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Borderline personality disorder diagnosis: To tell or not to tell patients?
Not disclosing a diagnosis "is like you're not trusting a patient to be a reasonable adult human about this," said Dr. Amy Barnhorst.
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Novel Alzheimer’s drug slows cognitive decline in phase 2 trial
The Alzheimer’s Association is encouraged by the promising data, according to Maria Carrillo, PhD, chief science officer for the organization.
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Meghan Markle interview resurfaces suicidality screening debate
Ask open-ended questions of those patients who are struggling, said Dr. Mona Masood.
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PTSD prevalent in survivors of severe COVID-19
The results are “in line” with findings reported in other events, such as Hurricane Katrina of 2005, and the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami.
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FDA approves first targeted treatment for rare DMD mutation
This particular mutation of the DMD gene “is amenable to exon 45 skipping.”
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Repeated ketamine infusions linked to rapid relief of PTSD
“What was surprising was how robust the results were,” said Dr. Adriana Feder, lead author of the study.
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Microvascular injury of brain, olfactory bulb seen in COVID-19
Vascular pathology and perivascular infiltrates found on postmortem MRI scans may be informative when interpreting brain changes on MRI scan in...
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‘She’s not a real doctor, she’s a psych doctor’
“I didn’t realize how much this experience pervaded through medicine,” said Dr. Janeni Nayagan.
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FBI warns of ‘imminent’ cyberattacks on U.S. hospitals
All health care systems should be prepared to deal with these problems, said Dr. Paul S. Appelbaum.
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Security breach in Finland leads to psychiatric patient blackmail
Hackers have accessed patient records at Finland’s largest private psychotherapy system, emailing some patients to pay up or face having their...
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Is patient suicide in psychiatry a medical error?
Mental health professionals prevail in up to 80% of suicide-related malpractice cases, but such events are still emotionally devastating for...
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Substance use tied to increased COVID-19 risk
Those with a recent diagnosis of SUD were eight times more likely to develop COVID-19, compared with those without such a diagnosis.
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TNF inhibitors linked to inflammatory CNS events
The authors do not caution “against using these therapies in appropriate patients,” and it is unclear whether this association “represents de novo...
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FDA approves ofatumumab (Kesimpta) for relapsing forms of MS
The first FDA-approved self-administered targeted B-cell therapy for MS is delivered via an autoinjector pen.
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FDA approves first oral treatment for spinal muscular atrophy
The oral treatment provided a “meaningful difference from the natural progression of the disease.”