Publications by authors named "Lauren K S Lei"
Importance: Mental health issues among young people are increasingly concerning. Conventional psychological interventions face challenges, including limited staffing, time commitment, and low completion rates.
Objective: To evaluate the effect of a low-intensity online intervention on young people in Hong Kong experiencing moderate or greater mental distress.
Article Synopsis
- - This study examined the mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong over two years, highlighting increased depressive and anxiety symptoms among participants from 2020 to 2021.
- - Analyses of data from two telephone surveys revealed that resilience and age played significant roles in moderating these mental health issues, with resilience particularly crucial in 2021.
- - The findings suggest that younger and more resilient individuals experienced less severe symptoms, underscoring the need for future research to enhance resilience, especially in older populations during health crises.
Psychotic disorders are complex disorders with multiple etiologies. While increased dopamine synthesis capacity has been proposed to underlie psychotic episodes, dopamine-independent processes are also involved (less responsive to dopamine receptor-blocking medications). The underlying mechanism(s) of the reduction in antipsychotic responsiveness over time, especially after repeated relapses, remain unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is a standard test for screening and monitoring cognitive functions.
Objective: This study explored the two-year changes in MoCA scores in older adults.
Methods: Fifty-seven participants with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 87 participants with normal cognition completed the baseline and two-year follow-up assessments.