More Evidence Linking ADT for Prostate Cancer to Adverse Neurocognitive Effects
(MedPage Today) -- Men treated with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer had a significantly higher risk of dementia and other neurocognitive disorders, according to a meta-analysis of more than 2.5 million patients.
The magnitude... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 10, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Toddlers' Screen Time Tied to Atypical Sensory Outcomes
(MedPage Today) -- Screen time early in life was associated with atypical sensory outcomes, an observational study showed.
Children who watched any television or videos at age 12 months had a significant, two-fold greater risk of a high degree... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 8, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
We've Done Away With a Critical Source of Drug Use Data
(MedPage Today) -- More than 2 years before COVID-19, HHS declared a public health emergency for opioid-related overdoses. That this emergency continues unabated is reflected in the more than 111,000 overdose deaths estimated to have occurred between... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 8, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Doctors Are as Vulnerable to Addiction as Anyone
(MedPage Today) -- BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Ariella Morrow, MD, MPH, gradually slid from healthy self-esteem and healthcare profession success into the depths of depression.
Beginning in 2015, she suffered a string of personal troubles, including... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 7, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Open Blood-Brain Barrier for Alzheimer's Treatment?; Managing TMD
(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 6, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Early Bird? Night Owl? It May Matter for Eating Disorder Risk
(MedPage Today) -- People with anorexia nervosa may be more likely to be early risers, a genetic association study suggested.
Looking at nearly 17,000 cases with this eating disorder, genetic liability for anorexia nervosa was associated with... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 6, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Xylazine Not Just a Problem in the Northeast, Study Finds
(MedPage Today) -- Problems with the veterinary sedative xylazine -- also known as "tranq" -- appeared to be concentrated in the eastern U.S. but were spread across the entire country, a cross-sectional study found.
At least 43 states reported... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 5, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Midlife Cognitive Problems Tied to Sleep Disruptions Earlier in Life
(MedPage Today) -- People who had fragmented sleep in their 30s and 40s were more likely to have worse cognition a decade later, longitudinal data showed.
Those in the highest versus the lowest tertile of the sleep fragmentation index had over... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 5, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Stressed Women With Infertility May Have Higher Blood Sugar During Pregnancy
(MedPage Today) -- Preconception stress during the infertility process may spell glycemic woes for women during pregnancy, researchers reported.
For women who attended a fertility center, those who self-reported more psychological stress prior... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 5, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Potent Benzodiazepine Masquerading as Xanax Hospitalizes Three in Chicago
(MedPage Today) -- Three young adults in Chicago who thought they were taking alprazolam (Xanax) actually ingested the unapproved and far more potent bromazolam, requiring an intensive care unit stay, public health officials warned.
The "designer... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 5, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Fake Xanax Hospitalizes Three in Chicago
(MedPage Today) -- Three young adults in Chicago who thought they were taking alprazolam (Xanax) actually ingested the unapproved and far more potent bromazolam, requiring an intensive care unit stay, public health officials warned.
The "designer... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 4, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
TMS for Psych Disorders Poses Little Threat to Implanted Cardiac Devices
(MedPage Today) -- An electromagnetic therapy for depression shouldn't damage a person's pre-existing implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), multiple experiments indicated.
There was a low risk of ICD damage or overheating during transcranial... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 4, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Opening Blood-Brain Barrier to Deliver Alzheimer's Drug Shows Promise
(MedPage Today) -- Aducanumab (Aduhelm) infusions combined with focused ultrasound led to lower cerebral amyloid-beta levels in Alzheimer's disease, a proof-of-concept trial showed.
The investigational treatment involved creating an opening in... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 3, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
At-Home Electrical Stimulation Fails to Treat Major Depressive Episodes
(MedPage Today) -- Unsupervised, at-home use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) was no better than a sham control for treating a major depressive episode, a randomized trial showed.
The PSYLECT trial of 210 adults in Brazil showed... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 3, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Ethics of Palliative Psychiatry; 4-Year Lybalvi Data; 'Dry January' Psych Benefits
(MedPage Today) -- Canada is bracing for a controversial new law that will allow doctors to help people with mental illness end their life. (New York Times)
Is palliative psychiatry for anorexia ethical? (New York Times)
Pennsylvania Sen. John... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 3, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
