Mood Disorders News

The NIMH is funding a study that will explore how inadequate sleep in childhood affects risk for emotional disorders later in life.

The association between depressive symptoms, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy is likely to be bidirectional, with diabetes impairment complicating depression and vice versa, according to a study in JAMA Ophthalmology.

Recent findings indicated that behavioral activation, a psychological treatment that can be delivered by junior mental health workers, had comparable efficacy to cognitive behavioral therapy for depression in adults.

Recent findings from an NIH-funded study indicated brain patterns associated with resilient coping to stress.

A brain-to-gut pathway originating with psychological symptoms and a distinct gut-to-brain pathway originating with gut symptoms are both involved in patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders like irritable bowel syndrome and functional dyspepsia, according to recent study data.

Recent findings indicated associations between low cortisol levels, metabolic disorders and cardiovascular risk factors among individuals with mood disorders.

Recent findings suggest a brief symptom scale can identify risk for depressive relapse within the next 6 months among individuals with fully remitted depression.

Exposure to violence increased risk for violent crime among individuals with and without psychotic disorders, and parental bereavement particularly increased risk for crime among those with schizophrenia.

Recent findings indicated that SAGE-547, an IVtreatment for postpartum depression, was safe and effective among women who developed severe depression during or following childbirth.

Following positive results from an open pilot study, researchers from the NIMH plan to conduct a larger study to confirm efficacy of a computer game for irritability in children.