Ten years psychosocial outcomes among adolescents following suicide attempts – early recurrence and psychosocial outcomes

ObjectivesA suicide attempt (SA) is a major risk factor of recurrent SA in adolescence and may be associated with psychological or social problems in the future. REPEATERS is a longitudinal study which examines the long-term psychosocial outcome of adolescents following attempted suicide. It focuses on the impact of early recurrence (i.e., within the first year of the index SA) – data which is, in fact, poorly documented.MethodsTen years after the index SA, a self-reporting questionnaire was sent to all adolescents who had attempted suicide and were followed up by the CHRU (Regional University Hospital Centre) de Nancy, France, between 1994 and 2003 and their parents. The purpose of this questionnaire was to assess psychosocial outcomes. Data concerning SA were collected retrospectively.ResultsAfter ten years, 146 of the 309 adolescents who had attempted suicide and were participating in the study had responded: 90% lived with a partner and 41% had children. The mean (SD) current emotional life of suicide attempt survivors scored 7.3 (2.3) on a scale of 0 to 10. Compared to the general population of the same age, responders felt more depressed than their peers (29% vs. less than 8% of males and 20% of females), had more suicidal thoughts (14% vs. 5%), and had more SAs (27% vs. 0.3%). Moreover, the risk of recurrence over the ten year period was associated with suicide recurrence in the first year after the index SA (odds ratio [OR] = 2.3; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.1–4.9) and with a lower level of education at ten years (OR = 0.37; 95% CI = 0.19–0.45).ConclusionsAlthough a favorable outcome was reported ten years after the event for the majority of adolescents who had attempted suicide, some with a lower level of education were nevertheless at increased risk of recurrence and depression. Post-intervention strategies are therefore essential in order to evaluate risk factors which may persist if not taken into consideration.     

温经汤治疗原发性痛经的网络药理学作用机制＊

目的 本文将通过网络药理学结合分子对接对温经汤治疗原发性痛经作用机制进行预测。方法 利用TCMSP、TCMID及BATMAN-TCM数据库，收集温经汤活性成分并预测其作用靶标。通过GeneCards数据库、OMIM数据库筛选原发性痛经的靶标，并运用R软件获取疾病交集靶标，绘制韦恩图。运用Cytoscape软件构建温经汤治疗原发性痛经的成分-靶标网络图，通过STRING数据库构建PPI靶标蛋白互作网络，并进行核心靶标的GO功能富集分析及KEGG通路富集分析。通过Autodock Vina软件对药物活性成分与疾病核心靶标进行分子对接验证。结果 筛选得到温经汤治疗原发性痛经的124个活性成分和31个药物-疾病共同靶标，并推断其作用机制可能与介导HIF-1、TNF、PI3K-Akt等105条信号通路相关。槲皮素、山柰酚、豆甾醇等活性成分与PTGS1、ESR1、PGR等核心靶标对接结果良好。结论 温经汤活性成分可能通过发挥镇痛、抗炎、调节激素水平、缓解平滑肌痉挛和改善缺氧状态等药理作用来治疗原发性痛经。     

《邵氏医案》从血辨治痛经浅析

[目的]分析总结浙江近代著名临床医家邵兰荪治疗痛经的经验,以期为临床治疗提供借鉴。[方法]通过研读裘吉生编《邵氏医案》,筛选出其中治疗痛经的医案十余则,并结合邵氏在妇科方面的学术思想,进一步分析其辨证立法遣方特色,从而总结邵氏治疗痛经的临证经验。[结果]邵氏治疗痛经多从血辨治,且分虚实两端,其中属虚者血虚内热用益母胜金丹养血清热、活血止痛,血虚肝风治以养血柔肝、息风止痛;属实者水结血瘀用五苓散利水散瘀、行气止痛,气阻血滞治从行气活血、调经止痛。[结论]在治疗妇人痛经方面,邵氏辨治遣方确有独特经验,这些经验可为中医药治疗此类疾病拓宽诊治思路,有助于提高临床疗效。     

Neurofeedback and neuroplasticity of visual self-processing in depressed and healthy adolescents: A preliminary study

Adolescence is a neuroplastic period for self-processing and emotion regulation transformations, that if derailed, are linked to persistent depression. Neural mechanisms of adolescent self-processing and emotion regulation ought to be targeted via new treatments, given moderate effectiveness of current interventions. Thus, we implemented a novel neurofeedback protocol in adolescents to test the engagement of circuits sub-serving self-processing and emotion regulation.MethodsDepressed (n = 34) and healthy (n = 19) adolescents underwent neurofeedback training using a novel task. They saw their happy face as a cue to recall positive memories and increased displayed amygdala and hippocampus activity. The control condition was counting-backwards while viewing another happy face. A self vs. other face recognition task was administered before and after neurofeedback training.ResultsAdolescents showed higher frontotemporal activity during neurofeedback and higher amygdala and hippocampus and hippocampi activity in time series and region of interest analyses respectively. Before neurofeedback there was higher saliency network engagement for self-face recognition, but that network engagement was lower after neurofeedback. Depressed youth exhibited higher fusiform, inferior parietal lobule and cuneus activity during neurofeedback, but controls appeared to increase amygdala and hippocampus activity faster compared to depressed adolescents.ConclusionsNeurofeedback recruited frontotemporal cortices that support social cognition and emotion regulation. Amygdala and hippocampus engagement via neurofeedback appears to change limbic-frontotemporal networks during self-face recognition. A placebo group or condition and contrasting amygdala and hippocampus, hippocampi or right amygdala versus frontal loci of neurofeedback, e.g. dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, with longer duration of neurofeedback training will elucidate dosage and loci of neurofeedback in adolescents.     

Variations in the timing of first sexual experiences among populations with physical disabilities in the United States

Background

Timing of first sex has important implications for later sexual health, but little research has considered this in populations with physical disabilities.

Physical violence and vulnerable adolescents: the roles of school climate and presence of similar peers

ABSTRACT

Using nationally representative data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (a.k.a., Add Health), this study examines the impact of school climate and share of vulnerable groups of students on self-perceived discrimination and violence involvement in high school. Violence involvement is operationalized as victimization and perpetration of physical violence. Five categories of vulnerability status are analyzed: the emotionally disabled, learning disabled, physically disabled, obese and LGB. Results suggest that relatively higher odds of violence involvement for individuals who were members of vulnerable groups as adolescents are fully explained by school climate and an extensive set of individual-level controls. While the share of vulnerable groups in school is not consistently correlated with violence involvement, school climate is found to be highly predictive of self-perceived discrimination and violence involvement. Consequently, we believe that improving school climate is the most effective strategy for reducing violence involvement of vulnerable youth in school.     

天灸罐联合少腹逐瘀汤治疗寒凝血瘀型原发性痛经临床观察

目的:观察天灸罐联合少腹逐瘀汤治疗寒凝血瘀型原发性痛经的临床疗效。方法:将90例寒凝血瘀型原发性痛经随机分为治疗组45例和对照组45例。对照组予少腹逐瘀汤治疗,治疗组在此基础上加用天灸罐治疗,均连续治疗5个月经周期。参照COX痛经症状量表(the Cox Menstrual Symptom Scale,CMSS)进行评价;测定两组治疗前后外周血中前列腺素F2a(Prostaglandin F2a,PGF2a)含量;比较两组痛经临床疗效。结果:总有效率组间比较,差异有统计学意义(P<0.05)。两组CMSS时间、程度及PGF2a含量治疗前后组内比较及治疗后组间比较,差异均具有统计学意义(P<0.05)。结论:天灸罐联合少腹逐瘀汤治疗寒凝血瘀型原发性痛经效果良好。