âIt is possible that participants taking escitalopram experience greater sexual dysfunction due to experiencing less pleasure,â the researchers write.
Lecanemab was approved without an advisory committee vote, just days after a congressional investigation found the FDA acted unethically to approve aducanumab.
The original study's authors wrote that the side effects were acceptable, despite the fact that 68% of the children had memory loss and over a third experienced delirium.
Paroxetine, SNRIs, and MAOIs were associated with the highest risk of withdrawal, as was long duration of use and whether the person experienced withdrawal in the past.
Researchers: The evidence serves to âraise substantial questions about both safety and effectiveness of ketamine and esketamine for psychiatric disorders.â
âThe government has not exercised the full scope of its authority to prosecute corporate officials responsible for the illegal behavior of the drug and device companies they run.â
A recent meta-analysis of peer support interventions shows that they are effective for clinical and personal recovery from a variety of mental health issues.
Babies born to mothers taking antidepressants during pregnancy were more than six times as likely to have neonatal withdrawal syndromeâincluding breathing problems, irritability/agitation, tremors, feeding problems, and seizuresâthan those born to mothers taking other types of drugs.
Former service-user and researcher Diana Rose intertwines personal reflection and critical discourse analysis to shed light on dominant discourses within recovery literature.
Policy changes in California reduced antipsychotic prescriptions for foster youth by 56.3%, but 82.5% of newly prescribed youth did not receive screening for metabolic harms, despite it being required by the policy.
Police in Spain report more feelings of sympathy and willingness to help those with a mental health diagnosis, but still seek to avoid them, associate them with more danger, and endorse isolation and involuntary treatment.
Suicide rates for Black and Latinx Americans have been increasing. A new study finds that having more social support decreased suicide ideation for Black and Latinx New York City residents.
âRadical alternatives that question the dominant paradigm on issues of power dynamics, exploitation and subordination, politics and inequalities are encouraged for interrogating the underlying assumptions of mainstream research in psychology,â writes psychologist Mvikeli Ncube.
Abolishing co-payments doubles the amount of 18- to 21-year-olds receiving psychotherapy. This was also associated with a 25% reduction in suicide attempts.
Researchers find that some therapists are better at establishing a good alliance with their clients, which ultimately leads to better treatment outcomes.
Adolescents who are hospitalized are at increased risk of suicidal ideation and attempts. Worsening relationships with teachers and being victims of bullying increase the risk.
In contrast, the social-environmental variables âsocial supportâ and âchildhood maltreatmentâ were significantly linked with depression, and each predicted with greater than 70% accuracy.
A survey conducted at a community mental health organization in Australia suggests that lived experience of mental health problems buffers staff against burnout.
"The mainstream Indian mental health community has been silent about the need to bring an LGBTQIA+ anti-discrimination law and a ban on conversion therapy."
Externalizing behavior and substance use disorder increased risk of severe suicide attempts far more than "serious mental illness" diagnoses, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder diagnoses.
Influential neuroscientist Raymond Dolan: "Psychiatryâs most fundamental characteristic is its ignorance, that it cannot successfully define the object of its attention, while its attempts to lay bare the etiology of its disorders have been a litany of failures."
Genetic embryo screening tests are âbeing marketed with limited empirical data behind them and virtually no scientific or ethical discussion,â researchers write.
Ableism, stigma, and prejudice can be insurmountable barriers for psychosocially disabled people in academia, but the federal government could help fix this problem.
Researchers argue that the recent study finding antidepressants beat placebo for about 15% of people doesnât account for study unblinding and includes only extremely short-term data.
Experiences of gendered racial microaggressions predicted a threefold increase in suicidal ideation for Asian-American women, while internalized racism in the form of self-negativity heightened this connection.
An interdisciplinary team in Norway, including individuals with lived experience, co-designed an approach to reduce coercive and forced psychiatric interventions.
What Thomas Teo calls âwhite epistemologyâ at the heart of psychological science has led to the invalidating of other perspectives by psychological researchers.
Receiving pharmacogenomic testing did reduce the amount of predicted drug-gene interactionsâbut it did not improve outcomes by the end of the study. Both groups were just as likely to recover from depression.
The Climate Schools intervention, rolled out across 18 schools, had no effect on anxiety and depression, but worsened the primary outcome of âinternalizing problems.â
Support has grown for Global Mental Health over the past decade, but political tensions and the lack of a shared vision continue to get in the way of new policies.
Nassir Ghaemi: âMost psychiatric medications are purely symptomatic, with no known or proven effect on the underlying disease. They are like 50 variations of aspirin, used for fever or headache, rather than drugs that treat the causes of fever or headache.â
A new study of adult recipients of NY state mental health services reveals the disproportionate prevalence of low educational attainment, criminal-legal systems involvement, unemployment, and homelessness.
Risk of depression increased when children were taking methylphenidate for ADHD, but once they stopped taking the drug, depression risk dropped to normal levels.
Researchers found that in the US, stigma around depression may be decreasing, while stigma around psychosis and substance use disorder may be increasing.
Researchers claim to have found biomarkers that differentiate those who died by suicide from those who died from other causes. Does their data support such a finding?
Physicians for Human Rights released a report on excited delirium, a âscientifically meaninglessâ cause of death often cited in fatal police encounters.
Based on a small study that included no women with PTSD, researchers suggest that women have worse PTSD symptoms at the start of menstruation--and that this might explain why they are more vulnerable to PTSD than men.
Researchers draw on Maslow's hierarchy of needs to explore why evidence-based services often make little sense in financially stepped community mental health settings.
âPatients expressed feeling unaccepted by society or uncomfortable in their own skin⊠A few indicated that they would rather be dead than have tardive dyskinesia.â
Richard Smith argues that âthe time may have come to stop assuming that research actually happened and is honestly reported, and assume that the research is fraudulent.â
With coercive treatment on the increase in Canada, a study finds that Black Canadians are more likely to be forcibly treated than whites and non-Black minorities.
Researchers investigate the history of abuse and exploitation of people of color and other marginalized groups during the first wave of Western psychedelic research in the US.
A debate between advisory committee members and FDA officials reveals the controversy at the core of the FDAâs approval of Biogenâs Alzheimerâs drug aducanumab.
As psychedelic therapy trials approach FDA approval, researchers express the urgent need to ensure effectiveness and accessibility to communities of color.
A BMJ investigation found that almost half (112) of the drugs approved this way don't have evidence for benefit, but only 16 drugs have ever been withdrawn.
The CHR-P model focuses on âattenuated psychosisâ to predict âtransitionâ to schizophrenia and ignores other factors. But new research shows that the model is a poor predictor.
Leading researchers in cultural psychiatry explain how different cultural frames influence our perceptions, attitudes, and experiences of mental distress.