Psychiatry

An Oakland-based analysis of mortality among homeless adults aged ≥50 years old illuminates the need for more proactive homeless care policies.

The cohort study is the first to report developmental cascades between disturbed sleep and depressive symptoms throughout childhood and early adolescence.

Treatment adherence remains a concern in psychiatry.

Multivariate dimensional association scores resulted in an overall increase and normalization with age in the ADHD.

Anhedonia had the highest expected influence in the most comprehensive network analysis, showing connections with negative and positive symptoms and functional domains.

The meta-analysis showed an increased odds ratio of developing postpartum depression when the maternal family had a history of psychiatric disorders.

Dextromethorphan HBr-bupropion HCI (Auvelity) is developed by Axsome Therapeutics.

The FDA approved esketamine in 2019 for major depressive disorder.

Postpartum depression rates have increased since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alcohol, stress, drug use, and not seeking help are all risk factors for chronic depression.

CBD has shown promise in treating anxiety and psychosis.

There remains a need for better treatments for bipolar disorder when it is identified early.

Mixed feature depression can be difficult to diagnose because the symptoms can be similar to other psychiatric disorders.

There remains a need for more research into the connection between grief and depression following a death.

Borderline personality disorder remains one of the most difficult to understand conditions in psychiatry.

A high calorie, high fat diet is needed for patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) to maintain a normal weight resulting in an emphasized focus on their nutrition and weight management.

Prefrontal anodal transcranial direct current stimulation is more effective in treating ADHD compared to stimulation of the right inferior frontal gyrus.

The relative contribution of genetic influences to psychotic experiences was lower with increasing environmental exposure for paranoia, cognitive disorganization, grandiosity, and anhedonia.

Patients with dementias also had higher levels of NA-OXS, as did psychotic and bipolar disorders.

Mean inattention scores were about 5 points lower in the tDCS group compared to the sham treatment group.

Dr. Levine talks with Dr. Lisa Harding about how clinicians can best improve patient care in psychiatry.

Patients treated with LAIAs had a lower risk of hospitalization for any cause, hospitalizations for psychiatric disorders, hospitalizations for schizophrenia, and incident suicide attempts compared to patients treated with oral antipsychotics.

The prevalence of suicidal was 10.9% in studies that included child-reported outcomes for child only and 10.4% for child and parent combined.

After March 2020, overdose deaths not involving methadone continued to increase whereas methadone-involved overdose deaths remained stable.

The association with depressive symptoms was greater when race, ancestry, or national origins among Hispanic or Latino participants was the main reason for discrimination.