Psychiatry

Between 20-30% of patients with schizophrenia do not respond to the first-line antipsychotic treatment.

Several risk factors including low education and unhealthy lifestyle choices are partially responsible for this projected increase, though investigators believe changes could be made to decrease the number of dementia cases.

The University of Michigan School of Nursing DASH Center director discusses the impact and reach of adult prescription drug misuse.

A new survey analysis shows prescription opioid, stimulant, sedative and tranquilizer misuse is common by age 50, and is greatly associated with substance abuse disorder risk.

Previous research have focused mostly on adults or patients with other comorbidities.

Burnout problems persisted prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but have been made worse since the beginning of the pandemic.

Participants with at least 3 psychiatric disorders more likely had a family history of psychiatric disorders.

Complex ADHD along with other comorbid psychiatric conditions increases the risk of mortality for patients.

The treatment is approved as either a monotherapy or an adjunctive therapy with either lithium or valproate.

Data show patients with sickle cell disease identified by distinct cognitive profile should have neurorehabilitation tailored to each unique profile.

Circadian disruption presented across a variety of high-risk, prodromal, and syndromic psychiatric disorders.

Copy number variations were broadly associated with an increased risk of autism spectrum disorder and ADHD.

Among the 3 cohorts studied, patients with schizophrenia had the highest mortality rates from a COVID-19 infection.

Students with IBS were also linked to depression and anxiety symptoms.

Patients classified as poor sleepers decreased from 71.4% to 21.4% following the implementation of behavioral sleep intervention treatment.

Few studies have focused on the psychosocial adjustments of siblings of children with ADHD.

In recent years there has been an expansion of trials in different methods of treatment settings, providers, countries, and delivery methods.

A combination of poor performance and methodological limitations were found for the machine learning models.

Hospitalized patients were more likely to have impairments in attention, executive functioning, and category fluency compared to those in the outpatient group.

An increase in benzodiazepine prescriptions in women patients was also reported, which suggested a substantial mental health impact of COVID-19-associated mitigation measures.

Dr. Glanzman presented during AAP 2021 about executive function impairments in patients with ADHD.

Students with ADHD have struggled with virtual schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic.

There was a correlation between anxiety scores and COVID-19 cases.

Offspring born to mothers with any diabetes diagnosis during pregnancy were more likely to develop any psychiatric disorder or specific disorders, compared to their unexposed peers.

Executive function can include working memory, behavioral inhibition, and cognitive flexibility.