Researchers have found significant associations between posttraumatic stress disorder and the risk of all-cause dementia. We spoke to 4 different experts on the subject.
Uncontrolled asthma is more likely among adults with asthma who have higher anxiety due to COVID-19, while most parents of children with food allergy (FA) reported unchanged or decreased FA-specific anxiety (FAA) due to COVID-19.
To evaluate implementation of the screening protocol or anxiety and depression, data were sourced from the Danish health care system, a nationwide survey was conducted, and health care professionals were interviewed.
University students with high social anxiety from Reykjavík University in Iceland were recruited for this study. Participants had full access to an automated, web-based cognitive behavioral therapy.
The researchers used a depression-specific version of the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm to measure participants’ tendencies to remember certain stimuli they hadn’t heard before.
Are family members of patients in the ICU with acute respiratory distress syndrome at greater risk of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms when the patient has COVID-19?
To help the medical community better understand the association between long COVID and mental health, researchers conducted an observational study that included 6 countries: Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
Previous studies show anxiety and depression tied with increased punishment learning, while others show reduced reward sensitivity. The researchers of the current study wanted to obtain more specific information to inform how doctors treat mood and anxiety disorders.
In a crossover randomized clinical trial, women with generalized anxiety disorder and age-matched control participants underwent fMRI during randomized intravenous bolus infusions of isoproterenol and saline in an effort to ascertain if abnormal physiological, perceptual, or neural responses during peripheral β-adrenergic stimulation indicate interoceptive dysfunction.