PLOS IMAGE: SU/ ÖSTRA: INSIDE BY NIGHT CREDIT: MESCON, FLICKR (CC BY 2.0, HTTPS://CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG/LICENSES/BY/2.0/) Among patients with chronic, non-communicable diseases, the risk of death is more than doubled if they also have a psychiatric comorbidity, according to a new study publishing January 27th in PLOS Medicine by Seena Fazel of the University of Oxford, UK, and colleagues. Non-communicable diseases...
IMAGE: ASLEEP CREDIT: PISAUIKAN, PIXABAY, CC0 (HTTPS://CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG/PUBLICDOMAIN/ZERO/1.0/) Multiple measures of sleep patterns and sleep efficiency are associated with lifetime diagnoses of mental illness, according to a new study that used wrist accelerometer data to track sleep. The study is publishing October 12th in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by Shreejoy Tripathy of the University of Toronto and the...
