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Nearly 1 in 5 people with COPD in Lithuania had a recorded diagnosis of anxiety or depression, according to a nationwide study of 64,246 patients. Anxiety was far more common than depression…
Read articleUniversity students who used an AI chatbot for 12 weeks ended with anxiety scores about 2 points lower than students in weekly group therapy, in a randomized trial of 977 students in Israel.…
Read articleA 2026 study of 1,250 Florida youth in juvenile-justice programs who had attempted suicide found that 557 (45%) denied serious suicidal thoughts or a plan. Anger or irritability was more com…
Read articleA 7-trial review favored adding celecoxib to antidepressants for depression, but its benefit was not confirmed after 3 high-risk trials were excluded.
Read articleA 2026 ANTLER mechanistic analysis found no evidence that maintaining antidepressants preserved a happier facial-emotion recognition pattern compared with placebo substitution at 12 weeks (a…
Read articleA zebrafish experiment found that one 1-hour ayahuasca exposure reversed several effects of 14 days of unpredictable chronic stress: impaired sociability, anxiety-like behavior, stress-relat…
Read articleA 76-person Nature Communications fMRI study found that people with major depressive disorder spent a higher share of time in a model-derived State 3 than healthy controls, 27.63 vs. 25.65, …
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