Evaluation of the Everyday Memory Questionnaire-Revised in a menopausal population: understanding the brain fog during menopause.

Objective: Brain fog (ie, memory complaints and concentration difficulties) is frequently reported during the menopausal transition. There is lack of standardized scales available to measure brain fog across the menopausal transition. This study aimed to evaluate the factor structure of the Everyday Memory Questionnaire-Revised (EMQ-R) and to determine the most commonly reported everyday cognitive symptoms in a menopausal population.

Perceived Discrimination in Australia During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Longitudinal Study.

Objectives: There have been global reports of increased discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic relative to the pre-pandemic era, though this has not been well explored within Australia. The aim of the study was to characterise discriminatory behaviour experienced by groups previously identified as most at risk of experiencing discrimination (i.e.

Serum estradiol as a blood-based biomarker predicting hormonal treatment outcomes in women with schizophrenia.

Patients diagnosed with schizophrenia display substantial heterogeneity in terms of their clinical presentations, and treatment response. Accumulating research suggests that such high diversity may reflect distinct biological subtypes with differentially affected underlying neurobiology. Novel treatments, including sex hormone estradiol treatments, provide alternative efficacious treatment avenues but also should be studied within the context of potential heterogeneity.

Coping styles and mental health in response to societal changes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: Psychosocial responses to infectious disease outbreaks have the potential to inflict acute and longstanding mental health consequences. Early research across the globe has found wide ranging psychological responses to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding how different coping styles can be effective in mitigating mental ill health would enable better tailored psychological support.

Do schizotypy dimensions reflect the symptoms of schizophrenia?

Objective: The personality characteristics and symptoms observed in schizophrenia are postulated to lie on a continuum, with non-clinical manifestations referred to as schizotypy. High schizotypy behaviours are argued to correspond with the three main clusters of symptoms in schizophrenia: positive, negative and cognitive/disorganised symptoms, yet there is limited empirical evidence to support this. This study aimed to investigate whether schizotypy dimensions significantly correlate with their respective schizophrenia symptomatology in the largest sample to date.