What can Jane Goodall teach us about addiction? (2022)
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Frisher. (2023). What can Jane Goodall teach us about addiction?. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 30(1), 55-59. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2022.2033164

In 2017, Jane Goodall, the well-known primatologist, wrote a letter to the United States Food and Drug Administration criticising the use of animals to test brain-based theories of addiction. She reasoned that we already know about addiction by obser... Read More about What can Jane Goodall teach us about addiction?.

Moral Decision-Making During COVID-19: Moral Judgements, Moralisation, and Everyday Behaviour (2022)
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Francis, K. B., & McNabb, C. B. (2022). Moral Decision-Making During COVID-19: Moral Judgements, Moralisation, and Everyday Behaviour. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.769177

This is the first (published) empirical research study to longitudinally investigate the moralisation of covid-related behaviours through the course of the pandemic and its relationship to utilitarian principles. The study tested individuals prior to... Read More about Moral Decision-Making During COVID-19: Moral Judgements, Moralisation, and Everyday Behaviour.

Moral Decision-Making During COVID-19: Moral Judgements, Moralisation, and Everyday Behaviour (2022)
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Francis, K., & McNabb, C. (2022). Moral Decision-Making During COVID-19: Moral Judgements, Moralisation, and Everyday Behaviour. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.769177

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose significant health, economic, and social challenges. Given that many of these challenges have moral relevance, the present studies investigate whether the COVID-19 pandemic is influencing moral decision-making... Read More about Moral Decision-Making During COVID-19: Moral Judgements, Moralisation, and Everyday Behaviour.

mixtur: An R package for designing, analysing, and modelling continuous report visual short-term memory studies (2022)
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Grange. (2022). mixtur: An R package for designing, analysing, and modelling continuous report visual short-term memory studies. Behavior Research Methods, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01688-1

Visual short-term memory (vSTM) is often measured via continuous-report tasks whereby participants are presented with stimuli that vary along a continuous dimension (e.g., colour) with the goal of memorising the stimulus features. At test, participan... Read More about mixtur: An R package for designing, analysing, and modelling continuous report visual short-term memory studies.

Medication optimisation in severe mental illness (MEDIATE): protocol for a realist review (2022)
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Jacklin, Maidment, I., Wong, G., Duddy, C., Upthegrove, R., Oduola, S., …MacPhee, M. (2022). Medication optimisation in severe mental illness (MEDIATE): protocol for a realist review. BMJ Open, 12(1), e058524 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058524

INTRODUCTION: Severe mental illness (SMI) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. People living with SMI often receive complex medication regimens. Optimising these regimens can be challenging. Non-adherence is common and addressing i... Read More about Medication optimisation in severe mental illness (MEDIATE): protocol for a realist review.

Transcriptional programs regulating neuronal differentiation are disrupted in DLG2 knockout human embryonic stem cells and enriched for schizophrenia and related disorders risk variants (2022)
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Sanders, B., D’Andrea, D., Collins, M. O., Rees, E., Steward, T. G., Zhu, Y., …Shin, E. (2022). Transcriptional programs regulating neuronal differentiation are disrupted in DLG2 knockout human embryonic stem cells and enriched for schizophrenia and related disorders risk variants. Nature communications, 13, Article 27. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27601-0

Coordinated programs of gene expression drive brain development. It is unclear which transcriptional programs, in which cell-types, are affected in neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. Here we integrate human genetics with transcriptomic... Read More about Transcriptional programs regulating neuronal differentiation are disrupted in DLG2 knockout human embryonic stem cells and enriched for schizophrenia and related disorders risk variants.

Predicting relapse or recurrence of depression: systematic review of prognostic models (2022)
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Chew-Graham. (2022). Predicting relapse or recurrence of depression: systematic review of prognostic models. British Journal of Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2021.218

Background Relapse and recurrence of depression are common, contributing to the overall burden of depression globally. Accurate prediction of relapse or recurrence while patients are well would allow the identification of high-risk individuals and ma... Read More about Predicting relapse or recurrence of depression: systematic review of prognostic models.

Computational modelling of the speed–accuracy tradeoff: No evidence for an association with depression symptomatology (2022)
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Grange. (2022). Computational modelling of the speed–accuracy tradeoff: No evidence for an association with depression symptomatology. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 111-125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.12.057

Successful decision making often requires finding the right balance between the speed and accuracy of responding: Emphasising speed can lead to error-prone performance, yet emphasising accuracy leads to a slowing of performance. Such speed–accuracy t... Read More about Computational modelling of the speed–accuracy tradeoff: No evidence for an association with depression symptomatology.

Multicentre randomised controlled trial of a group psychological intervention for postnatal depression in British mothers of South Asian origin (ROSHNI-2): study protocol (2022)
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Chew-Graham. (2022). Multicentre randomised controlled trial of a group psychological intervention for postnatal depression in British mothers of South Asian origin (ROSHNI-2): study protocol. BJPsych Open, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2021.1032

<jats:sec id="S2056472421010322_sec_a1"> <jats:title>Background</jats:title> <jats:p>In the UK, postnatal depression is more common in British South Asian women than White Caucasion women. Cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) is recommended as a first... Read More about Multicentre randomised controlled trial of a group psychological intervention for postnatal depression in British mothers of South Asian origin (ROSHNI-2): study protocol.