Several recent studies suggest that placebos administered without deception (i.e., non-deceptive placebos) can help people manage a variety of highly distressing clinical disorders and nonclinical impairments. However, whether non-deceptive placebos represent genuine psychobiological effects is unknown. Here we address this issue by demonstrating across two experiments that during a highly arousing negative picture viewing task,… Continue reading #Placebos without deception reduce self-report and neural measures of emotional #distress
Category: Psychiatry
Increased rates of #eating disorders and their symptoms in women with major #depressive disorder and #anxiety disorders
Individuals with eating disorders (EDs) have increased rates of major depressive disorder (MDD) and anxiety disorders. Yet, few studies have investigated rates of EDs and their symptoms in individuals presenting with MDD/anxiety disorders. Identifying potential disordered eating in people with MDD/anxiety disorders is important because even subclinical disordered eating is associated with reduced quality of… Continue reading Increased rates of #eating disorders and their symptoms in women with major #depressive disorder and #anxiety disorders
Increasing Emergency Department Visits for #Mental Health Conditions in the United States
..Nationally representative samples of ED visits in the United States were assessed using a repeated cross-sectional analysis of National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey data. This study used diagnoses associated with each ED visit to identify changes in proportions in mental health diagnostic categories (psychiatric diagnoses only, substance use–related diagnoses only, or both, based on… Continue reading Increasing Emergency Department Visits for #Mental Health Conditions in the United States
The rich have one more thing you don’t: Better #sleep
..Of the adults surveyed, only 55% of people living below the poverty threshold received seven to eight hours of sleep per night. For adults making 400% above the poverty threshold, that number rose to 66.6%. In 2014, the poverty threshold was $11,670 for a single-person household and $23,850 for a four-person household. ..Sleep affects many… Continue reading The rich have one more thing you don’t: Better #sleep
Effect of Long-term Vitamin #D3 Supplementation vs Placebo on Risk of Depression or Clinically Relevant #Depressive Symptoms and on Change in Mood Scores A Randomized Clinical Trial
Low levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D have been associated with higher risk for depression later in life, but there have been few long-term, high-dose large-scale trials.. Randomized assignment in a 2 × 2 factorial design to vitamin D3 (2000 IU/d of cholecalciferol) and fish oil or placebo; 9181 were randomized to vitamin D3 and 9172 were randomized to… Continue reading Effect of Long-term Vitamin #D3 Supplementation vs Placebo on Risk of Depression or Clinically Relevant #Depressive Symptoms and on Change in Mood Scores A Randomized Clinical Trial
Mild to moderate partial #sleep deprivation is associated with increased #impulsivity and decreased positive affect in young adults
The effects of mild–moderate partial sleep deprivation on affective and cognitive functioning were evaluated in a naturalistic home environment, mimicking short sleep typically caused by demands from work or society. A total of 52 healthy individuals aged 18–35 was included in an 11-day study protocol. Participants slept at home, and sleep patterns were observed using… Continue reading Mild to moderate partial #sleep deprivation is associated with increased #impulsivity and decreased positive affect in young adults
Google searches for #suicide and suicide risk factors in the early stages of the #COVID-19 pandemic
A novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), which causes the COVID-19 respiratory illness, emerged in December of 2019 and has since spread globally. The dramatic lifestyle changes and stressors associated with this pandemic pose a threat to mental health and have the potential to exacerbate risk factors for suicide. We used autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models to… Continue reading Google searches for #suicide and suicide risk factors in the early stages of the #COVID-19 pandemic
The temporal association between incident late‐life #depression and incident #dementia
There is an established association between depression and subsequent dementia. The present study examined temporal associations between incident late‐life depression and subsequent dementia, also considering age and sex.. ..Incident depression was associated with a higher risk of subsequent dementia (incidence rate ratios (IRR) adjusted for age and sex: IRR = 1.58, 95% CI = 1.51‐1.64).… Continue reading The temporal association between incident late‐life #depression and incident #dementia
Risk factors of excessive daytime #sleepiness in a prospective population‐based cohort
Although excessive daytime sleepiness is commonly evaluated in clinical and research settings using the Epworth Sleepiness Scale, few studies have assessed the factors associated with its incidence in the general population. We prospectively investigated the predictors of incident and persistent excessive daytime sleepiness in 2,751 subjects (46.1% men, mean age 56.0 ± 9.8 years) from… Continue reading Risk factors of excessive daytime #sleepiness in a prospective population‐based cohort
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