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Elsevier Looks at Pandemic-Era Mental Health
In “Tracking Mental Health Over the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Elsevier shares the following:When the world shut down in March of 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, people the world over experienced profound psychological stress to varying degrees. Now, a new study takes advantage of the unique situation and longitudinally studied the demographic, neurobiological, and psychological factors that contributed to individuals’ risk or resilience to mental health disruptions related to the stress. The study appears in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, published by Elsevier. … The researchers assessed data from over 2,000 participants collected as part of the Barcelona Brain Health Initiative. They analyzed the change in participants’ anxiety and depression symptoms from two years before to during the first year of the pandemic. The researchers analyzed the data to identify participants with resilience, which they defined here as the lack of development of anxiety or depression over the pandemic. For more information, read the press release.
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