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Acne and Mental Health

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Emily Pond

Acne’s association with low self-esteem, stress, anxiety, and depression and their affects, are explored.

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Current State of Digital Health Technologies in Mental Healthcare

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Jessica Nye, PhD

Researchers deployed a survey to clinicians to assess their use of digital technology for mental healthcare.

Treatment-Resistant Depression Associated With Pre-Existing Conditions for Adverse Events, Drug-Drug Interactions

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Madeline Morr

Researchers sought to evaluate the prevalence of pre-existing conditions for adverse events and potential drug-drug interactions related to selected atypical antipsychotics and other non-antidepressant agents among adults with treatment-resistant depression.

Position Paper: The Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health

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Heather R. Johnson

Can the COVID-19 pandemic become an opportunity to improve mental health care?

Mental Health Resilience Associated With Fewer COVID-19 Worries

Resilience helps alleviate COVID-19-related worries as well as anxiety and depression.

Excoriation Disorder, Skin-Centered Body Dysmorphic Disorder: The Dermatologist’s Role

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Rose Reeb

A review of the diagnostic criteria and multi-disciplinary management approach for skin-centered body dysmorphic disorder and excoriation disorder is provided.

Study Identifies Risk Factors for Psychotic-Like Experiences in Children

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Emily Pond

Research implicates environmental risk factors, including correlates of urbanicity, deprivation, and environmental toxins, in psychotic-like experiences in school-aged children.

Mortality Down but Health Care Costs Up From Gun Violence

From 2005 to 2016, there was a decrease in gunshot wound mortality, accompanied by increasing mean costs.

Incidence, Severity of Intimate Partner Violence Up During Pandemic

The incidence and severity of physical intimate partner violence have been higher during the COVID-19 pandemic than in the previous three years.

Sleep Fragmentation Associated with Cognitive Impairment in ICU Survivors

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Amit Akirov, MD

Early sleep fragmentation, estimated by actigraphy, was found to be associated with worse cognitive impairment shortly after critical illness.

Simple Coping Behaviors Linked to Reduced Anxiety, Depression During COVID-19

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Madeline Morr

Simple coping behaviors may protect against anxiety and depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown.