A qualitative synthesis of patients' experiences of re‐traumatization in acute mental health inpatient settings

B Hennessy, A Hunter… - Journal of Psychiatric and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Accessible summary What is known on the subject? Research indicates many people
accessing mental healthcare have trauma history and often experience re‐traumatization in …

Effects of prenatal opioid exposure on synaptic adaptations and behaviors across development

SC Simmons, GG Grecco, BK Atwood, FS Nugent - Neuropharmacology, 2023 - Elsevier
In this review, we focus on prenatal opioid exposure (POE) given the significant concern for
the mental health outcomes of children with parents affected by opioid use disorder (OUD) in …

Early life stress promotes heroin seeking but does not alter the excitability of insular pyramidal cells targeting the nucleus accumbens

JM Leyrer-Jackson, PF Overby, EK Nagy… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
A number of retrospective studies have demonstrated adverse childhood experiences are
associated with increased vulnerability to substance use disorders, including opioid use …

Does childhood adversity alter opioid drug reward? A conceptual replication in outpatients before surgery

M Carlyle, M Kvande, IM Meier… - Addiction Research & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Opioid analgesic treatment during surgery entails the risk of persistent use.
Experiences of childhood adversity have been shown to increase opioid reward in …

Stress-induced changes in the endogenous opioid system cause dysfunction of pain and emotion regulation

K Nakamoto, S Tokuyama - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Early life stress, such as child abuse and neglect, and psychosocial stress in adulthood are
risk factors for psychiatric disorders, including depression and anxiety. Furthermore …

The effect of chronic stress on the immunogenicity and immunoprotection of the M6-TT vaccine in female mice

SB Méndez, M Matus-Ortega, RH Miramontes… - Physiology & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Active vaccination is an effective therapeutic option to reduce the reinforcing effects of
opioids. Several studies showed that chronic stress affects the immune system decreasing …

Effects of early life trauma on risks for adult opioid use disorder are mediated by stress and occur independent of depression and anxiety

KE Dunn, GM Turner, LM Oswald - Journal of addiction medicine, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Objectives Adverse childhood experiences, or early life trauma (ELT), may be a potential risk
factor for opioid use disorders (OUDs) that could be further influenced by depression …

A molecular framework for autistic experiences: Mitochondrial allostatic load as a mediator between autism and psychopathology

C Mahony, C O'Ryan - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Molecular autism research is evolving toward a biopsychosocial framework that is more
informed by autistic experiences. In this context, research aims are moving away from …

Personality, motives, and substance use among opioid agonist therapy clients

I Mahu - 2022 - dalspace.library.dal.ca
Background: The Four Factor Personality Vulnerability model (Castellanos-Ryan & Conrod,
2012; Conrod, Pihl, et al., 2000) implicates four personality traits in conferring vulnerability to …

Sex differences in oxycodone-taking behaviors are linked to disruptions in reward-guided, decision-making functions

K LaRocco, P Villiamma, M Russell, J Hill, R DiLeone… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Problematic opioid use that emerges in a subset of individuals may be due to pre-existing
disruptions in the biobehavioral mechanisms that regulate drug use. The identity of these …