Air pollution, depressive and anxiety disorders, and brain effects: a systematic review

CG Zundel, P Ryan, C Brokamp, A Heeter, Y Huang… - Neurotoxicology, 2022 - Elsevier
Accumulating data suggest that air pollution increases the risk of internalizing
psychopathology, including anxiety and depressive disorders. Moreover, the link between …

[HTML][HTML] Social media use, mental health and sleep: A systematic review with meta-analyses

O Ahmed, EI Walsh, A Dawel, K Alateeq… - Journal of affective …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background The literature investigating the relationship between social media use, mental
health, and sleep has produced inconsistent findings. Younger people spend more time on …

Cause or symptom? A longitudinal test of bidirectional relationships between emotion regulation strategies and mental health symptoms.

A Dawel, Y Shou, A Gulliver, N Cherbuin, M Banfield… - Emotion, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Previous work has generally conceptualized emotion regulation as contributing to mental
health outcomes, and not vice versa. The present study challenges this assumption by using …

Impact of stress on brain morphology: Insights into structural biomarkers of stress-related disorders

N Cardoner, R Andero, M Cano… - Current …, 2024 - benthamdirect.com
Exposure to acute and chronic stress has a broad range of structural effects on the brain.
The brain areas commonly targeted in the stress response models include the …

Altered hippocampus and amygdala subregion connectome hierarchy in major depressive disorder

Y Jacob, LS Morris, G Verma, SB Rutter… - Translational …, 2022 - nature.com
The hippocampus and amygdala limbic structures are critical to the etiology of major
depressive disorder (MDD). However, there are no high-resolution characterizations of the …

The landscape of hervRNAs transcribed from human endogenous retroviruses across human body sites

J She, M Du, Z Xu, Y Jin, Y Li, D Zhang, C Tao, J Chen… - Genome Biology, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs), the remnants of ancient
retroviruses, account for 8% of the human genome, but most have lost their transcriptional …

Dynorphin/kappa opioid receptor system regulation on amygdaloid circuitry: Implications for neuropsychiatric disorders

A Limoges, HE Yarur, HA Tejeda - Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Amygdaloid circuits are involved in a variety of emotional and motivation-related behaviors
and are impacted by stress. The amygdala expresses several neuromodulatory systems …

Neural changes following EQUINE‐ASSISTED therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder: A longitudinal multimodal imaging study

X Zhu, B Suarez‐Jimenez, S Zilcha‐Mano… - Human brain …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background While effective treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) exist, many
individuals, including military personnel and veterans fail to respond to them. Equine …

Depression interacts with allostatic load to predict cognitive decline in middle age

G Perlman, H Cogo-Moreira, CY Wu… - …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Allostatic load (AL) indicates the cumulative impact of stress on homeostatic
mechanisms. Depression and AL have been associated with cognitive deficits, but it is …

Designing individualised virtual reality applications for supporting depression: A feasibility study

N Baghaei, L Stemmet, I Khaliq, A Ahmadi… - Companion of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Mental health conditions pose a major challenge for individuals, healthcare systems and
society–and the COVID-19 pandemic has likely worsened this issue. According to the …