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Background: Bipolar disorder, severe mood disorder characterised by its ability to swing between two contrasting poles of low and elated mood with a return to relatively normal level of functioning, has a lifetime prevalence of up to 2.4%, a heterogenous
Frances Nkechi Adiukwu +6 more
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Mental Illness: The Healing Power in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power [PDF]
Bessie Head's A Question of Power is one of the great African literary pieces that deals with insanity. As a reader, I found it challenging to cope with the traumatic situations encountered by Elizabeth, the central character of this novel. She struggles
Wahab, A. (Abdul)
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Background: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health has been widely reported. Yet, little remains known about the psychological mechanisms associated with changes in mental well-being during the currently ongoing pandemic.
Stella D. Voulgaropoulou +4 more
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Background and Objective: Type 2 diabetes is a common disease that could be prevented or managed with a healthy lifestyle. This study was conducted to determine the effects of self-healing with mindfulness-integrated cognitive behavior therapy on the ...
Farzaneh Shojaei +3 more
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Background: Response rates to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for depression are 25-45%. Participant features obtained prior to treatment that are associated with response to rTMS may be clinically useful.
Neil W. Bailey +6 more
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Anthropology, Brokerage and Collaboration in the development of a Tongan Public Psychiatry: Local Lessons for Global Mental Health [PDF]
The Global Mental Health (GMH) movement has revitalised questions of the translatability of psychiatric concepts and the challenges of community engagement in countries where knowledge of the biomedical basis for psychiatric diagnosis is limited or ...
Campbell I. C. +33 more
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Background: There has been a lack of in-depth interviews investigating patient experience of ketamine treatment for depression. We examined participants’ pathways to receiving ketamine infusion to treat their depression, and their responses to, lived ...
Chris Griffiths +4 more
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Microbial lysate upregulates host oxytocin [PDF]
Neuropeptide hormone oxytocin has roles in social bonding, energy metabolism, and wound healing contributing to good physical, mental and social health. It was previously shown that feeding of a human commensal microbe Lactobacillus reuteri (L.
Alm, Eric J. +13 more
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Background: Tumors trigger both depression and anxiety about death because they can be terminal. However, the relationship between depression and time perspective in patients with life-threatening diseases remains unclear.
Yayoi Shigemune +7 more
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It is estimated that 116 million children were born worldwide in the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the critical importance of early life for neurodevelopment, and evidence suggesting that prenatal maternal stress and early childhood ...
André J. McDonald +3 more
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