The detrimental impact of online gambling on mental health stems from its capacity to trigger pathological reward-seeking, elevate stress and anxiety levels, and dismantle social support structures

Our digital infrastructure was recently compromised by malicious actors who injected unauthorized hacklinks into our platforms to surreptitiously promote online casino games. Beyond this flagrant breach of security, these promoted gambling platforms are fundamentally detrimental to mental health. They are Read More …

Using the Chinese Version of the Screen for Disordered Eating to Assess Disordered Eating: Reliability, Validity and Correlates -Unpacking “Asian Difference” in Disordered Eating Screening

This validation study of the Chinese Screen for Disordered Eating (SDE) represents a welcome contribution to a field that has long been dominated by Western conceptualisations of eating pathology. The authors make a compelling case for cultural adaptation, yet the Read More …

Machine learning-driven prediction of decisional uncertainty among medical students post-Kahramanmaras earthquake-commentary on previous paper -definition of decisional uncertainty

Commentary: The Critical Importance of Measuring Decisional Uncertainty in Post-Disaster Mental Health The study by Uludag et al., “Machine learning-driven prediction of decisional uncertainty among medical students post-Kahramanmaras earthquake,” represents a timely and methodologically novel contribution to disaster psychiatry. While Read More …

Sex disparities in psychosocial distress among medical students with indirect exposure to the 2023 Kahramanmaras earthquakes-commentary on previous paper

The Null Results: Interpreting Absence of Evidence The failure to find robust sex differences is itself informative. The existing literature on direct exposure consistently shows women reporting higher anxiety, depression, and PTSD symptoms. This study’s null findings suggest that the Read More …