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Neuroaxonal Injury May Mediate the Association Between Hyperglycemia and Prognosis in Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hemorrhage 

Santana Moreno, Daniel; Llull Estrany, Laura; Mosteiro Cadaval, Alejandra; Pedrosa Eguílez, Leire; Pujol Fontrodona, Gabriel; Zattera, Luigi; Werner, Mariano; Martín, Abraham; Justicia Mercader, Carles; Chamorro, Ángel; Torné, Ramón; Amaro Delgado, Sergio (Publication date: 2026-04-09)

Hyperglycemia during early brain injury (EBI) period after spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is associated with poor outcome, but the underlying physiopathology is unknown. This study assessed if hyperglycemia ...

Long-lasting behavioral, molecular and functional connectivity alterations after chronic THC exposure during adolescence in mice 

Gómez Acero, Laura; Varriano, Federico; Sánchez Fernández, Nuria; Ciruela Alférez, Francisco; Soria, Guadalupe; Aso Pérez, Ester (Publication date: 2025-07-18)

Heavy and daily use of cannabis with high contents of Delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) during adolescence is associated with an increased risk of developing psychotic disorders later in life. Here, we treated mice with ...

The PADRIS-PRESTO Cohort: A Comprehensive Population-Based Study on Mental Health in Catalonia 

De Prisco, Michele; Oliva, Vincenzo; Fico, Giovanna; Mas, Ariadna; Valenzuela-Pascual, Clàudia; Montejo Egido, Laura; Bort, Marta; Sommerhof, Constanza; Bortolozzi, Analia; Miquel Rio, Lluís; Vilella, Elisabet; Forte, Maria Florencia; Fortea, Lydia; Fernández-Plaza, Tábatha; Giménez Palomo, Anna; Sagué-Vilavella, Maria; Madero Gómez, Santiago; Llorca-Bofí, Vicent; Bioque Alcázar, Miquel; Grande i Fullana, Iria; Murru, Andrea; Pacchiarotti, Isabella; Cavero Álvarez, Myriam; Blanch Andreu, Jordi; Viñas-Bardolet, Clara; Aparicio-Nogué, Vicenç; Martínez-Cerdá, Juan Francisco; Parellada Rodón, Eduard; Martínez-Arán, Anabel, 1971-; Radua, Joaquim; Vieta i Pascual, Eduard, 1963-; Hidalgo Mazzei, Diego; Anmella, Gerard (Publication date: 2025-11-10)

Background: Mental disorders affect nearly 970 million people worldwide, impacting individuals and healthcare systems. Large population databases offer insights often unattainable in smaller studies, but their findings may ...

Conflict Mediation, Emotional Regulation and Coping Strategies in the Educational Field 

Bonilla Rodríguez, Pedro; Armadans Tremolosa, Immaculada; Anguera Argilaga, María Teresa (Publication date: 2020-08-27)

Teachers who present high emotional skills and knowledge of strategies to mediate the conflicts generated in the classroom, are able to exercise a better management of both the teaching tasks that correspond to them and ...

Astrocytes and neurons produce distinct types of polyglucosan bodies in Lafora disease 

Augé Marí, Elisabet; Pelegrí i Gabaldà, Carme; Manich Raventós, Gemma; Cabezón Rodríguez, Itsaso; Guinovart, Joan J. (Joan Josep), 1947-; Duran, Jordi; Vilaplana i Hortensi, Jordi (Publication date: 2020-07-20)

Lafora disease (LD), the most devastating adolescence‐onset epilepsy, is caused by mutations in the EPM2A or EPM2B genes, which encode the proteins laforin and malin, respectively. Loss of function of one of these proteins, ...

Atypical depression and emotion dysregulation: Clinical and psychopathological features 

Fornaro, Michele; Caiazza, Claudio; Pistone, Luca; Crincoli, Walter; Pezone, Rosanna; De Prisco, Michele; Oliva, Vincenzo; Cilmi, Flavia; Tufano, Giovanni; Miola, Alessandro; Nunez, Nicolas Gonzalo; Primavera, Diego; Iasevoli, Felice; Solmi, Marco; Sambataro, Fabio; Carta, Mauro Giovanni; Vieta i Pascual, Eduard, 1963-; De Bartolomeis, Andrea (Publication date: 2025-05-22)

Background: Most atypical depression (AD) cases endorse prominent mood reactivity, anxiety, and interpersonal sensitivity, resembling some of the characteristics of emotional dysregulation (ED). The present study assesses ...

The Single-Item Math Anxiety Scale: An Alternative Way of Measuring Mathematical Anxiety 

Núñez Peña, María Isabel; Guilera Ferré, Georgina; Suárez Pellicioni, Macarena (Publication date: 2020-07-21)

This study examined whether the Single-Item Math Anxiety scale (SIMA), based on the item suggested by Ashcraft (2002), provided valid and reliable scores of mathematical anxiety. A large sample of university students (n=279) ...

Allosteric Modulation of NMDARs Reverses Patients' Autoantibody Effects in Mice 

Radosevic, Marija; Planagumà, Jesús; Mannara, Francesco; Mellado, Araceli; Aguilar, Esther; Sabater Baudet, Lidia; Landa Medrano, Jon; García Serra, Anna; Maudes, Estibaliz; Gasull Casanova, Xavier; Lewis, Mike; Dalmau Obrador, Josep (Publication date: 2022-01-28)

Background and Objectives To demonstrate that an analog (SGE-301) of a brain-derived cholesterol metabolite, 24(S)- hydroxycholesterol, which is a selective positive allosteric modulator (PAM) of NMDA re- ceptors (NMDARs), ...

Behavioural and neurophysiological signatures in the retrieval of individual memories of recent and remote real-life routine episodic events 

Nicolás, Berta; Wu, Xiongbo; García-Arch, Josué; Dimiccoli, Mariella; Sierpowska, Joanna; Saiz-Masvidal, Cristina; Soriano Mas, Carles; Radeva, Petia; Fuentemilla Garriga, Lluís (Publication date: 2021-09-02)

Autobiographical memory (AM) has been largely investigated as the ability to recollect specific events that belong to an individual's past. However, how we retrieve real-life routine episodes and how the retrieval of these ...

Previous beliefs affect Bayesian reasoning in conditions fostering gist comprehension 

Tubau Sala, Elisabet; Colomé, Àngels; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, Javier (Publication date: 2025-05-05)

It has been shown that Bayesian reasoning is afected by the believability of the data, but it is unknown which conditions could potentiate or reduce such belief efect. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the belief efect ...

Group and sex differences in social cognition in bipolar disorder, schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder and healthy people 

Navarra Ventura, Guillem; Vicent Gil, Muriel; Serra Blasco, María; Massons, Carmen; Crosas, Josep María; Cobo, Jesús; Jubert, Abigail; Jodar, Mercè; Fernández Gonzalo, Sol; Goldberg, Ximena; Palao Vidal, Diego J.; Lahera, Guillermo; Vieta i Pascual, Eduard, 1963-; Cardoner, N. (Narcís) (Publication date: 2022-03-15)

Background: Impairment of social cognition is documented in bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder (SCH). In healthy individuals, women perform better than men in some of its sub-domains. However, ...

The right to smoke and the right to smoke-free surroundings: international comparison of smoke-free psychiatric clinic implementation experiences 

Freiburghaus, Tove; Raffing, Rie; Ballbè i Gibernau, Montse; Gual, Antoni; Tönnesen, Hanne (Publication date: 2021-05-06)

In Scandinavia, people with a severe mental disorder have a reduced life expectancy of 15-20 years compared with the general public. Smoking is a major contributor, and smoke-free policies are increasingly adopted in ...

Lipidomic traits of plasma and cerebrospinal fluid in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis correlate with disease progression 

Sol, Joaquim; Jové, Mariona; Povedano Panades, Mónica; Sproviero, William; Domínguez, Raul; Piñol Ripoll, Gerard; Romero Guevara, Ricardo; Hye, Abdul; Al-Chalabi, Ammar; Torres, Pascual; Andres Benito, Pol; Area Gómez, Estela; Pamplona, Reinald; Ferrer, Isidro (Ferrer Abizanda); Ayala, Victòria; Portero-Otin, Manuel (Publication date: 2022-01-27)

Since amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cases exhibit significant heterogeneity, we aim to investigate the association of lipid composition of plasma and CSF with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis diagnosis, its progression and ...

Childhood Maltreatment and Cognitive Functioning in Bipolar Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis 

Fares Otero, Natalia Elena; Pérez Ramos, Anaid; López Escribano, Ricardo; Martín Parra, Sara; Alameda, Luis; Halligan, Sarah L.; Miskowiak, Kamilla W.; Vieta i Pascual, Eduard, 1963- (Publication date: 2025-06-12)

Aims Characterising the association between childhood maltreatment (CM) and cognitive functioning in bipolar disorder (BD) is crucial for improving the understanding of how early environmental risk factors impact the ...

Meta-analysis of cortical thickness abnormalities in medication-free patients with major depressive disorder 

Li, Qian; Zhao, Youjin; Chen, Ziqi; Long, Jingyi; Dai, Jing; Huang, Xiaoqi; Lui, Su; Radua, Joaquim; Vieta i Pascual, Eduard, 1963-; Kemp, Graham J.; Sweeney, John A.; Li, Fei; Gong, Qiyong (Publication date: 2020-11-19)

Alterations in cortical thickness have been identified in major depressive disorder (MDD), but findings have been variable and inconsistent. To date, no reliable tools have been available for the meta-analysis of surface-based ...

Neurofilament light levels predict clinical progression and death in multiple system atrophy 

Chelban, Viorica; Nikram, Elham; Pérez-Soriano, Alexandra; Wilke, Carlo; Foubert-Samier, Alexandra; Vijiaratnam, Nirosen; Guo, Tong; Jabbari, Edwin; Olufodun, Simisola; González, Mariel; Senkevich, Konstantin; Laurens, Brice; Péran, Patrice; Rascol, Olivier; Le Traon, Anne Pavy; Todd, Emily G; Costantini, Alyssa A; Alikhwan, Sondos; Tariq, Ambreen; Lin Ng, Bai; Muñoz, Esteban; Painous Martí, Cèlia; Compta, Yaroslau; Junqué i Plaja, Carme, 1955-; Segura i Fàbregas, Bàrbara; Zhelcheska, Kristina; Wellington, Henny; Schöls, Ludge; Jaunmuktane, Zane; Kobylecki, Christopher; Church, Alistair; Hu, Michele T M; Rowe, James B.; Leigh, P Nigel; Massey, Luke; Burn, David J; Pavese, Nicola; Foltynie, Tom; Pchelina, Sofya; Wood, Nicholas; Heslegrave, Amanda J; Zetterberg, Henrik; Bocchetta, Martina; Rohrer, Jonathan D.; Martí Domènech, Ma. Josep; Synofzik, Matthis; Morris, Huw R; Meissner, Wassilios G; Houlden, Henry (Publication date: 2026-01-19)

Disease-modifying treatments are currently being trialled in multiple system atrophy. Approaches based solely on clinical measures are challenged by heterogeneity of phenotype and pathogenic complexity. Neurofilament light ...

Increased translation in adult mouse striatum is sufficient to induce motor dysfunction 

Castany Pladevall, Carla; Creus Muncunill, Jordi; Bergé-Gardeñes, Maria; Golbano, Arantxa; Brito, Verónica; Pérez Navarro, Ester (Publication date: 2026-01-21)

Protein synthesis is a process finely regulated in all cell types but specially in neurons as they need rapid changes in protein concentration for synaptic plasticity. Alterations in translation rates have been shown in ...

Obstetric complications and psychopathology in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis 

Forte, Maria Florencia; Oliva, Vincenzo; De Prisco, Michele; Garriga, Marina; Bitanihirwe, Byron; Alameda, Luis; Gonzalez Segura, Àlex; Vieta i Pascual, Eduard, 1963-; Baeza, Inmaculada, 1970-; Parellada Rodón, Eduard; Penadés Rubio, Rafael; Ramos Quiroga, Josep Antoni; Amoretti Guadall, Silvia; Mezquida Mateos, Gisela; García Rizo, Clemente (Publication date: 2025-03-05)

Schizophrenia (SZ) is a severe mental health condition involving gene-environment interactions, with obstetric complications (OCs) conferring an elevated risk for the disease. Current research suggests that OCs may exacerbate ...

One year follow-up of a randomized trial with a dilema-focused intervention for depression: Exploring an alternative to problem-oriented strategies 

Feixas i Viaplana, Guillem; Paz, Clara; García Grau, Eugeni; Montesano del Campo, Adrián; Medina Alcaraz, Juan Carlos; Bados López, Arturo; Trujillo, Adriana; Ortiz Garzón, Eliana; Compañ, Victoria; Salla Martínez, Marta; Aguilera, Marta; Guasch, Victor; Codina, Jordi; Winter, David A., 1950- (Publication date: 2019-03-18)

Background Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is aimed to counteract cognitions and behaviours that are considered as dysfunctional. The aim of the study is to test whether the inclusion of a non-counteractive approach ...

Stem Cells for Huntington's Disease (SC4HD): An International Consortium to Facilitate Stem Cell-Based Therapy for Huntington's Disease 

Aron Badin, Romina; Bachoud-Lévi, Anne-Catherine; Bauer, Gerhard; Busse-Morris, Monica; Canals i Coll, Josep M.; Capetian, Philipp; Cattaneo, Elena; Chen, Jefferson; Cozzi, Emanuele; Ellederova, Zdenka; Goldman, Steven A.; Gray, William; Lai, Liangxue; Li, Meng; Morenkova, Anna; Pang, Guangjin; Pei, Zhong; Perpiñá Martin, Unai; Perrier, Anselme; Reidling, John C.; Rosser, Anne E.; Song, Jiwhan; Thompson, Leslie M.; Wheelock, Vicki; SC4HD Consortium (Publication date: 2022-03-15)

Huntington's disease (HD) research is entering an exciting phase, with new approaches such as huntingtin lowering strategies and cell therapies on the horizon. Technological advances to direct the differentiation of stem ...

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