Long-term morphometric similarity gradients relate to cortical hierarchy and psychiatric symptoms in schizophrenia

This longitudinal study of 193 healthy controls and 350 individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders reveals that long-term morphometric similarity gradients, which align with cortical hierarchy and disease epicenters, are significantly associated with treatment duration, medication, and psychiatric symptoms, thereby elucidating how brain organization and clinical interventions shape disease progression.

Garcia-San-Martin, N., Bethlehem, R. A., Sebenius, I. + 16 more2026-02-27📄 psychiatry and clinical psychology

Apathy in Mild Behavioural Impairment: Associations with Cortical Thickness and Grey Matter Volume

This study demonstrates that in cognitively normal and mild cognitive impairment individuals, apathy associated with Mild Behavioural Impairment is significantly linked to reduced cortical thickness and grey matter volume in Alzheimer's disease-vulnerable regions, suggesting it reflects early AD-related neurodegeneration rather than traditional apathy-related structural changes.

Vellone, D., Guan, D. X., Goodarzi, Z. + 3 more2026-02-27📄 psychiatry and clinical psychology

Plasma Lipid Alterations Track Multidimensional Psychosis Severity Across Diagnostic Boundaries

This study demonstrates that plasma lipidomic alterations, particularly in specific lipid classes like sphingolipids and phosphatidylcholines, robustly track multidimensional psychosis severity across schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, suggesting these lipid changes reflect transdiagnostic biological processes linked to illness burden that are not fully captured by categorical diagnoses or polygenic risk scores.

Thanabalasingam, A., Wiegand, A., Meijer, J. + 3 more2026-02-26📄 psychiatry and clinical psychology

Disentangling Symptom Heterogeneity in Large-Scale Psychiatric Text: Domain-Adapted vs. Instruction-Tuned Transformers

This study demonstrates that a domain-specialized Bio-ClinicalBERT model outperforms a generalist instruction-tuned Instructor-XL in classifying heterogeneous psychiatric symptoms across a large-scale clinical text corpus, achieving superior overall performance while leveraging clinically relevant linguistic features.

Varone, G., Kumar, P., Brown, J. + 1 more2026-02-26📄 psychiatry and clinical psychology

A longitudinal study of anxiety and depression in Belgium during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

This longitudinal study of over 10,000 Belgian adults from 2020 to 2024 reveals that while most individuals maintained stable mild mental health symptoms, a significant minority experienced worsening anxiety and depression over time, driven by risk factors like financial insecurity and loneliness, while protective factors such as social support and life satisfaction played crucial but evolving roles in mitigating symptom severity.

Bui, T., Demarest, S., Duveau, C. + 2 more2026-02-26📄 psychiatry and clinical psychology

Clinical and genetic correlates of a circadian subtype of depression in the Australian Genetics of Depression Study

This study utilizing the Australian Genetics of Depression Study identifies a distinct circadian subtype of depression characterized by earlier onset, greater severity, poorer response to standard antidepressants, and specific genetic associations with sleep, metabolic, and psychiatric traits, thereby supporting its potential clinical utility for guiding treatment.

Tonini, E., Crouse, J. J., Shin, M. + 18 more2026-02-25📄 psychiatry and clinical psychology

Precision stratification of risk for suicidal behavior in people with bipolar depression

This study develops a high-precision machine learning model using electronic health records from over 220,000 patients with bipolar depression to accurately predict 30-day suicidal behavior risk, thereby overcoming previous performance limitations and providing a robust decision support tool for nonspecialist providers.

de Lacy, N., Lam, W. Y., Virtosu, M. + 4 more2026-02-25📄 psychiatry and clinical psychology

Evaluating Resting State EEG Biomarkers Across Psychosis Biotypes: Stability and HD-tDCS Modulation

This study demonstrates that resting-state EEG serves as a stable, trait-like biomarker capable of distinguishing between B-SNIP psychosis biotypes with greater accuracy than DSM diagnoses, while also showing promise as a modifiable target for HD-tDCS interventions that yield specific clinical improvements.

Trotti, R. L., Doss, I., Parker, D. A. + 11 more2026-02-25📄 psychiatry and clinical psychology

Development and validation of polygenic risk profiles of schizophrenia

This study utilizes a data-driven polygenic risk score framework to identify two biologically and clinically distinct subgroups of schizophrenia patients, revealing that beyond shared schizophrenia liability, variations in genetic risks for depression, neuroticism, and cognitive performance significantly influence disease severity and treatment response.

Kocak, E., Naamanka, J., Gradinger, T. + 28 more2026-02-24📄 psychiatry and clinical psychology

Mediating Effects of Healthy Lifestyle Factors on Associations between Mental Health and Functional Outcomes in Early Adolescence

Using data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, this research demonstrates that healthy lifestyle factors, particularly sleep quality, partially mediate the relationship between mental health issues and functional outcomes in early adolescence, with the strength of these mediating effects varying significantly based on environmental risk factors such as financial adversity and family conflict.

Smucny, J., Lesh, T. A., Niendam, T. A. + 1 more2026-02-24📄 psychiatry and clinical psychology

Noninvasive brain stimulation combined with evidence-based psychotherapy for psychiatric disorders: A meta-analysis of optimal implementation parameters

This meta-analysis of 28 randomized controlled trials demonstrates that noninvasive brain stimulation, specifically non-concurrent repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, significantly enhances the efficacy of human-delivered, manualized cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders, whereas concurrent administration and transcranial direct current stimulation do not yield similar benefits.

Beynel, L., Wiener, E., Baker, N. + 11 more2026-02-24📄 psychiatry and clinical psychology

Identifying an oculomotor phenotype for adolescent depression with an interleaved pro- and anti-saccade task

This study demonstrates that adolescents with depression exhibit distinct oculomotor phenotypes, including impaired fixation stability, increased saccadic errors, and altered pupil dynamics during an interleaved pro- and anti-saccade task, suggesting these objective measures could serve as a valuable screening tool for detecting undiagnosed cases.

Noyes, B. K., Booij, L., Riek, H. C. + 4 more2026-02-24📄 psychiatry and clinical psychology

Early DNA methylation at the NGFI-A binding site of the NR3C1 1F promoter predicts cognitive functions at age five: evidence from the Parents as Teachers intervention in the ZEPPELIN study

This study demonstrates that early DNA methylation at the NGFI-A binding site of the NR3C1 1F promoter predicts lower cognitive function at age five in children from disadvantaged backgrounds, a relationship mediated by concentration problems and modulated by early life stressors and the Parents as Teachers intervention.

Gardini, E. S., Neuhauser, A., Schaub, S. + 6 more2026-02-24📄 psychiatry and clinical psychology

Network Analysis of Mental Well-being, Psychological Inflexibility, and Psychopathological Symptoms in Individuals Seeking Online Psychological Support

This cross-sectional study of 967 Mexican participants seeking online psychological support utilized network analysis to identify self-evaluation and emotional well-being as central elements linking mental well-being with distress and psychological inflexibility, thereby highlighting key targets for intervention.

Gonzalez-Ramirez, L. P., Gonzalez-Cantero, J. O., Martinez-Arriaga, R. J. + 5 more2026-02-24📄 psychiatry and clinical psychology

Increasing power in language genetics with Lingo: a web-based digital phenotyping platform

The paper introduces Lingo, an open-source web-based platform that captures comprehensive language and cognitive phenotypes in 30 minutes, demonstrating that its derived measures offer significantly greater statistical power for genetic discovery than traditional methods while identifying distinct genetic and psychiatric profiles associated with specific language factors.

Casten, L. G., Koomar, T., Elsadany, M. + 8 more2026-02-23📄 psychiatry and clinical psychology