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20 papers
Putting feelings into words, called affect labeling, can reduce how strong emotions feel. It often does not feel like a deliberate way to control feelings. The review finds that affect labeling shows effects similar to a deliberate strategy called reappraisal across people's experience, bodily responses, brain activity, and behavior. The…
This study surveyed 426 Filipino adults online during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic to see if perceived stress helps explain links between social support and mental health. Using standard questionnaires, the researchers found that lower perceived stress was linked to more positive feelings and less anxiety and depression when…
This chapter explains three ways people think about health. It says the best view — the "complete state" — includes both the lack of disease and the presence of positive mental capacities and functioning. The author reviews studies that support using this complete-state view for mental health and suggests that…
This article explains that a brain network called the default mode network (DMN) supports self-related thoughts and autobiographical memory and helps form a stable sense of self. In people with PTSD, the DMN shows substantially reduced connectivity at rest compared with healthy people, and bigger reductions are linked with worse…
Researchers studied 85 married couples (170 people) to see if worries about close relationships (attachment anxiety) link to stress hormones and immune cells. People with higher attachment anxiety had higher saliva cortisol across three days and lower counts of several T-cell types in blood. The study is observational, mostly white…
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…
Renewed interest in the effects of psychedelics in the treatment of psychiatric disorders warrants a better understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the effects of these substances. During the past two decades, state-of-the-art studies of animals and humans have yielded new important insights into the molecular, cellular, and systems-level actions…
This systematic review looked at mental health in transgender and gender diverse (TGD) children and adolescents by examining 33 studies found in Scopus, PubMed, and Web of Science using PRISMA guidelines. It found that TGD youth often have higher levels of anxiety, depression, and other emotional or behavioral problems (such…
This review says work-related stress has grown and harms both workers (for example, depression and anxiety) and companies (for example, more absenteeism and lower productivity). It describes two prevention approaches: individual approaches that teach coping and resilience (including mindfulness) and organizational changes that alter work conditions (including adding natural elements).…
This narrative review summarizes what is known about eating disorders, focusing on anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), and binge eating disorder (BED). The authors say these conditions often start in adolescence or early adulthood, are diagnosed more often in young women, and can harm physical, mental, and social health.…
Researchers reviewed 15 studies involving about 2,200 people to see how two kinds of psychedelic experiences — losing the sense of a separate self (called ego-dissolution) and feeling more connected to others and the world (called connectedness) — relate to therapeutic change. They found both experiences are linked to a…
This study looked at emotions tied to personal meanings in 104 men in Poland who were measured for midlife crisis. Men were put into three groups by a Midlife Crisis Scale: high (27 men), medium (37), and low (40). The high-crisis group had less self-enhancing and less positive affect, and…
