Elevated Facial Behavior Variability During Emotions Contributes to Better Functional Communication in Dyslexia.

Unlabelled: Dyslexia is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by reading difficulties, yet there is growing evidence for coinciding social and emotional strengths. In our previous work, we found children with dyslexia displayed greater emotional facial behavior to affective stimuli than their well-reading peers, an enhancement that related to better social skills. Traditional measures provide static "snapshots" of emotional facial behavior but overlook important dynamic information about the face's movements that may confer interpersonal advantages.

Associations between resting state functional connectivity of large-scale brain networks and parent-reported symptoms of social anxiety in early adolescence.

Functional network connectivity (FNC) among large-scale brain networks-including the default mode (DMN), frontoparietal (FPN), and salience (SN) networks-have been increasingly implicated in transdiagnostic features of mental health disorders. In this study, we examined FNC patterns among the DMN, FPN, SN, and nine additional large-scale networks using resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) data from 7760 adolescents (ages 10-13) from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. We investigated whether altered connectivity among these networks was associated with symptoms of social anxiety, as reported by caregivers at the two-year follow-up visit.

Short-term versus long-term psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder: a protocol for an individual patient data pooled analysis of two randomised clinical trials.

Background: The evidence for the optimal duration of psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder (BPD) is scarce. Two previous trials have compared different durations of psychotherapy. The first compared 6 months versus 12 months of dialectical behaviour therapy for BPD (the FASTER trial).

Pilot Study of Factors Influencing Engagement with an mHealth Intervention Among Teens with Eating Disorder Symptoms.

Purpose: The current pilot study examines engagement with and preliminary effectiveness of an mHealth intervention designed for teens with eating disorders (EDs) to delineate specific user characteristics associated with intervention engagement and the impact of this engagement on ED symptoms.

Methods: Teens 14-17 years old with or at high-risk for an ED were recruited from social media (n=29) and provided access to an mHealth intervention for 2 months. At baseline, participants were surveyed on ED and other mental health symptoms and demographics.

Multimodal Assessment of Therapeutic Alliance: A Study Using Wearable Technology.

This empirical pilot study explored the use of wearable eye-tracking technology to gain objective insights into interpersonal interactions, particularly in healthcare provider training. Traditional methods of understanding these interactions rely on subjective observations, but wearable tech offers a more precise, multimodal approach. This multidisciplinary study integrated counseling perspectives on therapeutic alliance with an empirically motivated wearable framework informed by prior research in clinical psychology.

Structural factors shape racial differences in neighbourhood-level HIV risk environments for young men who have sex with men.

Despite lower or comparable rates of individual HIV risk behaviours, Black young men who have sex with men in the USA experience disproportionately high rates of HIV. This calls for the exploration of network- and neighbourhood-level determinants of HIV vulnerabilities. Research highlights how Black young men who have sex with men are more likely to reside in low-resource neighbourhoods, to be affiliated with a broader range of neighbourhoods, and to be embedded in densely connected, racially homophilous sexual networks.

A Sunny Disposition and a Big Heart: Thematic Analysis of Parent-Reported Socio-Emotional Strengths in Dyslexia.

Children with dyslexia have persistent and well-characterised reading difficulties but may also have less well-known socio-emotional abilities. Socio-emotional abilities in dyslexia could be leveraged in remediation efforts to improve outcomes, including resilience. Our aim was to characterise these socio-emotional abilities from parents' perspectives, to inform strength-based curricula.

A selective review of inhibitors of protein kinase C gamma: a neuroplasticity-related common pathway for psychiatric illness.

Psychotropics are currently developed and marketed with a limited understanding of their mechanism of action. The notion that protein kinase C (PKC) activity is highly relevant to learning and memory function stems from experiments in the 1980s, which associated protein kinase alpha (pka) and pkc to animal models of associative learning, opening an area of exploration for psychotropic development. The PKC family consists of several isoforms, including PKC alpha, beta1, beta1, gamma, delta and epsilon among others.

Role of left lateral prefrontal cortex in positive emotion regulation: Insights from dyslexia.

Emotion regulation emerges during childhood and engages prefrontal brain systems. While most developmental studies focus on the neural underpinnings of negative emotion regulation, less is known about the neuroanatomical correlates of positive emotion regulation. In adults, prefrontal areas in the left hemisphere are critical for positive emotion regulation, but whether this association is present in children is unknown.

A randomized controlled trial testing couple HOPES: An online, self-help couples' intervention for posttraumatic stress disorder.

Objective: This article presents a randomized waitlist-controlled trial testing Couple HOPES, a coach-guided, online intervention for couples wherein one member had posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Aims involved examining whether Couple HOPES resulted in greater improvements in PTSD symptoms, relationship satisfaction, and secondary outcomes compared to a waitlist, whether outcomes were maintained over a 3-month follow-up, and whether outcomes differed if PTSD was COVID-19-related.

Method: Sixty-seven couples were recruited, where one partner met criteria for likely PTSD and was either a military member, veteran, first responder, health care worker, and/or whose PTSD symptoms were related to COVID.

Eliciting social approach-avoidance conflict within a novel experimental paradigm: psychometric and computational evidence with a successful pre-registered replication.

Affective facial expressions elicit approach-avoidance motivational responses that shape social behavior. Qualitatively, individuals report frequently experiencing competing motivations to approach and avoid other individuals in social contexts (i.e.

Rethinking Smoking and Quitting in Low-Income Contexts: A Qualitative Analysis with Implications for Practice and Policy.

Despite a general decline in smoking rates among the U.S. population, smoking among low-income populations remains disproportionately high, likely due to the social determinants of health.

Understanding the current state of neuropsychological training and clinical practices with Asian American patient populations.

Asian American populations in the United States account for the fastest growing ethnic group. This diversity illuminates the challenges of addressing culturally sensitive clinical care and need for comprehensive training. The present study aimed to examine the extent of neuropsychologists' training, considerations, and current practices with Asian American patient populations and identify important advocacy areas.

The Intergenerational Trauma Experiences and Healing (ITEH) model for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (LGBTQ+ BIPOC) individuals.

In addition to trauma from life-threatening events or serious injury, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) may experience other forms of trauma such as identity-related trauma or historical trauma related to experiences of oppression, war, colonization, or cultural dispossession. Moreover, the effects of any unresolved experience of trauma may be passed down generationally and become intergenerational trauma via emotional socialization, interpersonal patterns, epigenetic mechanisms, or cultural messages received in one's family. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (LGBTQ+ BIPOC) individuals may experience intergenerational trauma from the effects of racism, heterosexism, transphobia, slavery, genocide, colonialism, and forced displacement.

Transaffirmative psychological practice is ethical practice: Leveraging the American Psychological Association's Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct in practice and advocacy.

By mid-2025, 859 antitransgender and gender diverse (TGD) bills have been introduced in 49 U.S. states (https://translegislation.

Weighing the predictive role of neural factors for adolescent anhedonia in the presence of demographic and clinical factors.

Anhedonia, a transdiagnostic symptom of psychopathology associated with pernicious clinical course, has putative mechanisms in neural reward systems and emerges during adolescence. However, the relative contributions of neural, demographic, and clinical factors to its development are unclear. 73 adolescents (13-19 years) at varying familial risk for developing anhedonia reported demographic and clinical characteristics at study entry, reported anhedonia up to three times annually, and underwent fMRI during a monetary reward paradigm.

Network changes associated with right anterior temporal lobe atrophy: insight into unique symptoms.

Semantic behavioural variant (also referred to as right temporal) frontotemporal dementia is a newly described syndrome associated with predominant right anterior temporal lobe atrophy and a distinctive combination of behavioural and semantic changes. It is considered the right-sided counterpart of semantic variant primary progressive aphasia, with which it has overlapping neuropathological and cognitive mechanisms. Although more is known about how brain network alterations relate to both losses (e.

RCT of post-conflict trauma interventions in the Central African Republic.

This study evaluates mental health treatment in a post-conflict setting with scant mental health resources. The study reports on a randomized crossover control group design with one intervention and two control groups implemented in the Central African Republic (CAR). The intervention's impact on symptoms of depression, anxiety and trauma was analyzed among a sample of 298 participants located in the capital city, Bangui.

Neighborhood disadvantage and subjective cognitive function among older Black women.

Black Americans a have higher risk of cognitive impairment relative to other racial/ethnic groups, and Black women have the highest prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias; however, the mechanisms underlying cognitive impairment are poorly understood. Neighborhood-level exposures that adversely influence cognitive aging may be distinct for Black women given historical and contemporary structural racism and sexism and their influence on neighborhood environments, which, in turn, adversely affect the cognitive health of Black women. This study examined the cross-sectional association between the Area Deprivation Index (ADI) and subjective cognitive function among 20,768 Black Women's Health Study cohort participants ( = 64.

A Community-Led Approach to Addressing Health Disparities among Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors.

Adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors (i.e., those diagnosed between the ages of 15 and 39 years) experience significant health and health care disparities.

The role of post-learning EEG theta/beta ratio in long-term navigation performance.

Memory consolidation processes have been shown to benefit from modulations in brain activity, particularly theta oscillations. Our previous studies showed that increases in post-learning Theta/Beta power ratio improves subsequent performance in both procedural and declarative memory across various tasks. In this study, we investigated the role of increases in frontal-midline Theta/Beta power ratio using EEG neurofeedback (NFB) in enhancing spatial memory consolidation during a navigation task in a virtual Minecraft environment.

The effectiveness of cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in Azerbaijan.

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) poses a significant mental health challenge in postconflict Azerbaijan. This study explored the effectiveness of cognitive processing therapy (CPT) in this context, addressing a critical gap in psychotherapeutic interventions for PTSD. The study employed an intent-to-treat (ITT) analysis to assess the impact of CPT on PTSD and depressive symptoms, evaluate sustainability over 3 months, and examine changes in psychosocial functioning and well-being.