Emily Pond

The purpose of this article is to examine current explanations of masking and try to determine what is lacking.

Amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition, a feature of Alzheimer disease, may be promoted by external factors. The researchers of this study examined the association between the likelihood of amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) scan positivity and ambient air quality in individuals with cognitive impairment.

Patients with fibromyalgia suffer from chronic pain, which limits physical activity and is associated with disturbed sleep. However, the relationship between physical activity, pain, and sleep is unclear.

This study provides evidence that the disruption of protein synthesis in discrete inhibitory neuron subpopulations in the centrolateral amygdala impairs associative memories related to threat and safety, which may contribute to maladaptive behavior in memory disorders such as PTSD.

Researchers analyzed autopsy brain tissue from confirmed obstructive sleep apnea cases for amyloid beta and tau, hallmark proteins of Alzheimer disease.

Criticism perceived in an individual’s own environment may influence the response to criticism from a third-party perspective.

Examining the potential shared genetic liability of sleep deficits and cannabis use behaviors using multiple genomic methods.

One of the first studies to follow a large, population-based, cohort sample of children into adolescence in order to evaluate the natural history of insomnia symptoms and a broad number of relevant clinically and objectively assessed risk factors.

This study highlights the importance of transdiagnostic approaches to psychiatry.

The eligibility criteria of the studies include: a maximum of 10 years having passed from the study publication, geographical diversity of the studies performed, and results pertaining both to animal models of AD, and to humans.

This study investigated the effect of a fully automated dCBT program on insomnia severity, sleep–wake patterns, sleep medication use, and daytime impairment.

The relationship between long-term NB-UVB phototherapy and cardiovascular or cerebrovascular risk in patients with vitiligo was investigated.

The combined burden of ADHD and insomnia may play a unique role in mental functioning and productivity, even after adjustment for other psychiatric comorbidities.

Sleep abnormalities and cognition in bipolar disorder may be related, and may affect cognition in this patient population.

Polygenic risk scores predict the progression from unipolar depression to bipolar or psychiatric disorders.

While the relationship between current mood state and cognitive impairment is unclear, more severe depression has been linked to greater impairment.

Among adults without a clinical diagnosis of ADHD, heavy alcohol use predicted more severe ADHD symptoms.

A subset of patients at risk for Alzheimer disease because of systemic inflammation may benefit from receiving a tumor necrosis factor blocking agent.

Depression and anxiety were significantly associated with sleep difficulties, including trouble falling asleep, early waking, coughing or snoring, feeling too cold or too hot, and having a bad dream.

Use of benzodiazepines, Z-drugs, or other anxiolytics was not associated with incident dementia in either the cohort or nested case-control design.

Healthcare workers comprise the core of outbreak response programs and are at a substantially elevated risk for developing and spreading COVID-19.

Of all the antidepressant efficacy trials conducted between 1991 and 2013, just 1 explicitly included patients who presented with suicidality.

Women, underrepresented minority (URMs), and lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) medical students most frequently reported mistreatment.

A series of metrics for assessing the quality of medical billing practices was proposed by 2 physicians at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in a viewpoint article.

Overall, in all patients with MDD, sleep ultradian cycle number was positively associated with REMS percentage, REMS duration, and REMS/NREMS ratio and negatively associated with REM latency.

Investigators explored concerns with regard to opioid prescribing in compliance with new regulations in a commentary piece.

Cohort study data from 2018 to 2019 suggest poor compliance with the US Food and Drug Administration reporting requirements for clinical trial sponsors.

Women with insomnia were more likely to report prior or current depression than women without insomnia in the study.

In a cohort of osteopathic medical students in the Midwestern United States, burnout was predicted by high stress, poor sleep quality, and excessive smartphone use.

Approximately 20% of women experienced an increase in sleep issues during the presurgery period, although for the majority of women sleep trajectories were generally stable pre- and postsurgery.