What has been the impact of COVID-19 on substance use? What is the link between this and mental health? What has been happening on the front lines? What needs to be done?
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Source: Tränkner, D., Boulet, A., Peden, E., Focht, R., Van Deren, D., & Capecchi, M. (2019). A microglia sublineage protects from sex-linked anxiety symptoms and obsessive compulsion. Cell reports, 29(4), 791-799. Highlights •A microglia sublineage derived from Hoxb8-expressing precursors serves...
Source: Mokona, H., Yohannes, K. & Ayano, G. Youth unemployment and mental health: prevalence and associated factors of depression among unemployed young adults in Gedeo zone, Southern Ethiopia. Int J Ment Health Syst 14, 61 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-020-00395-2 Abstract Background The...
Source: Muscara F, McCarthy MC, Rayner M, et al. Effect of a Videoconference-Based Online Group Intervention for Traumatic Stress in Parents of Children With Life-threatening Illness: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(7):e208507. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.8507 Key Points...
Source: Pasman, J., Smit, D., Kingma, L., Vink, J., Treur, J., & Verweij, K. (2020, July 02). Causal relationships between substance use and insomnia. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376871620303161 Highlights •Insomnia and substance use have been linked, but the...
This report examines hospitalisation trends related to cannabis use and mental and behavioural disorders in Canada between 2006 and 2015.
During this period, the rate of hospitalizations related to cannabis use and mental and behavioural disorders more than doubled and the rate of hospitalizations specific to cannabis-related psychotic disorder tripled.
This research supports monitoring the impacts of cannabis legalization and regulation.
Source: Alcohol Res. 2019;40(1):07. https://doi.org/10.35946/arcr.v40.1.07. Given the high co-occurrence between alcohol use disorder (AUD) and mental health conditions (MHCs), and the increased morbidity associated with the presence of co-occurring disorders, it is important that co-occurring...
Videoconferencia: Test de tamizaje en salud mental: Hacia una medida del impacto psicoemocional de la pandemia Ponentes Dra. Silvia Morales Chaine y Dra. Rebeca Robles García
Videoconferencia: La relevancia de la salud mental en el contexto de las emergencias sanitarias Ponente: Dra. Dení Álvarez Icaza, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría "Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz", de México (INPRFM)
Source: Rossi R, Socci V, Pacitti F, et al. Mental Health Outcomes Among Frontline and Second-Line Health Care Workers During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic in Italy. JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(5):e2010185. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.10185 Introduction Health care workers (HCWs)...
Respuesta Integrada de la Secretaría General ante la crisis del COVID-19 Sala de Situación sobre Protección del Personal Para continuar promoviendo la salud y el bienestar entre el personal de la OEA, nuestros colegas de la Comisión Interamericana para el Control del Abuso de Drogas (CICAD) y el...
Fuente: Organización Mundial de la Salud, War Trauma Foundation y Visión Mundial Internacional (2012). Primera ayuda psicológica: Guía para trabajadores de campo. OMS: Ginebra. Presentación Cuando en nuestras comunidades, países o en el mundo ocurren hechos traumáticos, queremos tender la mano a los...
The Mountain Plains Mental Health Technology Transfer Center and the Mountain Plains Prevention Technology Transfer Center collaborated to host a six-part webinar series, Suicide Prevention Across the Educational Continuum. Throughout the series, participants are provided with information related to...
Esme Shaller, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF What: This is a set of four strategies taken from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). These are called TIPP (temperature, intense exercise, progressive muscle relaxation, paced breathing) Paced breathing examples: * DBT TIPP Skill - Paced...
El martes 14 de abril del 2020 se llevó a cabo una sesión especial acerca de las implicaciones en la salud mental de la pandemia por COVID-19. A las 12:00 horas (tiempo de la ciudad de México) comenzaron las exposiciones por parte de Jimena Kalawski, José Luis Vázquez, la Dra. Silvia Morales Chainé...