Psychiatry Research Case Reports
May 22, 2026
Albert Yeung, Huiqiong Deng, Wendy Feng et al.
Background Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) remains a challenging condition to treat. Nonpsychedelic pharmacotherapies have modest efficacy, and trauma-focused therapies such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) demonstrate higher response rates than medications, yet they suffer from high dropout rates (25–35%) and limited...
Sleep Medicine
June 24, 2025
Fan Feng, Hui Guo, Grace A Ding et al.
2 citations
Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), cataplexy, sleep paralysis, and hallucinations, and is often associated with other psychological and physiological disturbances. These symptoms lead to decreased social functioning and lower quality of life for individuals with narcolepsy. While current pharmacological treatment for narcolepsy can be effective...
Journal of personality disorders
April 1, 2025
Albert Yeung, Michael Alpert, David Mischoulon
3 citations
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mental health condition characterized by a pervasive pattern of impulsivity, affective dysregulation, and cognitive-perceptual symptoms. Treatment of BPD remains a significant challenge to mental health clinicians. People who suffer from BPD frequently have comorbid psychiatric disorders, which makes treatment more complex. This case study describes a...
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
April 5, 2023
Albert Yeung, Guy Sapirstein, Laura D Crain et al.
Although consensus in the field is lacking, the most common definition for treatment-resistant depression (TRD) requires a minimum of 2 prior treatment failures with confirmed adequate dose and duration. This article presents a clinical example of TRD in a patient with a long history of depression and inadequate response to treatment. The prominent feature is the patient's persistent...
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
May 28, 2020
Anna Xu, Chloe S. Zimmerman, Sara W. Lazar et al.
Objective: Tai chi (TC), a contemplative practice combining slow movements and deep breathing, has been shown to be clinically effective in alleviating depressive symptoms. Feelings of fatigue or low vitality often accompany major depressive disorder (MDD) though they are commonly overlooked and not well understood neurologically. By using resting state functional connectivity (rs-FC) using the...
FOCUS The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry
2018
Albert Yeung, Jessie S. M. Chan, Joey C. Cheung et al.
166 citations
Qigong and Tai-Chi are traditional self-healing, self-cultivation exercises originating in ancient China. These exercises are characterized by coordinated body posture and movements, deep rhythmic breathing, meditation, and mental focus based on traditional Chinese medicine theories. Although the exact mechanisms of Qigong's and Tai-Chi's effects on physical and mental well-being are unknown,...