Mental Health

The potential of artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches to identify mental illness continues to be exciting area of research.

PHILADELPHIA — The duration and type of screen time had had no impact on the number of days that teenagers had headaches, according to study findings presented at the American Headache Society Annual Scientific Meeting.

PHILADELPHIA — Some teenagers with concussion-triggered chronic headache or migraine experienced prolonged pain, suffering and lack of function even after they were considered treated, according to study findings presented at the American Headache Society Scientific Meeting.

Adults who were born preterm or with low birth weight are less likely to have sexual intercourse, romantic partnerships or to become parents than adults who were born full term, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

PHILADELPHIA — The “Pediatric Pain Evaluator” app, designed to help users identify and describe their headache pain, disagreed with what a researcher described as the “gold standard,” according to study results presented at the American Headache Society Annual Scientific Meeting.

Ethnic and racial minority groups are less likely to have access to mental health resources and/or use community mental health services, according to the NIMH.

Depressive disorders and suicidal ideation accounted for 55.1% of all reported psychiatric adverse events among patients taking isotretinoin from 1997 to 2017, according to researchers in JAMA Dermatology. However, the rate of completed suicide among these patients may be not be higher than those reported in the general U.S. population.

Study findings published in International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health indicated a link between a biomarker of pesticide exposure and youth depression symptoms.

A social robot teddy bear, known as Huggable, has been shown to improve the mood of a group of hospitalized children, according to research published in Pediatrics. Researchers suggested that this technology could be used to improve the care and quality of life of ill children.

Childhood maltreatment may be a risk factor for disorders related to and characterized by hyperactive amygdala response, according to findings published in JAMA Psychiatry.