Many young people are being prescribed multiple psychiatric drugs at once, Penn study finds
The use of psychiatric medications to treat mental health and behavioral disorders in children and young adults has…
China probes mental hospitals over reports patients are being locked up in insurance scam
At the same time, the patients faced strict controls from the hospitals that required them to follow a…
First-of-its-kind clinical guidance on psychedelic medicine released
Unbound Medicine and Johns Hopkins Medicine today announced a significant expansion of the Johns Hopkins Psychiatry POC-IT Guide,…
GPs can soon prescribe ADHD medication. Will it fix the problem, or shift the burden?
Until now it’s been the domain of psychiatrists and psychologists only, but from February 1, GPs can diagnose…
Night owls who don’t respond to SSRIs: circadian rhythm core to ‘atypical’ depression mystery
About 21% of patients with depression have an atypical form that is less likely to respond to common antidepressants,…
Associations between mosaic loss and schizophrenia or bipolar disorder of young age
Robinson N, Bergen SE. Environmental Risk Factors for Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder and Their Relationship to Genetic Risk:…
Mental health treatment a growing concern in Illinois jails
Despite repeated warnings from medical professionals, staff at the Sangamon County Jail placed 27-year-old Tiffany Rusher — who…
State mental health cuts trigger emergency response in East Idaho | Freeaccess
POCATELLO — Local officials are mobilizing emergency response plans as Idaho’s elimination of specialized mental health programs takes…
Mental healthcare should be considered a mainstream healthcare rather than a parallel system
Mental healthcare should be considered a mainstream healthcare rather than a…
Re-engineering the disordered mind: clinical experimentation, dynamical systems, and AI for personalized psychiatry
Despite decades of research, progress in neuropsychiatric treatment has plateaued, and efforts to identify reliable biomarkers have often…
Six midlife depressive symptoms linked to dementia decades later
Six particular depressive symptoms when experienced in midlife predict dementia risk more than two decades later, finds a…
Want to quit antidepressants? Slow tapering plus therapy is the most effective way, study suggests
Antidepressants don’t have to be taken forever, a new analysis suggests. Every year, a growing number of people…