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🥳 Super excited that today the first paper of my PhD has been published in
Royal Society Open Science: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250061
Can learning from rewards and punishments change how people approach (or avoid) in-group vs. out-group members?
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New publication in #Neuroscience and Biobehavior Reviews! We propose a new model that links #social #connectedness with individual differences in social information processing.
Our new #MachineLearning study reveals key factors in adolescent anxiety & depression: sleep issues common to both; life satisfaction, health worries & impulsivity play unique roles. Smartphone surveys show promise for adolescent #MentalHealth #Research.
Background Mental health in adolescence is critical in its own right and a predictor of later symptoms of anxiety and depression. To address these mental health challenges, it is crucial to understand the variables linked to anxiety and depression in adolescence. Methods Here, we analyzed data of 278 adolescents that were collected in a nation-wide survey provided via a smartphone-based application during the COVID-19 pandemic. We used an elastic net regression machine-learning approach to classify individuals with clinically relevant self-reported symptoms of depression or anxiety. We then identified the most important variables with a combination of permutation feature importance calculation and sequential logistic regressions. Results 40.30% of participants reported clinically relevant anxiety symptoms, and 37.69% reported depressive symptoms. Both machine-learning models performed well in classifying participants with depressive (AUROC = 0.77) or anxiety (AUROC = 0.83) symptoms and were significantly better than the no-information rate. Feature importance analyses revealed that anxiety and depression in adolescence are commonly related to sleep disturbances (anxiety OR = 2.12, depression OR = 1.80). Differentiating between symptoms, self-reported depression increased with decreasing life satisfaction (OR = 0.43), whereas self-reported anxiety was related to worries about the health of family and friends (OR = 1.98) as well as impulsivity (OR = 2.01). Conclusion Our results show that app-based self-reports provide information that can classify symptoms of anxiety and depression in adolescence and thus offer new insights into symptom patterns related to adolescent mental health issues. These findings underscore the potentials of health apps in reaching large cohorts of adolescence and optimize diagnostic and treatment.
Our smartphone-based 📱 #research with #CRPS patients, in collaboration with Heike Rittner and Claudia Sommer, uncovers gender differences in social #support on pain intensity: while men benefit more from solicitous support, women benefit from emotional support.
Background Social support is a multidimensional construct encompassing emotional support as well as pain-focused care and attention, also known as solicitous support. One the one hand, social support is widely believed to positively influence pain symptoms, their intensity, and the ability to cope and influence pain. On the other hand, social support can be negative if it conflicts with the patient’s needs or even causes discomfort. How different types of social support influence pain is not very well understood especially because most of the present research originates from laboratory studies, raising uncertainties about its generalizability to the everyday life of individuals with chronic pain. Methods Here, we tested the effects of emotional, solicitous, and negative social support on pain intensity cross-sectionally in everyday life. We collected data from 20 patients with acute complex regional pain syndrome using a smartphone-based Ecological Momentary Assessment with up to 30 survey prompts over a period of five consecutive days. Results Our results showed that solicitous social support decreased pain, in particular in male patients. Emotional support was beneficial on pain in women but not in men. Conclusions Taken together, these findings highlight the differential effects of social support in every-day life on chronic pain.
New Paper🚨: Punishing free riders in public goods games is most effective when using a common pool. Altruists invest more but punish less, while #anger and #empathy are linked to low investment, highlighting the role of context and traits in #cooperation. #Research
Our registered replication of Hewig et al. (2011) on deviation from rational choice: ✅ Confirms behavioral patterns 🔄 Reveals new insights into brain activity🎯 Highlights cognitive control in overcoming behavioral defaults.
Many people continue to suffer from #PostCOVID or #LongCOVID. In our new systematic umbrella review, we analyze current research to clarify how post-COVID syndrome is defined and which symptoms are most commonly linked to it. #COVID19 #Research
Post-COVID syndrome (PCS) describes a persistent complex of symptoms following a COVID-19 episode, lasting at least 4 to 12 weeks, depending on the specific criteria used for its definition. It is often associated with moderate to severe impairments of daily life and represents a major burden for many people worldwide. However, especially during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, therapeutic and diagnostic uncertainties were prominent due to the novelty of the disease and non-specific definitions that overlooked functional deficits and lacked objective assessment. The present work comprehensively examines the status of PCS definitions as depicted in recent reviews and meta-analyses, alongside exploring associated symptoms and functional impairments. We searched the database Pubmed for reviews and meta-analysis evaluating PCS in the period between May 31, 2022, to December 31, 2023. Out of 95 studies, 33 were selected for inclusion in our analyses. Furthermore, we extended upon prior research by systematically recording the symptoms linked with PCS as identified in the studies. We found that fatigue, neurological complaints, and exercise intolerance were the most frequently reported symptoms. In conclusion, over the past eighteen months, there has been a notable increase in quantity and quality of research studies on PCS. However, there still remains a clear need for improvement, particularly with regard to the definition of the symptoms necessary for diagnosing this syndrome. Enhancing this aspect will render future research more comparable and precise, thereby advancing and understanding PCS.
🎉Exciting opportunity! 13 PhD positions open in our RTG 2660 on approach and avoidance behaviour!
🇪🇺vote✅ Jasper Bischofberger
