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13 papers
This review looks at how large disasters, including COVID-19, affect mental health and discusses digital solutions. The authors report higher rates of anxiety, depression and posttraumatic stress after disasters and give survey numbers from the COVID-19 outbreak. They say many countries have limited mental health services that could be stretched…
The NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) is a voluntary guide published in January 2023 to help organizations of all sizes manage the risks of AI and promote trustworthy, responsible AI. It sets out core trustworthiness goals (like safety, fairness, privacy, and reliability) and a practical structure of…
This ADDA article explains ADHD masking — when people hide or copy others to appear "normal." Masking can help someone function but often uses a lot of mental and emotional energy. The article says masking can delay diagnosis, cause burnout or mood problems, and may help explain why women are…
This 2022 paper by Stephen Porges presents Polyvagal Theory as a way to study how feelings of safety come from the body's nervous system. It proposes that safety is not just a mood but has measurable brain–body signals. The paper explains neural pathways (like the ventral vagal complex and a…
This review paper suggests that problems in body-based senses — especially the vestibular system (balance/motion) and the somatosensory system (touch and body position) — may help explain many symptoms of trauma-related disorders. The authors propose that trauma can disrupt low-level, brainstem sensory processing and that this disruption can cascade into…
The article says long-term health changes work best when they become a routine. Routines are repeated behaviors that take time to form and are different from habits that rely on a specific cue. Research and examples in the paper show routines help with things like sleep, family functioning, and keeping…
This review looked at 15 studies (published 2001–2011) to see whether Qigong affects anxiety, depression, and psychological well-being. The authors pooled three studies of people with type II diabetes and found small-to-moderate effect sizes suggesting reduced depression and anxiety and better diabetes-specific quality of life, but the statistical uncertainty was…
This paper reviews evidence and ideas about using mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) as a non-drug way to help adults with ADHD. It explains that ADHD is linked to abnormal activity in specific brain circuits and that the usual drug treatment, methylphenidate, helps some people but has limits. The authors argue…
The paper proposes a clinical framework that helps people notice and work with body sensations tied to emotions. It calls this mindful interoceptive awareness and says focusing on inner body signals in a sustained, nonjudgmental way can make those sensations clearer and allow a process the authors call somatic reappraisal.…
This review explains why fatigue is hard to study and how artificial intelligence (AI) might help. Fatigue is a personal, subjective feeling that shows up in many ways and comes from many interacting body systems. That makes it hard to measure, compare across people, and link to clear biological causes.…
This review examines the long-running debate about what causes myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). The authors say history often shows an early “dogma” explanation is later replaced by scientific study, and they argue the same is happening for ME/CFS. They claim psychological explanations remain common despite what they call compelling…
