Mood Disorders News

SAN DIEGO — In a video interview, W. Clay Jackson, MD, DipTh, clinical assistant professor of family medicine and psychiatry, University of Tennessee College of Medicine, talked about his presentation on the treatment of major depressive disorder with comorbid disorders.

SAN DIEGO — In a session here, Marlene P. Freeman, MD, associate professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and associate director of the Center for Women’s Mental Health at Massachusetts General Hospital, discussed the risks and benefits of different pharmacologic treatment options for women of reproductive age with mental illnesses.

SAN DIEGO — An expert discussed the research supporting ketamine and esketamine for treatment-resistant depression as well as what future research should focus on in a session presented at Psych Congress.

SAN DIEGO — Alternatives with new mechanisms of action are needed after 50 years of drug development focusing on monoamines for treating major depressive disorder, according to a session presented at Psych Congress.

Findings from a case-crossover study revealed an association between daily outdoor air pollution levels and increased symptoms of psychiatric disorders in children.

Among military veterans, psychosis and bipolar disorder were more strongly linked to CVD events, such as MI and stroke and CVD mortality compared with other psychiatric diagnoses.

Spending more than 3 hours each day on social media was associated with an increased risk for mental health problems – especially internalizing problems – among teenagers, according to findings published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Treatment with seltorexant improved depressive symptoms compared with placebo and the antidepressant efficacy was maintained for a month, according to be exploratory findings published in Translational Psychiatry.

Body fat mass — but not nonfat mass — was a causal risk factor for depression, indicating that fat drives the observed BMI-depression causality, according to data from a Mendelian randomization study.

Preexisting mood, anxiety and somatoform disorders were linked to an increased risk for bilateral oophorectomy over a 20-year period, even after confirmation of a nonmalignant diagnosis, according to results published in Menopause.