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Ann Med 2022 Dec;54(1):2246-2258

Department of Sociology, Social Work and Public Health, Faculty of Labour Sciences, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain.

Background: Several studies have highlighted the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on both physical and mental health. The aim of this study is to analyse the effects on mental health in two phases of the COVID-19 pandemic (April 2020 and February 2021) in the population of Colombia.

Methods: Observational, prospective, cross-sectional study along two periods, April 2020 and February 2021. Read More

An Sist Sanit Navar 2022 Aug 16;45(2). Epub 2022 Aug 16.

Departamento de Enfermería. Universidad de Sevilla. Sevilla. España..

Systematic review of published studies on the impact of social networks (SN) use on anorexia and bulimia in female adolescents. We selected articles published over the past 10 years, written in English, Spanish or Portu-guese found in The Cochrane Library Plus, PubMed, WOS, PsycINFO, and Scopus databases and with enough methodological quality. Nine studies were included in this review with a sample of 2,069 adolescents; 75. Read More

China Econ Rev 2022 Aug 11:101849. Epub 2022 Aug 11.

Center for Macroeconomic Research and Department of Finance at School of Economics, Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China.

We examine the effectiveness and costs of alternative nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) for COVID-19 containment. Using a border discontinuous difference-in-difference approach, we find that the enforcement of NPIs reduces the number of new COVID-19 cases by 10.8% in China. Read More

Eur J Int Relat 2022 Sep 6;28(3):538-562. Epub 2022 Jun 6.

The University of Sheffield, UK.

What accounts for overarching trajectories of civil wars? This article develops an account of civil war as a social process that connects dynamics of conflict from pre- to post-war periods through evolving interactions between nonstate, state, civilian, and external actors involved. It traces these dynamics to the mobilization and organization of nascent nonstate armed groups before the war, which can induce state repression and in some settings escalation of tensions through radicalization of actors, militarization of tactics, and polarization of societies, propelled by internal divisions and external support. Whether armed groups form from a small, clandestine core of dedicated recruits, broader networks, social movements, and/or fragmentation within the regime has consequences for their internal and external relations during the war. Read More

Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci 2022 Aug 15:e1617. Epub 2022 Aug 15.

Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.

Autobiographical-episodic memory is considered to be the most complex of the five long-term memory systems. It is autonoetic, which means, self-reflective, relies on emotional colorization, and needs the features of place and time; it allows mental time traveling. Compared to the other four long-term memory systems-procedural memory, priming, perceptual, and semantic memory-it develops the latest in phylogeny and ontogeny, and is the most vulnerable of the five systems, being easily impaired by brain damage and psychiatric disorders. Read More