AudioScholar Psychiatry Weekly

Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 5 notable papers spanning two broad themes: first, how genetic predispositions, environmental stressors, and peer networks dynamically interact to shape psychiatric risk from childhood thro… This week's papers: 1. Venous thromboembolism after mechanical restraint in psychiatric hospitals: population based cohort and self-controlled case...

Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we are covering four notable papers spanning the neurobiological pathways of substance use and reward, and clinical strategies to optimize and personalize our treatment regimens. Let's dive in. We begin… This week's papers: 1. Brain lithium temporospatial kinetics in bipolar disorder: a repeated-measuresLi MRI study of dosing regimens in Germany. — The...

Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we are covering 9 notable papers spanning three broad themes: advanced precision targeting and neuromodulation, biological subtypes and biomarkers in major psychiatric disorders, and optimization of clini… This week's papers: 1. Targeting cortico-striatal-amygdalar networks via theta-band frontoparietal synchronization in opioid use disorder: a randomi...

Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 9 notable papers spanning pediatric and adolescent interventions, neurodevelopmental outcomes across the lifespan, and critical strategies for optimizing psychopharmacology and prescribing… This week's papers: 1. Breastfeeding and Development of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms Across Childhood. — Biological Psychiatry 2...

Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning neurodevelopment and environmental risk, novel therapeutics for severe mental illness, and future clinical strategies for dementia and youth mental health. Let's… This week's papers: 1. Efficacy and target engagement of dopamine agonist pramipexole for anhedonic depression: a randomized placebo-controlled trial...

Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 9 notable papers spanning new insights into psychosis, innovations in therapeutics from brain circuits to digital aids, and key challenges in delivering care for youth and individuals with… This week's papers: 1. A socially assistive robot to support mental wellbeing in LGBTQ+ young people at risk of self-harm: a randomized controlled tr...

Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning the biological architecture of mental illness, new directions in therapeutics, and key issues in clinical diagnostics and decision-making. Let's dive in. [PAUSE]… This week's papers: 1. Early effects of a novel 5-HTR agonist (PF-04995274) and the SSRI citalopram on emotional cognition in unmedicated depression:...

Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning neurodevelopment and aging, the fluidity of psychiatric diagnosis, and the future of targeted brain therapies. Let's dive in. [PAUSE] Our first theme this week… This week's papers: 1. Post-traumatic stress disorder. — Nature reviews. Disease primers 2026 2. This is IT: How accelerated intermittent theta burst s...