A 2026 longitudinal study found reassuring cognitive trajectories after mild-to-moderate COVID-19: Alpha/Delta and Omicron groups both improved by follow-up, and neither group showed persistent neuropsychological test deficits vs. population norms. Psychiatric symptoms and fatigue were also broadly similar across variants.1 Research Highlights 55 adults were assessed: 27 were infected during the Alpha/Delta era and 28 …
A 2,251-child national parent-report preprint found that the 7-item Parent-report Nationwide Quality of Life Scale had internal reliability of alpha = 0.85 and correlated most strongly with suicidality (r = -0.50), depression (r = -0.47), and internalizing symptoms (r = -0.43).1 Research Highlights Reliability was solid for a brief scale: the 7-item parent P-NQLS showed …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A single-arm Hwa-byung digital therapeutic pilot found good app engagement and large pre-post symptom changes, but the absence of a control group keeps the result in feasibility territory. The ACT-based Hwa-free app improved Hwa-byung symptoms, depression, state anger, psychological flexibility, and quality-of-life scores over 4 weeks, with some gains maintained at 8 weeks.1 Research Highlights …
A 2026 arterial spin labeling MRI study found that 34 patients with non-auditory tinnitus and cerebral venous congestion had lower corrected cerebral blood flow across multiple brain regions than venous-congestion patients without tinnitus and healthy controls.1 Compared with those 2 groups, the tinnitus group had poorer sleep quality, higher depression scores, and slightly lower cognitive …