New research using functional MRI data finds that how adolescents’ brains were wired — before COVID-19 — predicted their stress, negative emotions, and overall mental health during the height of the pandemic, making them more vulnerable or more resilient.

Q+A with David H. Rosmarin about his team's research into why patients being treated for anxiety weren’t reporting the worsening symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a cohort of 764 individuals, they found that cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy appear to have been protective against pandemic-related anxiety.

HMS News article on new research from Haiden A. Huskamp and colleagues, first author Lindsay Overhage, finding that the number of young people in the United States visiting hospital emergency departments for mental health crises increased sharply during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Harvard Gazette article on new research from Vadim N. Gladyshev and colleagues, first author Jesse R. Poganik, finding that in preclinical models and in humans, stress from surgery, pregnancy, and severe COVID-19 increased signs of biological age, which were reversed following recovery.

HMS News article on new research from Rebecca Robbins and colleagues finding that in-person interactions with friends, family, and health care providers were associated with fewer mental health concerns. In contrast, interactions using digital technologies, including emails and video calls, were associated with feelings of depression and anxiety about COVID-19.

HMS News article on new research from Roy H. Perlis and colleagues, first author Andrea G. Edlow, finding that male but not female babies born to women who tested positive for SARS‐CoV‐2 during pregnancy were more likely to be diagnosed with a neurodevelopmental disorder in their first 12 months.

HMS News article on new research from Frank J. Slack, Maria Mavrikaki (co-first author with Jonathan lee) and colleagues, finding for the first time the molecular signatures of brain aging in patients with severe COVID-19.

HMS News article on new research from Sandeep Robert Datta, David Brann, Tatsuya Tsukahara, and colleagues at Duke Health and UC San Diego, finding that long-term loss of smell may be linked to an ongoing immune assault on olfactory nerve cells and an associated decline in the number of those cells.

Harvard Medicine News Q+A with Aleena Garner about her research, focusing on how memory affects perception of visual and auditory information.

Harvard Gazette article on a recent conversation with between Harvard’s Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative with Professor of Psychology Jesse Snedeker and Professor and author Avi Loeb. This panel discussed the potential challenges of communicating with aliens who may be much more intelligent than us.

Harvard Gazette article on new research from Anne Oaklander and colleagues, suggesting that that some patients with long COVID have lasting nerve damage that appears to be caused by a potentially treatable infection-triggered immune dysfunction.

HMS News article on new research from Marco Loggia and colleagues, first author Ludovica Brusaferri, suggesting that pandemic-related stressors may lead to brain inflammation in people not infected with SARS-CoV-2.

HMS News article on new research from Roy Perlis and colleagues showing links between depressive symptoms and belief in false statements.

Harvard Gazette article on new research from the labs of Katie L. McLaughlin and colleagues at the University of Washington, first author Maya L. Rosen, suggesting practical strategies to help children through a pandemic.

Connie Cepko shares an innovative technique devised by graduate student Brian Rabe using the reverse-transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT/LAMP) method to detect SARS-CoV-2 quickly and cheaply.

Harvard Gazette article on a preliminary MR spectroscopic imaging study of the brain in COVID-19. COVID-19 patients with neurological symptoms show some of the same metabolic disturbances in the brain as patients who have suffered oxygen deprivation from other causes, but also notable differences. From Eva-Maria Ratai and colleagues, co-first authors Otto Rapalino and Akila Weerasekera.

McLean Hospital joins forces with the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and several public and private organizations in an Accelerating Medicines Partnership program with $99M contract to find early therapeutic interventions for people at risk for schizophrenia.

HMS News article on new research from the lab of Sandeep Robert Datta and colleagues, co-first authors David H. Brann, Tatsuya Tsukahara, and Caleb Weinreb, demonstrating that olfactory support cells are vulnerable to novel coronavirus infection.

The MGH Multicultural Alzheimer's Prevention Program (MAPP) recently launched a research study to examine the impact of COVID19 on the well-being, memory and cognition of ethnically diverse older individuals.