Mental Health
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Psychiatric risks quantified in siblings of mental disorder patients
VIENNA – Siblings of patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder are at sharply increased risk of subsequent hospitalization for a range of...
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Parenting: Tips on discussing a tough but important topic
Dr. David C. Rettew discusses how to have productive discussions about parenting.
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GAD tied to twice the risk of cancer mortality in men
VIENNA – Men with generalized anxiety disorder are more than twice as likely to die from cancer, compared with men without the disorder.
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OCD undertreatment: Is Internet-based CBT the answer?
VIENNA – Internet-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder is feasible, safe, and highly cost-effective.
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Metabolic dysregulation may predict remission failure in late-life depression
Key clinical point: Patients with late-life depression are less likely to achieve complete remission if they have components of metabolic syndrome...
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Battle continues over NIMH’s mandate as new director steps in
Questions over what the focus of the National Institute of Mental Health should be has many hoping that its new director, Joshua A. Gordon, MD,...
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FDA adds lurasidone contraindication to HIV drug labels
The Food and Drug Administration has updated the labels on certain HIV drugs to include a contraindication for lurasidone (Latuda), an...
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10-year follow-up: Localized prostate cancer treatments offer similar efficacy
Key clinical point: The three main approaches for treating localized prostate cancer yield similar efficacy outcomes but different quality-of-life...
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Collaborative depression care for teens: Cost effective over time
Team-based care for adolescent depression is cost effective in the long run and easily meets the most rigid of third party payer payment...
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Worry may attenuate link between psychiatric symptoms, poorer cognitive performance
Key clinical point: In older adults, worry seems to attenuate the relationship between anxiety and depression and poorer cognitive performance....