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My Electric Journey Out of Darkness: 10 Books on Electroconvulsive Therapy

Literary Hub
Literary Hub

Electroconvulsive therapy is often used as a last line of treatment against mood disorders. It works by sending short electrical shocks to the brain to induce a seizure. The approach was innovated in Italy, where they coined an efficient transitive verb to describe what the machine does to you: zapare, meaning “to zap.”

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Video

Scottish Social Services Council: Five key principles for the responsible use of AI

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Infographics

Pregnancy as a Crime: An Interim Update on the First Three Years After Dobbs

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History

Building a new life: migrant women’s experience of home

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Journal Article Abstracts

  • Collective Nostalgia Widens the Gap Between Obsessive and Harmonious Passion in Support for Political Violence

  • The politics of place: Exploring spatial imaginaries and sociopolitical development for Black college women.

  • Understanding rigor and methodological integrity in qualitative and integrative meta-analysis and metasynthesis: Responses to common questions and debates.

  • Qualitative meta-analysis on gender-affirming interventions (GAIs) in transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) people.

  • Promoting ethnic–racial identity in schools: An integrative mixed-method meta-analysis.

  • Do Black and White Americans Differ in Willingness to Engage in Traditional, Alternative, and Religious Treatment Modalities for Depression?: A Hypothetical Vignette Study

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Open Access Journal Articles

  • Trust As the Foundation for Informed Decision‐Making in Prenatal Genetic Screening and Diagnostic Testing: A Qualitative Study

  • Direct and indirect effects of loneliness on depression in late life: Persistent loneliness as a primary longitudinal pathway

  • Associations of sensory processing sensitivity with cannabis motives and consumption in young adults

  • Clinical Officers’ Competence in Case Management: An Outcome Evaluation of the Competence‐Based Curriculum in Tanzanian Primary Health Facilities

  • Australian women’s perspectives on gendered vulnerability, commercial power, and resistance to the commercialization of menopause

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Guidelines Plus

  • Guidance | Higher technical qualifications: criteria and terms and conditions

  • A Comprehensive Toolkit to Support Self‐Report Questionnaires for Autistic Adults With Cognitive Disability

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Meta-analyses - Systematic Reviews

  • Prevalence of Medical and Psychiatric Comorbidities in Paediatric ARFID: A Meta‐Analysis

  • Social media exposure and anxiety and depression in young people: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of longitudinal and experimental studies

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Monographs & Edited Collections

Involution: A Worker Inquiry Amid China’s Youth Unemployment Wave

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News

Energy drinks linked to 11 times more reports of cardiac arrest

SD | AHA
SD | AHA

A new study found that energy drinks and stimulant supplements were linked to disproportionately frequent reports of serious heart problems, including 11 times more reports of cardiac arrest and 4.5 times more reports of heart attacks. Young adults accounted for nearly half of the cardiovascular reports involving these products, raising concerns about their potential risks despite the study being unable to prove causation.

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Grey Literature

  • Understanding Data Sources, Gaps, and Opportunities in Native Maternal Health

  • Conflict of interest notices do not protect scientific writing from corporate interests

  • Perspectives on achieving good growth in the UK

  • University size and equity participation: ACSES Data Insights Series

  • Does SNAP Cover the Cost of a Meal in Your County?

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Podcasts

The Real Pain of Punishment: Prison, Belonging, and the Quest for Humanized Justice

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Calls & Consultations

  • Call for Proposals: The Social Dynamics of Climate Governance Submissions due by: Dec 1)

  • Call for participants: Join the Knowledge Community on social media, AI and youth mental health (Complete the online expression of interest form by 2 Dec)

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Clinical Trials

  • LifeBio Memory: Development of a Reminiscence Therapy Online Platform With Machine Learning to Increase Engagement (LifeBio Memory)

  • Effects of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulations in Patients With Amphetamine Use Disorders

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Funding

  • How States Leverage Federal Dollars to Expand Crisis Services—Part 2: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Funding

  • National Death Index Linkage Access for NIH-Supported Investigators

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