Mood Disorders News

Mental health worsened overall in older adults in the U.K. as the COVID-19 pandemic progressed, affecting women and those without partners to a greater extent, according to a longitudinal cohort study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

A pair of West Coast health firms have announced a partnership to launch a decentralized clinical study in precision psychiatry.

Adolescents who were conceived via assisted reproductive techniques were not at increased risk for poor psychiatric health compared with the general population, according to study results published in JAMA Psychiatry.

BMI appeared “weakly correlated” with psychological distress, according to study results published in Journal of Psychiatric Research.

The FDA has approved Caplyta for treating adults with depressive episodes linked to bipolar I or II disorder, according to a company press release.

Daily use of omega-3 in older adults at risk for depression correlated with a slight increase in depressive symptoms while having no effect on mood, according to a randomized clinical trial published in JAMA.

Individuals with the lowest incomes were found to have more psychotic symptoms and experienced a greater degree of distress from these symptoms after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published in Psychiatry Research.

Severity in symptoms of late-life depression may be linked to geography, as well as racial/ethnic disparities depending on location, according to a cohort study published in The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

Results of a 5-year study in Japan suggest pulmonary embolism may be a major cause of sudden cardiac arrest among patients with psychiatric disorders.

About one in 333 women experienced a severe maternal morbidity event or illness during postpartum that could have resulted in death, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.