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Progressive muscle relaxation outperforms mindfulness in reducing grief severity
Progressive muscle relaxation has a key advantage: It is quickly and easily learned, which may partially explain the study’s findings.
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Medications for opioid addiction vastly underutilized
“The overdose crisis in the U.S. is continuing unabated, unfortunately, and medication access is an important tool to target and reduce overdose...
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Psychotropic med use tied to ‘striking’ post-COVID dementia risk
“It is possible that psychotropic medications may potentiate the neurostructural changes that have been found in the brain of those who have...
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High-intensity exercise helps patients with anxiety quit smoking
“We feel we have a targeted [smoking cessation] intervention to tailor to people with high anxiety sensitivity.”
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Suicide attempts in kids ages 10-12 quadrupled over 20 years
Suspected suicide attempts accounted for about 50% of the total calls to poison control centers among children aged 10-12 in 2000 – a figure that...
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Older adults with schizophrenia need ‘person-centered’ care
The life expectancy of patients with schizophrenia is lower by 8-15 years, compared with those without schizophrenia, and this “mortality gap” has...
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Shoulder arthritis surgery: Depression complicates care
“People with depression and anxiety feel pain differently. It might have to do with your outlook – are you catastrophizing or thinking it’s a...
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Pandemic showed pediatric centers are key to aiding victims of intimate partner violence
”Programming for survivors (including patients, family members, and staff) of intimate partner violence is critical in the pediatric hospital...
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Aducanumab and ARIA: Does the FDA’s prescribing label put patients at risk?
“We’re kind of writing these protocols as information evolves,” said Dr. Meghan Riddle.
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Schizophrenia risk lower for people with access to green space
Individuals living in areas with the lowest levels of green space were 24% more likely to develop schizophrenia.
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Executive-function deficits a new treatment target for PTSD?
Research suggests executive-function deficits are a mechanism that maintains patients’ PTSD symptoms over the course of 1 year.