Background: In the past few years since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, the public has been under tremendous pressure. Family, career, emotions, and other aspects are constantly pressing people’s psychological defense of life. Modern urban governance is a centralized reflection of the urban space carrier and resource platform. Strengthening the public’s guidance on mental health problems is conducive to promoting the modernization of urban governance system and governance capacity, improving the level of urban governance and the ability of grassroots to resolve conflicts. Subjects and methods: To study people’s psychological changes and endurance in this situation, relieve the psychological pressure caused by the novel coronavirus outbreak, and ensure people’s mental health, we propose an assessment method for psychological health based on data intelligent analysis, which is used to solve public mental health problems in modern urban governance. First, we extract information on sleep quality and physical exercise of people in pandemic areas through an online questionnaire survey. Then, we can achieve an overall picture of the public’s mental state in the COVID-19 pandemic by analyzing the psychological changes of public and the aggregated information. Results: To evaluate the performance of the public mental state management method proposed in this study, we invited 1000 people to complete a comparative experiment of a questionnaire survey on the Internet. The questionnaire included information about physical activity at home and sleep quality. Home exercise information mainly includes exercise duration and exercise mode, while sleep quality information includes sleep score, sleep duration, and proportion of deep sleep. Conclusion: Through experiments, we find that the method we propose can realize the accurate identification and analysis of the changes of people’s psychological conditions in modern cities. Moreover, it can provide data support and technical support for people’s psychological counseling under the background of the novel coronavirus pandemic

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. The current pharmacological treatmentoptions for MDD, which rely on the mono-amine hypothesis, has their limitations with respect to treatment non-response, partialresponse etc. This propels for a search for a novel neurobiological understanding of MDD that can lead to novel treatment options.A literature search strategy was thus employed using relevant keywords pertaining to the topic in PubMed, Embase and GoogleScholar. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses, narrative reviews and clinical trials were reviewed to incorporate the most robustevidence-based literature available. A total of 37 publications were narrowed down based upon the topic. Alterations in brainneuroplasticity, as evidenced by changes in neurotrophic factors and from neuroimaging, has been found to be a strong pathomechanismfor MDD. This link has been exploited to stimulate psychopharmacological research to treat MDD.

Background: Cognitive processes are important factors in the aetiology of pathological gambling and they are always important aspect of all gambling interventions. Among other things, the gamblers' decision-making process and persistence in gambling is under the influence of their perception of the importance of knowledge/skills versus luck in different gambling activities. In this study, we examine cognitive distortions of pathological gamblers and their perceptions on the significance of luck versus knowledge/skills in different games of chance. Effects of age and length of treatment are also examined.Subjects and methods: A total of 65 pathological gamblers at the gambling addicts' club in Zagreb were included in the study. Cognitive distortions were measured using a modified version of the Gambling related cognitive distortions scale (Ricijaš et al. 2011). Participant thoughts on the role of luck versus knowledge/skills in games of chance were measured with a questionnaire especially designed for this study. All instruments were self-assessment questionnaires and anonymously filled out during a group sessions.Results: In general, results showed moderate cognitive distortions in terms of gambling beliefs, but significant perception of the importance of knowledge/skills for some games, especially sports betting and card games. Younger patients and patients in treatment for longer period have lower illusion of control. Length of treatment also seem to effect gambling-related superstition beliefs and incorrect understanding of probability, as well as importance of knowledge/skills for success in sports betting and card games.Conclusions: The results of this study lead to the indirect conclusion that length of treatment is a positive factor, which likely influences gamblers' cognitive distortions. This conclusion certainly requires additional examination using longitudinal studies, which would provide a better overview of whether these differences are in fact due to the length of treatment and also to confirm its value for future abstinence from gambling activities.

Background: Patients with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have an increased frequency of suicideideations, but also a higher risk of suicide attempts. Of all the known predisposing risk factors of suicide attempts in this population,personality dimensions are one of the least investigated. The main aim of this study was to examine if personality traits, namelytemperament and character dimensions and trait impulsivity, are associated with suicide attempts in war veterans with PTSD.Subjects and methods: This sample included 178 Croatian male war veterans (mean age 49.20 years) treated for PTSD at theDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, University Hospital Center Zagreb. These patients were assessed with theM.I.N.I. diagnostic interview and they filled out several self-report scales: the Beck Depression Inventory-Second Edition (BDI-II),the Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised (TCI-R), the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale-11 (BIS-11), and the Satisfaction withLife Scale (SWLS).Results: It was found that 42 (24%) Croatian war veterans with PTSD had a previous suicide attempt. Comparison between thetwo groups (participants with vs. those without history of suicide attempts) revealed that patients with previous suicide attempts areless educated and more often unemployed, have a longer duration of psychiatric treatment and more psychiatric hospitalizations,and exhibit higher levels of depression and lower life satisfaction. In multivariate logistic regression analyses, temperamentdimension Harm Avoidance and character dimension Self-transcendence were unique predictors of suicide attempts, above theinfluence of age, education level and length of treatment.Conclusions: Croatian war veterans with PTSD have a substantial risk of suicide attempts. In addition to the role of somesociodemographic and clinical factors, it seems that certain personality dimensions are uniquely associated with suicide behavioursamong these individuals.

Aim: To explore corellation of anxiety, depression ant type of personality in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and compare with peptic ulcer (PU).Subjects and methods: In this study, prevalence of anxiety, depression and type of personality was investigated in 362 cases divided into three groups: 112 of IBD patients, 122 of peptic ulcer patients and 128 of control group who didn't have any gastrointestinal or psychic complaints. IBD and peptic ulcer diagnosis were established by standard diagnostic procedures (anamnesis, clinical manifestations, laboratory, endoscopy and biopsy in IBD and upper endoscopy in peptic ulcer). Anxiety and depression wereestablished by Hamilton anxiety rating scale (HAM-A) and Hamilton rating test for depression (HAM-D). Type of A/B personality was established by Bortner scale and D type of personality by Denollet scale (DS14).Results: Anxiety was found in 47 (41.9%) and depression in 44 (38.3%) of a total of 112 IBD cases. In group with peptic ulcer anxiety was found in 40 (32.8%) and depression aalso in 40 (32.8%) of total 122 cases. In control group anxiety was diagnosed in 21 (16.4%) and depression in 20 (15.6%) of total 128 cases. Anxiety and depresson were significantly higher in both groups than in control group but anxiety and depression were significantly higher in IBD group than peptic ulcer group. D type of personality was statistically significant in peptic ulcer group.Conclusion: Anxiety and depression in IBD and peptic ulcer cases have a greater prevalence compared to the normal population and surprisingly are higher in IBD than peptic ulcer group. D type of personality is associated with peptic ulcer.