Review
Health Care Sciences & Services
Elizabeth Mirekuwaa Darko, Manal Kleib, Joanne Olson
Summary: This study provides important insights into the use of social media as a tool for recruiting health research participants. The findings suggest that using social media is a cost-effective and efficient strategy for participant recruitment. However, there is limited participation of older adults in social media recruitment.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Elizabeth Flood-Grady, Lauren B. Solberg, Claire Baralt, Meghan Meyer, Jeff Stevens, Janice L. Krieger
Summary: The study established replicable procedures for utilizing social media in research participant recruitment by investigating social media use cases, conducting a scoping review of web-based materials, and obtaining feedback from end users.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Immunology
Swapnil Lanjewar, Rachel Filipiak, Fauzia Osman, Jessica S. Tischendorf
Summary: This study identifies factors associated with the successful filling of infectious disease fellowship programs, including hospital and research rankings, offering specialized training tracks, and having an active Twitter account. Understanding these associations can help programs optimize recruitment and enrichment of infectious disease fellows.
JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
(2023)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Qutaibah Oudat, Tamilyn Bakas
Summary: This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of social media platforms in recruiting participants. The advantages include targeted and rapid recruitment, engagement, and cost reduction; the disadvantages include representativeness, privacy concerns, limited control, and limited access.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Janelle Applequist, Cristina Burroughs, Peter A. Merkel, Marc Rothenberg, Bruce Trapnell, Robert Desnick, Mustafa Sahin, Jeffrey Krischer
Summary: This study aimed to test the effectiveness of direct-to-consumer recruitment via social media platforms and whether it enhanced traditional recruitment strategies. The results showed that although recruitment outcomes were not satisfactory, it aligned with the challenges of studying populations with rare diseases. Customized approaches for different populations and studies are crucial for successful recruitment.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Business
Nina Michaelidou, Milena Micevski, John W. Cadogan
Summary: The study identifies five ethical dimensions in social media research and validates the measure's dimensionality and construct validity through two studies. The findings suggest that the developed measure has good psychometric properties and offers significant theoretical and practical contributions to understanding the ethical dimensions of social media research.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Bettina M. Zimmermann, Theresa Willem, Carl Justus Bredthauer, Alena Buyx
Summary: This study provides a comprehensive overview of the ethical benefits and risks of social media recruitment for clinical studies and offers practical recommendations. The eligibility criteria for social media recruitment were identified as information and consent, risks for target groups, and recruitment effectiveness. These criteria can be used to evaluate the implementation of a recruitment strategy.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Gregory Eady, Tom Paskhalis, Jan Zilinsky, Richard Bonneau, Jonathan Nagler, Joshua A. Tucker
Summary: This study uses longitudinal survey data and Twitter data of US respondents to quantify the relationship between exposure to the Russian foreign influence campaign and attitudes and voting behavior in the 2016 US election. The results show that exposure to Russian disinformation accounts was primarily concentrated among strongly identified Republican users, with only 1% of users accounting for 70% of exposures. Furthermore, the influence of the Russian campaign was overshadowed by content from domestic news media and politicians. Importantly, no meaningful relationship was found between exposure to the Russian foreign influence campaign and changes in attitudes, polarization, or voting behavior.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Review
Engineering, Industrial
Andrea Geissinger, Christofer Laurell, Christina Oberg, Christian Sandstrom
Summary: Social media analytics (SMA) has emerged as a complement or alternative to traditional research methods in innovation management. This article reviews and assesses the use of SMA in innovation management research, highlighting its popularity and potential. The authors develop a research agenda and suggest areas for future research using SMA.
Article
Psychiatry
Anjali Dagar, Tatiana Falcone
Summary: The study investigated the social and electronic media attention received by psychiatry research using Altmetric scores, and identified predictors of public engagement. It found a high level of public engagement with psychiatry research, especially compared to other medical specialties, highlighting both opportunities and responsibilities for the psychiatry research community.
PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Rebecca Smith, Crystal Alvarez, Sylvia Crixell, Michelle A. Lane
Summary: Recruitment methods for pregnant women in the Food, Feelings, and Family Study were compared, with social media being the most successful in terms of numbers recruited. However, women recruited through social media were less likely to participate in and complete the study compared to other recruitment methods.
BMC PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH
(2021)
Review
Psychiatry
Alfonso Pellegrino, Alessandro Stasi, Veera Bhatiasevi
Summary: Despite the increasing ubiquity and advantages of social media in interacting with others, its impact on subjective well-being is a global concern. Research has shown that habitual social media use can lead to addiction and negatively affect adolescents. This study conducted a bibliometric analysis of global research productivity in the field of social media, revealing that the US, UK, and Turkey were major contributors.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Review
Social Issues
Aqdas Malik, Walter Berggren, Adil S. Al-Busaidi
Summary: This review summarizes the methodological techniques and approaches used for categorically coding Instagram-based data about tobacco. The results show that e-cigarettes were the most frequently investigated tobacco product and human coding and machine-learning techniques were commonly used.
TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY
(2022)
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Yuya Shibuya, Andrea Hamm, Teresa Cerratto Pargman
Summary: The study identifies three phases in HCI research on social media interaction, maps methodological trends, and highlights underexplored study areas. The analysis provides insights into the evolving research topics and methodologies in this field.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2022)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Jacqueline L. Bender, Rukayyah Akinnibosun, Natasha Puri, Norma D'Agostino, Emily K. Drake, Argerie Tsimicalis, A. Fuchsia Howard, Sheila N. Garland, Karine Chalifour, Abha A. Gupta
Summary: This study evaluated the characteristics of adolescents and young adults diagnosed with cancer recruited through different sources, and found that online recruitment yielded a more geographically diverse but less sociodemographically diverse sample with poorer psychosocial wellbeing.
Article
Engineering, Biomedical
Ishita Basu, Ali Yousefi, Britni Crocker, Rina Zelmann, Angelique C. Paulk, Noam Peled, Kristen K. Ellard, Daniel S. Weisholtz, G. Rees Cosgrove, Thilo Deckersbach, Uri T. Eden, Emad N. Eskandar, Darin D. Dougherty, Sydney S. Cash, Alik S. Widge
Summary: This study demonstrates that closed-loop electrical stimulation of the internal capsule can enhance cognitive control in participants with epilepsy. Decoding of task performance from electrode activity was also achieved. These findings have the potential to improve cognitive deficits in individuals with severe mental disorders.
NATURE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
(2023)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Prabha Siddarth, Matthew Abikenari, Adrienne Grzenda, Monica Cappelletti, Hanadi Oughli, Claire Liu, Michaela M. Millillo, Helen Lavretsky
Summary: This study examined the role of inflammatory biomarkers in antidepressant response in depressed older adults and found that changes in certain cytokines/chemokines may accompany improvement in depressive symptoms. However, further research is needed to explore the role of these molecules in remission of late-life depression.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Review
Psychiatry
Mara Parellada, Alvaro Andreu-Bernabeu, Monica Burdeus, Antonia San Jose Caceres, Elena Urbiola, Linda L. Carpenter, Nina V. Kraguljac, William M. McDonald, Charles B. Nemeroff, Carolyn I. Rodriguez, Alik S. Widge, Matthew W. State, Stephan J. Sanders
Summary: The aim of this study was to evaluate response biomarkers correlated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptoms. A systematic review was conducted and 280 articles were included, reporting on 940 biomarkers. However, the studies showed high heterogeneity and there is currently no sufficient evidence for response biomarkers in ASD clinical trials.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Boadie W. Dunlop, Jungho Cha, Ki Sueng Choi, Justin K. Rajendra, Charles B. Nemeroff, W. Edward Craighead, Helen S. Mayberg
Summary: This study aimed to determine the shared and unique changes in brain resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) between patients with major depressive disorder who achieved remission with cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) or with antidepressant medication. The results showed that remission from major depression via treatment with CBT or medication is associated with changes in rsFC that are mostly specific to the treatment modality, providing biological support for the clinical practice of switching between or combining these treatment approaches.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Biomedical
Dilranjan S. Wickramasuriya, Leslie J. Crofford, Alik S. Widge, Rose T. Faghih
Summary: This article introduces a new method for estimating cortisol-related energy production and sympathetic arousal based on point process and continuous-valued data, while allowing an external influence to guide the estimates. The method modifies an existing recurrent neural network (RNN) approach to enable a hybrid estimator with this capability. Experimental results demonstrate the successful estimation of energy production and sympathetic arousal, as well as the incorporation of an external influence.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
(2023)
Biographical-Item
Neurosciences
Charles B. B. Nemeroff
NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Ryan D. Webler, Desmond J. Oathes, Sanne J. H. van Rooij, Jonathan C. Gewirtz, Ziad Nahas, Shmuel M. Lissek, Alik S. Widge
Summary: Laboratory threat extinction and exposure-based therapy both involve repeated, safe confrontation with previously threatening stimuli. However, efforts to improve exposure outcomes using rodent extinction techniques have largely failed due to differences between rodent and human neurobiology. This review proposes a comprehensive pre-clinical human research agenda to overcome these failures, using connectivity guided depolarizing brain stimulation methods and dual threat reconsolidation-extinction paradigms to map extinction relevant circuits and inform optimal integration with exposure-based therapy.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2023)
Review
Psychology, Clinical
Kevin M. Crombie, Tom G. Adams, Joseph E. Dunsmoor, Benjamin N. Greenwood, Jasper A. Smits, Charles B. Nemeroff, Josh M. Cisler
Summary: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is often accompanied by heightened emotional responses, avoidance of trauma-related triggers, and physical health concerns. Traditional therapies focus on reducing anxiety symptoms, but do not address the physical health issues associated with PTSD. Recent evidence suggests that timed aerobic exercise can enhance fear extinction learning, making it a promising adjunctive strategy to improve physical health and enhance the effects of exposure therapies. This review provides an overview of relevant studies, discusses mechanisms behind enhanced fear extinction, and suggests areas for future research to further explore the importance of incorporating exercise into PTSD treatment.
JOURNAL OF ANXIETY DISORDERS
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Uisub Shin, Cong Ding, Virginia Woods, Alik S. Widge, Mahsa Shoaran
Summary: This letter presents a low-power SoC with neural connectivity extraction and phase-locked DBS capabilities, which can effectively regulate abnormal brain connectivity in neurological and psychiatric disorders.
IEEE SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS LETTERS
(2023)
Review
Psychiatry
Alik S. Widge, Ayana Jordan, Nina V. Kraguljac, Christi R. P. Sullivan, Saydra Wilson, Tami D. Benton, Jonathan E. Alpert, Linda L. Carpenter, John H. Krystal, Charles B. Nemeroff, Kafui Dzirasa
Summary: Investigators from minoritized backgrounds are underrepresented in psychiatric research, leading to disparities in mental health care. This underrepresentation is a result of the interlocking effects of structural biases, such as limited access to advanced training and opportunities, stereotype threats and microaggressions, isolation, limited funding, and unique financial pressures. Structural racism, which perpetuates race-based disparities, exists despite efforts to increase diversity. Potential approaches to address these biases include undergraduate research experiences, financial support for training programs, targeted mentoring, better use of diversity funding, scientific reentry support, diversity efforts in leadership, and examination of hiring and promotion practices. Implementing these approaches alongside outcome measurement has the potential to reverse decades of structural bias in psychiatry and psychiatric research.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Shaunna L. Clark, Cody G. Dodd, Leslie Taylor, Sunita Stewart, Nancy Yang, Jeffrey D. Shahidullah, Andrew G. Guzick, Robyn Richmond, Nazan Aksan, Paul J. Rathouz, Justin F. Rousseau, D. Jeffrey Newport, Karen Dineen Wagner, Charles B. Nemeroff
Summary: This study investigated the substance use patterns and co-occurring psychiatric disorders in trauma-exposed youth. Four primary patterns of substance use were identified, with different characteristics. The findings highlight the importance of universal assessments of trauma, substance misuse, and mental health symptoms in youth.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Boadie W. Dunlop, Jungho Cha, Ki Sueng Choi, Charles B. Nemeroff, W. Edward Craighead, Helen S. Mayberg
Summary: Using neuroimaging data, researchers identified increased connectivity between the subcallosal cingulate cortex and the anterior insula, as well as decreased connectivity between the subcallosal cingulate cortex and the bilateral primary visual cortex and the insula and the bilateral caudate, as predictive factors for recurrence in major depressive disorder (MDD).
NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
(2023)
Editorial Material
Neurosciences
Adrienne Grzenda, Alik S. Widge
Summary: The use of a stratified psychiatry approach that combines electronic health records (EHR) data with machine learning (ML) can rapidly improve precision treatment in clinical practice. However, methodological flaws and deficiencies in transparency and reporting in ML-based studies need to be addressed. Attention to data quality and collection of patient-reported outcome data is crucial for leveraging the power of EHR data for patient stratification.
NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
(2023)
Editorial Material
Neurosciences
Mark A. A. Frye, Charles B. B. Nemeroff
Summary: Pharmacogenomic technology is a developing field with broad application potential. Although previous studies did not show significant benefit, they laid the foundation for further research that should address limitations and include diverse populations. Future research needs to include large scale pharmacogenomic trials with GWAS analytics and explore optimal EHR user interface design.
NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Wei Ai, William A. Cunningham, Meng-Chuan Lai
Summary: This study aimed to examine the engagement and theoretical drivers of camouflaging behavior in the general population. The findings revealed a similar dimensional structure of camouflaging behavior in the general population compared to previous studies on autism. Social motivational factors, such as social comparison, public self-consciousness, internalized social stigma, and social anxiety, were identified as significant predictors of camouflaging behavior. These findings highlight the shared social coping experience of camouflaging in the general population, including autistic individuals.
COMPREHENSIVE PSYCHIATRY
(2024)
Article
Psychiatry
Sheri-Michelle Koopowitz, Karen Thea Mare, Marilyn Lake, Christopher du Plooy, Nadia Hoffman, Kirsten A. Donald, Susan Malcolm-Smith, Lynne Murray, Heather J. Zar, Peter Cooper, Dan J. Stein
Summary: This study investigated the effects of dialogic book-sharing on language development, neurocognitive function, and socio-emotional domains in 3.5-year-old children from low-income South African communities. The results showed no significant differences between the intervention and control groups after 4 months post-intervention.
COMPREHENSIVE PSYCHIATRY
(2024)
Article
Psychiatry
Nina Bruinhof, Ela Sehic, Gregory R. Hancock, Maria A. Gartstein, Carolina de Weerth
Summary: The psychometric evaluation of the Baby-PAWS questionnaire in a Dutch sample showed good validity, with a four-factor structure different from the original evaluation in the American sample. American women scored higher on the Baby-PAWS items than Dutch women. These results highlight cross-cultural differences in perinatal mental health and stress the importance of examining instrument structure of context-dependent constructs.
COMPREHENSIVE PSYCHIATRY
(2024)
Article
Psychiatry
Noham Wolpe, Aya Vituri, Peter B. Jones, Moni Shahar, Emilio Fernandez-Egea
Summary: This study found that the MAP and EE negative symptom dimensions in patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia are independent and stable over time, with common causes of secondary negative symptoms clustering in the MAP dimension.
COMPREHENSIVE PSYCHIATRY
(2024)
Article
Psychiatry
Cristina Vintro-Alcaraz, Gemma Mestre-Bach, Roser Granero, Monica Gomez-Pena, Laura Moragas, Fernando Fernandez-Aranda, Marc N. Potenza, Susana Jimenez-Murcia
Summary: This study found differences between patients with gambling disorder (GD) with and without self-reported ADHD symptoms in terms of psychopathology, personality, and treatment outcomes. Patients with self-reported ADHD symptoms were more severe in their GD and experienced more severe relapses following treatment. Therefore, more vigilant follow-up and interventions are needed for patients with this comorbidity.
COMPREHENSIVE PSYCHIATRY
(2024)