Following 133 college students for three years, those reporting more social mistreatment showed steeper increases in alcohol problems. Faster response inhibition on a lab task blunted that link -- but the crucial three-way test was not significant (p = 0.10).
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A network meta-analysis of 23 trials and 1,485 older adults ranked Tai Chi first for depressive symptoms (SUCRA 83.3%). But every head-to-head comparison between exercise types was statistically non-significant, with intervals as wide as -7.02 to 6.00.
Following 206 Mexican-origin youth from age 10 to 18, lower family income predicted larger amygdala and hippocampal volumes, and teens' own sense of hardship predicted depression. But brain volume predicted no depression at all, and the mediation model fit worse than one without it.
In a 4-week randomized trial of 201 working adults, distress scores fell from 29.1 to 14.6 in the app group -- but rose from 20.3 to 23.6 in the control group, and 21 people quit the app arm against 2 in the control arm.
In a randomized trial of 60 adults with OCD, 77.8% of those receiving 12 CBT sessions met response criteria versus 7.7% on the waitlist, and 37% reached remission. The brain's No-Go P3 signal, an electrical marker of inhibition, increased alongside.
Across 306 enacted state budgets for 2021-2026, states explicitly allocated $7.2 billion to suicide prevention and crisis services, rising from $1.05 to $6.55 per person. But 21.6% of state-years allocated nothing, and a state's suicide rate bore no relationship to what it budgeted.
133 Danish clinicians rated 238 patients' ICD-11 personality trait domains both as present/absent and on a 0-4 scale. The yes/no ratings tracked a validated measure moderately well (r = .51 to .57) -- except for Negative Affectivity, where the correlation fell to .27.
In a retrospective study of 13,007 US patients with psychiatric diagnoses, those starting semaglutide had fewer recorded cognitive problems at 12 months than those on no diabetes drug (mean score 11.1 vs 14.9). But semaglutide was no better than sitagliptin, which undercuts the drug-specific explanation.
A meta-analysis of 21 studies and 2,180 ICU survivors found that once results were adjusted for publication bias, ICU diaries had no statistically significant effect on PTSD incidence (RR 0.73, CI 0.47-1.12) or severity. Modest benefits for anxiety and depression survived.
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