Treating autonomic dysfunction can relieve symptoms of treatment-resistant depression
Consider a house with the water main half shut. The faucets sputter. The toilet runs all night. The…
Childhood ADHD medication shows protective effect against future psychosis
A major new study, led by scientists at University College Dublin and the University of Edinburgh and funded…
Study finds addiction risk tied to reward and impulse genes
Most of the genetic risk for developing a substance use disorder comes from genes that broadly affect how…
AOC spends $19K in campaign cash on psychiatrist known for ketamine therapy
She’s trippin’. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spent nearly $19,000 in campaign cash last year on a shrink who…
Psychiatrists’ use of biomarkers could open a new window into mental health diagnoses
Amanda Miller was 30 and pregnant with her second child in Hershey, Pennsylvania, when she developed depression. After…
One-in-four senior psychiatrist posts vacant in Northern Ireland – The Irish News
Over a quarter of senior psychiatry posts in Northern Ireland are vacant or covered by expensive locums. The…
Leveraging multimodal machine learning for accurate risk identification of intimate partner violence
Experiment setup The IPV group used to develop the models consists of 841 female patients enrolled in the…
Study links excessive smartphone use with poor body image and disordered eating
New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London has found that excessive smartphone use is closely…
Study finds treatment gap for young ADHD patients with substance use disorders
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder, affecting 12%–13% of adolescents in the United States, according to some…
New review reveals complex polygenic architecture underlying common epilepsies
An insightful mini-review published in Genomic Psychiatry synthesizes the rapidly expanding landscape of molecular genetic research on common…
Unmasking the hyper-active circuitry of early Alzheimer’s
Neuroscientists at King’s College London have pinpointed a mechanism behind the increased neural connectivity observed in the very early stages of Alzheimer’s…
Mom’s Last Gun | The Marshall Project
When I was 11 years old and living in a small town in Oregon, my mother came downstairs…