JAMA Psychiatry (journal) Archive — Page 1 of 1

Four-panel diagram comparing rTMS with and without symptom provocation for nicotine dependence and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Provoking tobacco imagery or obsessive thoughts produces craving or OCD symptoms that decline with treatment, while neutral images or thoughts produce little symptom change.
June 6, 2025

New study highlights potential boost to brain stimulation therapy through targeted symptom provocation

This is the first large-scale meta-analysis to examine whether deliberately triggering symptoms immediately before administering rTMS enhances treatment outcomes.

By Danny Bonvissuto
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October 30, 2024

Genetic risk, sexual trauma associated with mental illness: study

Evaluating how genetic risk interacts with environmental risk factors such as sexual trauma is important for understanding how mental illness develops and identifying high-risk groups for early intervention.

By Leigh MacMillan
Stylized microscopic illustration of a large irregular orange-and-black cell-like form surrounded by red blood cells in a bloodstream.
December 2, 2021

Study links depression scores, white blood cell count

By Emily Stembridge
December 12, 2018

High-dose antipsychotics place children at increased risk of unexpected death

Children and young adults without psychosis who are prescribed high-dose antipsychotic medications are at increased risk of unexpected death, despite the availability of other medications to treat their conditions, according to a Vanderbilt University Medical Center study published today in JAMA Psychiatry.
Unexpected death includes deaths due to unintentional drug overdose or cardiovascular/metabolic causes.

By Craig Boerner
Portrait of Stephan Heckers wearing glasses, a dark suit, white shirt, and tie against a brown background.
September 11, 2014

Vanderbilt’s Heckers named editor-in-chief of JAMA Psychiatry

Stephan Heckers, M.D., M.Sc., William P. and Henry B. Test Professor of Schizophrenia Research and chair of the Department of Psychiatry, has been named the next editor-in-chief of JAMA Psychiatry, one of nine specialty journals in the JAMA Network.

By Vanderbilt Health News