Mood Disorders News

NEW ORLEANS – For the first time in 3 years, the American Psychiatric Association will host its annual meeting in person, May 21 to 25 in New Orleans, with social determinants of mental health as the conference theme.

A recently published survey revealed that nearly half of American workers report they and their coworkers are more acutely aware of stress than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic.

HHS has announced funding of approximately $15 million for a 3-year federal grant to establish a program to strengthen behavioral health care for residents in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.

The implementation of self-help psychological interventions for improving the health of Syrian refugees and asylum seekers in Turkey was more cost effective than enhanced care alone, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

The FDA announced that PH94B, VistaGen Therapeutics’ intranasal drug to treat acute social anxiety in adults, lacks the potential for abuse.

Treatment with electroconvulsive therapy significantly reduced the risk of death by suicide among those hospitalized with depression in the year following discharge, according to a study published in Lancet Psychiatry.

Through 12 months, psilocybin-assisted treatment showed to be safe and effective for major depressive disorder, researchers reported in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.

Fewer than half of emergency care visits for psychiatric reasons in postpartum women were accompanied by follow-up within 30 days, according to a study published in Lancet Psychiatry.

Italian-based biotech firm Stevanato Group and Bexson Biomedical Inc. announced a collaboration to treat a wide range of mental health issues with a subcutaneous drug-delivery device, including treatment-resistant depression and PTSD.

Those hospitalized for psychiatric illness were less likely to be tested for COVID-19 and had lower confirmed infection rates but higher risk for COVID-19-related mortality than the general population, per a study from Molecular Psychiatry.