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The study examined 39 FDA Warning Letters about CBD products issued from 2015 to 2019. It found most violations were online (websites and social media) and that nearly all letters (97%) cited companies marketing CBD as an unapproved drug. The letters also showed widespread claims that CBD could treat many…
This randomized trial tested whether cutting daily smartphone screen time to 2 hours or less for three weeks changed mental health in healthy students. 111 students (mean age 22.7 years, mean screen time 276 minutes/day) were assigned to the 3-week limit (n=58) or to continue usual use (n=53). After the…
The study measured very early brain responses to emotional and neutral pictures in 119 undergraduate students (91 female, mean age 23.5 ± 3.6). It compared 30 fearful-avoidant people with 32 secure, 28 anxious-preoccupied, and 29 dismissive-avoidant participants. Fearful-avoidant individuals showed patterns in the early ERP components P1 (110–165 ms) and…
The authors reviewed and combined results from studies that looked at whether the subjective experiences caused by ketamine or psilocybin (for example, dissociation or mystical-type experiences) are linked to how much patients improve with treatment for depression or substance use disorder. They examined 23 ketamine papers and 8 psilocybin papers…
This study pooled data from 19 observational studies with 17,746 adolescents and young adults (ages 10–25) to measure how resilience and mental health are related. The authors found that higher resilience was linked to fewer negative mental-health signs (correlation r = -0.391) and to stronger positive mental-health outcomes (r =…
