Psychiatry

Depressive mood and irritability in childhood was found to double the likelihood of suicidality in adolescence.

Analysis including 2,848,768 deaths since 1980 has revealed increases in mortality rates due to drug abuse disorders, as well as increases in rates for self-harm and alcohol use disorders since 2000.

A new study found that NAS rates have increased 433% from 2004 to 2014.

How the nation’s excessive spending and poor health outcomes drove researchers to seek solutions.

Participants taking anti-depressants 36% more likely to develop atrial fibrillation.

The survey estimates from the National Center for Health Statistics report that more people are vaccinating for flu and testing for HIV.

The physician community on Twitter is a vibrant, diverse one. But the platform's use in and out of the clinic is still subject to debate.

Hormone therapy taken soon after menopause may help prevent memory loss.

Depression is often daunting for patients to go through and for their physicians to treat. About 13% of pregnant women and new mothers have depression.

Traumatic brain injury increases children’s likelihood of developing ADHD up to 7 years later.

The therapy is currently approved for use by adults with bipolar depression and for the treatment of schizophrenia in patients aged 13 and older.

Brief school-based interventions can be utilized to improve the homework problems of middle school students with ADHD.

Following their review, the authors concluded that the SDS reports are useful in informing acute randomized placebo-controlled studies.

The findings were true even for early-onset dementia.

Researchers ease patients fear around hormonal contraceptive side effects.

Physician self-medication is the dangerous product of unrealistic expectations and fear of retribution. What’s being done to lift the stigma of doctors becoming patients?

The medication has also been linked to increased risk of autism and reduced IQ.

A walking test accurately diagnosed 97% of the time between 2 causes of dementia.

The study finds that general psychopathology is a heritable trait in youth which could be detected early in life through brain structural connectivity.

Roughly 41% of those diagnosed with psychiatric illness were also smokers, and they were 70% more likely to be smokers than their counterparts without psychiatric illness.

Electronic medical records are driving docs crazy. Here’s why, and what’s being done to fix the problem, from the clinic to Congress.

The study suggests that postnatal depression is associated with increased risks to children’s development, affecting a range of domains.

Following decades of research prohibition, physicians are once again raising the psilocybin question. This time, they’re letting data define the answer.