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Depression, Anxiety Three Times More Likely in People with Cannabis Use Disorder
Rates of comorbid major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder are three times higher in people who have cannabis use disorder, ameta-analysis in theJournal of Affective Disorders has found.Vivian N. Onaemo, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.B.S., of the Government of Saskatchewan Ministry of Health in Reginia, Canada, and colleagues analyzed data from eight articles from six epidemiological surveys published from January 1980 through July 2020. There were approximately 177,000 respondents among all six surveys, and the surveys were largely conducted in the United States and Australia.The odds of having major depression wer...
Source: Psychiatr News - December 18, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: cannabis cannabis use disorder depression general anxiety disorder Journal of Affective Disorders meta-analysis Source Type: research

Psychosis Polyrisk Score (PPS) for the Detection of Individuals At-Risk and the Prediction of Their Outcomes
Conclusions The combination of risk/protective factors encompassing genetic (PRS) and non-genetic information (PPS) holds promise for overcoming the epidemiological weakness of the CHR-P paradigm. The PPS conceptually and empirically developed here will facilitate future research in this field and hopefully advance our ability to detect individuals at-risk for psychosis and forecast their clinical outcomes. Ethics Statement This study was supported by the King's College London Confidence in Concept award from the Medical Research Council (MRC) (MC_PC_16048) to PF-P. This study also represents independent researc...
Source: Frontiers in Psychiatry - April 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research