Publications by authors named "Sophia Blyth"
Background: Negative symptom severity predicts functional outcome and quality life in people with psychosis. However, negative symptoms are poorly responsive to antipsychotic medication and existing literature has not converged on their neurobiological basis. Previous work in small schizophrenia samples has observed that lower cerebellar-prefrontal connectivity is associated with higher negative symptom severity and demonstrated in a separate neuromodulation experiment that increasing cerebellar-prefrontal connectivity reduced negative symptom severity.
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- Current treatments for schizophrenia are inadequate, with no effective options for negative symptoms or cognitive issues, leading researchers to explore neuromodulation techniques like repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) as a potential solution.
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of rTMS studies involving schizophrenia found that while certain adverse effects (like headache and dizziness) were more common with active rTMS, the overall safety profile indicated no increased risk of severe side effects compared to sham treatments.
- The study concludes that rTMS is safe and generally well-tolerated in people with schizophrenia, suggesting it does not pose a higher risk of adverse effects, including seizures, than seen in the general population.*
Social recovery capital (SRC) refers to resources and supports gained through relationships and is vital to adolescent addiction recovery. Much is known about how substance use relates to social networks, but little is known about how other dimensions of social networks influence recovery (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Alcohol and other drug (AOD) use disorders are stigmatized conditions, but little is known about youth's experience of this stigma, which may threaten their developing social identity and recovery process. This study investigates youth's perceptions of AOD use-related stigma in the context of their social identity.
Methods: This study uses data from 12 youth (ages 17-19) who were in recovery from problematic AOD use.
Background: Substance use recovery is a dynamic process for youth, and social networks are tied to the recovery process. The (RCAM) situates the resources accessible through social networks - social recovery capital (SRC) - in a larger framework of developmentally-informed recovery resources. This study aims to investigate the social network experiences among recovering youth enrolled in a recovery high school to understand how social influences help to build, or act as barriers to building, recovery capital.
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