June is Men’s Mental Health Month June 19, 2023 Men are less likely than women to seek help for depression, substance use, and stressful life events due to social norms, downplaying symptoms and reluctance to talk.
Carolina launches statewide program focused on improving mental health and reducing suicide June 14, 2023
Handbook of Self-Compassion June 6, 2023 This handbook examines contemporary issues in self-compassion science and practice. It describes advances in the conceptualization and measurement of self-compassion as well as current evidence from cross-sectional and experimental research. The volume addresses the foundational issues of self-compassion, including its relationship to self-esteem and mindfulness. In addition, it considers the...
Day-to-day individual alpha frequency variability measured by a mobile EEG device relates to anxiety June 6, 2023 Investigators used an at-home EEG recording device to monitor the changes in individual alpha frequency (IAF), a unique brain activity signature in the 8-12 Hz frequency band. IAF day-to-day variability was found to be stable over a 1 month period and was also found to be related to trait anxiety.
Balancing the Roles of Clinicians and Police in Separating Firearms from People in a Dangerous Mental Health Crisis: Legal Rules, Policy Tools, and Ethical Considerations June 6, 2023 As our country aims to implement measures to decrease suicide, of which over half are due to firearms, we explore the role of ERPO (Extreme Risk Protection Order) laws to temporarily remove guns from individuals at elevated risk.
Distinct nonlinear spectrotemporal integration in primary and secondary auditory cortices June 6, 2023 We have discovered distinct roles for the primary (A1) and secondary (A2) auditory cortices in the extraction of complex sound features: specifically, frequency modulation is extracted by A1, while A2 encodes the concurrent multifrequency spectrum.
All Hands on Deck: We Need Multiple Approaches To Uncover the Neuroscience behind the Opioid Overdose Crisis June 6, 2023 In this perspective we discuss pre-clinical models of opioid use disorder and argue that we need to consider multiple models to fully understand the human condition.
Probing different paradigms of morphine withdrawal on sleep behavior in male and female C57BL/6J mice June 6, 2023 In this paper we investigated sleep behavior, and patterns in mouse models of opioid use disorder. We investigated sleep behavior also following a sleep deprivation experiment in the same mice after a week of forced abstinence.