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Specialty: Psychiatry
As the global population ages, the integration of technology into eldercare has become a critical area of focus. While gerontechnology has advanced the intersection of aging studies and technological innovation, a more interdisciplinary and human-centered approach is necessary.
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Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers present evidence that pharmacologic treatment of depression/anxiety is associated with improved mental well-being in patients with hip or knee osteoarthritis but doesn’t seem to improve physical function or pain levels.
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Hadine Joffe, MD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and colleagues recently undertook a rigorous scientific review of whether the menopause is associated with anxiety, schizophrenic psychosis, suicidality and other mental health disorders, as has been claimed.
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Brigham researchers suggest modafinil may have a positive impact on neurocognitive functioning and possibly daytime sleepiness, but it may also have a negative effect on sleep quality.
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Researchers have found that multiple substance use disorders (SUDs) map to their own common brain network, a finding that has therapeutic implications of its own.
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Amit Anand, MD, director of Psychiatry Translational Clinical Trials at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, conducted ELEKT-D, a pragmatic comparative-effectiveness trial of ketamine and ECT for nonpsychotic treatment-resistant major depression.
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Johanna Seitz-Holland, MD, instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and colleagues report that the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) index of 22 proteins suggests people with late-life depression are vulnerable to accelerated physical and cognitive decline.
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Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently addressed neuroimaging research limitations. By coupling morphometric and brain lesion datasets with a “wiring” diagram of the brain, they derived a common brain network for psychiatric illness that is sensitive, specific, and robust.
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Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently demonstrated that lesions causing depression in patients with stroke or penetrating head trauma were functionally connected to a common brain circuit.
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Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital are using neuroimaging to explore the structure–function relationship of neurological soft signs (NSS). They report that NSS in typically developing adolescents are associated with distinct alterations in brain structure that can be objectively quantified using neuroimaging.
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