The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Publication date: 01 October 2016

Publication date: 03 June 2016

The term white matter dementia (WMD) was introduced in 1988 to highlight the role of white matter in the development of dementia. As the concept has been refined with new insights into the structure and function of normal and abnormal white matter, ...

Publication date: 22 February 2016

The authors provide a comprehensive review of the neurobiology of empathy and compare this with the neurobiology of psychopathic predatory violence—the most extreme deficit of empathy. This suggests that the specific areas of the prefrontal cortex and ...

Publication date: 08 April 2016

To better identify stroke survivors at risk for depression who may benefit from early prevention through targeted strategies in the acute-subacute poststroke period, we examined 118 Framingham Heart Study stroke survivors with longitudinal prestroke ...

Publication date: 03 June 2016

Damage to the brain’s mood regulation systems may contribute to poststroke depression. This study examines relationships between depression symptoms and psychosocial factors and then uses multivariate lesion-symptom mapping to localize depression symptoms ...

Publication date: 08 April 2016

Suicidal ideation and behavior are highly prevalent in psychotic major mood disorders, yet their relationship to brain function remains unclear. Thirty patients with recent-onset of bipolar disorder type I (N=21) or major depressive disorder (N=9) with ...

Publication date: 03 June 2016

Evidence that Tourette’s syndrome (TS) disrupts inhibitory motor control is highly mixed. The authors investigated inhibitory control of manual and vocal actions in young adults with relatively uncomplicated, persistent TS. Both TS and control groups ...

Publication date: 03 June 2016

The authors investigated the impact of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and prolonged exposure (PE) on the volumes of the amygdala and hippocampus, structures known to be important in fear conditioning, in 20 patients with ...

Publication date: 08 April 2016

The authors studied cerebral hemodynamics in alcohol dependence and evaluated their changes with application of high-frequency rTMS. A prospective, single-blind, randomized, parallel-group, sham-controlled clinical study was conducted with patients with ...

Publication date: 21 January 2016

This study examined default mode network connectivity within the first 30 days of abstinence in emerging adults entering treatment for opioid dependence. There were significant associations between abstinence duration and coupling strength with brain ...

Publication date: 03 June 2016

Detecting cognitive dysfunction in a busy traumatic brain injury (TBI) clinic is challenging given the length of conventional assessments and the need for psychometric expertise. The authors report the utility of a 10-minute, easily administered ...

Publication date: 21 January 2016

This study examined the presence of neurological soft signs, an accessible diagnostic instrument, in patients with anxiety. Individuals with anxiety were more likely to manifest hypoesthesia than healthy controls, and patients who showed hypoesthesia ...

Publication date: 03 June 2016

Publication date: 01 October 2016