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Do you have a mental illness? Why some people answer ‘yes’, even if they haven’t been diagnosed
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Do you have a mental illness? Why some people answer ‘yes’, even if they haven’t been diagnosed

JUNE 20, 2024 by Jesse Tse and Nick Haslam, The Conversation Percentage of participants with broad (dark blue) or narrow (light blue) concepts of mental illness who self-diagnosed at different levels of distress. Credit: Jesse Tse and Nick HaslamMental illnesses such as depression and anxiety disorders have become more prevalent, especially among young people. Demand...

Mental illness in patients with chronic kidney disease
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Mental illness in patients with chronic kidney disease

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...

Long-term painkiller use in those under 25 may contribute to mental illness and substance misuse
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Long-term painkiller use in those under 25 may contribute to mental illness and substance misuse

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...

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New maps reveal the individual brain changes linked to different mental illness

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...

A new primary care model proves effective for patients with severe mental illness
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A new primary care model proves effective for patients with severe mental illness

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...

Bodies of people with mental illness are biologically older than their actual age
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Bodies of people with mental illness are biologically older than their actual age

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...

Study shows effectiveness of cannabis on mental illness may depend on severity of symptoms
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Study shows effectiveness of cannabis on mental illness may depend on severity of symptoms

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...

Speech analysis can help measure diagnosis, severity, and onset of mental illness
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Speech analysis can help measure diagnosis, severity, and onset of mental illness

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....

Gut microbes may lead to therapies for mental illness, study reports
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Gut microbes may lead to therapies for mental illness, study reports

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...