Mental Health
Conference Coverage
Patients describe significant impact of epilepsy on their lives
PHILADELPHIA – Symptoms reported most commonly were twitching/tremors, confusion, difficulty talking, impaired/loss of consciousness, stiffening,...
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Universal adolescent anxiety screening is feasible in primary care
BALTIMORE – With no AAP guidelines on anxiety screening for adolescents, an academic pediatric primary care practice...
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Depressive symptoms are associated with stroke risk
PHILADELPHIA – Among older adults, elevated depressive symptoms are associated with a 75% greater risk of incident ischemic stroke.
From the Journals
Lifeline calls spike after Robin Williams’ suicide
The average number of daily suicides also dramatically increased.
From the Journals
Experts propose new definition and recommendations for Alzheimer’s-like disorder
Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE) has been coined as a new term to raise awareness and spur research into this recently...
Opinion
Bipolar disorder during pregnancy: Lessons learned
Sustaining euthymia is perhaps the single most critical principle in managing bipolar women during pregnancy and the postpartum period.
Conference Coverage
No benefit to infants from e-books over board books
BALTIMORE – Parents given e-books were just as likely to read to their children 5 days a week as parents given board...
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Parents’ smartphone addiction linked to children’s overuse of the devices
BALTIMORE – Parents who scored high on a smartphone addiction scale had greater difficulty taking their smartphones...
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Early childhood infections tied to psychosis risk
ORLANDO – Researchers examining data from 647,000 people in Sweden found that infections before the age of 4 are linked to the risk of...
From the Journals
AD biomarker not tied to increased interest in physician-assisted death
When asked whether they had considered PAD, nearly two-thirds of interviewees with the Alzheimer’s disease biomarker stated that they neither had...
From the Journals
Depression treatment rates rose with expanded insurance coverage
Total spending on outpatient depression treatment increased from $12,430,000 in 1998 to $15,554,000 in 2007, and $17,404,000 in 2015.