Francis Collins, MD, PhD, director of the NIH recently spoke with Nora Volkow, MD, director of NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people struggling with substance use disorders and those who are trying to help them.
We spoke to Carl V Hill, PhD, MPH, chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer of the Alzheimer’s Association about the results of the Alzheimer’s Association report, 2021 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures.
The American Psychiatric Association names their president-elect, Rebecca W. Brendel, MD, JD who will work for parity and practice, member engagement, accountability, professionalism, and self-regulation. She will assume the office of president in May 2022 at the APA Annual Meeting.
With food insecurity on the rise in the United States, we interview two authors of a study on food insufficiency in the US and its impact on mental health.
Researchers examined the prevalence of depression symptoms compared to clinically diagnosed depression, as well as the association of depression with mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
The purpose of this study was to determine if the habenula integrates rewards with cognition and emotion in obesity and susceptibility to energy imbalance as it does in the case of substance abuse.
While tensions may have been high on both sides of the aisle during the last presidential election, the proportion of Americans who say they are stressed about the presidential election has increased dramatically since 2016.
