Phantom limb pain is experienced in an absent body part and can persist long after the tissue and sensory receptors from which pain ostensibly originated have been removed. A neuropathic account correctly recognises the consequences of somatosensory injury, yet does not by itself...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2026/v23i5592
Background: Internet use is integral to undergraduate education, but evidence on problematic use among students in faith-based health-training colleges in Nigeria is limited. Aims: To determine the prevalence of internet addiction and to examine associated socio-demographic and s...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2026/v23i5591
Valmin Ramos-Silva, Inocencia Peralta, Greice Kelly Alves Reis, Thiago Correa Sa Ricardo, Mateus Henrique Oliveira Souza, Ariselma Magalhães Peçanha, Joel Alves Lamounier, Wendell Costa Bila & Janine Pereira-Silva·International Neuropsychiatric Disease Journal·2026
Background: Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) deficiency can affect neurological, cognitive, and psychiatric function, yet interpretation is complicated by variation in biomarkers, clinical phenotypes, and the distinction between biochemical and functional deficiency. Aims: The review aims...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2026/v23i5590
Background: Children with autism spectrum disorder may experience difficulty obtaining needed healthcare, particularly when their support needs are greater. National evidence examining unmet care across parent-reported severity levels remains limited. Objective: To examine the as...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2026/v23i5589
Anterior cutaneous nerve entrapment syndrome (ACNES) is an under-recognised cause of chronic abdominal wall pain caused by entrapment of the anterior cutaneous branches of the lower thoracic intercostal nerves. This report describes the diagnosis and surgical management of a 36-y...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2026/v23i5587
Background: Medical education is associated with substantial academic, psychological and social demands. Medical students may experience depression, anxiety, psychological distress, sleep disturbances and burnout at rates that are concerning for both student welfar...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2026/v23i5588
Background: Co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders (SUDs) are associated with high clinical complexity, heterogeneous treatment response and recurrent relapse. Pharmacogenomic and neuroimaging biomarkers may complement conventional clinical predictors, but the ex...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2026/v23i5586
Descriptions of the “great teacher” as an inspiring figure are abundant in professional discourse, yet the biological and psychological processes that might underpin inspirational teaching, and sustain it across a working life, remain loosely specified. Interest in educational ne...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2026/v23i5585
Precision psychiatry proposes that the combination of genomic, neuroimaging, peripheral biological, digital and health-record data will permit treatment to be matched to individual patients rather than to diagnostic categories. Opioid use disorder in the United States has been ad...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2026/v23i5584
For nearly three decades, the Brain Disease Model of Addiction (BDMA) has strongly influenced scientific, clinical, and public understandings of addiction while remaining the focus of sustained debate. This critical narrative review reassesses the BDMA by integrating evidence fro...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2026/v23i5583