A Sood
Biographic Data
| ID | 56476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Sood |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Sood |
| SIGNATURE | SOOD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Methodist University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1767-1049 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Health literacy in foster care transition planning and barriers to care
Adolescents and young adults formerly in foster care (AYAFC) experience multiple healthcare access challenges during transition to adulthood. This study assessed how gaps in health literacy – the ability to obtain, process, and understand health information – impede transition preparedness and access to healthcare. Focus groups and semi-structured interviews with AYAFC and stakeholders were conducted in North Texas to assess health literacy prepa…
Experiences of increased food insecurity, economic and psychological distress during the Covid-19 pandemic among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-enrolled food pantry clients
Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic initially doubled the rates of food insecurity across the USA and tripled rates among households with children. Despite the association among food insecurity, chronic disease and psychological distress, narratives depicting the experiences of already food insecure populations are notably underrepresented in the literature. The current study assessed the impact of COVID-19 on clients of a food pantry who were also …
Madness Experienced as Faith
Coping with Food Insecurity Among African American in Public-Sector Mental Health Services
Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity
Atrophy of neurons in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays a key role in the pathophysiology of depression and related disorders. The ability to promote both structural and functional plasticity in the PFC has been hypothesized to underlie the fast-acting antidepressant properties of the dissociative anesthetic ketamine. Here, we report that, like ketamine, serotonergic psychedelics are capable of robustly increasing neuritogenesis and/or spinogenes…
The Global Mental Health movement and its impact on traditional healing in India
This article considers the impact of the global mental health discourse on India's traditional healing systems. Folk mental health traditions, based in religious lifeways and etiologies of supernatural affliction, are overwhelmingly sought by Indians in times of mental ill-health. This is despite the fact that the postcolonial Indian state has historically considered the popularity of these indigenous treatments regressive, and claimed Western ps…
The Global Mental Health movement and its impact on traditional healing in India
This article considers the impact of the global mental health discourse on India's traditional healing systems. Folk mental health traditions, based in religious lifeways and etiologies of supernatural affliction, are overwhelmingly sought by Indians in times of mental ill-health. This is despite the fact that the postcolonial Indian state has historically considered the popularity of these indigenous treatments regressive, and claimed Western ps…
The Global Mental Health movement and its impact on traditional healing in India
This article considers the impact of the global mental health discourse on India's traditional healing systems. Folk mental health traditions, based in religious lifeways and etiologies of supernatural affliction, are overwhelmingly sought by Indians in times of mental ill-health. This is despite the fact that the postcolonial Indian state has historically considered the popularity of these indigenous treatments regressive, and claimed Western ps…
Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity
Atrophy of neurons in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays a key role in the pathophysiology of depression and related disorders. The ability to promote both structural and functional plasticity in the PFC has been hypothesized to underlie the fast-acting antidepressant properties of the dissociative anesthetic ketamine. Here, we report that, like ketamine, serotonergic psychedelics are capable of robustly increasing neuritogenesis and/or spinogenes…
Madness Experienced as Faith
Coping with Food Insecurity Among African American in Public-Sector Mental Health Services
Experiences of increased food insecurity, economic and psychological distress during the Covid-19 pandemic among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-enrolled food pantry clients
Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic initially doubled the rates of food insecurity across the USA and tripled rates among households with children. Despite the association among food insecurity, chronic disease and psychological distress, narratives depicting the experiences of already food insecure populations are notably underrepresented in the literature. The current study assessed the impact of COVID-19 on clients of a food pantry who were also …
Health literacy in foster care transition planning and barriers to care
Adolescents and young adults formerly in foster care (AYAFC) experience multiple healthcare access challenges during transition to adulthood. This study assessed how gaps in health literacy – the ability to obtain, process, and understand health information – impede transition preparedness and access to healthcare. Focus groups and semi-structured interviews with AYAFC and stakeholders were conducted in North Texas to assess health literacy prepa…
Medicine (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Food insecurity (2 works) · Food security (2 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (2 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (2 works) · Mental health (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (2 works)