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China has made school-family-community collaboration a central policy direction for adolescent mental health, yet low-resource counties often lack the professional workforce, stable interorganizational arrangements, and non-stigmatizing pathways needed to reproduce an institutionalized service model. Existing research on task sharing shows that trained non-specialists can perform selected forms o…

BackgroundWith the increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into daily life, the underlying mechanisms of emotional interactions between users and AI have emerged as a critical research topic in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). Existing studies have predominantly adopted traditional technology acceptance models or satisfaction scales, which lack targeted a…

ObjectiveAlthough negative life events (NLEs) are known to be associated with depression, few studies have examined the potential mechanisms among medical undergraduates. In this exploratory study, we aimed to investigate relationships between NLEs and depression with the indirect effect of mobile phone addiction and the moderating effect of chronotype in a sample of medical undergraduate student…

PurposePromoting continuum beliefs has been discussed as a strategy for stigma reduction. The current study examines associations of continuum beliefs with stigma aspects (stereotypes, emotions, and social distance) and mental health literacy (illness recognition and treatment recommendations).MethodsIn 2011, a sample of the German population (N = 3,642) completed a vignette-based interview on at…

IntroductionBoredom proneness is a relatively stable dispositional vulnerability associated with adolescents’ problematic social media use (PSMU). However, it remains unclear whether this association reflects stable between-person differences, within-person temporal dynamics, or both. This study examined the reciprocal longitudinal associations between boredom proneness and PSMU among Chinese ado…

Virtual reality (VR) has gained traction in psychiatric research in exposure-based interventions for phobias, simulations of hallucinations in psychosis, and adaptations of cognitive-behavioral therapy. These applications demonstrate that emotionally immersive digital environments can meaningfully engage pathological processes in controlled settings. Yet VR’s potential in psychiatry goes beyond p…

Sleep is an essential biological function with unclear mechanisms. Recent research links the circadian clock, energy metabolism, calcium handling, reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, and synaptic plasticity to cognitive performance. Given that mitochondria regulate cellular energy production, calcium buffering, and ROS dynamics, it stands to reason that mitochondrial function plays a signif…

BackgroundRepetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a well-established neuromodulation technique for post-stroke motor rehabilitation with a favorable safety profile. However, its safety in patients with acute/subacute cerebral infarction remains incompletely characterized, particularly regarding unusual behavioral responses. Gelastic seizures, characterized by stereotyped, inappropr…

ObjectiveThis cross-sectional observational study aimed to investigate the relationship between anxiety symptoms and sleep quality among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), and to examine the parallel mediating roles of social support, psychological resilience, and positive coping style in this association.MethodsFrom October 2024 to February 2025, 241 PLWHA were recruited via convenience sampli…

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) has emerged as an important affective phenotyping tool in computational psychiatry, providing objective measurements of facial expressivity associated with psychomotor abnormalities in psychiatric disorders. From the perspective of smart product design, deploying deep learning frameworks for longitudinal psychiatric monitoring requires balancing recognition acc…

ObjectiveTo explore the correlation between treatment-related symptom burden and psychological flexibility in patients with cervical cancer, as well as the combined correlational association of these two factors with patients’ emotional distress, so as to provide a theoretical basis for formulating targeted psychological intervention strategies in clinical practice.MethodsA cross-sectional survey…

Purpose/AimsThis study applied a model of transformation for Hearing Voices Groups in the US developed by Hornstein et al. to Veteran Voices and Visions (VVV) groups adapted for a Veterans Affairs healthcare system. The aims were twofold: (1) identify instances of Discovery, Reframing, and Change and empirically confirm the salience of this model for our groups; and (2) identify the specific dyna…

BackgroundMental health challenges among children and adolescents are increasing globally and in Germany, highlighting the need for accessible, youth-centred, and prevention-oriented approaches. Discovery Colleges (DCs) are recovery-oriented, co-produced educational models that promote mental health literacy, empowerment, and peer learning within non-clinical settings. Although Discovery Colleges…

Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), nocturnal impaired-awareness episodes, and abnormal sleep-related behaviors have complex and overlapping etiologies. Narcolepsy, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), and epileptic nocturnal events may present with similar clinical manifestations. In patients with intellectual disability (ID), restricted self-reporting, incomplete caregiver observations, and diagnosti…

IntroductionImpairments in social cognition and context-dependent information processing constitute prominent features of schizophrenia. Among event-related potentials (ERPs), the N400 is known to be sensitive to semantic and social contextual information. However, its role in social contexts has received limited attention in schizophrenia research, as previous studies have largely examined the N…

The global aging demographic has precipitated a surge in late-life mental disorders (LMDs)—including late-life depression (LLD), anxiety, and behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD)—posing critical public health challenges. This review synthesizes current evidence on the unique pathophysiology, clinical management, and emerging frontiers of geriatric mental health, emphasizing th…

This integrative review examines the neurobiological basis of addiction and neuromodulation-based treatment approaches in light of current literature, while proposing an integrative framework that extends beyond purely biological explanations. The neuroscience of addiction is addressed within Koob and Volkow’s three-stage neurocircuit model (binge/intoxication, withdrawal/negative affect, and pre…