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Using electronic health records matched for age, sex, and comorbidities, children under 12 who had delirium were 2.15 times more likely to later develop neuropsychiatric disorders than matched peers. The youngest children (6 and under) showed dramatically elevated hazard ratios for ADHD (2.25×), intellectual disability (1.71×), and substance use disorder (4.34×). This matters because delirium in children has typically been treated as a temporary medical event, not a long-term psychiatric risk factor — this study challenges that assumption with hard outcome data.

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Latent profile analysis of COVID-era data identified three distinct depression subgroups: a low-symptom majority (60%), a group dominated by fatigue and physical symptoms (30%), and a severely affected minority (10%). The severe group — predicted by younger age, prior health problems, social conflict, and privacy fears — showed the least post-traumatic growth, meaning they were least likely to find meaning or gain from the experience. Identifying these subgroups matters because blanket depression interventions may miss the specific barriers facing the high-severity cluster.

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In 119 PTSD patients, those with severe depression scored significantly higher on the MMPI-2 Schizophrenia scale, with depression severity and psychotic-like features correlating at r=0.70. Importantly, after adjusting for personality traits, the relationship weakened — suggesting personality may be a confounding variable, not just a symptom. This has clinical implications for how PTSD patients with severe depression are assessed: psychotic-seeming features may reflect personality style and depression severity rather than a true psychotic process.

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Using 15 years of national survey data from South Korea, counseling-seeking for both stress and depression rose steadily before COVID, peaked sharply during the pandemic (stress counseling hitting 3.06% in 2022), and has not returned to pre-pandemic levels — remaining elevated at 2.97% in 2023–2024. This sustained elevation suggests the pandemic did not merely cause a temporary spike but has durably shifted population mental health burden. Healthcare planners should treat post-pandemic counseling demand as a structural rather than temporary pressure.

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Patients with functional dyspepsia (a chronic stomach disorder with no clear physical cause) reported higher emotional distress and childhood trauma compared to healthy controls, and negative affect consistently predicted lower quality of life across both dyspepsia subtypes. Crucially, social support was the strongest predictor of better quality of life in the most common subtype (β=0.381), outperforming other psychosocial factors. This reinforces the gut-brain axis framing: treating functional gastrointestinal disorders without addressing psychological and social factors likely produces suboptimal outcomes.

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The Glasgow Sleep Effort Scale — a measure of how hard people try to force themselves to sleep, a behavior that paradoxically worsens insomnia — was validated in Korean-speaking populations with strong psychometric performance under both classical and item-response theory models. Sleep effort is a mechanistically important construct because cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia directly targets it, and reliable cross-cultural measurement tools are needed to study and deliver this treatment globally. Some items showed limited response-category use, pointing to areas for future refinement.

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A qualitative case study of Buddhist Sunday school meditation practice among adolescents found that regular meditation improved concentration, emotional calmness, and stress management in participants. While the qualitative design limits causal inference, the study adds to a growing body of evidence that community- and faith-based meditation programs can reach youth outside clinical settings. This is relevant to the youth mental health crisis because it illustrates scalable, low-cost delivery channels that don't depend on formal healthcare infrastructure.

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A plant-derived anthocyanin compound activates a specific molecular signaling chain (NR3C1–STAT3–SLC6A2) that reduces neuroinflammation and pain sensitivity in disc degeneration models. NR3C1 is the glucocorticoid receptor — a gene strongly implicated in stress-related psychiatric disorders — making this pathway mechanistically interesting beyond pain. While this study is in a physical pain context, the overlap with stress-response and neuroinflammatory pathways relevant to depression makes it worth monitoring as a potential convergence point.

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This theoretical-analytical paper argues that technology — including non-social tools like cars and appliances — is not neutral but actively reshapes cognitive habits, with internet use specifically impairing sustained attention through chronic multitasking demands. The neurobiological framing connects to concerns about digital technology's role in rising anxiety and attention disorders, particularly in youth. This is a conceptual paper rather than an empirical study, so it functions best as a framework for interpreting experimental findings rather than a source of evidence on its own.

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The ARCI-100 is a 100-item self-report instrument designed to distinguish between psychological collapse and resilient response under adversity, drawing on stress-response theory, emotional regulation, and meaning-making frameworks. The instrument's conceptual value lies in its attempt to measure resilience as a behavioral and cognitive process under real pressure rather than a stable trait assessed in neutral conditions. Validation data are not reported in the available findings, so its psychometric quality remains to be established — a significant caveat before clinical use.

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