Depression News

SAN DIEGO — Psychological and neurocognitive screening may help monitor mental and physical health among people with sickle cell disease, according to a speaker at ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.

LOS ANGELES — Patients with epilepsy aged 16 to 26 years had a higher frequency of comorbid mood disorders compared with the general epilepsy population, underscoring a need to increase psychiatric screening, data show.

LOS ANGELES — Individuals with epilepsy who used marijuana had a reduced length of hospitalization as well as a higher rate of epilepsy event capturability compared with those who did not use marijuana, data show.

The American Psychological Association released its first ever set of recommendations regarding healthy video consumption by teenagers, who have greater access to a larger volume of video content than ever before, according to the report.

Hundreds of millions of psychiatric disorders in the United States have been linked to childhood exposure of car exhaust from leaded gasoline, according to a recent study in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Seven in 10 adults would prefer to be asked about both their mental and physical health during visits with their primary care providers, according to results from a recent survey.

During pregnancy, various aspects of the oral microbiome were associated with stress and mental health, differing from known ties between the gut microbiome and mental health, researchers reported in BMJ Mental Health.

Internet use could help improve mental health and well-being in adults aged 50 years or older, study results published in Nature Human Behavior suggested.

A brief, computerized mental health screening for children going into surgery showed that more than half were experiencing preoperative anxiety, according to findings presented at Anesthesiology 2024.

Exercise interventions reduced the risk for postpartum depression and the severity of depression and anxiety in women who recently gave birth, in the British Journal of Sports Medicine showed.