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Lack of Asthma Control More Likely With COVID-19-Related Anxiety

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.

Uptake of a National Anxiety and Depression Screening Program in the Cardiac Rehabilitation Setting

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.

Progressive Muscle Relaxation Sessions Improve Completion of CBT Intervention for Severe Social Anxiety

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.

People With PTSD Don’t Have False Memories Any More Than Healthy Adults

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.

Posttraumatic Stress in Patients With Vitiligo

The prevalence, severity, and risk factors of posttraumatic stress in patients with vitiligo is assessed.

Are Family Members of Patients With COVID-19 ARDS at Higher Risk for PTSD?

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?

Severe COVID-19 Infection Associated With Worse Mental Health Symptoms

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.

People With Mood and Anxiety Disorders Learn Differently, Study Shows

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.

Women With GAD Have Autonomic Hypersensitivity After Low-Level Adrenergic Stimulation

This study assessed neural responses with functional magnetic resonance imaging after intravenous infusions of 0.5 and 2.0 μg isoproterenol or saline.

Anxiety Associated With Blunted Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Response

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.