About The Study: Using Fitbit data in a longitudinal cohort of 3,393 young adolescents, 6 sleep health dimensions were identified: irregularity, timing, duration, social jetlag, weekend oversleep, and continuity. Greater irregularity was associated with higher concurrent transdiagnostic mental health symptoms, whereas shorter duration was associated with higher symptoms at 1-year follow-up. These findings demonstrate the multidimensional nature of adolescent sleep health and can help guide selection of sleep health domains and representative measures to enhance reproducibility and suggest potential intervention targets.

About The Study: This systematic scoping review study of prescription drug promotion by influencers found that such promotion carried risks of inaccurate or misleading advice, often amplified through personal and emotionally resonant narratives in an environment with limited oversight and enforcement. Despite the small and fragmented evidence base, these findings highlight the urgent need for updated regulatory guidance, standardized and enforceable disclosure requirements, stronger platform accountability, and targeted digital literacy initiatives. Policymakers and researchers should act proactively to safeguard public health.

About The Study: The findings of this study suggest large language models (LLMs) can produce contextually appropriate motivational interviewing-consistent responses, but limitations in coherence and stylistic alignment highlight the need for further validation before clinical use. Motivational interviewing, a structured counseling approach, provides an empirically grounded setting for evaluating alignment between LLM-generated and human therapist responses.

Some of the 3D digital models created by researchers to depict lost neighborhoods in Columbus, Ohio, tell a clear story by placing the “ghosts” of houses that were demolished for freeway construction atop the roadways now occupying that land. But by talking to the people who lived in these communities, scientists are filling in historic gaps that technology can’t fill, adding trees, cars, people, photographs and life stories to the digitized infrastructure that was an initial focus of the work. The research team has published an update on the Ghost Neighborhoods of Columbus project in the International Journal of Digital Humanities, reporting on the technology workflow, including solutions to bottlenecks they’ve encountered, and acknowledging a slow start to community engagement that hums along nicely these days. The team aims to put both the digital work and story collection on a faster track.

Past behavior matters, especially in law enforcement where certain pre-hire misbehavior by law enforcement candidates sharply increases the likelihood of police misconduct once they are hired, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

New research published by Wiley online in CANCER indicates that psychosocial factors—which influence how a person perceives, interprets, and reacts to their surroundings—do not affect an individual’s risk of developing cancer.

Just published cross-national findings show that expectant parents in Finland, Japan and Portugal value parental cooperation in terms of mutual support, team spirit, sharing, and agreeing on childrearing. However, the availability of institutional support, gender and the care regime, and existing work and parenting cultures shape expectant parents’ future visions of their coparenting.