Journal of Adolescent Health
May 1, 2024
Rita Farah, Abigail F Kerns, Austin C Murray et al.
18 citations
We describe trends in psilocybin exposures among adolescents and young adults as reported to US poison centers over the past decade. We queried the National Poison Data System for cases involving psilocybin during January 1, 2013-December 31, 2022. Persons aged 13-25 years were included. We examined exposures to psilocybin by demographics, clinical effects, level of care, and medical outcome....
Journal of Adolescent Health
June 2023
Aneesh Hehr, Edward D Huntley, Hilary A Marusak
Sleep plays an important role in healthy neurocognitive development, and poor sleep is linked to cognitive and emotional dysfunction. Studies in adults suggest that shorter sleep duration and poor sleep quality may disrupt core neurocognitive networks, particularly the default mode network (DMN)-a network implicated in internal cognitive processing and rumination. Here, we examine the...
Journal of Adolescent Health
July 1, 2018
Dawn M Upchurch, Monique Gill, Linghui Jiang et al.
Purpose: To investigate the prevalence, patterns, and satisfaction of use of mind-body therapies (MBTs) in a nationally representative sample of young adults (ages 18-24 years). Methods: Young adults interviewed in the 2012 National Health Interview Survey were analyzed (n = 3,286). Individual types (e.g., mindfulness) and a combined measure of use of any MBT were assessed. Reasons for and...
Journal of Adolescent Health
March 17, 2017
Jason D. Jones, Monica E. Calkins, J. Scott et al.
Purpose To examine how cannabis use and polysubstance use among cannabis users relate to psychosis spectrum (PS) symptoms in a large community-based sample of US youth. Methods 4,171 youth (age 14–21; mean=16.90, SD=1.85; 55% female) from the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort (PNC) completed assessments of substance use, PS symptoms, and confounding variables (e.g., demographics, comorbid...
Journal of Adolescent Health
November 1, 2011
Serge Brand, Johannes Beck, Nadeem Kalak et al.
To explore associations between dream recall, gender, sleep, perceived stress, and creativity in a large sample of adolescents. In adults, women report a higher frequency of dream recall than men. Moreover, increased awakenings seem to increase dream recall, whereas low sleep quality is associated with low dream recall. In addition, there is some evidence that dream recall is associated with...
Journal of Adolescent Health
August 1, 2001
Barry Krakow, D Sandoval, R Schrader et al.
To evaluate imagery rehearsal therapy for the treatment of chronic nightmares in a sample of adolescent girls. Adolescent girls ranging in age from 13 to 18 years were recruited from the Wyoming Girls School in Sheridan, Wyoming (treatment group, n = 9; control group, n = 10). These girls had previously suffered a high prevalence of unwanted sexual experiences in childhood and adolescence, and...