Mental Health

Childhood-onset insomnia symptoms that continued into adulthood served as “strong determinants” of internalizing disorders in young adults, according to findings from a 15-year longitudinal study presented at the virtual SLEEP 2021 meeting.

Researchers have developed an algorithm tailored to age that can predict the risk for incident metabolic syndrome among young people with psychosis, according to study results published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

Children with substantial externalizing symptoms who received ADHD medications had lower odds for suicidality, a cohort study showed.

Suicide rates in the United States differed by race and ethnicity in recent years, according to results of a cross-sectional study in a research letter published in JAMA Network Open.

Youth with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures experienced an increased risk for numerous psychiatric disorders compared with those with epilepsy and healthy controls, according to results of a nationwide matched cohort study.

Early emerging autism spectrum disorder symptom levels often declined across development, according to an analysis of a prospective population-based cohort published in American Journal of Psychiatry.

Secondhand smoke exposure between the prenatal period and childhood increased risk for having ADHD symptoms and subtypes among school-aged children, according to results of a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Network Open.

Children and adolescent psychiatric ED visits decreased significantly during the first 8 weeks of COVID-19 lockdown, according to results of a study conducted in Italy and published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

School-aged children with autism spectrum disorder and/or ADHD were capable of face covering across activities during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to results of a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

CMS today published data showing that beneficiaries forewent millions of primary, preventive and mental health care visits between March 2020 and October 2020 because of the COVID-19 public health emergency.