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Melatonin use and the risk of self-harm and unintentional injuries in youths with and without psychiatric disorders
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘This study investigated whether melatonin, which is the most common medication for sleep disturbances in youth in Sweden, is associated with a decreased risk of injury. Analyses were stratified by sex, injury type, psychiatric comorbidities and age at melatonin-treatment initiation’. Marica Leone (pic) et al.
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Breastfeeding duration is associated with larger cortical gray matter volumes in children from the ABCD study
Paper from the JCPP – ‘Our main objective was to study the relationship between breastfeeding duration and cerebral gray matter volumes. We also explored the potential mediatory role of brain volumes on behavior.’ Christian Núñez et al.
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Research Review: Viewing self-harm images on the internet and social media platforms: systematic review of the impact and associated psychological mechanisms
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘We reviewed studies of potential impacts and mechanisms associated with viewing self-harm-related images on the internet and social media.’ Karima Susi et al.
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Examining Children and adolescent mental health trajectories during the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from a year of the Co-SPACE study
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘In this study we mapped children and adolescents’ mental health trajectories over 13 months of the pandemic and examine whether family, peer, and individual-level factors were associated with trajectory membership.’ Carolina Guzman Holst (pic) et al.
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Family environment and polygenic risk in the bipolar high-risk context
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘We tested the association of offspring-perceived family environment in interaction with bipolar disorder-polygenic risk on liability for bipolar disorder in offspring at high or low familial risk for bipolar disorder. We used a novel stepwise approach for latent class modeling with predictors and distal outcomes.’ Emma K. Stapp (pic) et al.
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Mortality risk following self-harm in young people: a population cohort study using the Northern Ireland Registry of Self-Harm
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘The aims of this study were to describe the characteristics of young people who present with self-harm; quantify the risk of suicide and other causes of death during follow up, and to identify factors associated with mortality risk’. Emma Ross (pic) et al.
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Narrative Matters: No teen is an island – the cost of finding a tribe through memes and TikToks
Paper from the CAMH journal – ‘This article considers how literacies are assembled when ‘reading’ memes and TikToks; how this impacts adolescents’ membership or otherwise of a group; and how a desire for group membership hampers other aspects of literacy when engaging with this kind of social media content.’ Andrew Duffy.
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Research Review: The neuroscience of emerging adulthood – reward, ambiguity, and social support as building blocks of mental health
Paper from the JCPP – ‘In this review, we focus on two strands of research with distinct importance for ‘emerging adulthood’ (EA): reward sensitivity, and tolerance of ambiguity.’ Jennifer A. Silvers (pic) and Tara S. Peris
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Does preschool executive control mediate the impact of early environmental unpredictability and deprivation on the general factor of psychopathology a decade later?
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘The current study evaluated whether deprivation and/or unpredictability early in life have unique effects on the general factor of psychopathology through impaired preschool executive control.’ Eric M. Phillips (pic) et al.
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Debate: Academics should collaborate with the technology industry, but not in lieu of noncollaborative research
Open Access paper from the CAMH journal – ‘Academics must bear in mind that industry involvement at any particular stage of the research, or at all, is not always appropriate. Some research questions should not and cannot be answered objectively with industry involvement.’ Leon Y. Xiao
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