Objective: To develop a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) eating disorder screener.
Method: Veterans enrolled in VA healthcare (N = 344) completed a survey of screening items and established measures. A validation subset (n = 166) participated in diagnostic interviews to confirm an eating disorder diagnosis.
Background: Burnout is among the greatest challenges facing healthcare today. Healthcare providers have been found to experience burnout at significant rates, with COVID-19 exacerbating the challenge. Burnout in the healthcare setting has been associated with decreases in job satisfaction, productivity, professionalism, quality of care, and patient satisfaction, as well as increases in career choice regret, intent to leave, and patient safety incidents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvent-related potentials (ERPs) are small voltage changes in the brain that reliably occur in response to auditory or visual stimuli. ERPs have been extensively studied in both humans and animals to identify biomarkers, test pharmacological agents, and generate testable hypotheses about the physiological and genetic basis of schizophrenia. In this chapter, we discuss how ERPs are generated and recorded as well as review canonical ERP components in the context of schizophrenia research in humans.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRecent advancements in medicine have confirmed that brain disorders often comprise multiple subtypes of mechanisms, developmental trajectories, or severity levels. Such heterogeneity is often associated with demographic aspects (e.g.
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