Volume 2 Issue 6, June 2024

Black sexually minoritized men (BSMM), Black men who identify as part of a sexual minority group, are disproportionately affected by HIV in the United States. There is a need to shift existing reductive research paradigms to focus on within-group variation, in order to include BSMM who are living with and without HIV.

Using task-based functional MRI, we examined inpatients with heroin use disorder. We found that 15 weeks of medication-assisted treatment (including supplemental group therapy) improved impaired anterior and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex function during an inhibitory control task. Inhibitory control, a core deficit in drug addiction, may be amenable to targeted prefrontal cortex interventions.

This Perspective discusses the importance of increasing access to psychedelic-assisted therapy to sexual and gender minorities and proposes a theoretical framework integrating minority stress theory to inform the research and guide study design.

In this Perspective, the authors present an integrative model aimed at understanding and explaining the mechanisms that account for the impact of stigma on the mental health of multiple marginalized populations.

In this Review, the authors cover the latest understanding of ensemble deep learning models as a means to complement Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis.

Analyzing national registry data, the authors use within-sibling design and two-sample Mendelian randomization to identify bidirectional causal relationships between educational attainment (EA) and mental health conditions, demonstrating that lower levels of EA were differentially associated with some disorders, such as major depressive disorder, but that attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder causally affected EA.

The authors report data from the emergency department AURORA study to characterize resilience in more detail than the absence of psychopathology after trauma.

The authors examined the effect of psychosocial therapy, in addition to medication for heroin dependence, on inhibitory control brain activity and behavioral performance in individuals with heroin use disorder.

Wade and colleagues analyze data from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project to examine whether stress reactivity measured at age 12 may serve as a mechanism linking early institutional deprivation with psychopathology at age 16.

In this study, the authors investigate the association between price inflation and mental health service uptake in the United Kingdom, demonstrating that increasing costs of living exacerbate mental health needs, particularly among adults and older populations.

Authors investigate the effect of awe on attitudes towards solitude using multiple experimental studies, big data analytics and experience sampling.

In this prospective longitudinal study of alcohol consumption and patterns in heavy drinking young adults, significant reductions in alcohol use quantity, frequency and problems were observed from pre- to post-pandemic onset.