Feature Channels: Psychology and Psychiatry

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When it comes to worrying about the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study demonstrates that people are more concerned about whether their family members could contract the virus or if they are unknowingly spreading the virus themselves than they are with contracting it. The study, conducted by researchers from the Lifespan Brain Institute (LiBI) of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, also shows how increased resilience is able to reduce rates of anxiety and depression during the pandemic.

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Girls with anorexia nervosa can have stunted growth and may not reach their full height potential, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

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We make decisions based on not only our own learning experience, but also learning from others. But with the presence of other people’s choices, how do we learn from them to better inform our own learning? Is social learning processed differently from direct learning? In a new study, published in "Science Advances", neuroscientist Lei Zhang of the University of Vienna provides empirical evidence that there are parallel computations for direct learning and social learning and they are carried out in distinct but interacting regions in the brain.

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Disturbed sleep patterns do not cause Alzheimer’s disease but people who are at high genetic risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease may be more likely to be a “morning person,” have shorter sleep duration and other measures of sleep disturbance and are less likely to have insomnia. The study is published in the August 19, 2020, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

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The COVID-19 pandemic turned our society on its head. One of the changes was a strange new reality where parents became school teachers overnight.

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Researchers for years have understood how attitudes held with certainty might predict behavior, but a series of new studies led by a University at Buffalo psychologist suggest there may be a more general disposition at work that predicts the certainty of newly formed evaluations, just as they do for pre-existing opinions.

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Study finds that older adults with depression are showing resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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When it comes to improving care, patients really thrive with a little TLC. Researchers from Emory University, University of Washington School of Medicine, and their colleagues in India compared a collaborative care model with usual care in 404 patients with diabetes and moderate-to-severe depressive symptoms. More than 70 percent in the group receiving the integrated approach had improvements in diabetes and depression. The key to the model is creating patient-care managers who coordinate care with doctors, nurses and family members. The patients thrive with this kind of attention.

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Repeated exposure to high-stress calls for service and ongoing exposure to stress without relief were two of the contributing factors that could lead law enforcement officers to become susceptible to adverse events while performing their duties, according to a new study published in BMC Public Health by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

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Psychosocial needs of people affected by cancer are not being adequately met due to the disruption in services caused by Covid-19, a new report in the journal Psycho-Oncology reports.

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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability. Post-injury distress is common, with many individuals experiencing chronic anxiety and depressive symptoms as well as chronic pain.

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Patients with early onset psychosis may benefit from treatment for depression, including with anti-depressants alongside other medication, new research shows.

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Transport noise is a major problem in Europe, with over 100 million people living in areas where road traffic noise exceeds levels greater than 55dB, the health-based threshold set by the EU.

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Most of modern medicine has physical tests or objective techniques to define much of what ails us.

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A study showed that patients receiving messages from a chatbot used a third fewer opioids after fracture surgery, and their overall pain level fell, too

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A new study led by University of Illinois Chicago researcher Rachel Gordon, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Texas at Austin, examines the accuracy of these peer group classifications based on similar values, behaviors, and interests.

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Eating while doing something perceptually-demanding makes it more difficult to notice when you feel full, shows new research from the University of Sussex.