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Always-available Psychotherapy for Depression and Anxiety by AI

Shortage of healthcare manpower is a common issue faced by many societies, including mental health professionals. It affects the access to relevant services and taxes on the cost for utilization as a result. Digital mental health applications are th...

Jun 13, 2023
Esketamine: A New Potent Weapon Against Refractory Depression

Treatment-resistant depression (TRD), a subset of major depressive disorder (MDD), presents a significant challenge to both the patients for its disabling impairment and physicians for undermined treatment effect. 1 Even though several definitions a...

Jun 13, 2023
Marital Dissatisfaction in Men Associated with Elevated Risk of Stroke and All-cause Mortality

Marriage has been described as the most fundamental and crucial human relationship as it provides the primary structure for establishing a family and social support. To assess the impacts of quality of marital relationship on the health outcomes, 89...

Aug 11, 2021
Older Adults Keep Depression Symptoms away by Watching Sports

To facilitate healthy ageing among elderly, numerous studies related to preventive medicine and public health have investigated the relationship between health outcomes and participating sports. Apart from promoting excitement and strengthening soci...

Aug 4, 2021
Symptoms Relief with Laughing Gas in Treatment-Resistant Depression Patients

Antidepressant drugs acting on the norepinephrine and serotonin receptors in the brain have long been the standard drugs used to treat depression. A phase 2 clinical trial has found that inhalation of laughing gas, nitrous oxide, can be a potential ...

Jul 28, 2021
Association between Recreational Substances and Premature Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease

Despite substantial improvements in the prevention and treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (ASCVD), the use of recreational substances such as alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs remains one of the key modifiable risk factors. A rece...

Jun 16, 2021
Increased Risk of Dementia in Patients with Upper Gastrointestinal Disease Receiving Gastric Acid-suppressive Agents

According to the World Health Organisation, dementia is a syndrome, usually of a chronic progressive nature, in which there is deterioration in cognitive function beyond what might be expected from normal ageing. In the meanwhile, the rising number ...

Jun 9, 2021
Turn on the Music? The Impact of Music on Driving Performance

Turn on the Music? The Impact of Music on Driving Performance Car driving is a daily activity for many people in modern cities. Very often, drivers listen to their favourite music while driving. Nonetheless, the impact of music on driving performanc...

Mar 16, 2021
The Role of Spiritual Care in Mental Well-being of Healthcare Professionals during COVID-19 Pandemic

The Role of Spiritual Care in Mental Well-being of Healthcare Professionals during COVID-19 Pandemic Subjective well-being concerns one’s evaluations of the quality of his/her own lives. This appraisal comprises cognitive judgments about achie...

Mar 16, 2021
A Review on the Impacts of Work from Home Arrangement on Health and Business Operation during COVID-19 Pandemic

A Review on the Impacts of Work from Home Arrangement on Health and Business Operation during COVID-19 Pandemic The development in information technologies facilitates digitalisation and a growing globalising endeavour leading to a significant impro...

Mar 16, 2021
Cognitive Decline Associated with Extreme Sleep Duration

Dementia, characterised by memory impairment and cognitive decline, is a major public health challenge which imposes a huge burden on the family members of the patients. An inverted U-shaped association between sleep duration and global cognitive de...

Mar 10, 2021
Mind Your Mental Health in the Era of Social Media

With the popularity of using social media and the growing incidence of depression that can be caused by multiple factors, interest in the association between social media use and psychosocial well-being has been raised. 1,289 participants aged betwe...

Feb 3, 2021