ARLINGTON, Virginia, March 31 -- The American Psychiatric Association issued the following news release: * * * APA Publishing Names John Lauriello, M.D., New Editor of APA's Quarterly Clinical Review Journal, Focus American Psychiatric Association (APA) Publishing has selected John Lauriello, M.D., to serve as editor of Focus, its clinical review journal. Dr. Lauriello currently holds the Daniel Lieberman Professorship and Chair of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Thomas Jefferson University  more

PLYMOUTH, England, March 30 -- The University of Plymouth posted the following news: * * * Normative messaging bridges the partisan gap in pandemic risk-taking * People's political persuasions can have a significant influence on their initial response to a global health crisis, according to new research. But while they do tend to respond to guidance issued or followed by their political leaders of choice, the study showed that people's behaviour can be altered by targeted interventions tha  more

ITHACA, New York, March 30 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * Why feeling alone may matter more than being alone By Laura Reiley, Cornell Chronicle Loneliness is often described as a simple absence - of people, of connection, of companionship. But two new studies suggest it may be something more complex, and more consequential: not just how socially connected people are, but how they experience those connections in the first place. A study published in JAMA Network Open  more