Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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2 papers

Neurogenetic analysis of childhood disintegrative disorder

Abha R. Gupta, Alexander Westphal, Daniel Y.‐J. Yang, Catherine Sullivan, Jeffrey Eilbott, Samir Zaidi, et al.
Molecular Autism Summary & key facts 2017 24 citations

This document presents an “emerging” 2-item clinician-rated measure from the American Psychiatric Association to record how much social communication problems and restricted interests/repetitive behaviors interfere with a person’s functioning. Each domain is rated by a clinician for the past seven days on a 4-point scale from 0 (None) to 3…

Autism Spectrum Disorder Research Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities

Preference for Immediate Rewards in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Substance Use Disorder: A Shared Intermediate Phenotype?

Anouk Scheres, M.Kaushik Balan, Maria Paraskevopoulou, Arnt Schellekens
Current Addiction Reports Summary & key facts 2024 3 citations

This review looks at whether people with ADHD and people with substance use disorder (SUD) both prefer immediate rewards more than others, a tendency called steep delay discounting (DD). Multiple studies and meta-analyses find that people with ADHD and people with SUD show steeper DD than control groups, with medium-sized…

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Eating Disorders and Behaviors
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