Mental Health
Opinion
The power of interaction – Supporting language and play development
How important is play?
From the Journals
Childhood adversities tied to depressive symptoms in older homeless adults
A single exposure to a childhood adversity may increase the odds of moderate to severe depressive symptoms later in life.
From the Journals
Spousal suicide linked to higher risk of mental, physical disorders
A study of 6.7 million people shows that the partners of spouses who kill themselves are at a higher risk of developing mental and physical...
From the Journals
People often think functional neurological symptoms are feigned
The way in which functional neurological symptoms are described greatly influences perceptions of feigning, and patients may differ greatly from...
From the Journals
Adolescent opioid use common but decreasing
The connection continues between prescribed opioids and their nonmedical use.
Commentary
Hold your breath
Doctors have a unique role to play in the fight against air pollution.
Conference Coverage
Evolocumab doesn’t make patients dumb
WASHINGTON – Concerns about possible adverse cognitive effects from the new lipid-lowering drug evolocumab and from aggressive lowering of LDL...
Conference Coverage
Are new medications on horizon for patients with depression, inflammation?
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – The immune system could hold clues as to which antidepressants will work best in which patients, according to a psychiatrist...
Opinion
Surveillance
Dr. William G. Wilkoff talks about teen recklessness.
From the Journals
Synthetic cannabinoid use linked to multiple risk factors
Depression, alcohol use, and marijuana use increase the risk of teens’ use of synthetic cannabinoids, which ups the risk of substance use and...
News
Wired to win
Dr. William G. Wilkoff discusses the “winner effect.”