Recent literature shows great heterogeneity in the reported efficacy of transcranial direct
current stimulation (tDCS) as a stand-alone psychiatric treatment. Aiming to increase its …

Accumulating clinical evidence shows that psychedelic therapy, by synergistically combining
psychopharmacology and psychological support, offers a promising transdiagnostic …

Abstract The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) paradigm was launched 10 years ago as a
superior approach for investigation of mental illness. RDoC conceptualizes normal human …

Background Childhood adversity (CA) is associated with increased risk of psychopathology,
and reward processing (RP) may be one of the underlying mechanisms. However, evidence …

Objectives For many research cohorts, it is not practical to provide a “gold‐standard” mental
health diagnosis. It is therefore important for mental health research that potential alternative …

Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a very general and flexible multivariate technique that
allows relationships among variables to be examined. The roots of SEM are in the social …

Stress is ubiquitous and thus, not surprisingly, many hypotheses and models have been
created to better study the role stress plays in life. Stress spans fields and is found in the …

Health psychology is a growing field generating exciting advances in theory, research, and
applications that significantly improve the lives of individuals, shape the medical profession …

Studies of neurobiological mechanisms in borderline personality disorder (BPD) have
increased our understanding of the pathophysiology of its development and course. Less is …

Background Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a heterogeneous neuropsychiatric disorder for which
current treatment has insufficient efficacy and severe adverse effects. The modifiable gut …