Addressing gaming, gambling and internet addiction in young adults
The Mass General Addiction Recovery Management Service (ARMS) addresses gaming, gambling and problematic digital technology use in young adults.
The Mass General Addiction Recovery Management Service (ARMS) addresses gaming, gambling and problematic digital technology use in young adults.
In a double-blind, randomized, cross-over study of adults who use cannabis regularly, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital assessed participants’ brain activity under the influence of THC (the main psychoactive component in cannabis) versus placebo.
Study finds that altered states of consciousness associated with yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and other practices are common, and mostly positive or even transformative, but that for some people, they can be linked to suffering.
Early intervention is critical to prevent progression of CB-PTSD, a disorder that may carry serious health consequences for as many as 8M women a year worldwide.
Elyse R. Park, PhD, MPH an investigator in the Department of Psychiatry and Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Director of the Health Promotion Resiliency Intervention Research (HPRIR) Center, is the lead author of a recently published study in the Journal of Oncology Practice, Health Insurance Navigation Tools Intervention: A Pilot Trial Within the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. Karen Kuhlthau, PhD, chief and director of General Academic Pediatrics at Mass General for Children, is senior author.
A survey study found recovery community centers are welcoming environments for people who take medication for opioid use disorder.
Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital evaluated the results of 41 clinical trials that assessed interventions to prevent postpartum PSTD.
Researchers studied how feelings of shame affected different parts of the HCV treatment process, like starting treatment, sticking to it, finishing it, and reaching a sustained virologic response (SVR).
Although childbirth is a happy event, a significant portion of American women have complicated and even traumatic deliveries, which can result in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a different condition than postpartum depression.
Researchers found a brief self-report screening tool that collects information about a woman's emotional reactions to childbirth can detect those likely to experience childbirth-related PTSD.