Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are increasingly being asked to write letters certifying patients’ and clients’ animals as emotional support animals.
Researchers performed a secondary analysis of the AFFINITY trial that assessed the effects of fluoxetine treatment on depression symptoms in patients who recently had a stroke.
High variability in body mass index is associated with an increased risk for death, requiring kidney replacement therapy, myocardial infarction, and stroke, investigators concluded.
The study authors utilized the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project leave-behind questionnaire to obtain data on a total of 6017 adults over 65 years of age.
Researchers examined the extent cannabis use is associated with magnetic resonance imaging–measured cerebral cortical thickness development during adolescence.
Cholestene, a dietary supplement marketed for cholesterol management, has been found to contain a hidden drug ingredient, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Based on laboratory analysis, the product, which is sold on various websites and in some retail stores, has been found to contain lovastatin, an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor (statin). Consuming a supplement…
With depressive symptoms rising after an acute COVID-19 infection, study researchers looked at whether these symptoms are a consequence of stress associated with COVID or, do they reflect more specific sequelae associated with the pathophysiology of the illness.
The researchers examined this question: Does a tendency toward sleeping and waking earlier have a potential causal role in reducing the risk of major depressive disorder?
With health experts across the country agreeing we are in the midst of a mental health pandemic, psychiatrist Aaron M. Hawkins, MD offers his view about the current state and the future of mental health in the United States.
The researchers sought to describe current research on exposure to suicide among mental health professionals and first responders, focusing on its prevalence and impact, and to identify gaps in the literature.
This genome-wide associated study expanded on the gene-environment correlation for childhood maltreatment and causal relationship between childhood maltreatment and health.
The claims made on these websites establish these products as drugs under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; however, none were evaluated by the FDA.
Data from the CDC on suicide deaths indicate a 5.6% decline in suicide deaths between 2019 and 2020 in the United States. We spoke with Christine Yu Moutier, MD, Chief Medical Officer for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) about this data.
The researchers asked this question: Does having multiple prior generations affected by depression increase risk of psychopathology in children, and can it be reliably measured in large, diverse samples using informant-reported family history?
With the COVID-19 pandemic having serious mental health effects for many people, the researchers sought to assess the early effect of the pandemic on suicide rates across the globe.
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