Depression News

SAN DIEGO — Patients with MS were twice as likely to experience psychiatric morbidity, including depression and anxiety, in the prodromal phase compared with healthy controls, according to research presented at ACTRIMS 2023.

Veterans with prolonged grief disorder had greater odds of also having PTSD, major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety and suicidal thoughts and behaviors, according to data published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, modafinil and combination therapy were each linked to reduced fatigue in patients with MS, although patients reported greater benefits with combination therapy, according to research presented at ACTRIMS 2023.

Researchers in Indiana have received $1.5 million in grant funding from the NIH HEAL Initiative to address racial disparities in chronic pain and depression, according to a press release.

A biotechnology company has announced it will begin two phase 2a clinical trials will begin this year to assess the effectiveness of oral allopregnanolone in social anxiety and postpartum depression, according to a press release.

Among patients with COVID-19 who visited EDs, those with both psychiatric and substance use disorders had greater odds of hospitalization compared with those with one or neither type of disorder, according to a study in JAMA Psychiatry.

Legislators must take mental health implications into account when writing abortion laws, psychiatrists wrote in a Viewpoint in JAMA Psychiatry.

Freedom Biosciences, a mental health care startup, has received funding from the biotech fund LongeVC for its research on psychedelics, according to a press release.

Long-term ambient exposure to air pollutants may increase the risk of depression in older adults, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Patients who received chimeric antigen receptor T cells for relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma feared disease progression less than those who received standard regimens, results of a cross-sectional study showed.