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Increased Risk of Stroke Linked to Stress at Home, Work
Experiencing multiple stressful events or chronic stress at home or at work over the course of a year raises the risk of several types of stroke, astudy published today inJAMA Network Open has found. However, the study also suggests that having a greater sense of control over the situations and experiences that affect one ’s life—a greater locus of control—may help counter the impact of stress on stroke risk.Catriona Reddin, M.B., of the University of Galway in Ireland and colleagues analyzed data from 26,812 participants in the INTERSTROKE study, an international case-control study of risk factors for stroke. Among ...
Source: Psychiatr News - December 9, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: home stress INTERSTROKE study JAMA Network Open locus of control work stress Source Type: research

Study Documents Neurological, Psychiatric Complications From COVID-19
While previous studies and case reports have found that COVID-19 patients have experienced vascular and neurological problems, a newstudy inthe Lancet Psychiatry reports that patients are also showing symptoms of psychiatric disorders, including psychosis and depression.The study was the result of a collaborative effort of specialists in the United Kingdom to document COVID-19 complications.“To our knowledge, this is the first systematic, nationwide U.K. surveillance study of the breadth of acute complications of COVID-19 in the nervous system,” wrote Aravinthan Varatharaj, M.R.C.P., of University Hospital Southampton ...
Source: Psychiatr News - June 29, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Aravinthan Varatharaj brain hemorrhage brain inflammation cognition COVID-19 depression Lancet Psychiatry pain psychiatric disorders psychosis stroke United Kingdom weakness Source Type: research

Risk of Chronic Conditions Found Higher Among Certain Groups With Depression, Anxiety
Women aged 20 to 60 with depression or anxiety were more likely to develop multiple chronic conditions over time compared with similarly aged women without depression or anxiety, according to areport published this week in JAMA Network Open. Women with comorbid anxiety and depression had an even greater risk of developing chronic conditions.Similarly, men with depression and/or anxiety at age 20 were more likely than those without depression or anxiety to develop chronic conditions.“Our findings support the need for managing comorbid depression and anxiety, which may help lower the risk of premature mortality associated ...
Source: Psychiatr News - May 5, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: anxiety asthma cancer chronic conditions coronary artery disease depression diabetes hypertension JAMA Network Open men risk stroke women Source Type: research

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

One-Third of COVID-19 Survivors May Develop a Neuropsychiatric Disorder Within Months of Infection
One-third of individuals diagnosed with COVID-19 developed a psychiatric or neurological problem within six months of their diagnosis, according to astudy published Tuesday inThe Lancet Psychiatry. The prevalence of a post-COVID neurologic or psychiatric diagnosis was even greater among individuals with severe illness who had required hospitalization.“Given the size of the pandemic and the chronicity of many of the diagnoses and their consequences (for example, dementia, stroke, and intracranial hemorrhage), substantial effects on health and social care systems are likely to occur,” wrote Maxime Taque, Ph.D., of the Un...
Source: Psychiatr News - April 7, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Tags: anxiety COVID-19 electronic health records hospitalizations mood disorders neuropsychiatric disorders The Lancet Psychiatry Source Type: research

Erectile Dysfunction Associated With Use of E-Cigarettes, Report Finds
This study highlights a novel finding that ENDS use could have serious implications on men’s se xual health.”El-Shahawy and colleagues analyzed data collected from December 2016 to January 2018 as part of thePopulation Assessment of Tobacco or Health (PATH) study —a national longitudinal study of tobacco use and how it affects the health of people in the United States. The researchers specifically focused on male participants 20 years and older who responded to questions about erectile dysfunction; their use of ENDS; current or past history of smoking; and previous diagnoses of diabetes, hypertension, high cholestero...
Source: Psychiatr News - December 7, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Tags: American Journal of Preventive Medicine E-cigarettes erectile dysfunction PATH Study Source Type: research

Daily Multivitamins Linked to Improved Cognition in Older People
Taking a daily multivitamin may improve cognitive function in older people, astudy inAlzheimer ’s& Dementia has found. Taking a cocoa supplement, however, does not appear to slow cognitive decline.“There is an urgent need to identify effective strategies to preserve cognitive function to mitigate the heavy societal burden associated with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia, which affect more than 46 million people worldwide,” wrote Laura D. Baker, Ph.D., of Wake Forest University S chool of Medicine and colleagues. Cocoa extract is rich in compounds called flavanols, and previous small studies suggest that...
Source: Psychiatr News - September 16, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Alzheimer ' s & Dementia cardiovacsular disease cocoa extract cognitive decline COSMOS-Mind multivitamin Source Type: research

Neurological Effects of Monkeypox Largely Unknown, Review Finds
Much remains unknown about the long-term neurologic effects of monkeypox. In anarticle published today inJAMA Neurology, researchers from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and colleagues described how reports of complications from other orthopoxviruses, such as smallpox, may offer clues about the neurologic consequences of monkeypox.“Although the COVID-19 pandemic is the worst pandemic in a century, the recent past has seen several major pandemics, including Zika, Ebola, dengue, West Nile, and AIDS,” wrote B. Jeanne Billioux, M.D., of NINDS and colleagues. “A common thread to these p...
Source: Psychiatr News - September 20, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: febrile seizures/encephalopathy headache JAMA Neurology monkeypox neurological problems smallpox transverse myelitis Source Type: research