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The authors examine the longitudinal relationship between residential greenness and the incidence of depression and anxiety using a sample of 409,556 participants from the UK Biobank.
We launched the ENIGMA-Neuroendocrinology working group with the aim to address knowledge gaps about the role of sex hormones in the brain, which lead to prevalent sex- and gender-based health disparities in biomedical research. We approach this by adopting a lifespan perspective to explore the interplay of hormonal dynamics and mental health in the brain.
Zhao, Liu et al. investigate the relationship between cognitive decline, chronic musculoskeletal pain and brain structure using an algorithm that can detect deviations from normative brain aging.
Chen et al. employed ecological momentary assessment in two different sample populations from the United States and China to develop proxy measures for emotion regulation flexibility.
The authors report an association of particulate matter air pollution with death by suicide in Finland that was particularly evident among males and during the warm season; however, the evidence for the associations by urbanicity or subperiod remained weak.
Loneliness and social isolation are associated with a range of serious negative physical and mental health consequences and can affect people across the lifespan. As these are among the most formidable current public health issues, identifying interventions are paramount.
In this Perspective the authors provide recommendations for researchers conducting school-based mental health research to minimize potential harm in designing and delivering interventions.
A magnetoencephalography study provides evidence that neural signal complexity declines with brain maturation in human fetuses and newborns and the decline occurs faster in male fetuses.
The authors used a large sample of trios from the MoBa cohort study to estimate direct and indirect genetic effects on maternal depression at various time points using trio-GCTA.
Combining accelerometry, electronic diaries and neuroimaging, we found that physical activity is reproducibly linked to better wellbeing in people lacking social contact in everyday life, especially in people at neural and psychological risk of affective disorders.
Physical activity has the potential to combat the negative mental health effects of social isolation. Its benefit is particularly high in people at increased neural and psychological risk for affective disorders.
The authors used a machine learning model to distinguish patients with cocaine use disorder and polysubstance use history from healthy controls, using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging functional connectivity data.
In this paper, authors examine the impact of wildfire-related exposures on emergency department visits for anxiety disorders in the western United States, finding that women and older adults were the most vulnerable.
The authors demonstrate in a cohort of 10,000 young people that peer bullying in childhood predicted poorer mental health in late adolescence, which was partially mediated by the development of interpersonal distrust in mid-adolescence. Findings are interpreted through the lens of Social Safety Theory and suggest a role for individual and school-based interventions.
As the world grapples with the repercussions of climate change, the consequences for physical and mental health have become more salient. Climate mental health unifies multidisciplinary approaches, including climate science, psychiatry and psychology, to inform and shape public policy and action to mitigate the negative effects of climate change on mental health.