Marketa Wills, M.D., M.B.A., Named Next APA CEO and Medical Director
After a nationwide search, APA ’s Board of Trustees announced today that Marketa Wills, M.D., M.B.A., will become the CEO and medical director of APA effective June 1. She will be APA’s eighth medical director and the first woman and Black American to fill the role. She succeeds CEO and Medical Director Saul Levin, M.D., M.P. A., who assumed the role in 2013.Wills currently serves as the senior vice president and chief medical officer of Johns Hopkins Health Plans; has a clinical practice at the University of South Florida Student Health Services in Tampa, Fla.; and serves as the chair of the Standards Committee of the...
Source: Psychiatr News - February 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Tags: APA APA CEO and medical director APA Council on Healthcare Systems and Financing June 1 Maria Oquendo Marketa Wills Petros Levounis Saul Levin Source Type: research
Spanish Speakers Less Likely to Receive Timely Diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment
Spanish-speaking adults may be less likely to receive a timely diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment compared with their English-speaking peers, suggests astudy in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.Jason A. Silva-Rudberg, M.D., of Yale University School of Medicine and colleagues analyzed data from the electronic medical records of 12,080 English- or Spanish-speaking patients who received an initial diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment or dementia between July 2017 and June 2019 when seeking care at the largest health system in Connecticut. Overall, 11,494 patients spoke English and 586 spoke Spanish. An init...
Source: Psychiatr News - January 31, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Tags: American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry dementia diagnoses English speakers mild cognitive impairment Spanish speakers Source Type: research
1 in 4 Americans Lonelier Now Than Before Pandemic, APA Poll Finds
Experiencing consistent feelings of loneliness —defined as a lack of a meaningful or close relationship or sense of belonging—is common among U.S. adults, suggest the findings of APA’s latestHealthy Minds Monthly Poll. In early January, 30% of adults reported that they had experienced feelings of loneliness at least once a week over the past year, while 10% said they were lonely every day.Younger people were more likely to experience feelings of loneliness, the poll found. Thirty percent of respondents aged 18 to 34 reported that they were lonely every day or several times a week. Additionally, when asked how their f...
Source: Psychiatr News - January 30, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Tags: APA poll COVID-19 distraction exercise family friends loneliness pandemic social media substance use technology Source Type: research
Dexmedetomidine Infusion After C-Section May Reduce Postpartum Depression
Women with prenatal depression who received an infusion of the sedative dexmedetomidine shortly after a cesarean delivery (C-section) had lower incidences of postpartum depression at one and six weeks postpartum compared with women who received a saline infusion after delivery. Thesefindings were published inJAMA Network Open. The study was funded by grants from the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province.Yingyong Zhou, Ph.D., of the Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University and colleagues conducted the study at two hospitals in China from March 2022 to April 2023. Women 18 years or older with prenatal depres...
Source: Psychiatr News - January 29, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Tags: C-section cesarean delivery dexmedetomidine Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale intravenous JAMA Network Open postpartum depression prenatal depression Source Type: research
More Than Half of New Stimulant Prescriptions at Pandemic ’s Height Delivered Via Telemedicine
More than half of all first prescriptions for stimulant medications during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic were initiated via telemedicine, astudy inPsychiatric Services has found. The study also suggests that telemedicine was more commonly used by psychiatrists than other health care providers and was associated with greater odds of receiving follow-up care.Haiden A. Huskamp, Ph.D., of Harvard Medical School and colleagues analyzed data on commercially insured individuals recorded in the Optum Labs Data Warehouse from January 2019 through April 2022. The study used data from 535,629 children aged 2 to 17 years and 2,1...
Source: Psychiatr News - January 26, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD adults children COVID-19 new prescriptions pandemic Psychiatric Services stimulants Source Type: research
Osteoporosis May Raise Risk of Depression in Older Adults
Adults aged 50 or older who have osteoporosis are nearly twice as likely as those without to experience depression, according to astudy published this week inPublic Health.“The treatment of osteoporosis has been a growing public health concern worldwide,” wrote Keng Chen, M.D., of Sun Yat-sen University in Shenzhen, China, and colleagues. “In the [United States], about 14.1 million adults aged 50 years and older had osteoporosis, and the prevalence rate showed a steadily increasing trend. … However, there are few studies investigating depression status in people with osteoporosis.”Chen and colleagues used data fr...
Source: Psychiatr News - January 25, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Tags: depression National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey NHANES osteoporosis public health Source Type: research
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy May Reduce Overactivity in Some Brain Regions in Anxious Youth
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) may normalize activity in some parts of the brain that are overactive in youth with anxiety disorders, suggests areport published today inThe American Journal of Psychiatry. After three months of CBT, youth with anxiety showed reduced activity in frontal and parietal brain regions (areas known to be involved with attention and emotional regulation).“Understanding the brain circuitry underpinning feelings of severe anxiety and determining which circuits normalize and which do not as anxiety symptoms improve with CBT is critical for advancing treatment and making it more effective for all...
Source: Psychiatr News - January 24, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Tags: American Journal of Psychiatry amygdala anxiety children cognitive-behavioral therapy fronto-parietal regions NIMH youth Source Type: research
Psychiatrists Desire More Training in How to Use AI in Practice, Survey Finds
Discussion” and “ChatGPT Not Yet Ready for Clinical Practice, ” and the APA blog post “The Basics of Augmented Intelligence: Some Factors Psychiatrists Need to Know Now. ” A recording of APA’s AI in psychiatry webinar is postedhere.(Image: Getty Images/iStock/Sean Anthony Eddy)Don ' t miss out! To learn about newly posted articles inPsychiatric News, please sign uphere.FollowPsychiatric News on X!For previous news alerts,click here. (Source: Psychiatr News)
Source: Psychiatr News - January 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Tags: AI in psychiatry webinar APA artificial intelligence Bard ChatGPT documentation patient privacy Psychiatry Research technology Source Type: research
Prevalence of Substance Use Disorder Higher Among Some Cancer Survivors
Heavy alcohol use and tobacco use are known to increase the risk of some cancers, but less is known of what happens to people who have a substance use problem after surviving cancer. Areport inJAMA Oncology now suggests that substance use disorder is more prevalent among survivors of head and neck cancer, esophageal and gastric cancer, cervical cancer, and melanoma than survivors of breast, prostate, and colon cancers.“Our findings underscore the need to understand and address the needs of cancer survivors with comorbid [substance use disorder],” wrote Katie F. Jones, Ph.D., of the VA Boston Healthcare System and colle...
Source: Psychiatr News - January 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Tags: alcohol use cancer cancer survivor cannabis use dependence DSM-IV JAMA Oncology nsduh substance use disorder Source Type: research
Behavioral Activation, Medication Equally Effective for Depression in Patients With Heart Failure
Behavioral activation psychotherapy may be just as effective as antidepressants at reducing symptoms of depression in patients with heart failure, astudy inJAMA Network Open has found. Behavioral activation psychotherapy, a form of cognitive-behavioral therapy, encourages patients to engage in activities that they enjoyed before developing depression so as to improve their mood.“Approximately 50% of people with [heart failure] experience depressive symptoms,” wrote Waguih William IsHak, M.D., of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and colleagues. Previous studies show that the greater the severity of depression ...
Source: Psychiatr News - January 19, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Tags: behavioral activation depression heart failure JAMA Network Open medication psychotherapy quality of life Source Type: research
Healthy Minds Poll Provides Insight Into Americans ’ Anxieties Over Past Year
Over the past year, U.S. adults reported the greatest anxiety about inflation, a recession, and gun violence, according to analysis of monthly data collected from APA ’sHealthy Minds Poll in 2023.The poll is conducted each month throughout the year to track mental health and anxiety among U.S. adults. The most recent poll was fielded by Morning Consult from December 2 to 4 among 2,202 adults.According to the December poll, many adults (38%) reported being anxious about their mental health, which has been a consistent finding over the past year. Forty-four percent of adults said they expect to experience the same level of...
Source: Psychiatr News - January 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Tags: anxiety APA Healthy Minds Poll gun violence inflation international conflict recession reproductive rights Source Type: research
Lower Income Associated With Greater Treatment Delays for People With First-Episode Psychosis
An individual ’s personal income appears to play a role in the amount of time between the onset of psychosis and receipt of services to treat first-episode psychosis (FEP), suggests astudy inPsychiatric Services. FEP programs offer a team-based approach to support people recently diagnosed with schizophrenia spectrum disorders.“The findings of our study highlight the relevance of individual income level as a determinant of health care access for persons with FEP,” wrote Shruthi Venkataraman, M.D., M.Sc., of McGill University and colleagues. “Early detection efforts should measure and target personal income and othe...
Source: Psychiatr News - January 17, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Tags: access to treatment first-episode psychosis income personal income Psychiatric Services schizophrenia Source Type: research
Review Explores Role of Orbitofrontal Cortex in Depression
The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) —a region of the brain involved in processing emotions and reward—plays a key role in major depressive disorder, wrote the authors of areview article inMolecular Psychiatry. They describe evidence supporting the different ways that dysfunction in the OFC contributes to major depression and how conventional antidepressants only mitigate some of these problems.“Despite strong evidence for anatomic and functional heterogeneity within the OFC, some studies have treated this region as a unified whole,” wrote Bei Zhang, M.D., of Fudan University in China and colleagues. “Our proposal, whi...
Source: Psychiatr News - January 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Tags: amygdala anterior cingulate cortex depression major depressive disorder Molecular Psychiatry orbitofrontal cortex review Source Type: research
Women With Certain Mental Disorders Less Responsive to CBT When Facing Infertility Problems
Women with adjustment disorders who face fertility problems as part of a couple may have a higher risk of a poor prognosis in response to cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), astudy inBMC Psychiatrysuggests.Mahbobeh Faramarzi, M.D., of Babol University of Medical Sciences in Babol, Iran, and colleagues conducted a secondary analysis based on a previousrandomized, controlled trial of women with adjustment disorders who had received fertility treatments and were facing fertility problems as part of a couple.The original study compared the efficacy of an internet cognitive behavioral program (ICBT) with face-to-face CBT for 15...
Source: Psychiatr News - January 12, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Tags: adjustment disorders anxiety CBT cognitive-behavioral therapy couple infertility depression internet-delivered CBT women Source Type: research
New Stimulant Prescriptions for ADHD Climbed During Pandemic, Study Shows
While new prescription rates for most medications to treat behavioral health conditions was steady during the COVID-19 pandemic, prescriptions for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications rose sharply, astudy published yesterday inJAMA Psychiatryfound. The largest increases in ADHD medication prescriptions were among women and people aged 20 to 39.“During the COVID-19 pandemic, widespread concerns arose regarding increased behavioral health needs and unprecedented challenges in health care access,” wrote Grace Chai, Pharm.D., M.P.H., of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation ...
Source: Psychiatr News - January 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Tags: antidepressants benzodiazepines buprenorphine JAMA Psychiatry pandemic stimulants women young adults Source Type: research
