Some highlights from our three journals JCPP, CAMH, and JCPP Advances. Each one of the posts below provides a link to read, and download the full paper.
Feature Papers
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Annual Research Review: Neuroimmune network model of depression: a developmental perspective
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘We have three goals for the present paper. First, we extend neuroimmune network models of mental and physical health to generate a developmental framework of risk for the onset of depression during adolescence. Second, we examine how a neuroimmune network perspective can help explain the high rates of comorbidity between depression and other psychiatric disorders across development, and multimorbidity between depression and stress-related medical illnesses. Finally, we consider how identifying neuroimmune pathways to depression can facilitate a ‘next generation’ of behavioral and biological interventions that target neuroimmune signaling to treat, and ideally prevent, depression in youth and adolescents.’ Robin Nusslock (pic) et al.
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Annual Research Review: ‘There, the dance is – at the still point of the turning world’ – dynamic systems perspectives on coregulation and dysregulation during early development
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘ Here, we present a dynamic framework for understanding child–caregiver coregulatory interactions in the context of psychopathology.’ Sam Wass (pic) et al.
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Exposure to prenatal infection and the development of internalizing and externalizing problems in children: a longitudinal population-based study
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘In this study, we investigated whether exposure to common infections during pregnancy is prospectively associated with repeatedly assessed child psychiatric symptoms in a large population-based study.’ Anna Suleri (pic) et al.
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Testing the social motivation theory of autism: the role of co-occurring anxiety
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘This study tests the mechanisms underlying the association between social motivation and autistic traits.’ Eloise Bagg et al.
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A network approach to the investigation of childhood irritability: probing frustration using social stimuli
Paper from the JCPP – ‘Currently, there is inconsistency in the identification of neural circuits that underlie irritability in children, especially in social contexts. This study aimed to address this gap by utilizing a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) paradigm to investigate pediatric anger/frustration using social stimuli.’ Khalil I. Thompson et al.
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Editorial: Prevention is the best cure – or is it? A cautionary tale
Free Access paper from the JCPP – ‘If knowledge is power, we can say that with great knowledge comes great power—and with great power comes great responsibility. Part of that responsibility is to not ‘over diagnose and overtreat’ our young people, and to not lose sight of the fact that preventive youth care should be primarily about strengthening resilience—not about detecting and quickly solving problems.’ Geertjan Overbeek (pic) et al.
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Space for youth mental health—coercive measure use before and after architectural innovation at a department of child and adolescent psychiatry
Open Access from the CAMH journal – ‘We aimed to assess the effect of altering the physical environment of an adolescent psychiatric inpatient unit on the proportion and frequency of adolescents experiencing mechanical coercive measures.’ Klara Czernin et al.
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Trends in adolescent emotional problems in Wales between 2013 and 2019: the contribution of peer relationships
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘We tested change in emotional problems in a national sample of young people in Wales in 2013, 2017 and 2019 using identical symptom screens, and examined whether trends were accounted for by changes in youth friendship quality and bullying.’ Rebecca Anthony (pic) et al.
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Interplay of early negative life events, development of orbitofrontal cortical thickness and depression in young adulthood
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘Using a complete longitudinal design with four time points, we examined whether NLE during childhood and early adolescence predict depressive symptoms in young adulthood through accelerated OFC thinning across adolescence.’ Lea L. Backhausen (pic) and Jonas Granzow et al.
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Children of parents with depression or anxiety: Long-term follow-up, causality and resilience
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘Three papers in the December issue (2023) of JCPP Advances focus on children of parents with depression or anxiety. Parental depression and anxiety are both highly prevalent psychiatric conditions, representing a major public health concern. The aim of this editorial is to provide context to the findings of these three studies and to highlight important methodological strengths.’ Henrik Larsson (pic).
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