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Mental Disorders, Cognitive Impairment and the Risk of Suicide in Older Adults
This study aimed to present the relationship between cognitive impairment due to dementia, mood disorders and anxiety, and an increased risk of suicide among older people. Dementia is a disease where the risk of suicide is significant. Many studies demonstrated that older adults with dementia had an increased risk of suicide death than those without dementia. Similar conclusions apply to prodromal dementia Depression is also a disease with a high risk of suicide. Many researchers found that a higher level of depression was associated with suicide attempts and suicide ideation. Bipolar disorder is the second entity in mood ...
Source: Frontiers in Psychiatry - August 25, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

The psychosocial difficulties in brain disorders that explain short term changes in health outcomes
Conclusions: Our findings are of interest to researchers and clinicians for interventions and health systems planning as they show that in addition to difficulties that are diagnostic criteria of these disorders, there are other difficulties that explain small changes in health outcomes over short periods of time.
Source: BMC Psychiatry - Latest articles - March 11, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Alarcos CiezaCristina BostanJose Luis Ayuso-MateosCornelia OberhauserJerome BickenbachAlberto RaggiMatilde LeonardiEduard VietaSomnath Chatterji Source Type: research