Christiane Sybille Schmidt

TL;DR: In this paper, an overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of the effectiveness of brief alcohol intervention in primary healthcare published between 2002 and 2012 is presented. But the authors highlight the large volume of primarily positive evidence supporting brief intervention effects as well as some unanswered questions with regards to the effect of brief intervention across different cultural settings and in specific population groups, and in respect of the optimum content of brief interventions.

TL;DR: The present study confirms prior reports that MCT exerts beneficial effects on some cognitive and symptomatic parameters and reduces the rate of jumping to conclusions bias after training.

TL;DR: In a large meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials in emergency care settings, there was evidence for very small effects of brief interventions on alcohol consumption reductions, but this finding remains tentative due to the low number of non-face-to-face studies.

TL;DR: Anxiety-evoking music resulted in more decisions in currently deluded patients relative to non-deluded patients and healthy controls, confirming predictions derived from the LA account and asserting that schizophrenia patients decide hastily under conditions of continued uncertainty.

TL;DR: It is suggested that more people reduced their alcohol use in Europe than increased it since the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic, however high‐quality studies examining specific change mechanisms at the population level are lacking.