ReFlections Volume 64, February 2025

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February 2025

ReFlections Volume 64, February 2025

Dr. Adela Osman
Dr. Peter Farvolden
Dr. Pramodh Nathaniel
Dr. Daniel D. Zimmerman
Dr. Steve Woh
Dr. Sheetal Salgaonkar

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In Brief

Explore in-depth articles on important medical topics and stay up to date on a range of hot-button issues impacting life and health insurers, from the long-term effects of concussions to addressing mental health in the digital age.

Welcome to the February 2025 issue of ReFlections. The feature articles explore phone addiction and its effects on mental health, the evolving science of concussions, and recent trends and impacts for three prominent infectious diseases.

Other highlights include:

An interview with Dr. Dan Zimmerman, longtime ˿��ƵAPP Medical Director and ReFlections Editor, on the evolution of insurance medicine
Underwriting a challenging incidental pulmonary nodule case
Perspectives on mental health in the digital age and the use of digital twins in medicine
Summaries of recent studies on mapping gut cells to treat disease, the association between metabolic syndrome and dementia, and repurposing GLP-1 drugs for alcohol use disorder
An introduction to ˿��ƵAPP’s new comprehensive online library of mental health-focused tools, resources, and research

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