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REDEFINING PSYCHOPATHOLOGY IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITAL OVERLOAD: EMERGING DISORDERS IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION SATURATION
Nov. 2025 Shirin Abdallah Alimour Mohammad Alrabeei The accelerating integration of digital technologies with human experience has precipitated profound cognitive, emotional, and behavioral transformations, giving rise to emergent psychopathologies that remain insufficiently addressed by traditional diagnostic taxonomies. This study introduces a novel reconceptualization of mental health in the digital era, delineating four original diagnostic categories: Cognitive Fragmentat
ANXIOUS? DEPRESSED? YOU MIGHT BE SUFFERING FROM CAPITALISM: CONTRADICTORY CLASS LOCATIONS AND THE PREVALENCE OF DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY IN THE UNITED STATES
Aug. 2015 Despite a well-established social gradient for many mental disorders, evidence suggests that individuals near the middle of the...
Modeling Bulimia Nervosa in the Digital Age: The Role of Social Media
July 20, 2025 Globalization has fundamentally reshaped societal dynamics, influencing how individuals interact and perceive themselves...
JAMA: Early-Childhood Tablet Use and Outbursts of Anger
May 20, 2025 Key Points Question Do higher levels of early-childhood tablet use undermine emotional regulation or is it the other way...
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS: Problematic social media use and relationship to mental health characteristics in youth from the Texas Youth Depression and Suicide Research Network (TX-YDSRN)
Apr. 16, 2025 Highlights Analyzes the link between social media use and mental health in depressed youth 40.3 % reported problematic...
PNAS NEXUS: Blocking mobile internet on smartphones improves sustained attention, mental health, and subjective well-being
Apr 15, 2025 Smartphones enable people to access the online world from anywhere at any time. Despite the benefits of this technology,...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Social Media and Youth Mental Health
Mar. 15, 2025 Social media presents a meaningful risk of harm to youth, while also providing benefits The types of use and content...
Screen time and manic symptoms in early adolescents: prospective findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study
Mar. 9, 2025 Purpose This study aimed to examine prospective associations between screen time and manic symptoms in early adolescents,...
NEW YORK POST: Excessive phone and screen use tied to manic symptoms in pre-teens, study finds
Mar. 9, 2025 A recent study from the University of California, San Francisco, indicates that pre-teens with greater exposure to certain...
UNITED NATIONS: YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH Project
Mar. 9, 2025 The Global youth mental health awareness (the project) was developed in response to the growing need to communicate and...
Declining Life Satisfaction and Happiness Among Young Adults in Six English-speaking Countries
Mar. 4, 2025 Jean Twenge & David G. Blanchflower We report eleven studies that show declines in life satisfaction and happiness among...
THE LANCET: Tracking the course of depressive and anxiety symptoms across adolescence (the CATS study)
Summary Background Adolescent mental health appears to be in crisis, yet few studies have comprehensively charted the course of common...
THE PARADOX OF PROSPERITY
The study "Epidemiology of anxiety disorders: global burden and sociodemographic associations"(1) explores the global distribution of anxiet
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