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The Need for Food and Need for Social Interaction Show Similar Reactions in the Brain
A new study finds similarities in people’s craving for food in response to being hungry and people’s craving for social interaction in response to isolation. The research authors note this supports the notion that social interaction is a basic human need, similar to food and sleep.
Thriving in Old Age
In honor of Older Americans Month in May, I wanted to break down stereotypes about older adults. In the United States, we tend to split older adults into two groups: we celebrate the few older adults who live past 100 with TV stories or newspaper articles, and then we assume most older adults have unbearable burdens and are languishing in understaffed facilities.
Researchers Explore New Technologies to Help People with Autism
Researchers are exploring new ways to use technology to help children and adults with autism. For example, the University of California’s MIND Institute has a targeted program, Autism, Community and Technology, that is working to help make autism services and treatments more accessible and affordable for families in need through technology.
Acclaimed Public Interest Lawyer and New York Times Best-selling Author Bryan Stevenson to Headline Monday's Plenary
Back for the 2024 Annual Meeting: the Monday plenary "Emerging Voices: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging" will feature an Impactful Address from Bryan Stevenson, founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative.
Según una nueva encuesta de la APA, se consideran cigarrillos más inseguros, adictivos entre opciones encuestadas
Más hispanoamericanos informaron que los cigarrillos son más peligrosos y adictivos que la marihuana, los opiáceos, el alcohol, vapear, y la tecnología
Top Diversity and Equity Leaders in Psychiatry Offer Guidelines for Academic Medicine in New Article and Commentary from American Journal of Psychiatry
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) leaders in academic medicine are subject to increasing expectations with limited resources and there is an urgent need for psychiatry departments to commit to fully supporting their efforts, according to an article now available in the American Journal of Psychiatry written by top DEI leaders in academic psychiatry from across the country.
Después de dos años de COVID-19, la ansiedad de los estadounidenses gira en torno a los sucesos globales, afirma la encuesta anual de salud mental de la APA La salud mental de los niños también es una de las principales preocupaciones
Nueva Orleans, Luisiana, 22 de mayo de 2022. Según la encuesta anual de mentes saludables de la Asociación Americana de Psiquiatría (APA, por sus siglas en inglés), la ansiedad de los adultos con respecto a la COVID-19 está en el nivel más bajo registrado: un 50% indicó que está ansioso por ese motivo. Este porcentaje se ubica por debajo del 65% en 2021 y del 75% en 2020. En cambio, los adultos afirman que están un poco o extremadamente ansiosos por los sucesos actuales que ocurren en el mundo (
Con el comienzo de la temporada navideña, aumenta el estrés de los hispanoamericanos, y hay menos preocupación por la COVID-19
Una nueva encuesta de la Asociación Americana de Psiquiatría publicada hoy muestra que, aunque un tercio de los hispanoamericanos informan que prevén estar más estresados en esta temporada navideña que el año pasado, están menos preocupados por contagiar o contraer COVID en una reunión festiva. Dicen estar más preocupados por poder comprar los regalos navideños.
American Psychiatric Association Publishes Updated Guideline on Eating Disorders and Accompanying Implementation Tools
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) recently published an updated practice guideline for treatment of patients with eating disorders. The guideline provides recommendations on assessment and evidence-based pharmacological, psychotherapeutic, and other nonpharmacological treatments for eating disorders. The Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Eating Disorders focuses primarily on anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder and includes new tips for scree
Is Internet Use Changing Our Brains?
It’s easy to see how much the internet has changed our lives. Most adults go online daily and more than one in four are online “almost constantly,” according to a recent Pew Research Center report. But is our extensive online activity affecting our brains? That is the question looked at in a recent study published in World Psychiatry.
Exploring the Potential to Eliminate Traumatic Memories
Erasing or manipulating memories sounds like science fiction, but researchers are moving closer to the ability to target and erase traumatic memories. New advances in the neurobiology of fear memory are leading to potential new approaches to PTSD treatment, including the erasure of traumatic memories.
Building Resilience at Any Age
Resilience is the ability to adapt well to stress, trauma, tragedy or threats; to bounce back from difficult experiences and to overcome adversity. Resilience is a complex and active process, influenced by both genetics and environment with the potential to change over time. It is also clearly a useful and desirable quality as people across the globe cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.