Publications by authors named "Theresa Friederike Wechsler"
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- COVID-19 restrictions had a significant impact on mental health, with concerns that these measures could worsen psychiatric symptoms in the population.
- A study used structural MRI, serum analyses, and psychometric assessments to explore changes in brain neurobiology and mental health symptoms in patients with recurrent major depressive disorder and healthy individuals during the pandemic.
- Findings indicated no significant changes over time in brain structure or depressive symptoms, suggesting that nine months of lockdown measures did not visibly affect brain morphology or mental health outcomes in the studied group.
Objectives: Facial expressions are a core component of emotions and nonverbal social communication. Therefore, hypomimia as secondary symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD) has adverse effects like social impairment, stigmatization, under-diagnosis and under-treatment of depression, and a generally lower quality of life. Beside unspecific dopaminergic treatment, specific treatment options for hypomimia in PD are rarely investigated.
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