Treatment Could Provide Relief for Comorbid Depression and Anxiety
Quick Take Over 40% of people with depression also have a comorbid anxiety disorder. Understanding the relationship between patients’ comorbid depression and anxiety could help practitioners provide more effective personalized treatment. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that targets depression or anxiety...
Exposure Therapy Challenges Patient Expectations
Quick Take During exposure therapy, patients face their fears to build new, positive associations with situations they find threatening. Researchers may need to integrate competing theories of how exposure therapy works—including the inhibitory learning theory, the emotional processing theory, and...
Human Insights for Machine Smarts
Quick Take Cognitive and development psychologists are helping AI developers create systems that work more like the human mind. Research labs are working on algorithms that can reason, self-correct, and understand emotion. Psychologists cite a need for artificial agents that...
Understanding How We Interpret and Share Misinformation
Quick Take Research on misinformation has spiked since 2016, following events such as the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the COVID-19 pandemic that were characterized by information silos. Older adults are better at judging whether information is true or false...