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·April 9, 2024·4 min read

Childhood Loneliness Linked to Later Psychosis

Childhood loneliness significantly increases the likelihood of experiencing a psychotic episode later in life, particularly in women. Through an observational case-control study involving 285 first-episode psychosis patients and 261 controls, the research distinguished the effects of subjective loneliness from objective social isolation.

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·April 8, 2024·4 min read

Cannabis in Pregnancy Linked to Autism and ADHD Risk

Researchers identified a strong link between prenatal cannabis use disorder (CUD) and heightened risks of ADHD, ASD, and ID in children. The study analyzed over 222,000 mother-offspring pairs in Australia, revealing that children of mothers with prenatal CUD were almost twice as likely to develop these neurodevelopmental disorders.

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·March 27, 2023·3 min read

Bodies of People With Mental Illness Are Biologically Older Than Their Actual Age

People with a long-term history of mental illness, including bipolar disorder and anxiety disorders, have blood biomarkers that reflect increased biological aging. The findings may help explain why those with mental health disorders tend to have shorter life spans and are more prone to age-related diseases than the general population.

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·March 27, 2023·3 min read

Childhood Trauma Leaves Lasting Mental Scars on Women and Men Differently

Child abuse and neglect affect men and women differently, a new study reports. Women are more affected by childhood emotional trauma and sexual abuse, whereas men are more affected by childhood physical and emotional neglect.

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·March 26, 2023·3 min read

The More Traumatic the Childhood, the Angrier the Adult

Children who experience adversity and trauma have a higher risk of developing depression and anxiety as adults. In turn, trauma-based anxiety and depression can increase anger. The worse the trauma children experience, the angrier they become as adults.

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·March 26, 2023·4 min read

Odors From Other People’s Sweat Can Help Treat Social Anxiety

Exposure to another person's bodily odors extracted from sweat can help boost therapies for social anxiety and other mental health disorders.

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·June 7, 2022·4 min read

COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Associated With Depression

People who believe conspiracies about COVD-19, including vitamins can cure coronavirus, or that governments are using the virus and vaccines to control the population, are more prone to developing depression and anxiety.

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·June 6, 2022·5 min read

Babies Exposed to COVID in the Womb Show Neurodevelopmental Changes

Babies whose mothers contracted COVID-19 while pregnant had greater difficulties relaxing and adapting their bodies while being held than those whose mothers did not contract covid. Additionally, babies born to infected mothers had greater difficulty in controlling their head and shoulder movements. Findings suggest prenatal COVID-19 infection may impact motor function development in babies.