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J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 2022 May 17. Epub 2022 May 17.

Dr. Alvarez-Toro is Adult and Forensic Psychiatrist, Associate Director at The Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program, Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, DC.

Structural inequalities in health care often result in female patients' not receiving care tailored to their needs. Women with mental illness in the peripartum period are no exception. Caan and colleagues delve into the benefits of breastfeeding in psychiatric units, highlighting the scarcity of appropriate resources due to the lack of mother-baby units in the United States. Read More

CMAJ Open 2022 Apr-Jun;10(2):E430-E438. Epub 2022 May 17.

Departments of Medicine, and of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Dayan, Basso, Nguyen), McGill University Health Centre; Research Institute (Dayan, Basso, Nguyen), McGill University Health Centre; Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health (Dayan, Basso), McGill University, Montréal, Que.; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Velez, Pudwell), Queen's University, Kingston Health Sciences Centre; ICES Queen's (Velez, Djerboua), Kingston, Ont.; ICES Central (Vigod, Ray), Toronto, Ont.; Department of Psychiatry (Vigod), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; ICES uOttawa (Fell); Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute (Fell); School of Epidemiology and Public Health (Fell), University of Ottawa; Better Outcomes Registry & Network (BORN Ontario) (Fell), Ottawa, Ont.; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Joseph), School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Department of Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Ray), University of Toronto, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ont.

Background: Subfertility and infertility treatment can be stressful experiences, but it is unknown whether each predisposes to postpartum mental illness. We sought to evaluate associations between subfertility or infertility treatment and postpartum mental illness.

Methods: We conducted a population-based cohort study of individuals without pre-existing mental illness who gave birth in Ontario, Canada, from 2006 to 2014, stratified by fertility exposure: subfertility without infertility treatment; noninvasive infertility treatment (intrauterine insemination); invasive infertility treatment (in vitro fertilization); and no reproductive assistance. Read More

Brain Res Bull 2022 May 14. Epub 2022 May 14.

Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, PR China. Electronic address:

Cerebral ischemia is one of the most common disabling and lethal diseases worldwide, but its underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Mitochondrial pyruvate carrier 2 (MPC2), a subunit of MPC complex, plays pivotal roles in coordinating glycolytic and mitochondrial activities. In the present study, the expression of MPC2 was significantly reduced in the ischemic cerebral cortex of rats at 24h after bilateral internal carotid artery occlusion (BICAO), and in the cortical neurons after 1h oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD)/24h reoxygenation treatment. Read More

J Affect Disord 2022 May 14. Epub 2022 May 14.

Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy. Electronic address:

Background: Early-onset bipolar disorder (BD) is a complex psychiatric illness characterized by mood swings, irritability and functional impairments. To improve our understanding of the pathophysiology of the disorder, we collected the existing resting-state functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (rs-fMRI) studies exploring resting-state functional connectivity (rs-FC) and spontaneous activity alterations in children and adolescents with BD.

Methods: A search on PubMed, Web of Science and Scopus was conducted to identify all the relevant rs-fMRI investigations conducted in early-onset BD. Read More

Psychopathology 2022 May 17:1-3. Epub 2022 May 17.

Department of General Psychiatry, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.