Sunday, July 5, 2015

Psych Headline News Links 7/5/15


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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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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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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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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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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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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