July 5, 2015
People who are working
over 60 hours a week are more likely to experience suicidal thoughts and
feelings than people working 52 hours a week or less, according to a study inPLoS
One, based on data from Korea.More →
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July 4, 2015
SSRI antidepressant
medications contribute to a significant worsening of emotional "rapid
cycling" in patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder, according to a study
published in the Journal of Affective Disorders. The authors described
the study as the first-ever randomized clinical trial to test whether the
finding from previous observational studies was true, and stated that the study
clarified the "lack of safety" of antidepressants for some people
with bipolar.More →
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Adult | Antidepressants | Bipolar | Drug Page | Featured News | In the News | In the News | Psychiatric
Drugs
July 3, 2015
People diagnosed with
schizophrenia are more likely to commit violent crimes than the general
population, and their rate of committing violent crimes has been increasing in
recent decades, according to a study in The Lancet Psychiatry. An
accompanying commentary clarified, however, that the data showed that the
dominant risk factors for committing violence did not actually include
diagnoses of schizophrenia, and were similar in both people with schizophrenia
and in the general population.More →
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July 2, 2015
A new report by the
Institut National d’Excellence en Santé et en Services Sociaux (INESSS), an
independent health research organization created to advise the Quebec
provincial government on best-evidence guidelines, has called for psychotherapy
to become the "front-line treatment choice in the mental-health
system," reported The Globe and Mail.More →
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July 2, 2015
The primary agency
responsible for investigating and reporting on the quality of health care
delivery in the US is a step closer to being completely shut down,
reported MedPage Today. The news "will not trend on Twitter,
nor is it likely to make the front page of USA
Today," lamented Paul Wallace on Health
Affairs Blog. "If this bomb goes off undetected, the nation will lose
its greatest source for funding research on health-care quality, effectiveness,
and patient safety," wrote Jeffrey Lerner on Philly.com.More →
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July 1, 2015
Four different studies
conducted in different ways examining different groups have linked use of
certain psychiatric drugs, particularly SSRI antidepressants and antipsychotics
but also benzodiazepines, to bone fracture risks and negative impacts on human
bone development.More →
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Adverse
Effects | Antidepressants | Antipsychotics | Benzodiazepines | Drug Page | Featured News | In the News | In the News | Mood
Stabilizers
June 30, 2015
An influential 2007 US
National Institute of Mental Health-led study included a statistical
manipulation that disguised the fact that youth taking antidepressants were
actually over four times as likely to experience suicidal events as those
taking placebo, according to a study in the International
Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine. This new published
analysis has appeared several years after the revelations were first publicly
discussed.More →
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Antidepressants | Bias, Corruption & Accountability | Children
and Adolescents | Depression | Drug Page | Featured News | In the News | In the News | Psychiatric
Drugs | Suicide
June 29, 2015
"Mental health
workers and their clients marched on a jobcentre in south-west London in
protest at a scheme they say frames unemployment as a psychological
disorder," reported The Guardian.More →
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June 29, 2015
A team of psychiatrists
from Ireland has found that nearly 1% of patients who take the antipsychotic
clozapine experience clozapine-induced stuttering. In Therapeutic
Advances in Psychopharmacology, they also described how
to eliminate the problem.More →
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June 28, 2015
The
prevalence of ADHD in children and youth has been increasing immensely in
recent decades; however, according to a study in the Journal
of Attention Disorders, that's because clinicians are more likely to
diagnose it, not because more children and youth are having symptoms of ADHD.
June 27, 2015
A study described in
a JAMA Internal Medicine letter showed that
mentions of the limitations of observational studies are often buried deep in
the discussion sections of papers, and then the frequency of mentions of the
limitations drops steadily thereafter in abstracts, press releases and news
stories. The study won praise from HealthNewsReview.org.More →
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June 27, 2015
Careful reductions in
dosage levels of antipsychotic medications over time improved long-term rates
of recovery and functional remission in patients diagnosed with a first-episode
psychosis, according to a study led by Lex Wunderink reported in a Supplement
of European Psychiatry.More →
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and Psychosis | Schizophrenia
and Psychosis
June 26, 2015
In order to receive
social security benefits, people in the UK are increasingly being forced to
undergo psychology assessments and continual attitude-modification training,
according to research published in BMJ Open. The
British Psychological Society expressed concern that such programs be done
"ethically."More →
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June 25, 2015
Children and teenagers
who've been diagnosed with ADHD tend to perform more accurately on
attention-demanding tasks when their bodies are moving rather than still, according
to a study in Child Neuropsychology. The study reinforces
other studies that have suggested that children with ADHD may be
"using" physical movement in some way to help focus their attention.More →
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June 25, 2015
While most treatments
have had "statistically significant" success in clinical trials, no common
psychiatric or psychological treatments improve what are termed
"negative" symptoms of schizophrenia at levels that are
"clinically meaningful," according to a meta-analysis in Schizophrenia
Bulletin.More →
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Drug Page | Featured News | In the News | In the News | Psychiatric
Drugs | Schizophrenia
and Psychosis | Schizophrenia
and Psychosis
June 24, 2015
In what a press release
from Sweden's Uppsala University called a "major leap forward" in
understanding of mental disorders, a study in JAMA
Psychiatry reported that, "Individuals with social phobia make
too much serotonin. The more serotonin they produce, the more anxious they are
in social situations."More →
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June 24, 2015
A very small minority of
"high-risk" individuals diagnosed with mental illnesses perform acts
of violence repeatedly, and their acts of violence are rarely preceded by
psychotic experiences, according to a study in Clinical
Psychological Science. The findings contradict assertions of advocates for
involuntary treatment like E. Fuller Torrey, wrote the authors.More →
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June 23, 2015
With Scottish legislators
in the midst of debating a new Mental Health Bill, a proposed amendment to the
bill would subject certain provisions of Scotland's use of forced mental health
treatment to review, according to The Herald Scotland.
Currently, not only people diagnosed with mental disorders but also people with
learning disabilities and autism can be forcibly treated under Scottish mental
health law, and proponents of the amendment are trying to rally public support
for a review of those provisions.More →
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June 23, 2015
Like in many other
states, foster children in Pennsylvania are being given psychotropic drugs by
physicians at rates that are "disturbing" and
"unacceptable," according to a press release and new report from the
state's Department of Human Services (DHS). The state government also announced
its plans to try to rein in the practice.More →
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