Category Archives: Anxiety

The impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on population mental health: An analysis of GPS and Google search volume data

Catherine Gimbrone and colleagues recently published a paper in the journal PLoS One exploring the effects of COVID-19 lockdowns on population mental health. Using novel data sources that allow for near-real-time analysis of population behavior and thought, they found that … Continue reading

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Business travel and behavioral and mental health

In new work, Rundle and colleagues find that extensive business travel is associated with poorer behavioral and mental health – smoking, sedentary behavior, trouble sleeping, alcohol dependence, depression and anxiety.  The paper was recently published online at the Journal of Occupational … Continue reading

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Who are smokers today? Implications for public health and research

Kerry Keyes and colleagues recently published a new article looking at changes in the relationship between smoking and psychiatric disorders across successive birth cohorts in the twentieth century.  They find that as rates of smoking decreased through the latter half … Continue reading

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Unequal depression for equal work?

Current doctoral students Jonathan Platt and Seth Prins, along with Cluster faculty Lisa Bates and Katherine Keyes recently reported that structural workplace discrimination, measured as the presence of a gender wage gap, largely explained higher rates of mood disorders among … Continue reading

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Hey Mr. Sandman: dyadic effects of anxiety, depressive symptoms and sleep among married couples

Rundle and colleagues have been developing a series of projects studying how health and health behaviors are transmitted between members of married and domestic partnered couples.  The first in a series of papers on this topic, “Hey Mr. Sandman: dyadic … Continue reading

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Anxious? Depressed? You might be suffering from capitalism: contradictory class locations and the prevalence of depression and anxiety in the USA

New work in the journal Sociology of Health and Illness by Seth Prins, a Doctoral Student in Epidemiology, and Cluster faculty, Lisa Bates and Katherine Keyes, explores how social class may influence depression and anxiety in ways that are not explained by … Continue reading

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