Mara Violato

Apr 25, 2023 | invesbrain.com | Hargreaves Lansdown |David Buckland |Mara Violato

CHICAGO - An iPad app developed at Northwestern Medicine that helps measure specific aspects of cognitive, motor, sensory and emotional function in five minutes or less is now available for doctors to screen people ages 3 to 85+ for a wide range of neurological diseases and syndromes.

Apr 25, 2023 | invesbrain.com | Mara Violato |Rebecca Bellan |Crispus Nyaga

I stood outside a 50s truck stop diner and gas station under a dark, dusky sky. A bright neon sign that said Norm's Drive In illuminated the space. Behind a psychedelic school bus parked in the dirt lot, monstrous limbs with huge eyeballs, long lashes and smiley faces for irises extended upwards. Little aliens ran around me, and I fell into a swirling vortex that made me want to vomit. Familiar dance electronic beats played in my ears.

Apr 12, 2023 | theconversation.com | Philip Clarke |Jack Pollard |Mara Violato

More than three years into the COVID pandemic, both the virus and the measures taken to control its spread have affected people’s lives across the globe. But how can we fully quantify these effects? While we have estimates of how many people have died from COVID globally (which currently run at just under 7 million), its broader effects – including mental health deterioration due, for example, to the anxiety of getting infected or the isolation of lockdowns – have received less research attention.

Apr 11, 2023 | journals.plos.org | Mara Violato |Jack Pollard |Andrew Lloyd |Raymond Duch

Deterioration of health by EQ-5D domainsWhen looking at individual EQ-5D domains, the highest and the lowest observed change were in anxiety/depression (33.8%; n = 5,525) and self-care (10%; n = 1,553). For anxiety/depression (Fig 2), deterioration was more commonly reported by younger generations, with males and females/others aged 18 to 24 reporting worsened health 13 and 14 percentage points, respectively, higher than those aged 65+.