Mood Disorders News

Following antidepressant discontinuation, patient decisions related to “effortful behavior” were associated with prospective relapse risk, according to a study conducted in Switzerland and Germany and published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Symptoms of menstrual mood disorders, including premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder, range from physical to emotional, and researchers have estimated that they occur in up to 80% of women in the United States.

Individuals with depression, especially men, may be at increased risk for all-cause and CVD mortality, according to results of a prospective cohort study conducted in China and published in JAMA Network Open.

Researchers have identified psychosis subgroups that may inform ongoing efforts to redefine psychosis taxonomy using updated criteria, according to results of a longitudinal cohort study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Children of severely obese mothers with diabetes may be at an increased risk for psychiatric disorders, according to findings of a population-based cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

Major depressive disorder and noncombat trauma can serve as identifiers of suicide ideation risk among United States Army soldiers during combat deployment, according to results of a survey study published in JAMA Network Open.

The association between the chronic misuse of alcohol and anxiety is well-documented within the field of psychiatry, according to a review published in Alcohol Research: Current Reviews. Researchers noted that a substantial number of people with alcohol use disorder, or AUD, have also met diagnostic criteria for one or more anxiety and mood disorders, and multiple disciplines have developed theories to explain this association in order to devise treatment plans.

Researchers have developed a tool with predictive potential for identifying adolescents who are at high or low risk for depression in young adulthood, according to findings from a Brazilian cohort that were published in Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

Women in low-income countries were significantly more likely to experience prenatal depression compared with women in middle-income countries, according to results of a systematic review and meta-analysis published in PLOS One.

An interactive voice response system that uses artificial intelligence effectively monitored the well-being of patients with serious mental illness, according to study findings published in PLOS One.