Tariq Masri-Zada, Suren Martirosyan, Alexander Abdou, Ryan Barbar, Samuel Kades, Hassan Makki, Grant Haley, Devendra K Agrawal
{"title":"The Impact of Social Media & Technology on Child and Adolescent Mental Health.","authors":"Tariq Masri-Zada, Suren Martirosyan, Alexander Abdou, Ryan Barbar, Samuel Kades, Hassan Makki, Grant Haley, Devendra K Agrawal","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The prevalence of mental health disorders among youth and adolescents has been rising at an alarming rate over the past few decades, with conditions such as anxiety, depression, attention deficit hyperreactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder, and body dysmorphic disorder becoming increasingly common. One contributing factor that has received growing attention is the role of social media and technology in shaping adolescent brain development, behavior, and emotional well-being. While digital platforms provide opportunities for social connection, self-expression, and mental health support, they also introduce significant risks, including compulsive social media use, cyberbullying, unrealistic beauty standards, and exposure to substance-related content. This article explores the complex relationship between digital media use and adolescent mental health, focusing on its neurobiological implications, particularly the role of dopaminergic reward pathways in reinforcing compulsive behaviors. The excessive engagement with digital platforms has been associated with heightened impulsivity, attention deficits, and an increased risk of addiction-like behaviors. Furthermore, the impact of social media on self-esteem and body image has been linked to higher rates of body dysmorphic disorder and a rise in cosmetic procedure considerations, often influenced by digitally altered self-perceptions. The increased portrayal of substance-related content online also raises concerns about the normalization of risky behaviors among impressionable youth. Intervention strategies such as digital detox programs, school-based educational initiatives, parental monitoring, and cognitive-behavioral therapy are crucial in mitigating the adverse effects of excessive social media use. A multidisciplinary approach, integrating policy regulation, digital literacy, and targeted mental health interventions, will be essential in fostering a healthier digital environment for adolescents. Future research should prioritize longitudinal studies to better understand the long-term psychological effects of social media use and to distinguish between adaptive and maladaptive digital behaviors. By addressing these challenges proactively, society can work towards promoting responsible social media engagement in youth while protecting adolescent mental health in this digital age.</p>","PeriodicalId":92926,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychiatry and psychiatric disorders","volume":"9 2","pages":"111-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12165459/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144303848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of Sleep Disruptions on the Mental Health of Atrial Fibrillation Inpatients: A Cross-Sectional Study","authors":"Li-xing Hu, Xiaotong Ding, Min Tang","doi":"10.26502/jppd.2572-519x0194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/jppd.2572-519x0194","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives: To evaluate the interactions between anxiety, depression and sleep attributes in atrial fibrillation inpatients of a single tertiary center in China to improve identification of patients who require additional psychological care. Methods: We retrospectively enrolled 332 atrial fibrillation inpatients and evaluated their psychological and sleep status with the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS), and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), respectively. Potential risk factors for anxiety and depression were analyzed by multivariate logistic regression. Odds ratios (OR) for risk of poor sleep quality were adjusted by age and gender in patients with different psychological statuses","PeriodicalId":92926,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychiatry and psychiatric disorders","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69351319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ABO Blood Groups Associated with Aggression Personality Trait","authors":"Donna K Hobgood","doi":"10.26502/jppd.2572-519x0176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/jppd.2572-519x0176","url":null,"abstract":"The ABO blood groups and their genetic underpinnings have been studied for over one hundred years. Initially, the studies focused on gathering data on geographic distribution. Then correlations with illnesses and with personality traits were observed.Geographic data revealed prominent differences in ABO frequencies among populations thus allowing conclusions such as the origin of ABO B in Mongolian populations and the evolution of ABO gene from the ancestral gene ABO A to current world distributions of highest frequency of ABO O blood type with moderate frequency of ABO A and lower frequency of ABO B and lowest frequency of ABO AB types. The Abstract","PeriodicalId":92926,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychiatry and psychiatric disorders","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69350998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diagnosis and Management of Postpartum Depression","authors":"HendAbdelbary Ibrahim Aly","doi":"10.26502/jppd.2572-519x0182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/jppd.2572-519x0182","url":null,"abstract":"Postpartum Depression (PPD) is a severe mental health problem that affects up to 15% of mothers. It is highly prevalent, and its drawbacks are not limited to the affected mothers. It also extends to their offspring, causing disturbances in their development. Recent research has identified several psychosocial and biological risk factors for PPD, including past depression, stressful life events, poor marital relationships, and social support. The obstetrician, pediatrician and primary health care physicians have a crucial role in screening for and treating PPD. This review aims to provide a holistic approach for PPD diagnosis and management.","PeriodicalId":92926,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychiatry and psychiatric disorders","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69351050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To Maximize the Advantage of the Uprising Visualization System: Modified Retro-Sigmoidal Approach for Purely Endoscopic MVD Surgery for HFS","authors":"Chongjing Sun, Puyuan Zhao, Ch. Qu, Jin Xu, Xiaobiao Zhang, Wei Zhu, Yu Zhang","doi":"10.26502/jppd.2572-519x0178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/jppd.2572-519x0178","url":null,"abstract":"Hemifacial Spasm (HFS) is a facial movement disorder, featured by involuntary and unilateral spasm of muscles innervated by facial nerve. It is caused by vascular compression on the Root Entrance Zone (REZ) of the facial nerve. A procedure aiming to identify the offending vessels and remove them from the facial nerve was invented by Jannetta. The procedure was named Microvascular Decompression (MVD) and has been established as the only cure for HFS. Traditionally the procedure was carried out under a surgical microscope.","PeriodicalId":92926,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychiatry and psychiatric disorders","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69351012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hesham Maged Mohammed Abdelfatah, Mennatullah Mohamed Mustafa ElAgamy
{"title":"Recognizing and Diagnosing Abdominal Epilepsy in Adult Male Case Study","authors":"Hesham Maged Mohammed Abdelfatah, Mennatullah Mohamed Mustafa ElAgamy","doi":"10.26502/jppd.2572-519x0180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/jppd.2572-519x0180","url":null,"abstract":"Abdominal Epilepsy (AE) is a rare disorder, when seen in adults and presents with paroxysmal symptoms of abdominal pathology that result from seizure activity [1]. The range of this disorder is characterized by (a) unexplained, paroxysmal gastrointestinal symptoms; (b) symptoms indicate Central Nervous System (CNS) disturbance; (c) abnormal finding in the Electroencephalography (EEG) with results specific for a seizure disorder; and (d) improvement of symptoms with anticonvulsant medications [2]. The history of abdominal epilepsy has reported only 36 cases in the English literature in the past 34 years [3]. Due to the rarity of reported cases, there is a precipitately needed for accurate diagnosis by increasing knowledge among physicians to avoiding misinterpretation of these symptoms as \"functional\" or \"psychogenic\" [4,5].","PeriodicalId":92926,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychiatry and psychiatric disorders","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69351041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cross-State Variations and time Trends in Opioid use Disorder among a Privately Insured Nonelderly Population in the United States.","authors":"Bibo Jiang, Li Wang, Douglas Leslie.","doi":"10.26502/jppd.2572-519x0193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/jppd.2572-519x0193","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives : To describe cross-state variations and time trends","PeriodicalId":92926,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychiatry and psychiatric disorders","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69351215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ABO Blood Groups Non-O Appear to Associate with Anterior Projecting Nasal Anatomy, Elevated Nasal Bridge and Nasal Septum Deviation","authors":"Donna K Hobgood","doi":"10.26502/jppd.2572-519x0179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/jppd.2572-519x0179","url":null,"abstract":"Nasal form shows variation between and among geographic populations. Embryology of anatomic structures suggests origins and interrelationships of the structures of the face and the functional thus clinical implications of that anatomy. ABO blood groups are suggested to be correlated with nasal anatomy based on observations of nasal anatomy of individuals of known blood types. Studies have shown that anteriorly projecting nasal form is associated with large nasal septum and an obtuse cranial base angle as well as deviated nasal septum. Why ABO blood groups non-O would be associated with","PeriodicalId":92926,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychiatry and psychiatric disorders","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69351015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Sukumar, Aravind Banavaram, P. Banandur S., Shubhi Nema, Vaishali Dagar, Sathya Velu, V. Naik, Virupaksha Hasiruvalli Gangappa, Mutharaju Arelingaiah, L. Garady
{"title":"Alcohol Use and its Determinants among Youth Attending Mental Health Promotion Clinics in India: a State-Wide Case Record Analysis","authors":"G. Sukumar, Aravind Banavaram, P. Banandur S., Shubhi Nema, Vaishali Dagar, Sathya Velu, V. Naik, Virupaksha Hasiruvalli Gangappa, Mutharaju Arelingaiah, L. Garady","doi":"10.26502/jppd.2572-519x0185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/jppd.2572-519x0185","url":null,"abstract":"emerging","PeriodicalId":92926,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychiatry and psychiatric disorders","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69351115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Error and Discord in Helping Alliances: How to Negotiate Patient-Provider Relations in Medical Encounters","authors":"AC Muran, LM Lipner, J. Muran","doi":"10.26502/jppd.2572-519x0177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/jppd.2572-519x0177","url":null,"abstract":"Affiliation: 1Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine, Hofstra University/Northwell Health, 500 Hofstra Blvd, Hempstead, NY 11549, United States 2Department of Psychology, Long Island University– Post, 720 Northern Blvd, Greenvale, NY 11548, United States 3Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University; 158 Cambridge Avenue, Garden City, New York 11530, United States; Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Icahn School of Medicine, 1st Avenue and 16th Street, New York, New York 10003, United States","PeriodicalId":92926,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychiatry and psychiatric disorders","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69351004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}