Mental Health
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AUDIO: Despite low efficacy in OCD, adjunct antipsychotics still prescribed
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Naloxone autoinjector approved for caregiver use in treating opioid overdoses
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ECT electrode placement matters most in elderly
Major finding: Right unilateral ECT provided a 70.4% remission rate in severely depressed patients aged 60 or older, compared with a 46% rate in...
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Simple smell test may predict donepezil response
Major finding: Patients with a low UPSIT score who were assigned to donepezil showed a mean 10.4-point improvement on the Selective Reminding Test...
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Later-life PTSD boosts vascular risk
Major finding: Military veterans with late-life posttraumatic stress disorder were 80% more likely to develop new-onset cerebrovascular disease...
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ECT quells dementia-associated agitation
Major finding: Patients responded to ECT for agitation as a symptom of dementia with an average 8-point drop on the Pittsburgh Agitation Scale...
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Vortioxetine establishes credentials for late-life depression
Major finding: Hamilton Rating Scale–Depression scores among those in the vortioxetine group fell by an average of 3.3 more points than in...
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Later-life PTSD linked to global disability
Major finding: Older Americans with persistent posttraumatic stress disorder beyond age 55 were an adjusted 3.2-fold more likely than no-PTSD...
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Say goodbye to ‘dementia’
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Late-life depression can be dementia prodrome
Major finding: Deficits on two tests – CERAD Recognition Memory and Trail Making B – were associated with a 6.8-fold increased risk of developing...
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Recent cocaine use quadrupled stroke risk
Major finding: Cocaine use in the past 24 hours was reported by 2.4% of young adults with ischemic stroke and 0.4% of age-matched controls without...