Psychiatry News

Yoga-based interventions might help improve mental health symptoms for adults diagnosed with anxiety or depressive disorders, according to results published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

The prevalence of suicide ideation is comparable across people of all racial and ethnic groups who have alcohol use disorder, but those from underrepresented groups are less likely to be diagnosed, an expert told Healio.

There was a “psychiatric boarding crisis” in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, as psychiatric services were not prepared to support the number of youths needing care, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Social isolation and loneliness were linked to an increased risk for all-cause and cause-specific types of mortality, according to a recent systematic review and meta-analysis published in Nature Human Behavior.

The number of overdose deaths attributable to illegally manufactured fentanyl laced with xylazine has skyrocketed in recent years, according to data in CDC’s MMWR.

Patients seeking musculoskeletal care required substantial improvements in physical function and pain interference to significantly improve anxiety symptoms, according to results published in JAMA Network Open.

Youth with autism are three times as likely to have a co-occurring diagnosis of gender dysphoria than peers who do not have autism, according to findings from a study of more than 900,000 adolescents published in Pediatrics.

A 73-year-old woman presents with her daughter, who lives down the street from her, and her husband of 51 years for her annual Medicare wellness visit. She has been a patient in the practice for the past 7 to 8 years. She is a retired teacher.

Few patients hospitalized for alcohol use disorder, or AUD, were treated with approved medications that could help to enable behavior change, a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine showed.

Women who report higher levels of alcohol consumption are more likely to undergo a total joint replacement due to osteoarthritis, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.