Top Research Papers on Mental Health

This work has shown that language, long considered a window into the human mind, can now be quantitatively harnessed as data with powerful computer-based natural language processing to also provide a method of inferring mental health.

This article will concern you to try reading stress and mental health as one of the reading material to finish quickly.

The definitions of employee mental health, the costs of employeemental illness to organizations and to society as a whole, and the role of the workplace in promoting positive mental health are reviewed.

It is argued there is now good theoretical rationale and growing evidence of water insecurity as a possible driver of mental ill‐health, and some nascent evidence suggests that emotionally meaningful interactions with water might improve mental health outcomes.

The evidence is summarised suggesting that positive mental health and mental illness are two distinct but interrelated domains of mental health; each having shared and unique predictors, influencing each other via complex interrelationships.

There have been changes in mental health and health status at an individual level since the outbreak of COVID-19, and the observed predictors should be addressed in order to maintain mental health.

This review aims to answer whether and to what extent lifestyle and related nutrition affect mental health and whether there is scientific evidence supporting a link between diet and mental health.

It was found that a sizable proportion of participants responded that others would hold a negative attitude towards (former) mental patients, especially with regard to engaging in closer personal relationships.

Effective, evidence-based interventions that can help enhance the sense of safety, hope, and optimism, as well as serve to promote social connectedness for those who are impacted by natural disasters are discussed.

This work focuses on the epidemiology of Selected Mental Disorders in Later Life and the treatment of psychiatric disorders in the Elderly with a focus on alcohol and substance abuse.

Abstract We analyze the role of education as a determinant of mental health. To do this, we leverage the age‐specific exposure to an educational reform as an instrument for years of education and find that the treated cohorts gained more education. This increase in education had an effect on mental health more than 2 decades later. An extra year of education led to a lower likelihood of reporting any symptoms related to depression (11.3%) and anxiety (9.8%). More educated people also suffered less severe symptoms – depression (6.1%) and anxiety (5.6%). These protective effects are higher among...

First published in 1972, A History of the Mental Health Services is a revised and abridged version of both Lunacy, Law and Conscience and Mental Health and Social Policy, rewriting the material from the end of the Second World War to the passing of the Mental Health Act 1959, and adding a new section which runs from 1959 to the Social Services Act 1970. The story starts with the first legislative mention of the 'furiously and dangerously mad' as a class for whom some treatment should be provided, traces the development of reform and experiment in the nineteenth century, and the creation of the...

A greater body of more rigorous research is needed to understand and prevent suicide in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), with the goal of highlighting findings from under-researched, over-burdened settings.

Mental health impacts of climate change have the potential to affect a significant proportion of the population and more research is needed to document the extent of these impacts as well as the best options for mitigating and treating them.

This article presents an introduction to, and a systematic review of, current ML work regarding psycho-socially based mental health conditions from the computing and HCI literature, and reflects on the current state-of-the-art of ML work for mental health.

We provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of social media on mental health by leveraging a unique natural experiment: the staggered introduction of Facebook across US colleges. Our analysis couples data on student mental health around the years of Facebook’s expansion with a generalized difference-in-differences empirical strategy. We find that the rollout of Facebook at a college had a negative impact on student mental health. It also increased the likelihood with which students reported experiencing impairments to academic performance due to poor mental health. Additional evidenc...

The aim of this work was to link current understanding about insomnia mechanisms with current knowledge about mental health dysregulatory mechanisms, which represent important challenges in clinical practice on mood, anxiety, and psychotic disorders.

Diet and obesity can affect mood through direct effects, or stress-related mental disorders could lead to changes in diet habits that affect weight, which has led to efforts to assess polyunsaturated fats as a treatment for depression.

The infection caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) started from China and reached the whole world and was declared as pandemic by WHO, which has added to panic, stress, and the potential for hysteria.

There is substantial inconsistency in the inclusion and emphasis of symptoms assessed within disorders as well as considerable symptom overlap across disorder-specific tools, demonstrating the need for standardized assessment tools that are more disorder agnostic and span the full spectrum of mental health symptoms.

The metaverse and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were some of the hottest tech terms in 2021, according to a Google Trends search, and no other review has explored the future of mental health in the context of the metaverse.

Pediatric mental health boarding is prevalent and understudied, and additional research representing diverse hospital types and geographic regions is needed to inform clinical interventions and health care policy.

An overview of staff concerns and experiences in the early COVID-19 pandemic suggests directions for further research and service development: how to combine infection control and a therapeutic environment in hospital, and how to achieve effective and targeted tele-health implementation in the community, should be priorities.

Mental health of Black, Hispanic, and Asian respondents worsened relative to White respondents during the pandemic, with significant increases in depression and anxiety among racialized minorities compared to Whites.

In 2008, during a Texas Mental Health Transformation stakeholder meeting in Austin, families and individuals with lived experience were invited to speak. They followed a whirlwind of powerful presentations by scientists and high-powered administrators. At the time, I was working as the project director for the North Texas Transformation initiative, as an early career research administrator. My mandate was to complete a needs assessment for the 6-county North Texas region; there was a lot to take in with an eye toward implementation and improving near-term outcomes. Near the end of the meeting,...

Loneliness is associated with depression and anxiety in children and young people with pre-existing mental health conditions, and this relationship may be bidirectional, and interventions to address loneliness should be further developed and tested.

Smoking cessation was associated with an improvement in mental health symptoms compared with continuing to smoke, and the pooled standardised mean difference (SMD) and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) for the difference in change inmental health from baseline to follow-up between those who had quit smoking and those whoHad continued to smoke.

How do experiences in nature or in spiritual contemplation or in being moved by music or with psychedelics promote mental and physical health? Our proposal in this article is awe. To make this argument, we first review recent advances in the scientific study of awe, an emotion often considered ineffable and beyond measurement. Awe engages five processes-shifts in neurophysiology, a diminished focus on the self, increased prosocial relationality, greater social integration, and a heightened sense of meaning-that benefit well-being. We then apply this model to illuminate how experiences of awe t...

The focus of this review is delineating the role of disruption of circadian rhythms on mood disorders using human night shift studies, as well as jet lag studies to identify links and proposing low-cost behavioral and lifestyle changes to improve circadian rhythms and presumably behavioral health.

Youth engagement in SMU has increased dramatically in recent years, concurrent with increases in prevalence of depression and anxiety. The relationship between SMU and mental illness is complex and depends on characteristics of the user (e.g., social comparison and fear of missing out (FOMO) and their SM habits and experiences (e.g., cyberbullying, and sexting,). SM engagement has distinct impacts on anxiety, depression, and suicidality. Growing evidence documents how SM may be a medium for psychiatric contagion. Research findings are largely correlational and dependent on subjective report, l...

With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have witnessed the greatest global challenge in a generation. The full extent of the mental health impact is, as yet, unknown, but is anticipated to be severe and enduring. In this Special Issue dedicated to mental health and the COVID-19 pandemic, we aim to lay the foundation for an improved understanding of how COVID-19 is affecting mental health services both in Ireland and globally. This Special Issue highlights how the mental health effects of COVID-19 stretch to almost every element of society. The issue includes perspectives from several coun...

This report was produced with the support of a generous contribution from the Public Health Agency of Canada, who also provided valuable feedback on the substantive shape of the project throughout.The contents of the report have been shaped by exchanges with mental health experts from OECD countries and beyond, who have contributed data, information, ideas, and enormously

It is argued for a new treatment paradigm in mental health that emphasises employment, because supported employment is an evidence-based intervention that can help the majority of people with mental health disability to succeed in integrated, competitive employment.

The main contribution of this paper is the integration of ideas from many different disciplines as well as the framework for blended care using ‘channel switching’ to showcase how digital data and technology can enrich physical services.

The heterogeneity between studies precludes conclusions regarding differences in microbiota composition in mental disease and health and many of the studies are limited by a cross-sectional design, small sample sizes and multiple comparisons, so well-designed longitudinal studies with larger sample size, accounting for confounders are needed.

The available evidence shows that traumatic experiences due to extreme weather events increase therisk of affective and anxiety disorders, especially the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder, and the consequences of climate change are stress factors for mental health.

The Covid-19 pandemic and the public health response to it will undoubtedly contribute to widespread emotional distress and increased risk of mental health problems.

An accessible understanding of why virtual reality therapy is important for future practice is provided, given its potential to provide clinically relevant information associated with the assessment and treatment of people suffering from mental illness.

From this discussion, the main challenges that are faced when trying to take evidence from research and translating it into policy or practice recommendations are pulled out, and from there to actual implementation in terms of better treatment and care.

This Comment sets out a practical approach to protecting the mental health of health-care workers based on contemporary evidence.