Mental Health
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Exposure therapy trumped supportive counseling for adolescent PTSD
Major finding: Child PTSD Symptom Scale–Interview scores fell from a mean of 27.3 to 6.7 points after 3 months of prolonged-exposure PTSD therapy...
Commentary
What Matters – Higher-dose varenicline
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Increased energy/activity was key symptom in hospitalized bipolar mania patients
Major finding: The IRT analysis assigned values to each symptom, and the highest values were assigned to "increased energy" (4.05), "elated mood...
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Anxiety heightens risk of stroke
Major finding: Every one standard deviation increase in anxiety was associated with a 17% increase in stroke risk following adjustment for...
Conference Coverage
Anesthetic drugs for status epilepticus linked with death, infection risk
Major finding: Patients treated with IVADs vs. those not treated with IVADs had an increased risk of death (relative risk = 3.16) and higher...
Commentary
Psychiatric medications and lactation: Informing clinical decisions
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Depressed mood cited most frequently in early bipolar disorder
Major finding: Patients reported symptoms typical of depression or mania during the weeks and months leading up to their first bipolar episode,...
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Cannabis use linked to differences in brain structure
Major finding: In both control subjects and patients with schizophrenia, a history of cannabis use disorder was associated with structural...
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Abnormal neural responses to emotional stimuli found in bipolar, depression
Major finding: Patients with bipolar disorder or MDD showed similar hyperactivation of the prefrontal region during the threat stimuli, patients...