Alpha Psychiatry

Does the radiofrequency in a baby's first two years change how the brain wires up social attention and language? #AutismResearch Read the protocol 👉 imrpress.com/journal/AP/27/4… #Neuroscience #Neurodevelopment #BrainDevelopment #EMF #ChildDevelopment

🧠 Ketamine is filed as an NMDA receptor blocker. Move the target to astrocyte mitochondria and the dose flips: high poisons them, low is proposed to toughen them. Why? #Ketamine #Depression 👉 Open access: imrpress.com/journal/AP/27/4… #Psychedelics #MentalHealth #Neuroscience #TRD

🔔 News | Alpha Psychiatry 🎉 26 AP Editorial Board members are on the 2026 World's Top 2% Scientists list by Stanford and Elsevier. 🏆 From Editors-in-Chief to board members worldwide, several ranked on both the career-long and single-year lists. imrpress.com/journal/AP/anno…

🚨 A false M9.9 alert swept Japan. How long does an earthquake echo in the mind? In 665 Wenchuan earthquake survivors, PTSD symptoms were still associated with problematic internet use years later. imrpress.com/journal/AP/26/4… #緊急地震速報 #千島列島 #PTSD #Earthquake #MentalHealt

🧠 #Psychosis changes the mind. But the blood? 121 men tested twice: acute psychosis, then remission. Glucose, sodium, urea, lipids shifted. Serum osmolarity and blood viscosity? imrpress.com/journal/AP/27/4… #Schizophrenia #Psychiatry #MentalHealth #MetabolicPsychiatry #Neuroscience

Everyone worries students are hooked on AI chatbots. Does dependence harm their mental health? 200 Paraguayan students took a Spanish chatbot-dependence scale. Anxious students scored slightly higher. After adjustment? 👇 imrpress.com/journal/AP/27/4… #AI #Psychometrics #Paraguay

Today Japan honors its elders (Respect for the Aged Day). Behind the gesture, hard numbers: among 6,448 adults aged 65+, cognitive impairment hits 52.2% in nursing homes vs 12.5% in the community and depression climbs with age. imrpress.com/journal/AP/26/1… #敬老の日 #シルバーウィーク

🧠Can body weight delay #benzodiazepine withdrawal after the last dose? In 290 inpatients, obesity was linked to 8–11 extra days of monitored care, yet symptoms were no less severe. Clearance, the final crisis, or both? 👉imrpress.com/journal/AP/27/4… #AddictionMedicine #PsychTwitter

🕯️ How can trauma persist long after disaster? Today, we remember those lost on 911 and honor survivors and first responders. An AP study examines how disaster exposure relates to different patterns of post-traumatic stress. imrpress.com/journal/ap/17/3… #September11 #PTSD

🧠 Can changing how we talk about suicide make it easier to seek help? #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, WHO calls for a shift from silence and stigma to openness, empathy and evidence-based support. Start the conversation. Listen without judgment. #SuicidePrevention #MentalHealth

🧠 Does schizoaffective disorder have its own sleep signature? 📊 Vs healthy controls: less sleep, longer time to fall asleep, more waking overnight. Yet vs schizophrenia: no PSG difference. Vs depression: only latency differed. imrpress.com/journal/AP/27/4… #Psychosis #SleepScience

🧠Can ChatGPT score depression reliably? 📊In 10 HAMD-21 cases, ChatGPT-4o reached ICC=0.9739 for total scores. ⚠️Yet experts did better (ICC=0.9921; p=0.0268). Item-level misses and calculation errors keep human oversight essential. #Psychiatry #AI #MentalHealth #GenerativeAI

Nearly 60 years married—they died 18 months apart. 💔 A study published in Alpha Psychiatry (n=215): 59.5% had a recent major loss; grief impairment tracked social support, not resilience (p=0.77). Yet support can be strengthened. #Dolly #Grief #Bereavement #MentalHealth

🧠 Could psychological pain & low #beta-endorphin help explain self-injury in teens with #MDD? A new study probes what sets depressed adolescents who self-injure apart, biologically and psychologically. 🧵 (1/5) #NSSI #Depression #Anhedonia #MentalHealth #EmotionalPain #Teen

🧐Ash settles, does the fear? 🌋 #阿蘇山噴火 15 yrs post-quake, PTSD still shapes behavior (n=665). 1⃣54.4% of PTSD→PIU ran via FOMO & rumination. 2⃣Chain: PTSD→FOMO→rumination→PIU, p=0.002. 3⃣Lever: cut FOMO & rumination. #DisasterMentalHealth #PTSD #FOMO #Rumination

🧐Can #glutamatergic modulators complement, not replace, #dopamine blockade in #schizophrenia? New debate in AP: 1⃣ #NMDAR hypofunction may make #glutamate an upstream driver. 2⃣Value lies in complementing, not supplanting, antipsychotics. #Psychiatry #Neuroscience

#กราดยิง reminds us: gunfire scars children daily. In 53 Yazidi kids in a Turkish camp, 58% heard gunshots/explosions; 26.4% screened positive for emotional problems (SDQ). Trauma-informed screening + psychosocial care is essential 🔍 #ChildMentalHealth #MentalHealth

🧠Data-driven clustering identified four emotional profiles among 109 adolescents with ADHD, including a low-resilience group that may be overlooked in routine care. #ADHD

Can poverty shape depression across generations? In 4,224 pairs, maternal poverty predicted young-adult depression. #MentalHealth

🧠Substance use disorders rarely occur alone. A new Alpha Psychiatry Special Issue invites research on comorbidities, from dual disorders and psychedelics to digital therapeutics and AI. ⏲️Deadline: 31 Aug 2027. Details in the first reply. #AddictionResearch