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Anxiety Symptoms Assessed by the Goldberg Anxiety and Depression Scale, Lifestyle Habits, and Cardiometabolic Risk in Spanish Workers.

Garrido Sepúlveda L, Tárraga López PJ, Vicente-Herrero MT et al.Actas espanolas de psiquiatria

BackgroundAnxiety has been increasingly recognized as a relevant contributor to cardiometabolic dysfunction through neuroendocrine, inflammatory, and behavioral mechanisms. However, evidence evaluating the relationship between anxiety symptoms, lifestyle habits, and cardiometabolic risk in large occupational populations remains limited. This study aimed to analyze the…

Comparable Acute Antidepressant-like Effects of Two Subanesthetic Ketamine Doses Are Associated with Divergent Region-Specific Molecular Responses After Adolescent Chronic Stress.

Zivanovic A, Lukic I, Glavonic E et al.International journal of molecular sciences

Ketamine produces rapid antidepressant-like effects across a range of subanesthetic doses, yet how dose shapes behavioral efficacy and region-specific molecular signaling following adolescent chronic unpredictable stress (CUS) is not well understood. Here, we examined the behavioral and molecular consequences of two subanesthetic ketamine…

Cohort profile: The Mount Sinai Perinatal Ambulatory Care Cohort, a longitudinal electronic health record cohort of perinatal care utilization.

Silverman ME, Yin Y, Sandin S et al.Epidemiology and health

Depression, anxiety, and PTSD among Palestinian detention survivors assessed during the ongoing October 2023 war: Prevalence, comorbidity, and the limits of individual risk factors.

Alsairafi M, Hassan N, AbuJamei Y et al.Torture : quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture

Associations Between Interoceptive Awareness, Psychological State, and Physical Performance in Sport-Science Students: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Li Z, Koçoğlu EM, Eken Ö et al.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Interoceptive awareness may support stress regulation in sport, but its association with objective physical performance remains unclear. This study examined relationships between self-reported interoceptive awareness, perceived stress, anxiety, sleep quality, and field-based performance in sport-science students. METHODS: Eighty-five students (54 men, 31…

The Temporal Relationships Between Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and Social Anxiety: A Cross-Lagged Panel Study.

Feng Y, Peng LBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)

Empirical evidence increasingly supports an association between non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and social anxiety symptoms among Chinese adolescents, although their temporal relationship remains inadequately established. To address this gap, the present study employed a cross-lagged panel design to examine the longitudinal relationships between NSSI…

Dungeons & Dragons in Schools: An Underexplored Opportunity for Early Anxiety Support.

Hatton B, House MBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)

Adolescent anxiety presents a growing challenge for schools, with emotional difficulties affecting educational engagement, attendance and wellbeing before some pupils meet thresholds for specialist mental health support. This creates a need to investigate accessible and non-stigmatising forms of early support within schools. Emerging…

Longitudinal Changes in Anxiety and Depression Following First Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Implantation: A Prospective Observational Study.

Sgaramella V, Robles AG, Chieppa DRR et al.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)

Background and Objectives: ICD implantation is associated with psychological distress, but longitudinal patterns of anxiety and depression remain incompletely characterized. To evaluate the prevalence and longitudinal evolution of anxiety and depressive symptoms in patients undergoing first-time ICD implantation. Materials and Methods: This prospective…

Examining the Impact of Neurodevelopmental Nicotine Exposure on Cortical Excitation/Inhibition Homeostasis Markers in a Cerebral Organoid Model of Schizophrenia.

Kuralay Zhaksylyk, Mohammed H Sarikahya, Enzo Pérez-Valenzuela et al.Journal of neurochemistry

Somatic Blood Mosaicism and Psychiatric Disease: Current Evidence and Causal Limits.

Belbe AA, Pîrlog LM, Pilatec AN et al.Genes

Somatic blood mosaicism is an established feature of ageing and a heterogeneous marker of haematologic cancer and inflammatory and vascular risk, but its psychiatric evidence base remains small. This structured critical narrative review evaluates mutation-defined clonal haematopoiesis, clonal haematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP),…

Climate-Related Distress: Latent Profiles of Eco-Anxiety, PTSD and CPTSD Symptoms and Associated Resilience and Vulnerability Factors in a Portuguese Sample.

Fonte J, Martins AQ, Torres N et al.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)

Climate change is increasingly recognized as a significant stressor affecting well-being, yet responses to climate-related distress are heterogeneous and may reflect the interplay of eco-anxiety and trauma-related symptoms. This study used latent profile analysis to identify patterns of climate-related distress and examined their…

Serum Melatonin at Admission and Discharge in Schizophrenia: A Prospective Longitudinal Controlled Study.

Armando Luis Morera-Fumero, Estefanía Diaz-Mesa, Silvia Yelmo-Cruz et al.Biomolecules

Schizophrenia is associated with circadian and neuroendocrine disturbances, but whether circulating melatonin changes with acute clinical state remains uncertain. This prospective longitudinal controlled study measured serum melatonin at 12:00 and 00:00 in 43 hospitalized patients after admission and before discharge, and during one…

From Exposure to Psychological Harm: A Socioecological and Trauma-Informed Narrative Review of Bullying, School Violence, and Youth Mental Health.

Shahrour G, Ibrahim FMBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)

Bullying and school violence are preventable exposures and potentially modifiable risk factors for adverse youth mental health and educational outcomes. This critical narrative review integrates epidemiological, longitudinal, genetically informed, quasi-experimental, meta-analytic, and intervention evidence on bullying, cyberbullying, selected forms of school violence, and…

When the AI Self Becomes the Ideal Self: A Systematic Review of AI-Enhanced Self-Discrepancy, Appearance Anxiety, and Protective Psychological Factors.

Soman A, Mishra N, Chakladar SBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)

Artificial intelligence (AI) appearance technologies, including beauty filters, augmented reality (AR) modification and generative avatars, have individualized digital self-presentation. Unlike traditional media, these technologies create self-referential appearance ideals that create novel forms of self-discrepancy and appearance anxiety. A systematic review was conducted in…

Verbal memory impairments predict social connection via anhedonia: a transdiagnostic, population-based study.

Di Matteo I, Lavigne KM, Raucher-Chéné DPsychiatry research

Longitudinal Trajectories of Housing Quality and Their Associations with Elderly Depression: A Prospective Cohort Study Based on the China Longitudinal Aging Social Survey, 2018-2023.

Jiang C, Jiang J, Tang YBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)

Prior studies have demonstrated the crucial role of housing quality in the mental health of older adults. However, there remains insufficient evidence regarding how longitudinal trajectories of housing quality relate to elderly depression. Based on the China Longitudinal Aging Social Survey conducted from…

Sex, Perceived Social Support, and Physical Activity as Correlates of Depressive Symptoms in Informal Caregivers: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Spanish National Health Survey 2023.

Barrios-Fernandez S, Salas-Gómez D, Mendoza-Holgado C et al.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)

Background/objectivesInformal caregivers are at an increased risk of developing depressive symptoms; however, the combined role of sex, perceived social support (PSS), and physical activity (PA) in this population remains insufficiently characterized. This study aimed to describe the prevalence of depressive symptoms among informal…

Direct and Indirect Links Between Peer Relationships, Father Involvement and Self-Harm Among Rural Chinese Adolescents.

Yu M, Houghton S, Chapman EChildren (Basel, Switzerland)

Objectives: Epidemiological surveys in rural China have reported comparatively high adolescent self-harm rates. Evidence on how peer relationships and father involvement jointly relate to this risk and on whether depression or anxiety helps to explain those links is more limited. This study investigated…

Increased Serum TNF-α Levels Are Associated With Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A Case-Control Study.

Nur TA, Ahmed ZL, Emon FA et al.Health science reports

Mapping emotional contagion: directional predictive patterns of depressive symptoms among middle-aged and older Chinese couples.

Qu D, Zhu A, Lin J et al.Psychological medicine