This study addresses the question of whether prescription opioid medications has a potentially causal role in the risk for depression and anxiety disorder.
The researchers tested whether the COVID-19 pandemic has altered beliefs about the extent to which poverty is caused by external forces and internal dispositions and support for economic inequality.
Deaths by suicide can increase during infectious disease outbreaks. This study analyzed suspected suicide rates in 2020 relative to 2015–19 to assess any early effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Queensland, Australia.
Childhood ADHD risk was increased among children who were exposed to maternal hypothyroidism during the periconceptual period.
The spectrum of rurality has not been reflected in previous research on rural and urban youth mental health services and does not examine the availability of suicide prevention services. This study used 2 taxonomies of rurality to document the distribution of US mental health facilities that serve youth and offer suicide prevention services.
While previous studies suggest that structural variants (SVs) play an important role in the development and progression of ADHD, these studies focused mostly on those of European ancestry and coding regions. This particular study seeks to address the role of SVs in non-European populations and outside of coding regions.
Before the FDA antidepressant warnings, youth suicide deaths decreased. However, after the warnings and abrupt declines in treatment, this downward trend changed.
Does the stress and anxiety caused by the coronavirus pandemic also extend to body image outcomes?
Despite being common and often comorbid neurodevelopmental disorders, the study found robust yet subtle differences across age groups and the disorders in terms of cortical and subcortical brain structures.
Adverse events, including voluntary psychiatric admission, suicide attempt, serious violent incident, voluntary admission to a general medical ward, overdose of medication or painkillers, were highest among the combined group compared to the monotherapies.
