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Vigilant Attention (VA), defined as the ability to maintain attention to cognitively unchallenging activities over a prolonged period of time, is critical to support higher cognitive functions and many behaviours in our everyday life. Evidence has shown that VA rapidly improves throughout childhood and adolescence until young adulthood and tends to decline in older adulthood.
School-based social risk processes in the lives of young people with chronic health conditions are likely to contribute to risk of psychological problems
The ENIGMA clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis initiative, the largest pooled neuroimaging sample of individuals at CHR to date, aims to discover robust neurobiological markers of psychosis risk. We investigated baseline structural neuroimaging differences between individuals at CHR and healthy controls as well as between participants at CHR who later developed a psychotic disorder (CHR-PS+) and those who did not (CHR-PS-).
Serotonin (5-HT) is widely implicated as a key neurotransmitter relevant to a range of psychiatric disorders and psychological processes. The role of central nervous 5-HT function underlying these processes can be examined through serotonergic challenge methodologies.
Wearable technologies impact upon sexual activity and this influences the decision to adopt the technology
Misgendering within the health care system can significantly affect the mental and physical health of transgender individuals
The current article outlines how individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder may experience inequities within the justice system
In this population-based cohort that included 2,084 children with autism aged ≤6 years, over one-third met the criteria for motor difficulties
This study investigated the influence of personality characteristics and gender on adolescents' perception of risk and their risk-taking behaviour.
Hair segment analyses revealed longer-term increased levels of cortisol in the past 3 months in early mental health problems