The rates of smoking by adults with mental and/or substance use disorders (MH/SUD) fell by about 10% between 2008 and 2019, a study in Addiction suggests. The decline in smoking and increase in smoking abstinence coincided with greater...
APA on Monday issued a statement expressing sympathy for the victims and survivors of the shooting that took place late Saturday at Club Q Nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo. Responding to the shooting that left five people dead and at...
Lisdexamphetamine may reduce hospitalization and death in people with amphetamine use disorder, a report in JAMA Psychiatry suggests. Lisdexamphetamine (brand name Vyvanse) is a stimulant approved to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity...
Using cannabis while pregnant may raise the risk of preterm birth, a study in Addiction has found. “The findings further support the message provided by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists that pregnant mothers should...
Youth with a psychiatric illness who experience at least one adverse social determinant of health—such as child welfare placement, abuse, or neglect—have a significantly increased risk of self-harm, according to a study published this...
A new study found that about 45 percent of patients who visit the emergency department for physical injuries and ailments also have mental health and substance use problems that are often overlooked.
Individuals who take antipsychotics that increase the hormone prolactin for four years or more are at heightened risk of low-energy fractures (fractures resulting from falls from standing height or lower), according to a report in...
Don't spank your kids. That's the conventional wisdom that has emerged from decades of research linking corporal punishment to a decline in adolescent health and negative effects on behavior, including an increased risk for anxiety and...
The ADHD medication lisdexamfetamine was associated with the lowest risk of hospitalization and death in people with amphetamine addiction, when medications generally used among persons with substance use disorders were compared,...
Nearly 90% of young people who died by suicide were seen by a health care professional at least once in the year prior to their death, including more than 40% who were seen in the month prior to death, a report in Psychiatric Services...
Currently, various classes of drugs are available for the treatment of mental illnesses -- such as depression and anxiety disorders. However, although these drugs confer benefits, they are also associated with adverse side-effects....
New research found that in utero exposure to certain flame retardant chemicals may be a risk factor for developing anxiety symptoms in early adolescence.
Adults with attachment anxiety are more likely to have severe and persistent symptoms following a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), according to a report in The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences . The presence of...
From 2005 to 2019, nearly 98% of smokers—including those with and without serious mental illness (SMI)—were not prescribed treatments for tobacco use disorder, according to a study published yesterday in Psychiatric Services ....
Nearly 30% of adults have trouble falling or staying asleep, a study in JAMA Network Open has found. The results also indicate that more than 30% of adults have at least 1 hour of sleep debt a week (get 1 hour less of sleep than their...
A guided mindfulness-based stress reduction program was as effective as use of the gold-standard drug -- the common antidepressant drug escitalopram -- for patients with anxiety disorders, new research finds.
Most Americans report experiencing at least one traumatic event in childhood, and a new study shows that these experiences have significant impacts on our health risks as adults. Physical illnesses such as obesity and chronic pain are...
A lack of Indigenous mental health professionals and mistrust of the effectiveness of mental health treatment are two of multiple barriers that may keep Indigenous people from seeking and using mental health services, a review in...
Though the overall prevalence of electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use among teens has dropped since 2019, those who begin vaping appear to be starting at a younger age and vaping more frequently, according to a report published today...
Declining mood affects 38% of Americans in the winter, APA’s November Healthy Minds Monthly Poll has found. The poll also found that 24% of Americans feel generally depressed in winter. APA’s Healthy Minds Monthly tracks timely mental...
In a study of nearly 100 women, participants with certain dissociative symptoms had increased connections within some brain networks and decreased connections within others. The new findings shed light on the brain connectivity...
Children and adolescents who get migraines may have a greater risk of experiencing anxiety and depressive symptoms and disorders compared with their peers who do not get migraines, according to a report published in JAMA Pediatrics ....
Youth who survive a firearm injury are significantly more likely to access mental health services—including services for substance use disorders—within one year of the injury than are children who do not have a firearm injury, according...
Women who begin taking oral or transdermal estrogen or estrogen/progestin for menopause between the ages of 45 and 50 appear to be at greater risk of developing depression, suggests a report that was published today in JAMA Network Open...
Naltrexone may significantly reduce binge drinking among sexual and gender minority men (men who have sex with men) with mild or moderate alcohol use disorder, according to a study in AJP in Advance . “Expanding naltrexone treatment...
The researchers suggest that mass school shootings are different from other forms of mass murder, and that they should be looked at as a distinct phenomenon. Factors other than severe mental illness contribute to the vast majority of cases.
Compared with children taken to a psychiatric emergency room (ER) by family, those taken by police after a 911 call were more likely to be male, older, and Black, a report in Psychiatric Services has found. “Clinical and sociodemographic...
Females with autism are more likely than males to be diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder before their 25th birthday, according to a study published yesterday in JAMA Psychiatry . “Around 70% of autistic children meet diagnostic...
Oppressive, frightening, nerve-wracking: nightmares are particularly disturbing dreams. They are considered pathological when they occur frequently (>1 episode per week) and cause daytime fatigue, mood alteration and anxiety. Although...
A combination of behavioral weight loss therapy and the medications naltrexone and bupropion appears to reduce symptoms of binge-eating disorder in people with comorbid obesity, according to a report in AJP in Advance . “[T]he...
A recent imaging study has identified early risk factors that could foretell whether an individual might develop depression in adolescence and early adulthood, finding that people who are more inhibited in early childhood and who also...
When the world shut down in March of 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, people the world over experienced profound psychological stress to varying degrees. Now, a new study takes advantage of the unique situation and longitudinally...
About 1 in 15 children and adolescents hospitalized for COVID-19 experiences neurologic complications, suggests a study in Pediatrics . Among those complications are an increased risk of admission to the intensive care unit (ICU),...
Children and adolescents with moderate to severe major depression or persistent depression should be treated with cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), interpersonal therapy, and/or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (excluding...
Children of parents who have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may have a higher risk of developing mental illnesses and pain disorders, a study in General Hospital Psychiatry has found. Dian-Jeng Li, M.D., of the Kaohsiung Municipal...
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) may improve acute depression severity compared with ketamine, although treatment decisions should still be individualized and patient centered, according to a meta-analysis published yesterday in JAMA...
Universal access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD)—such as methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone—could save lives and reduce health care costs, but multiple barriers stand in the way. So wrote Rahul Gupta, M.D., M.P.H.,...
A new article presents a new perspective on the fear of losing control, with rich implications for future treatment and research. The author outlines some recent work and thinking about these fears and beliefs around the loss of control....
High rates of depression and anxiety reported by adolescent athletes whose sports were cancelled during the COVID-19 pandemic improved significantly a year later when they were able to resume playing sports, according to new research.
The cerebellum is known primarily for the regulation of movement. Researchers have now discovered that the cerebellum also plays an important role in remembering emotional experiences.
People with psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia are 2.5 times more likely than those without a psychotic disorder to eventually develop dementia, according to a new review.
A new study shows that targeted cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can significantly lessen food allergy-related anxiety (FAA) for both children and parents.
Newly discovered biological changes in mothers who suffer postpartum depression may help explain the condition, yield long-sought treatments and let doctors identify those at risk even before their babies are born.
The physiological processes associated with an acute psychological stress response produce changes in human breath and sweat that dogs can detect with an accuracy of 93.75%, according to a new study.
Up to 1 in 5 women in the postpartum period will experience a mental health disorder like postpartum depression or generalized anxiety disorder. How an organization handles a mother's return to work can have a significant impact on her...