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Researchers aimed to identify factors related to depressive symptoms in ankylosing spondylitis and comprehend their underlying associations.

Researchers found no compelling evidence that patients with a history of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) have transcranial magnetic stimulation outcomes that are better or worse than ECT-naive patients.

Investigators assessed functional disability among older adults with and without depression.

Researchers found data that showed maternal depression when children were aged between 4 and 6 years consistently predicted increasing depression symptoms for boys and girls alike.

Researchers cite the scar hypothesis that depression causes changes in thinking that lead to rumination, but they suggest that there is reciprocity between rumination as a cause for depression.

Dr Sieff explores research that posits being born to a parent who wishes you dead can contribute to the development of schizophrenia and suggests some ways to heal the trauma.

The treatment of veterans with chronic pain and insomnia with cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia may improve sleep and mood, but not pain.

Despite a high prevalence of depressive symptoms, black and Hispanic patients with type 2 diabetes are significantly less likely to receive antidepressants compared with white patients.

Findings showed a higher incidence of hyperglycemic episodes in patients with diabetes and comorbid schizophrenia than in those without schizophrenia.

Women with fibromyalgia may be more likely to have comorbid depression and arthritis compared with men.

Migraine with active headache may predict other painful physical symptoms in patients with major depressive disorder.

For young women with anorexia nervosa, oral contraceptives may limit bone loss.

Depression is common in patients with chronic total occlusion, and has been linked to more severe baseline angina.

Patient misuse of prescribed opioids was found to be associated with opioid use disorder, misuse of other drugs, history of illegal activity, and psychological distress.

A relationship between opioid withdrawal, pain catastrophizing, and the experience of pain may be present in women with chronic pain who misuse prescription opioids.

The use of benzodiazepine, only if prescribed, may not affect retention of methadone medication-assisted treatment.

Findings indicated that no significance of epidermal growth factor levels and fibroblast growth factor-2 levels were found in elderly patients with major depressive disorder.

Researchers studied the relationship between self-reported cognitive complaints and work functioning in employed patients with major depressive disorder treated with desvenlafaxine.

In patients with Parkinson disease psychosis, treatment with pimavanserin has a lower risk for mortality compared with quetiapine or combination therapy.

Investigators assessed the safety and tolerability of once-monthly aripiprazole 400 mg in patients with bipolar disorder I who were already stabilized on oral aripiprazole.

Efficacy of asenapine was not associated with the type of current episode, stage of disease progression, or baseline body weight.

In addition to a better work-life balance, concierge medicine can reduce the number of patients a physician needs to see in order to make a living.

Investigators examine whether volumetric changes on MRI can predict daily-life function in patients with bipolar disorder.

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Knowledge of a patient’s spiritual beliefs can help physicians better tailor interventions to the individual patient while providing a deeper level of respect for their patients.

Personal recovery improved more rapidly for participants in the intervention group, but social and personal functioning did not.

When teaching morally or spiritually complex issues during medical training, physicians should create a supportive environment with respectful discourse.

Investigators assess whether vitamin D and folate levels are associated with intracranial volume and neurodevelopment.

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