by Hannah Furfaro, The Seattle Times Credit: CC0 Public DomainAndrea Boyd’s son has been in crisis often enough to know the urgency of getting treatment when he needs it. In his 20s, without proper care and medication, he drifted onto the streets for nearly a decade. He also knows the specific kind of care he...
by Karolinska Institutet Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainChronic kidney disease (CKD) affects more than 10% of adults worldwide. Mental health is an important yet under-recognized issue in patients with CKD. Depression is common and related to poor prognosis in CKD patients, but previous research has primarily focused on dialysis patients, leading to an insufficient understanding of depression...
by University of Liverpool Kaplan–Meier curves showing cumulative substance misuse event rates within the pooled exposed and unexposed groups (left), and with the exposed group stratified by exposure type (right). Credit: The Lancet Regional Health – Europe (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100763 The long-term use of painkillers from a young age may be linked to an increased risk...
MONASH UNIVERSITY A breakthrough project mapping brain changes in nearly 1,300 people diagnosed with six different types of mental illness has revealed the extraordinary diversity of brain changes found in people with conditions like major depression and schizophrenia. The study, published in Nature Neuroscience and led by researchers at Monash University’s Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health and...
by University of North Carolina Health Care Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Over the past few years, the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry in UNC’s School of Medicine have been working together to spearhead the development of a new “enhanced primary care” model to provide better primary care for patients who have severe...
by European Psychiatric Association Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research shows that people with a lifetime history of mental disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, or anxiety disorders have blood markers suggesting that they are older than their actual age. This may go some way to explaining why people with mental health problems tend to...
by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress SHAP interaction plot for depression, insomnia, and anxiety. Users with lower depression pre-symptom severity are more likely to benefit from cannabis use than users with higher pre-symptom severity of depression. Users with lower insomnia pre-symptom severity are less likely to benefit from cannabis use than users with higher pre-symptom severity...
by Wolters Kluwer Health Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Objective measurement of psychiatric disorders has long proved challenging. Yet, there is ample evidence that analysis of speech patterns can accurately diagnose depression and psychosis, measure their severity, and predict their onset, according to a literature review featured in the January/February issue of the Harvard Review of Psychiatry....
by UT Southwestern Medical Center Credit: CC0 Public Domain The role of the microbiome in intestinal and systemic health has garnered close attention among researchers for many years. Now evidence is mounting that this collection of microorganisms in the human gut can also impact a person’s neurological and emotional health, according to a recent perspective...
By Claudia Wallis on July 1, 2022 Credit: Fatinha Ramos Age is the single biggest risk factor for dementia, with the odds doubling about every five years after age 65. But many things influence those odds for a given individual. Genetic vulnerability is a contributor, as are so-called modifiable risk factors such as smoking, cardiovascular disease, social isolation,...
