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ObjectiveTo examine whether psychological resilience and psychological distress serially mediate the association between fear of disease progression and quality of life (QoL) in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF).MethodsThis cross-sectional study enrolled 212 patients with CHF admitted between June 2023 and June 2025. Assessment tools included a demographic questionnaire, the Fear of Progr…

BackgroundTourette syndrome (TS) has traditionally been conceptualized as a movement disorder characterized by involuntary motor and vocal tics. However, growing evidence suggests that tic generation involves complex interactions between neural, physiological, and psychological processes, particularly the role of premonitory urges (PU).ObjectiveThis paper aims to develop an integrative model of t…

BackgroundThe Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities emphasizes individual rights and autonomy. However, certain restrictive practices in support services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) may limit these rights and undermine autonomy. Structural practices are a type of restrictive practice usually defined as blanket rules or prohibitions that affect…

IntroductionFacial feedback mechanisms can modulate affective states. A series of clinical trials have shown that injection of botulinum toxin A can improve the symptoms of depression, probably via the disruption of proprioceptive afferences from the glabellar region to the brain. In extension of this research, we developed a physiotherapeutic program for the facial rehabilitation of wellbeing in…

Adolescents who display ADHD-like difficulties but remain undiagnosed occupy a diagnostic borderland in which medical, social, and institutional expectations collide. In the Swedish context, where rates of diagnosed ADHD have risen sharply, this constitutes an understudied and increasingly marginalized group. Drawing on Mead’s concepts of the I and the Me, the study explores how ten Swedish adole…

IntroductionDirect-acting antivirals (DAAs) have dramatically changed hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment, by achieving high virological cure rates and a reduced percentage of adverse events compared with previous treatments. Despite this, long-term psychiatric and quality-of-life (QoL) outcomes after viral eradication remain insufficiently understood. This study provides an 80-month follow-up of a…

BackgroundRepetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) is an FDA-approved, non-invasive treatment for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). rTMS has a favorable safety profile, however, headaches are a common side effect. It is unclear which patients may be at greatest risk for headache, which device parameters might be associated with headache, and whether occurrence of headaches during rTMS a…

IntroductionSensory processing abnormalities represent a high-impact clinical feature in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Sensory alterations can be classified by modality and behavioral responses to stimuli. The literature presents conflicting results regarding the association between the sensory profile and other clinical elements. Therefore, this study aimed to characterize the…

BackgroundFrontline hotel employees in Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) routinely suppress authentic emotions to meet organizational display rules—a process known as surface acting—associated with burnout, emotional exhaustion, and diminished well-being. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), adapted within a collectivist, Buddhist-informed cultural framework, offers a theoretically g…

Juan Fernando Hermosa, infamously known as “The Child of Terror,” committed 23 murders in Ecuador between 1991 and 1992. This perspective article offers a conceptual and theoretical analysis of the interplay between institutional trauma, accountability, and psychopathology in juvenile justice settings, using Hermosa’s trajectory as an illustrative example. Drawing on publicly available judicial r…

BackgroundBreast cancer patients are at an increased risk of insomnia, which can lead to emotional disorders, reduced quality of life, and potentially higher cancer mortality. Auricular acupuncture (AA) offers a feasible treatment option due to its short procedure time, low technical complexity, and relative safety. However, while preliminary studies suggest potential benefits of AA for treating …

Food addiction and binge eating disorder show striking clinical overlap that current diagnostic frameworks do not fully capture. In binge eating disorder samples, Yale Food Addiction Scale-defined food addiction has been reported in roughly half of participants. Higher symptom severity is associated with greater impairment. Within this overlap, clinicians frequently observe a subset of patients w…

In the assessment of criminal insanity, delusions play a particularly important role, because they express reality judgments, which, due to their verbalized form, serve well as “evidence” of psychosis. However, psychosis, understood as a fundamentally impaired sense of reality, can also involve disturbances that are neither verbalized nor inferential, but mainly enacted. In this paper, we revisit…

BackgroundCadmium(Cd) exposure is associated with anxiety, but mechanism-informed multi-target interventions are limited.MethodsWe profiled plasma proteomes by LC-MS/MS in a propensity-score-matched Cd-exposed cohort (25 anxious vs 25 non-anxious). Anxiety-associated proteins were used as seeds for reverse screening in TCMIP v2.0, followed by network integration, molecular docking, 100ns molecula…

BackgroundLarge-scale earthquakes are associated with high and persistent rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety. Although Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) are both guideline-recommended treatments for PTSD, direct randomized comparisons—particularly in post-disaster settings and via remote delivery—remain…

BackgroundTinnitus is closely associated with psychological factors including anxiety, depression, and sleep disturbances. However, how these variables interact to influence tinnitus severity remains poorly understood, warranting further exploration.MethodsThis retrospective study analyzed data from 285 patients with tinnitus, utilizing the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI), Self-Rating Depressio…

IntroductionPhubbing is associated with excessive use of digital technologies, and the Phubbing Scale (PS) is widely used to measure it. The PS may be influenced by cultural variations, so it is advisable to validate it before applying it in a new cultural context. Phubbing has emerged as a construct of interest in Nigeria, yet no validation studies for the PS have been conducted in this populati…

ObjectiveThis study aims to extract and quantitatively analyze the tree drawing projection indices from groups of patients with depression, patients in remission, and a normal control group, to explore characteristic indicators of tree drawing projections in individuals with depression and provide a potential basis for condition assessment of depression.MethodsTree drawing tests were administered…

BackgroundThis study aimed to identify joint longitudinal trajectories of physio-cognitive aging, determine the temporal precedence between physical and cognitive decline, and evaluate both the mediating role of life space constriction and the moderating effect of sensory impairment on incident dementia risk.MethodsUsing 8-year longitudinal data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NH…

IntroductionControlling behaviour is considered a form of emotional abuse and restricts an individual’s autonomy. This study aims to determine the factors associated with women’s exposure to controlling behaviour by their spouse/partner in the last year, as of the time the survey was conducted, by place of residence in Türkiye.MethodsThis study utilised microdata obtained from the National Resear…