American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 175
- Number 11
- November 2018
Editorials
Clinical Case Conference
Treatment in Psychiatry
Perspectives in Global Mental Health
Reviews and Overviews
Publication date: 17 September 2018
Pages1073–1083Epidemiologic studies, including prospective birth cohort investigations, have implicated maternal immune activation in the etiology of neuropsychiatric disorders. Maternal infectious pathogens and inflammation are plausible risk factors for these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.17121311Publication date: 02 August 2018
Pages1084–1093The importance of maternal depression for child outcomes is well established, and impairments in psychosocial function and parenting are as severe in women with high subsyndromal levels of depressive symptoms as they are in women with clinical depression. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.17091031Articles
Publication date: 16 August 2018
Pages1094–1101Objective: Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder with a largely unknown etiology. To date, few studies have investigated prenatal exposure to toxins and risk of autism by using maternal biomarkers of exposure. Persistent organic pollutants are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.17101129Publication date: 20 June 2018
Pages1102–1110Objective: Clinical depression in children as young as age 3 has been validated, and prevalence rates are similar to the school-age disorder. Homotypic continuity between early and later childhood depression has been observed, with alterations in brain ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18030321Publication date: 20 June 2018
Pages1111–1120Objective: A role for aberrant reward processing in the pathogenesis of depression has long been proposed. However, no review has yet examined its role in depression by integrating conceptual and quantitative findings across functional MRI (fMRI) and EEG ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.17101124Publication date: 02 August 2018
Pages1121–1128Objective: The high prevalence of smoking and cognitive deficits in schizophrenia patients is well known, but findings regarding the association between the two are contradictory, and longitudinal studies are lacking. The authors sought to examine the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18010069Publication date: 02 August 2018
Pages1129–1136Objective: This study tested for differences of white matter integrity between treated and never-treated long-term schizophrenia patients, matched on illness duration, and for differential changes in relation to age in these two groups relative to healthy ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.17121402Publication date: 19 July 2018
Pages1137–1144Objective: The authors examined the heritability of treated major depression in a twin and full/half-sibling design, to describe key genetic epidemiological features of major depression and to determine which clinical indices of genetic liability optimally ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.17111251