Science databases were systematically searched for relevant publications (1 January 2019 - 16 April 2020).

A Comparison of Serial Position Effects in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment due to Parkinson's Disease or to Alzheimer's Disease.

Objective: The first (primacy region) and last (recency region) items of a word list are generally better memorized than items from the middle region. The recency effect depends on short-term memory (STM) and the primacy effect on long-term memory (LTM), where verbal information is transferred from STM into LTM by maintenance rehearsal. We compared the serial position effects (SPE) between patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) due to Parkinson's disease (PD), i.

Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Correlates of Aggression in Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Effect Size Analysis.

Aggression in psychoses is of high clinical importance, and volumetric MRI techniques have been used to explore its structural brain correlates. We conducted a systematic review searching EMBASE, ScienceDirect, and PsycINFO through September 2017 using thesauri representing aggression, psychosis, and brain imaging. We calculated effect sizes for each study and mean Hedge's g for whole brain (WB) volume.

Prediction of caseness for mental pathology in Swiss conscripts: the Self-Screen Prodrome.

Background: Basic military training (BMT) is an environment of higher stress levels than are encountered in civilian life. It may trigger mental disorders in predisposed individuals. To reduce BMT attrition because of mental problems a psychiatric assessment is part of the Swiss recruitment process.