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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. 4d ago

    This Week in Psychiatry — Sep 14, 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. Let's dive… 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

  2. Sep 7

    This Week in Psychiatry — Sep 7, 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

  3. Aug 31

    This Week in Psychiatry — Aug 31, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning service models and treatment-resistant illness, the physical health and monitoring burden carried by people with severe mental illness, and trauma, measurement an… This week's papers: 1. Open Dialogue versus treatment as usual for adults presenting in crisis to mental health services in England (the ODDESSI Trial): a multisite cluster-randomise… — The Lancet Psychiatry 2026 2. Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonists, Mortality, and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Serious Mental Illness — JAMA Psychiatry 2026 3. The RECOVER Trial of Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Markedly Treatment-Resistant Depression: Critical Findings, Lessons Learned, and Future Directions — American Journal of Psychiatry 2026 4. Incidence of clozapine-associated neutropenia in patients with schizophrenia: 20-year population-based study in Hong Kong — British Journal of Psychiatry 2026 5. Schizophrenia: advances in pathophysiology, management, and precision medicine — BMJ 2026 6. The impact of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for psychosis on post-traumatic stress symptoms in daily life: ESM outcomes of the STAR Trial — Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 2026 7. Back to gut feelings. Latent class analysis of daily perceived health variations identifies later responses to antidepressant treatment — Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 2026 8. International prevalence of childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder: INTERSECT study — British Journal of Psychiatry 2026 9. Bridging gaps in ADHD care globally: lessons from the NHS England independent taskforce report — British Journal of Psychiatry 2026 10. Potential for Genomics to Help Guide Preventive Strategies in Psychiatry — JAMA Psychiatry 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/2fb9qasawy

  4. Aug 24

    This Week in Psychiatry — Aug 24, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning substance use and psychosis risk, treatment personalisation across depression, eating disorders and schizophrenia, and the widening world of neurodevelopmental ca… This week's papers: 1. A Systematic Review of Long-term Safety Outcomes of Ketamine and Esketamine in Patients with Treatment-resistant Depression — Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 2026 2. Cannabis Use and Age-Related Acceleration of Psychosis Onset: A Meta-Analysis — Biological Psychiatry 2026 3. Trends in the Prevalence and Severity of Alcohol and Cannabis Use Disorders Among US Adults — JAMA Psychiatry 2026 4. From prediction to decision: prediction-based decision rules and target trial emulation in ADHD — The Lancet Psychiatry 2026 5. Treating parents with ADHD and their children (TPAC): a hybrid effectiveness-implementation, randomized controlled trial — Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2026 6. Toward Personalized Psychotherapy in Anorexia Nervosa: Evidence from Long-Term Moderator Analyses of the ANTOP study — Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 2026 7. Effect of a digital intervention on mental health symptoms in adults with chronic conditions: A three-arm randomized controlled trial — PLOS Medicine 2026 8. HD-tDCS modulation of the DLPFC-HPC-EC pathway to enhance working memory in schizophrenia: a TMS-EEG Study — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 9. Rising autism identification in England, 2016-2024: evidence from England's School Census — Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2026 10. Exploring the Relationship between Cognitive Performance, Performance-Based Functioning, and Everyday Functioning in People with Schizophrenia: a Systematic Li… — Schizophrenia Bulletin 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/92tv3gn8v9

  5. Aug 17

    This Week in Psychiatry — Aug 17, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning precision treatment in mood disorders, the risks and realities of antidepressant use and discontinuation, the physical health gap in severe mental illness, and ne… This week's papers: 1. Evidence based interventions for bipolar disorder across phases and age groups: living umbrella review, evaluation, analysis, and communication hub (U-REACH) p… — BMJ 2026 2. Individualized Connectivity-Guided Versus Conventional Targeting of Accelerated Theta-Burst Stimulation in Depression: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Parallel-Des… — American Journal of Psychiatry 2026 3. Depression and SSRI Treatment During Pregnancy—Prioritizing Maternal Mental Health — JAMA Psychiatry 2026 4. Acute affective symptoms during antidepressant tapering indicate withdrawal reactions rather than relapse: Results from a prospective longitudinal cohort study — Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 2026 5. Predicting US Army Soldier Suicide-Related Behaviors at the Time of Periodic Health Assessments — JAMA Psychiatry 2026 6. Incidence of systemic physical multimorbidity among people with schizophrenia-spectrum or bipolar-spectrum disorders compared with age-matched and sex-matched… — The Lancet Psychiatry 2026 7. Inequalities in mortality following SARS-CoV-2 infection for people with severe mental illness during and following vaccination roll-out in England — The Lancet Psychiatry 2026 8. AI scribe functions in psychiatric practice: clinical oversight, consent, and regulation — The Lancet Psychiatry 2026 9. Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness of a Digital Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Psychological Distress Delivered by Trainee Instructors: A Randomized Cont… — Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 2026 10. Parenting course for caregivers of children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) versus waitlist: a randomised controlled large-scale feasibility study… — Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/f8v82qyvgc

  6. Aug 10

    This Week in Psychiatry — Aug 10, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering seven notable papers spanning psychedelic and trauma-focused psychotherapy trials, the hard problem of scaling and prevention when interventions are simplified or delivered universally, and… This week's papers: 1. Psilocybin-assisted therapy for treatment-resistant major depressive disorder in a public healthcare setting: a randomized controlled trial. — Nature Medicine 2026 2. Psychotherapy for Impact of Killing During War: A Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA Psychiatry 2026 3. Optimising and personalising task-shared psychosocial interventions for common mental disorders: a Bayesian component network meta-analysis of individual parti… — The Lancet Psychiatry 2026 4. Increasing access to CBT for psychosis patients: a randomized controlled trial evaluating a brief, targeted CBT-informed intervention for distressing voices de… — Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 2026 5. School-based intervention study examining universal approaches for depressive symptoms and mental health literacy of pupils in Year 9 in England (AWARE): multi… — British Journal of Psychiatry 2026 6. High prevalence of tau pathologies in late-onset psychosis: A PET study. — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 7. Accelerated DMN-targeted cTBS improves processing speed deficits in schizophrenia. — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/xr43sesbqn

  7. Aug 3

    This Week in Psychiatry — Aug 3, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we are covering eight notable papers spanning the neurobiological subtypes of psychiatric disorders, the critical intersections of genetics, development, and environment in youth, and the long-term clinic… This week's papers: 1. Association between maintenance doses of mood stabilizers and antipsychotics and risk of readmission in first-episode bipolar disorder. — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 2. Sexual and gender minority youth experience serious mental health risks, yet are not impacted by typically efficacious interventions: secondary mental health o… — Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2026 3. A latent class analysis of depressive symptoms in youth from the Texas Youth Depression and Suicide Research Network (TX-YDSRN): Clinical and socio-ecological… — Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2026 4. Multi-Frequency EEG Connectomics Uncovers Insula-Network Subtypes in Somatic Symptom Disorder. — Biological Psychiatry 2026 5. Caregiver sensitivity moderates effects of gestational inflammation on child ADHD symptoms. — Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2026 6. Global economic burden of depression in 154 countries from 2025 to 2050. — Nature Medicine 2026 7. Neural markers of working memory and emotional regulation are predictors of future depression severity in at risk young adults: a replication study. — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 8. Schizophrenia Beyond Genome-Wide Association Studies: It's About Time. — The American Journal of Psychiatry 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/q7wffdbgv5

  8. Jul 31

    This Week in Psychiatry — Jul 31, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we are covering ten notable papers spanning three major clinical themes. First, we will examine novel pharmacotherapeutic approaches and their neurobiological mechanisms, focusing on oral semaglutide for… This week's papers: 1. Oral Semaglutide for Alcohol Use Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial — The American Journal of Psychiatry 2026 2. Escitalopram and brain reactivity to aggressive stimuli in premenstrual dysphoric disorder — The British Journal of Psychiatry 2026 3. Emotional problems and dysregulation in children/youth with ADHD: predictive and moderating effects in a randomized controlled trial of methylphenidate and neu… — Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2026 4. Prior Sexual Violence, PTSD Symptoms, and Recovery Trajectories After New Trauma — JAMA Psychiatry 2026 5. Bulimia nervosa — Nature Reviews Disease Primers 2026 6. Determinants of Nonspecific Response to Treatment in Randomized Controlled Trials of Major Depressive Disorder: A Narrative Review — The American Journal of Psychiatry 2026 7. Do psychological interventions in childhood and adolescence prevent later mental illness? A commentary on Vassard et al. (2026) — Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2026 8. Trends in Urine Cotinine Concentrations Among Adolescents Who Vape Nicotine — JAMA Psychiatry 2026 9. Mental disorder trajectories and quality of life among youth residential care leavers: a longitudinal study — Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2026 10. Towards a neurobiology of early intervention: the importance of critical periods for preventive psychiatry and youth mental health — Molecular Psychiatry 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/cdcqh74h7f

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