Psychiatry News

• Alert EMA Refuses Marketing Authorization for Alzheimer's Drug Leqembi's EU-wide marketing authorization was refused because the drug's effect on delaying cognitive decline does not counterbalance the risk for serious adverse events.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Eco-Anxiety and Patients' Need for Mental Health Support The effects of climate change are evident, but their consequences for mental health are not the same for everyone.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Sugar May Drive Dementia, German Medical Societies Warn High blood sugar levels damage brain blood vessels and promote deposits on the vessel walls, thus reducing blood flow and nutrient supply to brain cells.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Poverty Causally Linked to Mental Illness and Vice Versa There is a bidirectional, causal relationship between mental illness and poverty, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• State Gun Laws Linked to Lower Youth Suicide Rates States with mandatory waiting periods for gun purchases or laws designed to prevent children from accessing firearms have lower suicide rates than states without such regulations.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Waiting for Therapy? There's an App for That Smartphone apps can provide valuable interim support for individuals facing long waits for psychiatric therapy, offering stopgap relief.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Medical Debt Delays Care for Those With Depression, Anxiety Medical debt affects adults with depression and anxiety, with over 27% delaying or forgoing mental health care. Those with debt are twice as likely to delay or skip care.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Newer Shingles Vaccine Tied to Lower Dementia Risk A new study showed a newer recombinant shingles vaccine was linked to a 164-day delay in dementia diagnosis in older adults compared to an older live shingles vaccine.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Why Are Germans Getting Heavier? Changes in the population's weight have many causes, including an abundance of food and declining expenditure of energy.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Two Diets Linked to Improved Cognition, Slowed Brain Aging Intermittent fasting and standard healthy diets both improve cognition, slow brain aging, and reduce insulin resistance, new research showed.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Conduct Disorder Tied to Brain Structure Differences The largest study to date on conduct disorder in youth shows it is associated with extensive brain volume differences in several subcortical areas.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Mental Health and Diabetic Complications: A Two-Way Link An analysis of a national claims database found that mental health disorders and chronic diabetic complications were linked over the lifespan of those with type 1 or 2 diabetes.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• New Models Predict Time From MCI to Dementia Researchers made headway in developing predictive models for dementia that provide estimations of time to certain cognition levels.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Physicians Cite Barriers in Addiction Care: Study Reveals An international research review identifies multiple reasons why doctors say they aren't able to treat substance abuse, including lack of faith that interventions will work.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Introducing: A New Way to Get Teens Mental Health Care Pediatric mental health urgent care centers offer alternatives to costly and lengthy emergency department visits.
  Medscape Medical News, July 24, 2024
• The Skinny on What We Know About the Microbiome and Obesity Mayo Clinic researcher Sahil Khanna discussed the links between obesity and the microbiome, the potential of microbiome therapeutics, and future avenues for research.
  Medscape Medical News, July 24, 2024
• New Criteria Flag Memory Disorder Often Mistaken for AD Researchers have published clinical criteria for a type of memory loss in older adults that progresses more slowly and has a better prognosis than Alzheimer's disease.
  Medscape Medical News, July 24, 2024
• Treatable Condition Misdiagnosed as Dementia in 13% of Cases Patients with dementia may instead have hepatic encephalopathy, a treatable cause of cognitive impairment often caused by cirrhosis.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2024
• Can Canada Protect Mental Health During the Next Pandemic? Hospitalizations for mental health and eating disorders have soared among Canadian youth and young adults during the COVID pandemic.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• Atogepant May Prevent Rebound Headache From Med Overuse The CGRP atogepant is effective in preventing rebound headache related to medication overuse in patients with chronic migraine, new research suggested.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024