The key findings of the study, conducted in the world’s largest BD cohort with genotypic and phenotypic data, offer potential sleep-related genetic underpinnings for BD diagnostic groups.
A population-based survey found that adverse quality of life due to food allergies was more common among individuals in lower income brackets and in younger age groups, as well as in those with greater education.
Results of a long-term follow-up study of suicide after self-harm, published in the Lancet Psychiatry, found that the period immediately after hospital presentation may be an important time for intervention.
Originally conceptualized by medical anthropologist Merrill Singer, a syndemic can be defined as “an aggregation of two or more diseases or other health conditions in a population…that exacerbates the negative health effects of…the diseases.”
Researchers evaluated the efficacy of telephonic psychiatric evaluations and assessed their potential as a solution to meet the needs of asylum seekers.
Despite the passage of legislation that addresses parity of benefits for mental health in 2008, many enrollees in private insurance plans have little option besides receiving care from OON providers.
Advanced machine learning may lead to the development of prediction models that can concurrently assess multiple relevant predictors of suicide.
A Finnish study published in BMJ found key differences in the conceptions of psychiatric diseases among the general public, physicians, nurses, and legislators.
Although 11.0% of individuals taking antidepressants developed dementia, only 2.6% of the unexposed sample went on to be diagnosed with dementia.
Depression is linked to increased clinical burden in patients with COPD.
