Investigator data shows a higher risk for suicide in patients with schizophrenia who have experienced childhood trauma with an increase in suicidal ideation linked to neglect and depression, while suicide attempts were associated with sexual abuse.
Researchers posit that based upon data metabolic adverse effects during treatment for psychosis in childhood compound the risk of comorbidity and mortality in adulthood that is caused by a high body mass index, which correlates with cardiovascular diseases in adulthood and an increased risk of all-cause mortality.
Researchers found study data that in patients with primary aldosteronism, men have higher blood pressure and body mass index levels, but women with primary aldosteronism have significant associations between blood pressure and anxiety and depressive symptoms.
Researchers found data that inhaled loxapine has proven to be effective and generally well-tolerated when administered to agitated patients with schizophrenia.
Researchers sought to identify variables that were associated with suicidal ideation or behavior in patients with Huntington disease.
Investigators found data that showed adolescent and young adult patients who had been treated with second generation antipsychotics had an increased likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Patients with major depressive disorder who had been nonresponsive to treatment with escitalopram were found to have an improvement in treatment outcomes with adjunctive treatment with aripiprazole, according to research study data from the CAN-BIND Investigator Team.
Researchers found data that showed individuals who are continuously victims of intimate partner violence have higher rates of depression.
Researchers found data that showed endogenous oxytocin levels in plasma predicted social cognition in patients with schizophrenia. Conversely, intranasal treatment with oxytocin showed inconsistent effects in patients with schizophrenia for social and general cognition with a benefit for higher-order social cognition, such as inferential processes, rather than lower-order social cognition, such as perception of social cues.
The use of virtual patients for healthcare simulation is promising but requires educators to define appropriate roles of virtual patients in medical teaching.
