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  • Managing Stress and Social Pain in Autistic Individuals
    Managing Stress and Social Pain in Autistic Individuals New research using data from the Netherlands Autism Register (NAR) shows that autistic adults respond more strongly to social rejection and exclusion on average than non-autistic adults. This sensitivity to ‘social pain’ is particularly associated with lower self-esteem.
  • No uniform post-pandemic pattern in youth mental health
    No uniform post-pandemic pattern in youth mental health The mental health and wellbeing of children and adolescents have not uniformly returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to a new preprint using data from the DREAMS COVID consortium.
  • What is sepsis? When the body's defence turns against itself
    What is sepsis? When the body's defence turns against itself In the run-up to World Sepsis Day on 13 September, we are publishing a series of three articles on sepsis. In this first article, PhD candidates Aryna Kolodyazhna, Floris de Vries and Susanne Doeleman explain what sepsis is, why it can become life-threatening within hours, and how their research at Amsterdam UMC and the Amsterdam Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases (AI&I) helps us better understand the body's response to infection.