Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre

Leveraging prompt-driven generative AI for systematic reviews in digital psychiatry: A stage-matched comparative proof-of-concept for healthcare researchers and clinicians

The scale and pace of evidence generation in digital psychiatry increasingly exceed the capacity of traditional systematic literature review (SLR) methods. Large language models (LLMs) are gaining traction in evidence synthesis, yet limited guidance exists for integrating generat...

Visual dysfunction and psychosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Objectives Visual impairment and broader visual-related abnormalities have been implicated in psychosis, but the consistency, specificity, and direction of this association remain unclear. We systematically reviewed evidence linking clinically defined visual impairment, visual-pr...

Impact of prompt engineering and workflow modifications on the performance of a Delphi-based automated abstract screening system in a psychiatric systematic review

Large language models (LLMs) can facilitate the labor-intensive screening of literature for systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Ensembling multiple LLMs to reach consensus on screening may allow locally deployed LLMs to achieve acceptable performance while reducing hallucinatio...

Stellate ganglion block for posttraumatic stress disorder in Canadian Armed Forces Veterans and Royal Canadian Mounted Police: A case series

Introduction: Current treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have shortcomings and less success in military Veterans. A significant challenge for recovery from PTSD is overcoming persistent and often intractable sympathetic hyper-arousal. This treatment gap has promp...

Applying the commercial determinants of health framework to understand how digital platforms influence child and youth wellbeing

The influence of social media on youth mental health has been under debate in scientific communities over the last several years. In this perspective paper, we suggest that there is a need to shift focus away from finding ways to ascertain causal connections at the global scale t...

Issues in the clinical assessment and management of people living with motor neurone disease (MND): a survey of Australian healthcare professionals

Objective: To inform the development of the Australian MND Guideline, this study aimed to identify challenges Australian healthcare professionals (HCPs) face in the clinical assessment and management of people living with MND (plwMND) including where practice varies from evidence...

Chinese versions of the Northoff Catatonia Rating Scale and the Northoff Scale for Subjective Experience in Catatonia

Objective Catatonia was increasingly recognized as a transdiagnostic psychomotor syndrome, but validated Chinese tools for multidimensional clinician-rated assessment and patient-reported subjective experience were limited. This study developed Chinese versions of the Northoff Ca...