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Workplace Mental Health Apps Split Outcomes: Anxiety Down, Wellbeing Up

by GLOOM

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A 228-person randomized trial found a split result for workplace mental-health apps: executive-function training reduced anxiety and depressive symptoms at 12-week follow-up, while a self-guided CBT app improved workplace wellbeing without reducing symptoms.1 The mechanism claim was weaker than the outcome claim because measured executive-function change did not explain the improvements. Research Highlights 228 adults …

Teen Emotion-Regulation Profiles Predicted Anxiety and Depression

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A 2026 longitudinal study involving 951 adolescents found 5 emotion-regulation profiles, not the 3-profile structure the researchers expected, and the clearest mental-health separation came from the adaptive and maladaptive profiles.1 Teen coping looked less like a single good-versus-bad scale and more like a pattern of motives, strategies, and beliefs about whether those strategies work. Research …

PMDD Imaging Shows Higher Glymphatic and Hypothalamus Signals

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A 2026 case-control imaging study found that 23 women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder had higher left DTI-ALPS glymphatic index than 27 healthy controls (p = 0.024), plus wider hypothalamus connectivity across emotion and subcortical networks.1 The result adds a brain-fluid-clearance and stress-network layer to PMDD biology, but the evidence is still small-sample imaging rather than …

Positive Emoji Use Tracked Lower Depression in 120 Students

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Low-burden digital phenotyping is appealing because college students already leave daily traces in phones, messages, sleep logs, and voice samples. In Henry et al.’s 120-student study, positive emoji use was the clearest signal compared with GPS and complex voice biomarkers: higher positive emoji use tracked lower depression and anxiety, while speech rate and sleep added …