Under pressure: A systematic review of the mental health impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health workers.

The COVID-19 pandemic emerged suddenly, profoundly impacting the lives of us all, including mental health workers (MHW). This unprecedented crisis introduced significant challenges for MHW, exposing them to increased risks of psychological distress. This systematic review aims to evaluate the psychopathological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on MHW.

Anxiety Disorders: The Relationship between Insight and Metacognition.

Background: The exploration of metacognition in relation to anxiety has received considerable attention in recent decades. Research indicates that it plays a role in the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders while also providing benefits, including the ability to assess situations, modify behaviors, and make informed decisions.

Summary: We propose that having an awareness of a disorder, also known as insight, is related to metacognition in anxiety.

Cognitive Inflexibility Predicts Negative Symptoms Severity in Patients with First-Episode Psychosis: A 1-Year Follow-Up Study.

Negative symptoms and cognitive deficits play a major role in psychosis and significantly influence the functional outcomes of patients, particularly those with a first episode of psychosis (FEP). However, limited research has explored the predictive capacity of cognitive deficits during FEP for subsequent negative symptomatology. Drawing from the Athens FEP research study, we conducted a retrospective longitudinal study in 80 individuals with FEP.

Coping profiles and their association with vicarious post-traumatic growth among nurses during the three waves of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Aims: This study aimed to examine (a) changes in coping strategies and vicarious post-traumatic growth (VPTG) across three timepoints of the COVID-19 pandemic among nurses; (b) discrete groups of nurses with unique coping profiles and (c) the association of these coping profiles with VPTG across the timepoints.

Background: Although literature abounds with the negative mental health consequences of the pandemic among healthcare professionals, much less is known about the positive consequences on nurses, the coping strategies that they use, and how these change over time.

Design: This was a cross-sectional web-based survey at three timepoints during the pandemic.

Is There a Role of Inferior Frontal Cortex in Motor Timing? A Study of Paced Finger Tapping in Patients with Non-Fluent Aphasia.

The aim of the present study was to investigate the deficits in timing reproduction in individuals with non-fluent aphasia after a left hemisphere lesion including the inferior frontal gyrus, in which Broca's region is traditionally localised. Eighteen stroke patients with non-fluent aphasia and twenty-two healthy controls were recruited. We used a finger-tapping Test, which consisted of the synchronisation and the continuation phase with three fixed intervals (450 ms, 650 ms and 850 ms).