Psychological and drug-related variables and their effect on the severity of withdrawal symptoms were examined in a group of addicts being withdrawn from opiates on an in-patient drug dependence unit. Two psychological factors--neuroticism and the degree of distress expected by the patient--were related to subsequent severity of symptoms. Both are anxiety-related, and may serve to amplify withdrawal symptoms. Surprisingly, drug dose was unrelated to symptom severity.
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Psychol Belg
January 2025
College of General Education, Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea.
In Korea, as the number of multicultural families formed through the marriage of Korean men and foreign women from lower-income countries such as China, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia increases, the psychosocial adaptation of adolescents from these families is becoming increasingly important. This study examines the longitudinal and reciprocal relationships among depressive symptoms, social withdrawal, self-esteem, and school adaptation in multicultural adolescents in high schools. We applied an autoregressive cross-lagged model to a sample of 594 multicultural adolescents extracted from three consecutive years of data from the Multicultural Adolescents Panel Survey and found that depressive symptoms and school adaptation had reciprocal negative relationships in multicultural adolescents' first and second years of high school.
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January 2025
Department of Neurology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy (AAG) is a rare and acquired immune-mediated disease that leads to wide autonomic failure, mainly characterized by orthostatic hypotension, gastrointestinal dysfunction, anhidrosis and poorly reactive pupils. This disorder is usually associated with autoantibodies to the ganglionic nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (gAChR-Ab). In this study, we describe a case of a gAChR-Ab-positive AAG patient with two therapeutic stages.
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January 2025
Director Operations and Medical Writing, RYT Lifesciences Pvt Ltd, Ahmedabad, Gujrat, India.
Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of Altibrain® in combination with standard Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) treatment compared to standard ASD treatment alone in individuals diagnosed with ASD.
Method: A randomized, open-label trial was conducted involving 120 participants aged 3 to 17 years, randomly assigned to either the Standard ASD Treatment group or the Altibrain® + Standard ASD Treatment group. Sixty patients were randomly allocated to each Standard ASD Treatment group or the Altibrain® + Standard ASD Treatment group.
Int Psychogeriatr
January 2025
Department of Psychology, Lehman College/City University of New York, Bronx, NY 10468, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA. Electronic address:
Objectives: Depression is a chronic disorder that significantly affects functional decline in older adults, especially those with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Ethnic groups may experience different depression risks and severities, yet the effect of ethnicity on depression trajectories and specific dimensions in older adults with T2D remains largely unexamined. We examined the longitudinal associations of ethnicity with depression and its specific dimensions over time in older Ashkenazi and non-Ashkenazi Jews with T2D.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To explore the lived experiences and extent of cognitive symptoms in Long COVID (LC) in a UK-based sample.
Design: This study implemented a mixed-methods design. Eight focus groups were conducted to collect qualitative data, and the Framework Analysis was used to reveal the experiences and impact of cognitive symptoms.
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