Sympathetic reactivity to emotional stress in women with major depressive disorder.

Young women, who suffer from major depressive disorder (MDD) at twice the rate as young men, are particularly vulnerable to cardiovascular events triggered by emotional stress, an association that may be partially explained by excessive sympathetic activation. However, no studies have directly measured sympathetic activity during acute emotional stress in young women with MDD. We hypothesized that the muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) response to acute emotional stress would be greater in young women with MDD (18-30 yrs) compared to healthy non-depressed young women.

Rehabilitation interventions and outcomes for post-COVID condition: a scoping review.

Objective: Several rehabilitation interventions have been proposed to support people with post-COVID-19 condition (PCC). However, the full spectrum of these interventions remains unclear, partly due to the complexity of PCC, which encompasses a broad range of symptoms affecting multiple organ systems and health domains. This scoping review aimed to identify the available rehabilitation interventions for PCC and the outcome measures used to evaluate them, to facilitate the development of multifaceted interventions and improve patient care.

Negative affective responsivity to daily stressors in young adults: The influence of depressive symptom severity.

Background: Evidence suggests that adults with major depressive disorder appraise daily stressor events as more severe and report stronger stressor-related negative emotions than non-depressed adults. Despite the growing number of young adults (~18-25 yrs) experiencing depressive symptoms in the absence of a formal clinical diagnosis, limited studies have examined whether current depressive symptom severity influences affective responsivity to daily stressors in young men and women. We tested the hypotheses that greater depressive symptom severity would be related to greater negative stressor appraisal characteristics and greater affective responsivity to daily stressors but not to stressor exposure frequency.

Identifying text-based factors that contribute to the superior reading efficiency of skilled deaf readers: An eye-tracking study of length, frequency, and predictability.

Skilled deaf readers are more efficient than their hearing counterparts-they read faster, skipping more words without a negative impact on comprehension. It is not clear from where deaf readers' efficiency derives, because reading is a complex cognitive process that requires readers to extract meaning from text, incorporating visual, lexical, and contextual information. To assess the contributions of these factors to deaf readers' efficiency, we tracked their eye movements as they read sentences with target words that were manipulated for , , and , and we assessed the effects of those variables on (i.