Analysing the SCORE replication project, statisticians found that the standard methods for judging replication success cannot reliably decide at typical sample sizes, and that pooling the original with its replication lands much nearer the replication.
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Pooling 51 datasets covering 3,878 people, a review found moderately elevated dissociation in non-affective psychosis. Heterogeneity above 85% means the average describes almost nobody in particular.
Following 1,114 Australian women across six waves, researchers found weapon-involved intimate partner violence predicted panic and PTSD symptoms even after accounting for other violence and prior symptoms, while depression showed no such association.
Analysing 3,974 incidents from 1999 to 2023, researchers found offender age, sex and method varied sharply depending on the age of the child, arguing against treating filicide as a single phenomenon.
No medication is approved for the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. In a 457-person double-blind trial, a smartphone therapeutic beat a sham app on motivation and pleasure, by a modest margin.
Comparing 55 patients with schizophrenia who had killed with 49 who had been violent without killing, Korean researchers found most acts occurred during treatment discontinuation, driven by persecutory delusions.
Among 9,360 Tennessee Medicaid pregnancies with opioid use disorder, 1.58% died or overdosed within a year of giving birth. Risk was lowest among those dispensed medication across the full 132-day window.
A review of five years of Spanish criminal sentences involving manic symptoms found most defendants had a prior diagnosis but no current treatment, and that the disorder was a full exonerating factor in six cases out of 182.
In Swedish primary care records, a questionnaire flagged 26.5% of patients, a blood biomarker 14.6-18.3%, and self-reported weekly drinks 8.5%. Each method found people the other two missed.
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