Background Conventional treatments for major depressive disorder (MDD) fail to benefit one-third of patients, underscoring the need for therapies with novel mechanisms of action. Bilateral functional electrical stimulation (FES) of the facial muscles uses electrical currents to activate the muscles involved in facial e...
Fatemeh Gholamali Nezhad, Hao-Chen Yu, I. Demchenko et al.· PLoS ONE· 0 citations
Depression represents a complex, multifactorial disorder influenced by the interplay of biological, behavioral, and social determinants. While extensive health surveys, including the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), gather comprehensive multidomain data, existing studies tend to analyze these...
Divya Sharma, Alice Rueda, Qiao-Wei Lin et al.· PLOS Digital Health· 0 citations
Examination of the independent and combined effects of COVID-19 seropositivity and metabolic syndrome on depressive symptoms, considering demographic and health-related factors concluded that the former was associated with higher odds of depressive symptoms and the latter with increased CESD-7 scores.
Reinhard Janssen-Aguilar, Qiao-Wei Lin, Shakila Meshkat et al.· 0 citations
