Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience articles from January 2008

Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience archives from January 2008

Fish oils for depression?(Psychopharmacology for the Clinician/Psychopharmacologie Pratique)(Report)
January 1, 2008... The information in this column is not intended as a difinitive treatment strategy but as a suggested approach for clinicians treating patients with similar histories. Individual cases may vary and should be evaluated carefully before treatment...

Relation of maternal stress during pregnancy to symptom severity and response to treatment in children with ADHD.(Research Paper/Article de recherche)(attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder)(Report)
January 1, 2008... Objective: There is considerable evidence that maternal stress is associated with behavioural disturbances in offspring. The objective of this study was to examine whether there is an association between the severity of maternal stress during...

Predictive saccades are impaired in biological nonpsychotic siblings of schizophrenia patients.(Research Paper/Article de recherche)(Report)
January 1, 2008... Objective: Although impairments in predictive saccades have been reported in patients with schizophrenia, this has never been explored in their biological relatives. We examined predictive saccades in age- and sex-matched siblings of patients...

Brain response to visual sexual stimuli in homosexual pedophiles.(Research Paper/Article de recherche)(Report)
January 1, 2008... Objective: The neurobiological mechanisms of deviant sexual preferences such as pedophilia are largely unknown. The objective of this study was to analyze whether brain activation patterns of homosexual pedophiles differed from those of a...

Visual processing of social context during mental state perception in schizophrenia.(Research Paper/Article de recherche)(Report)
January 1, 2008... Objective: To examine schizophrenia patients' visual attention to social contextual information during a novel mental state perception task. Method: Groups of healthy participants (n= 26) and schizophrenia patients (n= 24) viewed 7 image pairs...

A major single nucleotide polymorphism of the PDLIM5 gene associated with recurrent major depressive disorder.(Research Paper/Article de recherche)(Report)
January 1, 2008... Objective: The PDLIM5gene is known to interact specifically with the N-type calcium channel [alpha]-1B subunit and protein kinase C[epsilon] and is critical for rapid, efficient potentiation of the calcium channel activation by protein kinase C...

Prefrontal executive function and [D.sub.1], [D.sub.3], 5-[HT.sub.2A] and 5-[HT.sub.6] receptor gene variations in healthy adults.(Research Paper/Article de recherche)(Report)
January 1, 2008... Objective: The Val158Met polymorphism of the catechol-O-methyltransferase gene has been demonstrated to be associated with prefrontal executive function explaining 4% of variance in perseverative errors on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test...

Chronic nicotine treatment induces rat CYP2D in the brain but not in the liver: an investigation of induction and time course: 2006 Innovations in Neuropsychopharmacology Award *.(Research Paper/Article de recherche)
January 1, 2008... Objectives: CYP2D6 levels are higher in many brain regions of human smokers in comparison with nonsmokers. We have shown that CYP2D is expressed in rat brain regions and that enzyme activities correlate with protein and messenger ribonucleic...

Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience peer review process, with advice for authors.(Editorial)(Editorial)
January 1, 2008... A few years ago I wrote an editorial discussing some of the research that influences how the peer review process is carried out at the Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (JPN). (1) It gave the rationale for using nonblinded review by...