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    Why do adolescents attempt suicide? Insights from leading ideation-to-action suicide theories: a systematic review

    Suicide is a leading cause of death among adolescents, and recent suicide theories have sought to clarify the factors that facilitate the transition from suicide ideation to action. Specifically, the Interpers...

    Jaclyn S. Kirshenbaum, David Pagliaccio, Alma Bitran, Elisa Xu in Translational Psychiatry (2024)

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    Neural sensitivity following stress predicts anhedonia symptoms: a 2-year multi-wave, longitudinal study

    Animal models of depression show that acute stress negatively impacts functioning in neural regions sensitive to reward and punishment, often manifesting as anhedonic behaviors. However, few human studies have...

    Jaclyn S. Kirshenbaum, David Pagliaccio, Diego A. Pizzagalli in Translational Psychiatry (2024)

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    Non-suicidal Self-injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Among Adolescent Inpatients

    Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a serious public health concern that typically onsets during early adolescence. Adolescents (N = 980, ages 12–19 years) admitted for acute, residential psychiatric treatment com...

    Emma M. Millon, Kira L. Alqueza, Rahil A. Kamath in Child Psychiatry & Human Development (2024)

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    Mindfulness-based real-time fMRI neurofeedback: a randomized controlled trial to optimize dosing for depressed adolescents

    Adolescence is characterized by a heightened vulnerability for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) onset, and currently, treatments are only effective for roughly half of adolescents with MDD. Accordingly, novel i...

    Paul A. Bloom, David Pagliaccio, Jiahe Zhang, Clemens C. C. Bauer in BMC Psychiatry (2023)

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    Reducing default mode network connectivity with mindfulness-based fMRI neurofeedback: a pilot study among adolescents with affective disorder history

    Adolescents experience alarmingly high rates of major depressive disorder (MDD), however, gold-standard treatments are only effective for ~50% of youth. Accordingly, there is a critical need to develop novel i...

    Jiahe Zhang, Jovicarole Raya, Francesca Morfini, Zoi Urban in Molecular Psychiatry (2023)

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    Childhood adversities and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among first-year college students: results from the WMH-ICS initiative

    To investigate the associations of childhood adversities (CAs) with lifetime onset and transitions across suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB) among incoming college students.

    Philippe Mortier, Jordi Alonso in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemio… (2022)

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    Anhedonia and Suicide

    Suicide is a leading cause of death, and presently, there is no definitive clinical indicator of future suicide behaviors. Anhedonia, a transdiagnostic symptom reflecting diminished ability to experience pleas...

    Randy P. Auerbach, David Pagliaccio in Anhedonia: Preclinical, Translational, and… (2022)

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    Dissociating default mode network resting state markers of suicide from familial risk factors for depression

    Neural signatures of suicide risk likely reflect a combination of specific and non-specific factors, and clarifying specific factors may facilitate development of novel treatments. Previously, we demonstrated ...

    Henry W. Chase, Randy P. Auerbach, David A. Brent in Neuropsychopharmacology (2021)

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    Prevalence of 12-month mental and substance use disorders in sexual minority college students in Mexico

    Mental health disparities have been documented among sexual minority college students, but there is a dearth of evidence from develo** countries. The aim is to estimate the prevalence of 12-month mental and ...

    Roberto Rentería, Corina Benjet in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemio… (2021)

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    Inequality and mental healthcare utilisation among first-year university students in South Africa

    Addressing inequalities in mental healthcare utilisation among university students is important for socio-political transformation, particularly in countries with a history of educational exclusion.

    Jason Bantjes, Wylene Saal in International Journal of Mental Health Sys… (2020)

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    Neurocognitive Processes Implicated in Adolescent Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors: Applying an RDoC Framework for Conceptualizing Risk

    Identifying risk factors for STBs during adolescence is essential for suicide prevention. In this review, we employ the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) framework to synthesize studies on key neurocognitive pro...

    Jeremy G. Stewart, Lillian Polanco-Roman in Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports (2019)

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    Abnormal frontoinsular-default network dynamics in adolescent depression and rumination: a preliminary resting-state co-activation pattern analysis

    Clinical depression commonly emerges in adolescence, which is also a time of develo** cognitive ability and related large-scale functional brain networks implicated in depression. In depressed adults, abnorm...

    Roselinde H. Kaiser, Min Su Kang, Yechan Lew, Julie Van Der Feen in Neuropsychopharmacology (2019)

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    Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of an unguided, internet-based self-help intervention for social anxiety disorder in university students: protocol of a randomized controlled trial

    Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is highly prevalent among university students, but the majority of affected students remain untreated. Internet- and mobile-based self-help interventions (IMIs) may be a promising...

    Fanny Kählke, Thomas Berger, Ava Schulz, Harald Baumeister in BMC Psychiatry (2019)

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    Suicidal thoughts and behaviors among college students and same-aged peers: results from the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys

    The primary aims are to (1) obtain representative prevalence estimates of suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB) among college students worldwide and (2) investigate whether STB is related to matriculation to a...

    Philippe Mortier, Randy P. Auerbach in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemio… (2018)

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    Neuroanatomical Prediction of Anhedonia in Adolescents

    Anhedonia is a transdiagnostic risk factor implicated in mental illness onset, treatment non-response, and suicidal behaviors. Prior cross-sectional research in adults has shown that anhedonia is associated wi...

    Randy P Auerbach, Angela Pisoni, Erin Bondy, Poornima Kumar in Neuropsychopharmacology (2017)

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    Map** anhedonia-specific dysfunction in a transdiagnostic approach: an ALE meta-analysis

    Anhedonia is a prominent symptom in neuropsychiatric disorders, most markedly in major depressive disorder (MDD) and schizophrenia (SZ). Emerging evidence indicates an overlap in the neural substrates of anhed...

    Bei Zhang, Pan Lin, Huqing Shi, Dost Öngür, Randy P. Auerbach in Brain Imaging and Behavior (2016)

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    Predictive models for suicidal thoughts and behaviors among Spanish University students: rationale and methods of the UNIVERSAL (University & mental health) project

    Suicide is a leading cause of death among young people. While suicide prevention is considered a research and intervention priority, longitudinal data is needed to identify risk and protective factors associat...

    Maria Jesús Blasco, Pere Castellví, José Almenara, Carolina Lagares in BMC Psychiatry (2016)

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    Reliability and Validity of the Chinese Version of the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children Among Chinese Secondary School Students

    The objective of the current study was to develop a Chinese translation of the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC) [March (1997) Multidimensional anxiety scale for children: Technical manual, Mu...

    Shuqiao Yao, Tao Zou, **ongzhao Zhu in Child Psychiatry and Human Development (2007)