Adults with congenital heart disease are more likely to have impaired functional status, biomarker profiles indicative of systemic inflammation and heart failure, and increased risk for death or cardiovascular events if they have major depression.
Smoking has shown a positive dose-response relationship with suicide-related behaviors after controlling for potential confounding factors such as psychiatric symptoms and alcohol consumption.
Researchers found strong evidence that polygenic scores for adult major depression, subjective wellbeing, neuroticism, insomnia, educational attainment, and BMI are associated with childhood ADHD symptoms, internalizing and social problems.
The researchers suggested that the increased inflammatory response and oxidative stress that accompanies air pollution exposure may affect the central nervous system with both short and long term exposure to these pollutants.
Significant predictors of suicidality in all patient groups included age, Medicaid eligibility, depression or other behavioral health conditions, avoidable hospitalizations, and any “violence victimization”.
Social adversity may increase rates of psychotropic prescriptions, which have surged in recent decades, prompting researchers to perform a study of food insecurity and psychotropic prescriptions among women living with HIV.
The researchers found that the onset of the ECT effect was accelerated by a dose of 0.3 mg/kg of ketamine, but the antidepressant effect was not enhanced.
The COVID-19 epidemic has underscored potential gaps in mental health services during emergencies, while also testing the resilience of healthcare workers and medical systems.
Since its inception, the practice of intermittent fasting has been linked to such benefits as increased lifespan, mitigation of chronic disease risk, and improvements in physical performance.
Between 2000 and 2017, unintentional deaths and suicides related to opioid use have increased substantially, whereas overall deaths from have decreased.
Ketamine may be a useful treatment option when there is an urgent need for symptom improvement and for patients with pre-existing cognitive impairments.
