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Psychiatry — a weekly podcast briefing of the most significant peer-reviewed psychiatry literature, synthesized from PubMed and delivered as ~10-minute audio. For practicing physicians. Generated by AudioScholar at audioscholar.cc.

  1. 5d ago

    This Week in Psychiatry — Oct 26, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Metabolic biomarker levels before and after initiation of GLP-1 receptor agonist treatment among individuals with schizophrenia: interrupted time-series analysis (British Journal of Psychiatry, 2026) This AudioScholar briefing is generated by artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and trainees. It is not medical advice. Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning prediction and subtyping in depression, metabolic care and circuit biology in schizophrenia, and the experiences of families after psychiatric assisted dying. This week's papers: 1. Multimodal Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Relapse in Major Depressive Disorder. — JAMA Psychiatry 2026 2. Clinical and genetic correlates of a circadian subtype of depression in the Australian Genetics of Depression Study. — British Journal of Psychiatry 2026 3. Shared cortical morphometry and molecular signatures across depression and physical diseases. — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 4. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) combined with antidepressant pharmacotherapy for depression: state-dependent mechanisms, clinical evidence,… — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 5. Metabolic biomarker levels before and after initiation of GLP-1 receptor agonist treatment among individuals with schizophrenia: interrupted time-series analys… — British Journal of Psychiatry 2026 6. Simultaneous measurement of Midbrain and Striatal Dopamine in Schizophrenia using an agonist radiotracer. — Biological Psychiatry 2026 7. Thalamocortical dysconnectivity shapes cortical hierarchy disruption across illness durations in schizophrenia. — Biological Psychiatry 2026 8. Positive-affective and negative-cognitive brain-behavior axes in clinical high risk for psychosis. — Biological Psychiatry 2026 9. From Protective Factors to Mechanisms: Charting the Neurobiology of Schizophrenia Resilience. — Schizophrenia Bulletin 2026 10. Medical assistance in dying on psychiatric versus somatic grounds: survey on the experiences of relatives. — British Journal of Psychiatry 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/q3nhxpfc8e

  2. Oct 19

    This Week in Psychiatry — Oct 19, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Effectiveness of rTMS vs. Pharmacotherapy in Late-Life Treatment-Resistant Depression: An Observational Study of Individual Participant Data From Two Randomized Clinical Trials (American Journal of Psychiatry, 2026) This AudioScholar briefing is generated by artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and trainees. It is not medical advice. Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning treatment options for depression, the metabolic side of severe mental illness, suicide risk and compulsory care, and adult ADHD. Let's dive in. This week's papers: 1. Effectiveness of rTMS vs. Pharmacotherapy in Late-Life Treatment-Resistant Depression: An Observational Study of Individual Participant Data From Two Randomize… — American Journal of Psychiatry 2026 2. Long-term effectiveness of transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioural therapy for anxiety and depression in primary care: the PsicAP-CV trial. — Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 2026 3. Computerized Cognitive Training in People with Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials. — Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 2026 4. Change in HbA1c and weight after initiation of antipsychotic treatment in people with severe mental illness in England: an individual-level interrupted time-se… — The Lancet Psychiatry 2026 5. GLP-1 receptor agonist initiation and risk of psychiatric hospitalisation and emergency department presentation in adults with schizophrenia and type 2 diabete… — The Lancet Psychiatry 2026 6. Caring Letters and Suicide Mortality Among US Veterans Who Contacted the Veterans Crisis Line: A Prespecified Secondary Analysis. — JAMA Psychiatry 2026 7. Genetic architecture and risk of suicide attempt across neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions. — Biological Psychiatry 2026 8. Long-term health, criminal justice, and socioeconomic outcomes among people subject to compulsory mental health care in Norway: a nationwide registry cohort st… — The Lancet Psychiatry 2026 9. Adult Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder. — New England Journal of Medicine 2026 10. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: transition to psychotic disorders. — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/5s3rpqaeab

  3. Oct 12

    This Week in Psychiatry — Oct 12, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Late-Life Cognitive Impairment (JAMA Psychiatry, 2026) This AudioScholar briefing is generated by artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and trainees. It is not medical advice. Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning suicide risk and psychological treatment in young people, the uneven road to precision psychiatry, and neurodevelopmental conditions across the lifespan. This week's papers: 1. Trajectories of suicidal ideation and attempts across the academic year: longitudinal study of UK university students. — British Journal of Psychiatry 2026 2. Efficacy and acceptability of digital safety planning therapy for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors in adolescents with depressive episodes: a randomized c… — Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2026 3. Dismantling Psychological Interventions for Youth with Complex Trauma: A Systematic Review and Component Network Meta-Analysis. — Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 2026 4. Promoting healthy families: a three-arm randomized controlled trial of Triple P and Circle of Security-Parenting versus treatment-as-usual for families with yo… — Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2026 5. Association between polygenic liability to depression and lifetime depression in at-risk adolescents. — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 6. Using multi-trait polygenic scores to predict lithium responsiveness in patients with bipolar disorder. — British Journal of Psychiatry 2026 7. From discovery to proof: a Translation Evidence Map for precision psychiatry. — The Lancet Psychiatry 2026 8. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Late-Life Cognitive Impairment. — JAMA Psychiatry 2026 9. Tourette syndrome. — Nature Reviews Disease Primers 2026 10. Separating neurodevelopmental and psychiatric services: clinical hazard? — British Journal of Psychiatry 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/znenumdxaj

  4. Oct 5

    This Week in Psychiatry — Oct 5, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Sex differences in the efficacy, acceptability, and tolerability of antipsychotics in people with acute schizophrenia: individual participant data pairwise, dose-response, and network meta-analyses (The Lancet Psychiatry, 2026) This AudioScholar briefing is generated by artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and trainees. It is not medical advice. Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning psychotropic safety and who benefits from our medications, the rapidly expanding field of brain stimulation and its biomarkers, and new evidence on augmenting psy… This week's papers: 1. Sex differences in the efficacy, acceptability, and tolerability of antipsychotics in people with acute schizophrenia: individual participant data pairwise, do… — The Lancet Psychiatry 2026 2. Prenatal exposure to maternal depression and antidepressants and neurodevelopmental outcomes: A population cohort study. — PLOS Medicine 2026 3. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and immune checkpoint blockade in solid tumors: A target trial emulation with pan-cancer transcriptomic analyses. — PLOS Medicine 2026 4. National Trends in Benzodiazepine Dispensing. — American Journal of Psychiatry 2026 5. Brain Stimulation Therapeutic Interventions in Neuropsychiatry: A Cambrian Explosion. — American Journal of Psychiatry 2026 6. Connectomic Determinants of Subcallosal Cingulate Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression. — American Journal of Psychiatry 2026 7. TMS-Evoked Cortical Reactivity Signatures as a Multidimensional Biomarker of Depression: A TMS-EEG Meta-Analysis from Diagnosis to Prognosis. — Biological Psychiatry 2026 8. Double-blind, randomized clinical trial targeting theta oscillations with transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) for cognitive control in male met… — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 9. Does high-intensity exercise combined with exposure sessions improve treatment out-comes in obsessive-compulsive disorder? A randomized controlled trial in inp… — Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 2026 10. Change in the severity and impact of child psychiatric disorders over 3 years: an analysis of trends using the national child mental health surveys of England… — Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/yztz9swzb4

  5. Sep 28

    This Week in Psychiatry — Sep 28, 2026

    Editor's Pick: QTc changes and early major adverse cardiovascular events associated with antidepressant treatment for major depressive disorder in adults: individual participant data network meta-regression of double blind randomised trials (BMJ, 2026) This AudioScholar briefing is generated by artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and trainees. It is not medical advice. Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning prescribing safety and comparative efficacy, familial and developmental risk across psychosis, substance use and depression, and a cluster of biological work on a… This week's papers: 1. QTc changes and early major adverse cardiovascular events associated with antidepressant treatment for major depressive disorder in adults: individual particip… — BMJ 2026 2. Comparative efficacy of antipsychotics for reducing aggression in schizophrenia: systematic review and network meta-analysis. — British Journal of Psychiatry 2026 3. Lifetime substance use disorder and suicidal behaviour: a population-based familial co-aggregation register study. — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 4. Age-Associated Cognitive Deviations in Early-Onset Psychosis Patients and Their Siblings. — American Journal of Psychiatry 2026 5. Resilience beyond diagnosis: prospective neural correlates of better-than-expected outcomes in depression. — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 6. Diagnosing autoimmune encephalitis in psychiatry: clinical recommendations and unresolved challenges from the GENERATE network. — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 7. Higher peripheral blood homocysteine levels are associated with schizophrenia: evidence from a case-control study and a meta-analysis. — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 8. In Vivo Characterization of Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A [11C]CURB Positron Emission Tomography Study. — Biological Psychiatry 2026 9. Neurostimulation in the treatment of psychiatric disorders: Underlying mechanisms and critical analysis of circuit-based interventions. — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 10. Irritability: what, who, how and why? — British Journal of Psychiatry 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/zhchzjefnu

  6. Sep 21

    This Week in Psychiatry — Sep 21, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Psychotic and bipolar disorder diagnoses following contact with child and adolescent mental health services-a longitudinal, nationwide register study of 2 million individuals (Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2026) Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning early identification of serious mental illness, family- and child-focused interventions, and the reward circuitry that underlies depression and eating disorders,… This week's papers: 1. Psychotic and bipolar disorder diagnoses following contact with child and adolescent mental health services-a longitudinal, nationwide register study of 2 mill… — Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2026 2. Altered function of peripheral organ systems in first-episode drug naïve mental illnesses: a systematic review and meta-analysis. — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 3. Effects of an integrated parenting and mental health intervention on violence reduction and caregiver mental health among migrant and displaced families from M… — Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2026 4. Establishing a clinical cutoff score for the Family Accommodation Scale-Anxiety (FASA). — Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2026 5. Targeting the dopaminergic midbrain with precision 7-Tesla biofeedback training in depression: A proof-of-principle randomized controlled trial. — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 6. Nociceptin orphanin F/Q Pathways are dysregulated by stress and modulate reward responsiveness and motivated behavior across species. — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 7. Structural Brain Correlates of Bulimia Nervosa Diagnosis and Symptom Severity: A Coordinated ENIGMA Eating Disorders Working Group Analysis. — JAMA Psychiatry 2026 8. Mapping Clinical Diagnoses Associated With Neurodiversity and Neurodivergence in Mental Health Research: A Scoping Review. — JAMA Psychiatry 2026 9. The Future of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies in Mental Health: Prospects, Challenges, and a Roadmap for Personalized Treatment. — Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 2026 10. Is cold exposure a viable lifestyle intervention for mental health? Reviewing evidence and mechanisms. — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/jxa84dvh6q

  7. Sep 14

    This Week in Psychiatry — Sep 14, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Comparative effectiveness of mood stabiliser monotherapy versus second-generation antipsychotic monotherapy versus combination therapy for continuation and maintenance treatment after a first episode of psychotic mania in North America, Chile, and Spain: a target trial emulation using data from the BD-CAUSAL Collaboration (The Lancet Psychiatry, 2026) Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning severe mental illness treatment selection, personalised and pharmacogenomic prescribing, and the shifting landscape of child and adolescent diagnosis. This week's papers: 1. The efficacy of modified psychodynamic psychotherapy for patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders in Germany: a prospective, single-centre, assessor-blin… — The Lancet Psychiatry 2026 2. Comparative effectiveness of mood stabiliser monotherapy versus second-generation antipsychotic monotherapy versus combination therapy for continuation and mai… — The Lancet Psychiatry 2026 3. Comparison of Long-Acting Injectable and Oral Antipsychotics in Bipolar Disorder. — American Journal of Psychiatry 2026 4. Association between CYP2D6 and CYP2C19 genotypes and venlafaxine treatment failure: a retrospective study on two cohorts from Norway and the UK. — The Lancet Psychiatry 2026 5. Improving access to antipsychotic medications for schizophrenia in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa: an evidence-based global consensus. — The Lancet Psychiatry 2026 6. Sex-Moderated and Sex-Specific Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Neural Alcohol Cue Reactivity and Daily Craving in Individuals With Alcohol Use Diso… — American Journal of Psychiatry 2026 7. Changes in Characteristics Associated With ADHD and ASD Diagnoses Over Time. — JAMA Psychiatry 2026 8. Young minds in distress: Exploring the global rise in youth mental health diagnoses. — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 9. Annual Research Review: Sex differences in conduct disorder - revisiting existing evidence and exploring future directions. — Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2026 10. Early-childhood temperament trajectories map onto transdiagnostic psychiatric risk. — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/8tjb3j3pm9

  8. Sep 7

    This Week in Psychiatry — Sep 7, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Serial Ketamine Infusions for Treatment-Resistant Bipolar Depression: A Randomized Clinical Trial (JAMA Psychiatry, 2026) Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning treatment-resistant mood disorders and neuromodulation, addiction and behavioural neuroscience, and the developmental and social determinants that shape who gets… This week's papers: 1. Serial Ketamine Infusions for Treatment-Resistant Bipolar Depression: A Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA Psychiatry 2026 2. Nutraceuticals and phytoceuticals for the treatment of major depressive disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 3. Neurophysiological signatures of Stanford Neuromodulation Therapy in treatment resistant depression. — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 4. New Horizons in the Development of Treatments for Substance Use Disorders. — American Journal of Psychiatry 2026 5. Examining the Contribution of Childhood Maltreatment to the Sex Gap in Depression: Insights from the German National Cohort (NAKO). — Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 2026 6. Accountability in acute in-patient mental healthcare: advancing structural and cultural change. — British Journal of Psychiatry 2026 7. Menstrual Cycle Informed Psychotherapy: Preliminary findings in Women with Spider Phobia. — Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 2026 8. Closed-loop transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) reduces cue reactivity and improves inhibitory control in methamphetamine use disorder with fre… — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 9. Variants of limited prosocial emotions among adolescent boys with conduct disorder. — Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2026 10. Dissecting the shared genetic architecture and biological mechanisms linking sleep traits and suicide attempts: from variants to genes. — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/vnh8pjhtgb

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