Multiple Addictions and Psychoeducation: What Standardisation Is Possible in Liaison Psychiatry?

Background: In liaison psychiatry, issues related to multiple substance use disorders are encountered, but systematic assessment and treatment protocols are lacking. The implementation of psychoeducation groups with earlier access could be one solution, but it raises the question of how to systematically approach psychoeducation for multiple substance use disorders.

Subject And Method: Based on a narrative review of multiple substance use disorders in liaison psychiatry and the proposed treatments, we aimed to identify the possible systematisation of standardised psychoeducation.

Is Anorexia Truly a Contemporary Disease?

Background: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is reported to be on the rise. However, instances of fasting have been noted since antiquity. Can modern diagnoses be applied to circumstances very different from our own? Is there a continuum of symptoms whose meanings have evolved over centuries, or is AN a recent development?

Subjects And Methods: A literature review was conducted.

Patient's Expectations Regarding Alcohol Misuse Prevention in General Hospitals.

Background: The general hospital can be regarded as a suitable place to provide secondary prevention for patients with alcohol misuse. It appears that screening and/or brief interventions on alcohol are acceptable for patients in hospital wards. The aim of this exploration study is to assess patients' expectations regarding the prevention of alcohol misuse carried out in general hospitals.

Alcohol Use Disorder in a University General Hospital: a Four-Year Observational Study of Liaison Psychiatry.

Background: Alcohol use disorder is insufficiently treated because it is poorly detected. Improved screening in general hospitals is a major issue in treatment organisation.

Subject And Method: Through a retrospective exploratory study based on a review of medical records over four years (2016-19) before the COVID pandemic, we recorded the number of liaison psychiatric referrals for alcohol use disorder and identified two indicators: follow-up care implemented and survival at three years.

COVID, the Main Cause of Mysery of Teenager? Retrospective Study of Hospitalizations of 15-25 in Psychosomatics (2018-2022).

Background: Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there has been an apparent increase in the utilization of mental health services and psychiatric disorders among youth. However, there is little data on youth mental health prior to the pandemic. Some authors suggest that the increase in the use of psychiatric care started before.

How Psychiatrists' Beliefs on Free Will Influence Their Clinical Practice.

Backround: Literature suggests that most people believe in free will and that this belief is associated with more prosocial behavior. However, with the advent of neuroscience, free will seems to have been progressively excluded from psychiatry. This paper is a narrative literature review of the ways in which mental health professionals' premises and beliefs in free will influence their clinical practice.

Difficulties in Combining Somatic and Psychiatric Care in Psychogeriatry.

Background: This article attempts to understand the difficulties encountered in the articulation of health care, particularly between the organic and psychiatric aspects. It also aims to provide solutions to these collaboration issues.

Methods: We realized a literature review based on articles dated from 2002 to 2021 and selected from following databases: Pubmed, Cochrane, Scopus, Cairn, Psychinfo and Google.

Phenomenon of Nightclub Shots: Mass Psychogenic Disease?

Background: This article examines the possibility that the "nightclub shots" epidemic is a "mass psychogenic disease" phenomenon, by comparing the various cases of "mass sociogenic diseases" reported in the literature. We carried out a literature review on PubMed. The keywords used were "mass hysteria", "mass sociogenic disease", "mass psychogenic disease" and "epidemic of multiple unexplained symptoms".

Microbiota Diversity and Inflammation as a New Target to Improve Mood: Probiotic Use in Depressive Disorder.

Background: There is a lot of evidence for a bidirectional communication between the gut and brain. Dysbiosis and increase intestinal permeability may lead to a systemic low-grade inflammatory response or various neuroactive bacterial metabolite may cross gut barrier. Pro-inflammatory cytokines or bacterial metabolites such as short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) are known to pass through blood brain barrier and altered neurotransmitter metabolism or increase production of neurotoxic pathways.

Aberrant MYCN expression drives oncogenic hijacking of EZH2 as a transcriptional activator in peripheral T-cell lymphoma.

Peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) is a heterogeneous group of hematological cancers arising from the malignant transformation of mature T cells. In a cohort of 28 PTCL cases, we identified recurrent overexpression of MYCN, a member of the MYC family of oncogenic transcription factors. Approximately half of all PTCL cases was characterized by a MYC expression signature.

A double-blind randomized, multicenter, placebo-controlled study of itopride in functional dyspepsia postprandial distress syndrome.

Background: Itopride, a mixed D2 antagonist and cholinesterase inhibitor, has prokinetic effects on gastric motility. The Leuven Postprandial Distress Scale is a validated patient-reported outcome instrument for functional dyspepsia (FD) postprandial distress syndrome (PDS). We aimed to use the LPDS to assess treatment outcome in PDS and PDS/EPS (epigastric pain syndrome).

Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in solid-organ transplant patients in the intensive care unit.

Introduction: Solid-organ transplantation (SOT) is a well-known risk factor for invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA). We report on the epidemiology and outcome of SOT patients with IPA in an intensive care unit (ICU) setting.

Methods: This is a secondary study based on a subset of SOT patients from a prospective observational multicenter cohort (the AspICU project) including ICU patients with at least one Aspergillus spp.

Hearing Results in 151 Primary Stapedotomies for Otosclerosis: The Effects of Using Different Audiologic Parameters and Criteria on Success Rates.

Objective: To describe the 151 hearing results of primary stapedotomy for otosclerosis using different criteria of success rates.

Design: Retrospective case series of 151 patients with a diagnosis of otosclerosis and operated on by the same surgeon with the same technique, using a CO2 laser. Patients with revision surgery were excluded.

The effectiveness of rotating versus single course antibiotics for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth.

Background: Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth treatment is usually based on antibiotics with no guidelines available.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of different antibiotics to treat small intestinal bacterial overgrowth.

Methods: Consecutive patients referred to our tertiary center and diagnosed with intestinal bacterial overgrowth were retrospectively included.

Pyloric distensibility in health and disease.

Until recently, gastric motility measurements in humans were mostly limited to accommodation (using barostat or 3-dimensional imaging studies of gastric volume) and gastric emptying tests, the latter being the only one performed in routine clinical care. Accurate and easy to use techniques were lacking to assess pyloric function in health and disease. Recently, pyloric distensibility has been developed and validated to assess pyloric opening.

Fusion transcripts FYN-TRAF3IP2 and KHDRBS1-LCK hijack T cell receptor signaling in peripheral T-cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified.

Peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) is a heterogeneous group of non-Hodgkin lymphomas with poor prognosis. Up to 30% of PTCL lack distinctive features and are classified as PTCL, not otherwise specified (PTCL-NOS). To further improve our understanding of the genetic landscape and biology of PTCL-NOS, we perform RNA-sequencing of 18 cases and validate results in an independent cohort of 37 PTCL cases.

Corrigendum: Impact of Opioid Consumption in Patients With Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders Research Topic: Pharmacological Treatments Affecting Gastro-Intestinal Motility in Man.

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The Influence of Geography, Religion, Religiosity and Institutional Factors on Worldwide End-of-Life Care for the Critically Ill: The WELPICUS Study.

Objective: To evaluate the association between provider religion and religiosity and consensus about end-of-life care and explore if geographical and institutional factors contribute to variability in practice.

Methods: Using a modified Delphi method 22 end-of-life issues consisting of 35 definitions and 46 statements were evaluated in 32 countries in North America, South America, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Asia, Australia and South Africa. A multidisciplinary, expert group from specialties treating patients at the end-of-life within each participating institution assessed the association between 7 key statements and geography, religion, religiosity and institutional factors likely influencing the development of consensus.

Impact of Opioid Consumption in Patients With Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders.

We aimed to determine the burden of opioid consumption in a cohort of patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders. All patients diagnosed with functional gastrointestinal disorders and referred to our university hospital were evaluated from 2013 to the beginning of 2019. Irritable bowel syndrome and functional dyspepsia diagnoses were determined according to Rome criteria and severity according to irritable bowel syndrome severity scoring system.

From Family Surroundings to Intestinal Flora, A Literature Review Concerning Epigenetic Processes in Psychiatric Disorders.

Background: Some behaviors or psychiatric conditions seem to be inherited from parents or explain by family environment. We hypothesized interactions between epigenetic processes, inflammatory response and gut microbiota with family surroundings or environmental characteristics.

Subjects And Methods: We searched in literature interactions between epigenetic processes and psychiatric disorders with a special interest for environmental factors such as traumatic or stress events, family relationships and also gut microbiota.

Alcohol Use Disorder in Primary Cares: How to Integrate Brief Interventions and Continuous Care?

Background: In Belgium, 82% of the population consumes alcohol occasionally while 10% consume in a way that can be seen as problematic. On a European level, only 8% of the people who can be characterized as having Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) would have consulted professional assistance in the past year. In this context, the KCE (Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre) has addressed multiple recommendations to health professionals to reduce the "treatment gap" concerning the patients' care: (1) encourage screening and preventative interventions, (2) promote the acquirement of communicational and relational competences (3) develop collaborations between professionals.