Research into autism and mental health has traditionally associated poor mental health and
autism as inevitably linked. Other possible explanations for mental health problems among …

Fatigue is one of the most commonly reported symptoms in the context of the post-COVID-19
syndrome. Notably, fatigue is characterised by overlap** physical and psychopathological …

Purpose For patients with lung cancer treated with radiation therapy, a dose to the heart is
associated with excess mortality; however, it is often not feasible to spare the whole heart …

Background Mood disorders (major depressive disorder, MDD, and bipolar disorder, BD)
are considered leading causes of life-long disability worldwide, where high rates of no …

Children admitted to hospital with an acute illness and concurrent severe malnutrition
[complicated severe malnutrition (CSM)] have a high risk of dying. The biological processes …

Raised pro-inflammatory immune/inflammatory setpoints, leading to an increased
production of peripheral cytokines, have been associated with Major Depressive Disorder …

Background Self-reported meat consumption is associated with disease risk but objective
assessment of different dimensions of this heterogeneous dietary exposure in observational …

Background Cognitive impairment is a core feature of bipolar disorder, with a prevalence of
about 64.4% during episodes and 57.1% in euthymia. Recent evidences suggest that …

This thesis aimed to investigate the role of minority stress (MS) and autistic community
connectedness (ACC) on mental health (MH) and wellbeing in the autistic community …

Bipolar disorder (BD) diagnosis currently relies on assessment of clinical symptoms, mainly
retrospective and subject to memory bias. BD is often misdiagnosed as Major Depressive …