Jessica Nye, PhD

Insomnia with objective short sleep duration has been previously associated with adverse cardiometabolic health outcomes, as well as poorer cognitive performance in otherwise noncognitively impaired adults. However, studies demonstrating an increased prevalence of cognitive impairment in this insomnia phenotype are lacking.

This study investigates whether contralateral delay activity occurs early in schizophrenia, possibly indicating that visual short-term memory deficits are a core feature of the disorder.

Researchers performed a double-blind randomized study to investigate the efficacy of tDCS as an augmentation strategy to sertraline in the treatment of vascular depression.

A pooled analysis evaluated reductions in migraine and headache days among patients with chronic migraine and comorbid depression in 2 placebo-controlled, phase 3 trials of fremanezumab.

Is there a causal relationship between depressive disorders and late-life neurodegenerative diseases? Or, is their co-occurrence due to confounding or common risk factors, such as aging?

Researchers conducted an 8-week, open-label, single-arm study and a subsequent 2-stage, sequential, parallel comparison study to assess the use of pimavanserin among patients with Parkinson disease and major depressive disorder.

Untreated stress amongst healthcare professionals can lead to a multitude of issues while prolonged stress can contribute to burnout. In order to ensure the safety of both clinicians and patients, effective and feasible interventions are needed for individuals and organizations.

Evolocumab treatment in addition to statin therapy was found to lower cardiovascular risk in patients with metabolic syndrome and stable atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

Patients with vestibular migraine are more likely to have occipital headaches than those without vestibular symptoms.

Study findings do not support the use of vitamin D3 supplementation to prevent depression in adults.

Investigators conducted a population-based study in which a survey was deployed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and well-being.

Adverse events, including voluntary psychiatric admission, suicide attempt, serious violent incident, voluntary admission to a general medical ward, overdose of medication or painkillers, were highest among the combined group compared to the monotherapies.

Recommendations for addressing mental health among pain management fellows during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Repeated transcranial direct current stimulation over 5 days was able to reduce pain intensity in patients with chronic neuropathic pain due to multiple sclerosis.

Despite being common and often comorbid neurodevelopmental disorders, the study found robust yet subtle differences across age groups and the disorders in terms of cortical and subcortical brain structures.

A third of patients presented with an altered mental state, including 9 patients with unspecified encephalopathy, 7 with encephalitis, and 23 fulfilling the clinical definition for psychiatric diagnoses.

The researchers concluded that the correlation between interregional cortical thinning during maturation and expression patterns of genes associated with multiple psychiatric disorders suggested a common molecular process.

Detection of left ventricular hypertrophy with electrocardiographic Sokolow-Lyon or Cornell voltage criteria was found to predict stroke and improve risk stratification among patients with hypertension.

Emotions, cognitions, and behaviors are significantly associated with pain severity and pain-related interference in IBD, including pain-specific cognitions and behaviors.