Candidate biomarkers in psychiatric disorders: state of the field

A Abi‐Dargham, SJ Moeller, F Ali… - World …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
The field of psychiatry is hampered by a lack of robust, reliable and valid biomarkers that can
aid in objectively diagnosing patients and providing individualized treatment …

[HTML][HTML] Alcohol use disorder and depressive disorders

RK McHugh, RD Weiss - Alcohol research: current reviews, 2019‏ - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) and depressive disorders are among the most prevalent
psychiatric disorders and co-occur more often than expected by chance. The aim of this …

Harmonization of cortical thickness measurements across scanners and sites

JP Fortin, N Cullen, YI Sheline, WD Taylor, I Aselcioglu… - Neuroimage, 2018‏ - Elsevier
With the proliferation of multi-site neuroimaging studies, there is a greater need for handling
non-biological variance introduced by differences in MRI scanners and acquisition …

Statistical harmonization corrects site effects in functional connectivity measurements from multi‐site fMRI data

M Yu, KA Linn, PA Cook, ML Phillips… - Human brain …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Acquiring resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) datasets at multiple
MRI scanners and clinical sites can improve statistical power and generalizability of results …

The future of rodent models in depression research

A Gururajan, A Reif, JF Cryan, DA Slattery - Nature Reviews …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Currently, over 300 million people worldwide have depression, and the socioeconomic
burden of this debilitating disorder is anticipated to increase markedly over the coming …

Cortico-striatal-thalamic loop circuits of the salience network: a central pathway in psychiatric disease and treatment

SK Peters, K Dunlop, J Downar - Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 2016‏ - frontiersin.org
The salience network (SN) plays a central role in cognitive control by integrating sensory
input to guide attention, attend to motivationally salient stimuli and recruit appropriate …

A randomized proof-of-mechanism trial applying the 'fast-fail'approach to evaluating κ-opioid antagonism as a treatment for anhedonia

AD Krystal, DA Pizzagalli, M Smoski, SJ Mathew… - Nature medicine, 2020‏ - nature.com
Abstract The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)'fast-fail'approach seeks to improve
too-often-misleading early-phase drug development methods by incorporating biomarker …

Computational psychiatry needs time and context

PF Hitchcock, EI Fried, MJ Frank - Annual review of psychology, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
Why has computational psychiatry yet to influence routine clinical practice? One reason may
be that it has neglected context and temporal dynamics in the models of certain mental …

Cortico-striatal-thalamic loop circuits of the orbitofrontal cortex: promising therapeutic targets in psychiatric illness

P Fettes, L Schulze, J Downar - Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 2017‏ - frontiersin.org
Corticostriatal circuits through the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) play key roles in complex
human behaviors such as evaluation, affect regulation and reward-based decision-making …

Measuring depression over time... Or not? Lack of unidimensionality and longitudinal measurement invariance in four common rating scales of depression.

EI Fried, CD van Borkulo, S Epskamp… - Psychological …, 2016‏ - psycnet.apa.org
In depression research, symptoms are routinely assessed via rating scales and added to
construct sum-scores. These scores are used as a proxy for depression severity in cross …