Volume 1 Issue 5, May 2023

Climate change is affecting mental health in all communities, especially in young people. It is critical that we consider how to support young people affected by climate change anxiety and the possibilities of looking forward to supporting them.

In early childhood, many children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder experience challenges in adaptive behavior that are needed to meet the demands of daily life. Mandelli et al. propose the use of a data-driven prediction model to identify unique subgroups of autistic preschoolers based on a ‘snapshot’ of adaptive skills.

This Review discusses the adverse consequences of phenotypic imprecision for discovering reproducible biological correlates of psychopathology and provides recommendations for precision phenotyping that will help to overcome these challenges.

Panayiotou et al. performed a panel network analysis to investigate the relationship between time spent on social media and mental health in a large cohort of UK adolescents.

In this study, Mandelli et al. identify early snapshot subtypes of autism spectrum disorder based on adaptive functioning, and propose a predictive model for developmental trajectories in non-verbal cognitive, language and motor domains.

Using a transdiagnostic approach, Hoven et al. investigated the relationship between self-reported psychiatric symptoms and metacognition, from confidence to self-beliefs.

In this study, Eldaief and colleagues use repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation to stimulate two dorsolateral prefrontal cortex targets, associated with either the default or salience network. The authors demonstrate a distinct and anti-correlated pattern of metabolism after stimulation, highlighting potentially useful network-specific targets.

In a large international survey, a minority subset of individuals with Long COVID experienced greater psychiatric symptom severity that was associated with greater reductions in overall health and other specific outcomes.